Echoes of forgotten places : urban exploration, industrial archaeology, and the aesthetics of decay
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"Echoes of forgotten places" is a unique journey into locations rarely seen by the public. Visit decaying factories, decommissioned power stations, storm drains, and many other mysterious places. Running time is 43 minutes.
Echoes of forgotten places : urban exploration, industrial archaeology, and the aesthetics of decay
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"Echoes of forgotten places" is a unique journey into locations rarely seen by the public. Visit decaying factories, decommissioned power stations, storm drains, and many other mysterious places. Running time is 43 minutes.
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Expo 67 : back to the future
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Some parties change people's lives. Expo 67 changed this country. It was our 100th birthday, and everything seemed possible. The canadian experience explores the exhilarating experience of Expo 67, which had a lasting personal impact on a generation of Canadians and launched Canada as an enthusiastic participant in the global village. DVD features : -highlights(...)
Expo 67 : back to the future
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Some parties change people's lives. Expo 67 changed this country. It was our 100th birthday, and everything seemed possible. The canadian experience explores the exhilarating experience of Expo 67, which had a lasting personal impact on a generation of Canadians and launched Canada as an enthusiastic participant in the global village. DVD features : -highlights from CBC-TV's coverage of the Expo 67 opening ceremonies -close captioned for the hearing impaired -dolby digital stereo -full motion menus -scene selection
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Available in dvd format only.2003, USA, 116 minutes. "My architect" is a tale of love and art, betrayal and forgiveness - in which the illegitimate son of a legendary artist undertakes a five-year, worldwide exploration to understand his long-dead father. Louis I. Kahn, who died in 1974, is considered by many architectural historians to have been the most important(...)
My architect : a son's journey
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Available in dvd format only.2003, USA, 116 minutes. "My architect" is a tale of love and art, betrayal and forgiveness - in which the illegitimate son of a legendary artist undertakes a five-year, worldwide exploration to understand his long-dead father. Louis I. Kahn, who died in 1974, is considered by many architectural historians to have been the most important architect of the second half of the twentieth century. A Jewish immigrant who overcame poverty and the effects of a devastating childhood accident, Kahn created a handful of intensely powerful and spiritual buildings - geometric compositions of brick, concrete and light - which, in the words of one critic, 'change your life.' While Kahn's artistic legacy was an uncompromising search for truth and clarity, his personal life was filled with secrets and chaos: He died, bankrupt and unidentified, in the men's room in Penn Station, New York, leaving behind three families - one with his wife of many years and two with women with whom he'd had long-term affairs. In My Architect, the child of one of these extra-marital relationships, Kahn's only son Nathaniel, sets out on an epic journey to reconcile the life and work of this mysterious, contradictory man.
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After the Seagram Building in New York, the Toronto-Dominion Centre in Toronto, the New National Gallery in Berlin and the Lake Shore Drive Apartment Buildings in Chicago, architect Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) designed a gas station near Montreal in 1968. This simple and utilitarian building reflects the divergent views held by experts and laymen regarding "everyday"(...)
DVD Regular or Super : Views on Mies van der Rohe
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After the Seagram Building in New York, the Toronto-Dominion Centre in Toronto, the New National Gallery in Berlin and the Lake Shore Drive Apartment Buildings in Chicago, architect Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) designed a gas station near Montreal in 1968. This simple and utilitarian building reflects the divergent views held by experts and laymen regarding "everyday" structures, which most of us tend to ignore. In addition to exploring the interplay of form and function in the works of Mies, this film gauges our awareness of architectural language and the role of the architect in society. Observations from some superstars of the world of architecture, including Rem Koolhaas, Elizabeth Diller and Phyllis Lambert, are interlaced with anecdotes from regular people who come into daily contact with the eminent architect's work. Original soundtrack is composed by acclaimed Ramachandra Borcar (a.k.a. DJ Ram). Format: DVD.
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À la façon des DJ qui revitalisent la scène de la musique actuelle en reformatant et en recyclant les sons, Luc Bourdon a procédé à un assemblage virtuose de magnifiques extraits tirés de 120 films produits par l’ONF. A la fois documentaire et poème, La Mémoire des Anges est aussi une expérience envoûtante permettant de revisiter l’histoire de Montréal, avec ses grandes(...)
Mémoire des anges / Memories of angels DVD
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À la façon des DJ qui revitalisent la scène de la musique actuelle en reformatant et en recyclant les sons, Luc Bourdon a procédé à un assemblage virtuose de magnifiques extraits tirés de 120 films produits par l’ONF. A la fois documentaire et poème, La Mémoire des Anges est aussi une expérience envoûtante permettant de revisiter l’histoire de Montréal, avec ses grandes figures, ses lieux emblématiques et ses citoyens ordinaires. Sans recours au commentaire, misant sur la sensualité et l’éloquence des images et des sons, ce film unique séduit les spectateurs de toutes les générations. Luc Bourdon's 'Memories of angels' is a poignant collage of Montréal's glorious and romantic past, brimming with poetic delicacy and exuberance for life. Assembling clips from over 100 films produced by the National Film Board of Canada, the film revisits the famous figures, symbolic places and colourful residents of the Montréal of the '50s and '60s. 80 minutes
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video
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124 minutes, color stereo in french with english subtitles. In Play Time, Tati's character, M. Hulot, and a group of American tourists attempt to navigate a futuristic Paris constructed of straight lines, modernist glass and steel high-rise buildings, multi-lane roadways, and cold, artificial furnishings. In this environment, only the irrepressible nonconformity of(...)
Playtime
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124 minutes, color stereo in french with english subtitles. In Play Time, Tati's character, M. Hulot, and a group of American tourists attempt to navigate a futuristic Paris constructed of straight lines, modernist glass and steel high-rise buildings, multi-lane roadways, and cold, artificial furnishings. In this environment, only the irrepressible nonconformity of human nature and an occasional appreciation for the good old days breathe life into an otherwise sterile urban lifestyle. Modern industrial technologies, accepted as necessary by society, are represented by Tati as obstructions to daily life and an interference to natural human interaction.
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January 1900
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Rappel historique des premières constructions des Autochtones et de celles des pionniers qui étaient en harmonie avec leur environnement. Ce film, réalisé trois ans après la crise pétrolière de 1973, présente quelques innovations en planification urbaine illustrées à partir de l'exemple des communautés minières de Fermont au Quéébec et de Leaf Rapids au Manitoba. Ces(...)
Nouvelles conceptions d'établissements Canadiens
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Rappel historique des premières constructions des Autochtones et de celles des pionniers qui étaient en harmonie avec leur environnement. Ce film, réalisé trois ans après la crise pétrolière de 1973, présente quelques innovations en planification urbaine illustrées à partir de l'exemple des communautés minières de Fermont au Quéébec et de Leaf Rapids au Manitoba. Ces villes ont été planifiées en fonction du climat nordique et de l'utilisation minimale de l'automobile. Du côté innovation architecturale, on voit la construction de la maison solaire Provident House à Aurora en Ontario, ainsi que la maison The Ark à l'Île-du-Prince-Edouard qui permettra un mode de vie autarcique.
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January 1900
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Documentary, DVD, 17 min 23 s A look at innovative housing and community design in responce to the Canadian environment and the need to conserve energy sources. Two planned mining towns -- Fermont, Québec, and Leaf Rapids, Manitoba -- are exemined, as well as solar-heated homes in Ontario and Prince Edward Island.
Design innovations for Canadian settlements
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Documentary, DVD, 17 min 23 s A look at innovative housing and community design in responce to the Canadian environment and the need to conserve energy sources. Two planned mining towns -- Fermont, Québec, and Leaf Rapids, Manitoba -- are exemined, as well as solar-heated homes in Ontario and Prince Edward Island.
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January 1976
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DVD Trafficopter
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This short film is a portrait of Montreal as seen from a local radio station's traffic helicopter. Freeways, interchanges, bridges and downtown arteries are laid out in miniature. A seething, teeming spectacle, this film presents a unique view of the city with comments by the traffic guide, Len Rowcliffe.
DVD Trafficopter
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This short film is a portrait of Montreal as seen from a local radio station's traffic helicopter. Freeways, interchanges, bridges and downtown arteries are laid out in miniature. A seething, teeming spectacle, this film presents a unique view of the city with comments by the traffic guide, Len Rowcliffe.
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January 1900
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In Immemory, Marker uses the format of the CD-ROM to create a multilayered, multimedia memoir. The reader investigates “zones” of travel, war, cinema and poetry, navigating through photographs, film clips, music and text, as if physically exploring Marker’s memory itself. The result is a veritable twenty-first century Remembrance of Things Past, an exploration of the(...)
Immemory: a cd-rom by Chris Marker
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In Immemory, Marker uses the format of the CD-ROM to create a multilayered, multimedia memoir. The reader investigates “zones” of travel, war, cinema and poetry, navigating through photographs, film clips, music and text, as if physically exploring Marker’s memory itself. The result is a veritable twenty-first century Remembrance of Things Past, an exploration of the state of memory in our digital era. With it, Marker has both invented a literary form and perfected it. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later, including 10.5 Leopard.
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