The film program turns to artists examining the ways territories are imagined, represented, and governed. Moving through simulated landscapes, aerial surveys, borders, and systems of measurement, the films trace how territory is made available to power before violence becomes visible.
29 November 2026, 2pm to 4pm
The Distance Between Us and the Ground: To Hold the Distance
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The film program turns to artists examining the ways territories are imagined, represented, and governed. Moving through simulated landscapes, aerial surveys, borders, and systems of measurement, the films trace how territory is made available to power before violence becomes visible.
Everlasting
A film from the CCA’s 2023-2024 Indigenous Land Restitution Research Creation Fellow, multidisciplinary Haudenosaunee artist Iako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers.
Shaughnessy House
25 September 2025 to 8 November 2026
Everlasting
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A film from the CCA’s 2023-2024 Indigenous Land Restitution Research Creation Fellow, multidisciplinary Haudenosaunee artist Iako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers.
Shaughnessy House
Alongside a growth in decentralized, experimental, and underground cinema at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, many groups operating from inside the field of architecture such as Superstudio, Studio 9999, and Ant Farm explored the short film as a medium to expand architectural discourse, embed their projects with bold reflections and projections of society, and(...)
Octagonal gallery
21 September 2018 to 19 May 2019
Scripts for a new world
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Alongside a growth in decentralized, experimental, and underground cinema at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, many groups operating from inside the field of architecture such as Superstudio, Studio 9999, and Ant Farm explored the short film as a medium to expand architectural discourse, embed their projects with bold reflections and projections of society, and(...)
Octagonal gallery
Learning from... Rome
Filmmaker and photographer Armin Linke reveals the societal changes, cultural complexities, and beauty of contemporary Rome through two short films and architectural photographs from his archives. The first film focuses on a moment of natural choreography as some 100,000 starlings fly against the backdrop of the city of Rome. Linke presents a selection of photographs,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
5 March 2009
Learning from... Rome
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Filmmaker and photographer Armin Linke reveals the societal changes, cultural complexities, and beauty of contemporary Rome through two short films and architectural photographs from his archives. The first film focuses on a moment of natural choreography as some 100,000 starlings fly against the backdrop of the city of Rome. Linke presents a selection of photographs,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
books
[Musée d'Orsay] : press kit.
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1 portfolio ; 31 cm
Paris : Musée d'Orsay, Service de Presse et de Relations Publiques, [1988?]
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Paris : Musée d'Orsay, Service de Presse et de Relations Publiques, [1988?]
video
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1 videodisc (DVD) (65 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
Santa Monica, Calif. : Pyramid Media, [2005]
The films of Charles & Ray Eames Volume 2 / [directed by Charles and Ray Eames].
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1 videodisc (DVD) (65 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
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Santa Monica, Calif. : Pyramid Media, [2005]
video
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1 videocassette (approximately 21 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. VHS
[Place of publication not identified] : National Film Board of Canada, ©1979.
In the labyrinth / directors, Roman Kroitor, Hugh O'Connor, Colin Low ; producers, Tom Daly, Desmond Dew, Roman Kroitor.
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1 videocassette (approximately 21 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. VHS
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[Place of publication not identified] : National Film Board of Canada, ©1979.
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Ein Lichtspiel schwarz weiss grau = A lightplay black white gray / a film by László Moholy-Nagy.
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1 videodisc (5 min., 49 sec.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
[Place of publication not identified] : Moholy-Nagy Foundation, ©2007.
Ein Lichtspiel schwarz weiss grau = A lightplay black white gray / a film by László Moholy-Nagy.
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1 videodisc (5 min., 49 sec.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Moholy-Nagy Foundation, ©2007.
video
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1 videodisc (approximately 38 min.) : sound, black and white with 1 color sequence ; 4 3/4 in.
New York, NY : Grasshopper Film, [2019]
Dream of a city / Cinema Conservancy ; Streetwise Films ; a film by Manfred Kirchheimer ; produced by Manfred Kirchheiner, Jacob Perlin ; direction, editing, sound, Manfred Kirchheimer ; a Streetwise film.
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1 videodisc (approximately 38 min.) : sound, black and white with 1 color sequence ; 4 3/4 in.
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New York, NY : Grasshopper Film, [2019]
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The experimental avant garde series. Volume 14, Man Ray, director of ludicrous movies / Man Ray.
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1 videocassette (ca. 32 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
Brooklyn, N.Y. : New York Films Annex, c1998.
The experimental avant garde series. Volume 14, Man Ray, director of ludicrous movies / Man Ray.
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1 videocassette (ca. 32 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
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Brooklyn, N.Y. : New York Films Annex, c1998.