Fall has begun, and the calendar is already filling up with screenings! This time of year is always a rich season to enjoy second-run and specialty screenings. Below is the fall schedule for the Ad Hoc collective, and CINSSU’s Friday Films. And what’s more, these events are all FREE!
Ad Hoc is a collective dedicated to the presentation and exhibition of underground film and other obscure and unpopular forms of cinema, curated by Stephen Broomer, Jim Shedden and others. Here is their rundown of films from now until December.
Screenings held at 7:00 PM at Innis College, 2 Sussex Ave, Room 222, unless otherwise noted.
Sept. 5: FRANZ WANNER: MIND THE MEMORY GAP
Presented in partnership with Pix Film.
Screening at Pix Film, 1411 Dufferin, Unit 1
NOTE: 6:50 PM start time
Sept 11: SLOW RUN
Filmmaker Larry Kardish in Person!
Stephen’s Black Zero label just released this film to Bluray, so they may likely have copies for sale then.
Screening in Innis Town Hall
Oct 2: SECRET MUSEUMS: THE FILMS OF ARTHUR LIPSETT **16MM**
Book launch and screening with author Stephen Broomer.
Screening in Innis Town Hall
Oct 7: SEEING, BASICALLY: NEW AND OLD FILMS BY BARBARA STERNBERG
Filmmaker in person
Oct 20: EARLY SHORT FILMS BY JOYCE WIELAND **16MM**
Handtinting, Watersark, Patriotism I & II, and more.
Introduced by Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof
Screening in Innis Town Hall
Oct 31: HALLOWEEN DOUBLE-BILL **16MM**
Kenneth Anger’s Eaux d’artifice and Sidney Peterson’s The Cage
Nov 10: ARTIST ON FIRE **16MM**
A documentary on Joyce Wieland, with filmmaker Kay Armatage in person!
Presented in partnership with TIFF Cinematheque, The Art Gallery of Ontario and the Innis College Alumni Association
Screening in Innis Town Hall
Dec 11: DEREK JENKINS: VULGAR RELIQUARIES
Filmmaker in Person
And school’s back, so the Cinema Studies Union at U of T has returned with their free Friday night films, that are all open to the public. Here is their September schedule.
Each film starts at 7 PM at Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave.
Sep 5: La Chinoise (1967; Jean-Luc Godard)
Sep 12: The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015; Marielle Heller)
Sep 19: Some Kind of Wonderful (1987; Howard Deutch)
Sep 26: Margaret (2011; Kenneth Lonergan) Extended Cut
Greg Woods
Greg Woods has been a film enthusiast since his teens, and began his writing "career" at the same time- prolific in capsule reviews of everything he had watched, first on index cards, then those hardcover dollar store black journals, then an old Mac IIsi. He founded The Eclectic Screening Room in 2001, as a portal to share his film love with the world, and find some like-minded enthusiasts along the way. In addition to having worked in the film industry for over two decades, he has been a co-programmer of films at Trash Palace, and a programmer/co-founder of the Toronto Film Noir Syndicate. He has also written for Broken Pencil, CU-Confidential, Micro-Film, and is currently working on his first novel. His secret desire is for someone to interview him for a podcast or a DVD extra.