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2007 TSA film and video series

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2007 TSA film and video series
expo 67: True North Forty


Glass Room, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park
free with $5 admission to the ROM


7:30 pm Friday May 4, 2007
Home and Native Land
The Canadian Pavilion, NFB (1967, 19’, 16mm)
Indian Memento, d. Michel Regnier, NFB (1967, 18’, 16mm)
Aki'Name: On the Wall, d. David Millar, NFB (1968. 22’, 16mm)
Habitat, (1997, 24’, VHS)

The Canadian Pavilion at expo 67, as seen through the eyes of first nations and of founding nations. Home, suburbia, and Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67 speak to the importance of place.


7:30 pm Friday May 11, 2007
Glowing Hearts
expo 1967, NFB (1965, 25’, 16mm)
expo 67: A Preview, (16mm)
Impressions of expo 67, NFB (8’, 16mm)
expo 67: Back To the Future, CBC (2004, 50’, DVD)

A series of progress, overall, and aerial views of expo 67 from the time of construction and of the exposition, as well as a look back at that Canadian experience in the construction and exposition of nationhood.


7:30 pm Friday May 18, 2007
Most Brilliant Exploits
A Place to Stand, d. David MacKay, NFB (1967, 17’, 16mm)
In the Labyrinth, NFB (1979, 21’, 16mm)
Multiple Man, d. Claude Godbout & Georges Dufaux, NFB (1969, 16’, 16mm)

The state of the art in visual communications, these three multimedia presentations (for the Ontario Pavilion, Chamber III of the Labyrinth, and the post expo Man and His World) are very rarely screened.


7:30 pm Friday May 25, 2007
Stand on Guard
Scenes from American Movies (1967, 18’, 16mm)
Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud (1996, 94’, VHS)

Famous scenes of romance and adventure screened at the American pavilion at expo 67 precede a documentary of Bucky Fuller, the designer (along with Shoji Sadao) of the geodesic dome itself.
 

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