Mike Hoolboom introduces - Cinema Lounge: Critical Dialogue on Canadian Cinema

As part of our on-going Cinema Lounge: Critical Dialogue on Canadian Cinema series, Mike Hoolboom - one of Canada's finest experimental filmmakers - will introduce two exceptional Canadian films: Up to the South (Jayce Salloum) and View from the Other Side of the Falls (John Price).

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VIEW FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FALLS 
Dir. John Price | Canada | 2006 | 7 min. (silent) 35mm (cinemascope)
Shot with a small, hand-cranked, 35mm camera, Toronto filmmaker John Price visits a tourist’s playground and returns with the mystery intact. Instead of using his camera as a shield, to protect himself from seeing, here he strips away the layers of culture and artifice and returns us, in a sublime chemical reworking.

UP TO THE SOUTH (Talaeen a Junuub)
Dir. Jayce Salloum and Walid Ra’ad | 60 mins. | 1992
An oblique, albeit powerful documentary on South Lebanon, the conditions, politics, and economics of the region, the Israeli occupation and the social, ideological and popular resistance to this occupation. While the Israeli state was established in 1948, Palestinians were being hunted down and killed or expelled. Many fled to Lebanon (and Jordan and…), and after a series of cross-border attacks from both sides, the Israelis invaded Lebanon in 1978 and again in 1982, when they occupied southern Lebanon. They withdrew in 2000. Ra’ad and Salloum weigh in on the occupation and its resistance.