About the Event:

Since the early 20th century, Montréal has been at the center of a historical exchange between international animation filmmakers and regional cultures. Through archives and film analysis, Sanchez examines the underlying dialogues between local and immigrant perspectives that led to the development of an international animation language in Canada. As Animation continues to evolve, the research considers major questions of cultural exchanges today with a historical grounding of the expanding field.

Expanding the Animation Film - Cross-Cultural Exchange in Montréal and Canada was conducted across moving Image archives and collections in Canada, including the National Film Board (ONF/NFB), the Cinémathèque Québécoise and the Visual Collections Repository(VCR) at Concordia University.

Following the film screening, we will join Filmmakers Terril Calder, Alisi Telengut, and Raquel Sancinetti for a conversation about their films and important questions on cross cultural exchange in the field of animation today. The filmmakers are part of a list of recent  animation film acquisitions by the Visual Collections Repository and Concordia University  libraries. The acquisitions list of films was curated and selected by Vinicius Sanchez as  part of his Fulbright Research project titled “Expanding the Animation Film: Cross-cultural  exchange in Montréal and Canada.” 

Watch our first After Hours Community Screening!