With director Vincent Bonin-Arena in attendance Young, nonchalant and blasé, Anna’s only joy in life is music. Her life turns upside down the day that she breaks her CD player and gets a classic iPod instead. At the same time, a mysterious person enters her life. These new obsessions drag Anna into a journey that […]
Two old friends reunite for a quietly revelatory overnight camping trip in this breakout feature from Kelly Reichardt, a microbudget study of character and masculinity that introduced many viewers to one of contemporary American cinema’s most independent artists. Adapted from a short story by Jonathan Raymond and accompanied by an atmospheric Yo La Tengo score, […]
In collaboration with Film POP, the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art presents Fictional Revolutionary Leaders, a double bill including Gloria Camiruaga’s Popsicles (1984) and Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s Oriana (2022). Popsicles by Gloria Camiruaga is a short video produced during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, which lasted from 1973 to 1990. Camiruaga’s short […]
In collaboration with Fantasia Husband and wife filmmaking duo Beth B and Scott B are among the greatest artists of New York’s No Wave movement. Recently restored by MoMA, their Super 8 feature debut, The Offenders, is a simple and malignant crime story about a daughter’s kidnapping and her abusive, controlling father. A who’s who […]
Canadian premiere With director Alison O’Daniel in attendance A spate of robberies in Southern California schools had an oddly specific target: tubas. In this work of creative nonfiction, d/Deaf first-time feature director Alison O’Daniel presents the impact of these crimes from an unexpected angle. Blending documentary and fictionalised performances and set to an L.A. landscape/soundscape […]
Co-presented by Vidéographe In collaboration with Vidéographe, Film POP presents a program of contemporary videos by Montreal-based experimental filmmakers. Drawn from Vidéographe’s catalogue, musically themed works such as Frédéric Dallaire’s immersive documentary, Le rêve d’Ida, are paired alongside films where music is central to the sound design, such as in Alisi Telengut’s enchanting animation, The […]
Free screening (we recommend online booking for your free tickets) Art POP, in collaboration with Film POP, will be presenting three films by artists who explore themes of diaspora in their work. Foreign in a Domestic Sense, is a constellation of testimonies and imaginaries of Puerto Ricans who have migrated to Central Florida in recent […]
Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things — each other and volcanoes. For two decades, the daring French volcanologist couple roamed the planet, chasing eruptions and documenting their discoveries. Ultimately, they lost their lives in a 1991 volcanic explosion, leaving a legacy that forever enriched our knowledge of the natural world. Director Sara Dosa and […]
Special screening with director Max Dufaud, Rémi Frechette and Kevin T. Landry and producer Jarrett Mann in attendance. March 12th, 2020. COVID-19 has just been declared a global pandemic, it is the beginning of confinement in Quebec. Samuel, Fanny, Daniel and Marianne, four Montrealers from very different backgrounds, must now adapt to this new reality. […]
In collaboration with FNC Peter Strickland’s fifth feature takes place in an art residency led by an upper-class aesthete who has invited a culinary collective to perform their “sonic catering” practice for a month. Hired to report on their creative process, a Greek writer begins to suffer from indigestion, to which the institution’s sarcastic doctor […]