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A number of filmmakers will be available after the screenings for a question and answer session.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese screenings offer a diverse range of remarkable abstract experimental work, clever documentaries and innovative short dramas,\u201d said the event\u2019s organizer, Professor <a title=\"Laurence Green research overview\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/finearts\/faculty\/profs\/greenl\/greenl.htm\">Laurence Green<\/a>, graduate program director of production &amp; screenwriting . \u201cWe hope 'Depth of Field' will become an annual opportunity for York to showcase the talent from our graduate film program in a downtown setting with works by candidates who are on the cusp of completing the program alongside the thesis projects of our recent alumni.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0programs are\u00a0part of the new series York Film Downtown, which features free screenings and panel discussions with industry professionals on the art and business of cinema.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7pm screening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Refraction Series<\/em> (8 minutes, 2009) offers an experimental approach to optics and some brilliant \"visual music\" composition in colour and light directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/imagearts.ryerson.ca\/film\/facdetail.cfm?FacultyID=126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Gehman<\/a> (MFA \u201809). Inspired by the ideas of early scientists like Ibn al-Haytham and Isaac Newton, who investigated the nature of light and visual perception, Gehman used everything from unmounted lenses and prisms, to CDs and liquids to generate a wide range of pure light and colours in motion.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20110307\/refraction2.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" width=\"350\" height=\"251\" align=\"right\" \/>Right: <\/strong><em>Refraction Series<\/em> offers a visual music composition in colour and light<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This visually arresting silent film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in 2008, and has since screened internationally at festivals including the Ann Arbor Film Festival in Michigan where it won the Peter Wilde Award for Most Technically Innovative Film in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>A former director of Toronto\u2019s Images Film Festival (2000-2004) and programmer at TIFF and Cinematheque Ontario, Gehman is an independent filmmaker, curator and critic based in Toronto. In fall, 2010, his films were the subject of a retrospective screening at the Canadian Film Institute (Ottawa). Gehman is also teaching a film course in the film Department this year, on contract.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chelseamcmullan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chelsea McMullan<\/a> (BFA \u201806, MFA \u201810) directed <em>Deadman<\/em> (31 minutes, 2010) a documentary exploring two visions of the wild west. On screen, Matt Sandvoss enthuses over his plans to build a replica of an Old-West theme park complete with a saloon and gunfighters in British Columbia. In sharp contrast, Cree resident Gerald Carter explains the history of the town, Deadman's Creek and is stunned by new commercial and real estate developments in the region. Their contrasting perspectives provide the drama. Deadman screened at TIFF and the Vancouver international Film Festival in 2009 among others.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20110307\/\/Deadman by Chelsea McMullen.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" width=\"338\" height=\"225\" align=\"left\" \/>Left: <\/strong><em>Deadman<\/em>, directed by alumna Chelse McMullan, explores two visions of the wild west<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>McMullan won\u2019t be able to attend the screening as she is currently in Treviso, near Venice, Italy participating in the Benneton Family\u2019s artistic think tank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fabrica.it\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrica<\/a>. During her year there she will explore a wide variety of projects in collaboration with the other 39 young resident artists in this unique talent incubator.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ghost Noise<\/em> (23 minutes, 2009) was directed by Marcia Connolly (MFA \u201910) and explores the absolute intelligence, mischief and poetry of Inuit artist Shuvinai Ashoona. The film won the\u00a0Lodestar Award for Best Canadian or International Film at the Dawson City Film Festival and has screened at festivals coast to coast including ImagineNATIVE and the REELARTISTS festivals in Toronto and Vancouver\u2019s Women in Film festival among many others.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20110307\/ghost2.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\" align=\"right\" \/>Right: <\/strong><em>Ghost Noise<\/em> by Marcia Connolly explores the poetry of Inuit artist Shuvinai Ashoona<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other works on the 7pm program include dramas by current MFA candidates, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woykin.com\/HOME.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cam Woykin<\/a>\u2019s <em>Open Window,<\/em> (9 minutes, 2010) in which a backyard birthday party is consumed by tension between the parents as a result of abusive relationships between the characters; and Rafal Sokolowski\u2019s <em>7th Day<\/em>,\u00a0(24 minutes, 2011) that depicts two recent Toronto immigrants who try to beat prohibitive Toronto rents by working their taxicab 24\/7 -- while one is driving the other is sleeping in the miniature apartment in the trunk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9pm screening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Bridge Kids <\/em>(16 minutes, 2010), directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffreypugen.com\/index.php?\/bridge-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Geoff Pugen<\/a> (MFA \u201810) is mesmerizing collage of found footage, sci-fi cliches, and original drama, featuring telepathic children. Set in the near future, there are no adults, a tree house becomes a door to another dimension, and rocks release intuitive powers. Documentary, historiography and mythology collide and transform in a multi-format, multi-channel installation showing a virtual world of telepathic children and their attempt at reincarnation. <em>Bridge Kids<\/em> connects a research documentary on J.B. Rhine and the history of ESP\/ Parapsychology, with a science fiction drama portraying an adolescent's connection with the dead. Pugen screened the video at a widely publicized solo exhibition at Toronto\u2019s\u00a0TPW Gallery.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20110307\/bridge2.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\" align=\"left\" \/>Left: <\/strong>Alumnus Geoff Pugen's film <em>Bridge Kids<\/em> features found footage and telepathic children<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Current MFA candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savac.net\/big-stories-little-india\/artists\/mawani\/zaheed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zaheed Mawani<\/a>\u2019s <em>Three Walls<\/em>, (26 minutes, 2010) traces the development of the office cubicle since its inception in the late 1960s to its current status as North America's dominant form of office furniture. More than a bit of social history, this documentary captures the melancholic absurdity of the modern day office and examines the larger issues surrounding the shifting nature of white-collar work.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/photos\/20110307\/threewalls2.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" width=\"350\" height=\"219\" align=\"right\" \/>Right: <\/strong>Current MFA candidate Zaheed Mawani\u2019s <em>Three Walls<\/em>,\u00a0traces the development of the office cubicle since its inception in the late 1960s<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other films that complete the 9pm screening are <em>Fabric<\/em> (9 minutes, 2009), an experimental narrative about a woman trying to reconnect with her family directed by Coral Aiken (MFA \u201910) and <em>Uniform Activity,<\/em> (20 minutes, 2010) a drama directed by Chris McCarroll (MFA \u201810) that shows the unwitting transformation of a middle-aged man as he methodically prepares for his first day at a new job. Plus two works by current MFA candidates including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwindsor.ca\/cmf\/professor-tony-lau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tony Lau<\/a>\u2019s <em>Left-Behind Woman<\/em>, (21 minutes, 2011), a documentary examining the living conditions of women in rural China, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agapefilm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Krzysztof Pietrozsek<\/a>\u2019s <em>Agape<\/em> (23 minutes, 2011) a drama set in Nazi-occupied Poland about a widow in a relationship with a Nazi officer, who is placed in a life threatening situation by her eight-year old daughter.<\/p>\n<p><em><em>Republished c<\/em>ourtesy of <\/em><em><em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\">YFile<\/a><\/em> \u2013 ¿ì²¥ÊÓÆµ\u2019s daily e-bulletin<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Film celebrates the work of recent alumni and current candidates in the master's program in film production with a screening of graduate works from 2009 to 2011. 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