Ben Russell
Sunday, November 23, 7pm
Off-site: Burrard Marina Field House
1655 Whyte Avenue

In partnership with Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society, CAG presents a weekend of events with American experimental filmmaker Ben Russell. A 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship and 2010 FIPRESCI award recipient, Russell’s films, installations, and performances foster a deep engagement with the history and semiotics of the moving image. He has toured worldwide with solo screenings and exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Viennale, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York and was named by Cinemascope in 2012 as one of the ‘50 Best Filmmakers Under 50’.

Russell will host a free Film Social, screening Renzo Martens’ Episode III: Enjoy Poverty, followed by an open conversation. This will be followed by two events at Cineworks’ Howe Street studio on Monday November 24: a daytime master class on subject and frame in moving-image arts, followed by an artist talk and free public screening of A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness, a feature-length film collaboration between Ben Russell and Ben Rivers (UK). Places for both free events and the master class will be limited and will require booking. More information at www.cineworks.ca and www.contemporaryartgallery.ca.

Fluid Frames is an ongoing series of screenings, socials and workshops with internationally renowned filmmakers co-organized by Cineworks and the CAG.