We're currently working on our Fall
2006 This Is Not A Reading Series season. We'll announce our
complete season on September 11th. While you wait for it, here's a
sneak peak at what we have planned for our first event this
Fall:
PROFESSOR JERRY WHITE Double
Book Launch:
The Cinema of Canada (Wallflower Press) &
The Cinema of Canada (Wallflower Press) &
Of This Place and
Elsewhere: The Films and Photography of Peter Mettler
(TIFFG)
Tues, Sept 5th, 8:30-10pm
(doors 8pm)
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St W,, Toronto.
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St W,, Toronto.
Free, more info: www.pagesbooks.ca;
416-598-1447
Pages Books & Magazines, Wallflower
Press, the Toronto International Film Festival Group, and NOW present
a This Is Not A Reading Series double book launch: PROFESSOR JERRY
WHITE celebrates the publication of THE CINEMA OF CANADA and OF THIS
PLACE AND ELSEWHERE: THE FILMS AND PHOTOGRAPHY OF PETER METTLER. Set
against the backdrop of Classic Canadian Cinema images, our
distinguished panel--author and film scholar Jerry White, Wallflower
Press publisher Yoram Allon, and programmer Steve Gravestock will
engage in a lively discussion, moderated by Pages proprietor Marc
Glassman, on documenting cinema in books and other formats. We cap off
this high-caliber evening with a retrospective look at the work of
Canadian filmmaking icon, Peter Mettler. Author Jerry White will share
the stage with Mettler for a rare and intimate interview.
Both books will be on sale during the
event.
THE CINEMA OF CANADA (Wallflower Press)
contains 24 essays, each on a different film and divides itself into
three distinct categories: English-Canadian cinema; Québec cinema;
Aboriginal cinema. In so doing, it provides a fascinating historical
account of the development of film and documentary traditions across
the diverse national and regional communities in Canada. Among the
many important films discussed are Le Déclin de l'empire
américain (1988), I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1988), Exotica
(1994), Dead Man (1995), Le Confessional (1995) and
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001).
OF THIS PLACE AND ELSEWHERE: THE FILMS AND
PHOTOGRAPHY OF PETER METTLER (Toronto International Film Festival
Group) includes discussion of all of Mettler's major films, among
them chapters devoted to Picture of Light and Gambling, Gods and LSD.
It places Mettler in a Canadian context but also deals with his
identity as a Swiss artist and his place in an emerging global cinema.
The book also includes a selection of Mettler's photographic
work.
JERRY WHITE is Assistant Professor of Film
Studies at the University of Alberta, where he is also President of
the Canadian Association for Irish Studies. He has published widely on
Canadian cinema including, as co-editor, North of Everything:
English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980 (2002).
PETER METTLER will be featured during the
Toronto International Film Festival's Canadian Retrospective. One of
Canada's most critically acclaimed filmmakers; Mettler was part of a
circle of filmmakers that emerged as a vital force in Canadian cinema
in the 1980s (which has come to be known as the Toronto New Wave). The
list of directors he collaborated with as a cinematographer early on
in his career constitutes a who's who of the Canadian film industry:
Atom Egoyan (NEXT OF KIN, 1984; FAMILY VIEWING, 1987), Patricia Rozema
(PASSION: A LETTER IN 16MM, 1985), Bruce McDonald (KNOCK! KNOCK!,
1985), and Jeremy Podeswa (DAVID ROCHE TALKS TO YOU ABOUT LOVE,
1983).
STEVE GRAVESTOCK is Associate Director,
Canadian Programming, at the Toronto International Film Festival
Group. He has written extensively on Canadian and international cinema
for many publications. Among these credits are the Toronto Star, POV
Magazine, and Now Magazine. He is also a current contributor to
Cinemascope, and Festival Magazine, and author of Don Owen: Notes On A
Filmmaker And His Culture.
YORAM ALLON is Commissioning Editor and
Editorial Director at Wallflower Press, specialist publishers of
cinema and the moving image; www.wallflowerpress.co.uk
Media contact for Steve Gravestock,
Jerry White and Peter Mettler:
Naoko Kumagai | Toronto International Film
Festival Group | nkumagai@tiffg.ca | 416.934.3200
Media Contact for This Is Not A Reading
Series:
Audrey Gagnon | tinars@pagesbooks.ca | 416.476.3727