The GOODS from The Cinematheque

Vancouver, BC | Visit the Cinematheque on Saturday June 4 for a free, day-long celebration of all things film! Enjoy a complimentary bag of the city’s best popcorn as you experience unique 16mm films from their archive collections. Try your hand at 16mm scratch animation and learn to project film with their Education Department. Discover what it takes to maintain and preserve these fragile artifacts. Get up close and personal with the medium of motion-picture film as we bring The Cinematheque Film Archive out from behind its closed stacks!

12:00 pm: Screening
West Coast Film Collection Shorts

1:00 pm
Intermission + Activities

1:30 pm: Screening
National Film Board Collection Shorts

2:45pm
Illustrated Preservation Talk

More info here: http://thecinematheque.ca/the-cinematheque-archive-day.

DETAILS

1131 Howe Street | Vancouver, BC
Telephone: 604-688-8202
Website: www.thecinematheque.ca | Facebook | Twitter | Issu

GALLERY

Key People

Jim Sinclair – Executive + Artistic Director
Kate Ladyshewsky – Managing Director

About The Cinematheque

The Cinematheque is a charitable cultural organization that brings the Essential Cinema Experience to Vancouver audiences. Home to one of the largest and most extensive programs of curated films in North America, The Cinematheque presents over 500 screenings annually including retrospectives of great directors’ works, new features from Canada’s hottest young filmmakers, prestigious internationally touring exhibitions, plus guest appearances, lectures, special receptions, and much more.

The Cinematheque is also home to the West Coast Film Archive, a collection which holds 2000+ works on 16mm and 35mm film, the Film Reference Library, and an award-winning Education Department that works with youth, educators, and the community-at-large year-round to provide digitial filmmaking programs, critical media literacy workshops, and educational film screenings.

PRESS

“Going to The Cinematheque is the closest thing to visiting Manhattan without leaving Vancouver …. Its program is as innovative and entertaining as any you’ll find in New York.” David Spaner, The Province

“For the true cinema lover who appreciates foreign and independent retrospectives, restorations, experimental films, and rare or obscure works, the Cinematheque is a necessity.” Craig Takeuchi, The Georgia Straight

“Cinémathèques now take on a job parallel to what museums do with painting and sculpture.  They assemble, sort, analyze and exhibit the culture of the world.”  Robert Fulford, The Globe & Mail