Film as Curatorial Tool: An Afternoon with the CCA

Join the Canadian Centre for Architecture at e-flux Screening Room on Saturday, October 5 at 5pm for Film as Curatorial Tool, an afternoon with selected documentaries produced by the CCA in conjunction with exhibitions exploring topics of quality of life, urban development and decay, and ecological design. The screening will be followed by a conversation with e-flux Associate Curator of Film and Video Lukas Brasiskis and e-flux Architecture Assistant Editor Christina Moushoul, who will be joined by CCA curators Francesco Garutti and Irene Chin, on the use of film in spatial studies and storytelling. The program will be introduced by guest curator Sara Silva.

The CCA is an international research institution and museum founded in 1979 on the conviction that architecture is a public concern. In the past decade, the CCA has expanded into film as a format to investigate the forces shaping our environment, and how architecture may shape society in turn. 

Films

Now, Please Think About Yesterday (2019, 23 minutes) 
Shot inside the headquarters and call centers of Gallup, the documentary closely observes the processes and the people behind the design and execution of the World Poll—the data released in the highly publicized World Happiness Report. Conceived by Francesco Garutti and directed by Erin Weisgerber for the exhibition Our Happy Life.

كیف لا نغرق في السراب / To Remain in the No Longer (2023, 38 minutes) 
In 1962, Oscar Niemeyer was invited to conceive an international fairground in the city of Tripoli, Lebanon, which was never completed. By examining the precarity of the project site that remains to this day, the film reflects on the country’s current socio-economic crisis. Conceived and directed by Joyce Joumaa under the CCA’s Emerging Curator program, more information here.

进岛方向 / Into the Island (2024, 41 minutes) 
The film follows Xu Tiantian during preliminary site visits on Meizhou Island. Famous as the site which gave birth to the cult of the sea goddess Mazu, the island is an environment where religious pilgrimages and mass tourism, traditional farming techniques, and strict conservation policies co-exist in a fragile balance. Directed by Joshua Frank for the ongoing Groundwork film and exhibition series. Conceived by Francesco Garutti and Irene Chin, and directed by Joshua Frank, for the ongoing Groundwork film and exhibition series.

For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.

Accessibility
– Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
– For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator near 180 Classon Ave (a garage door) leading into the e-flux office space. We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
– e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom with no steps between the event space and this bathroom.