Outer Worlds

Event Description

Public Access Collective presents Outer Worlds, an extra-ordinary program that features five experimental IMAX films by Canada’s leading artists: Kelly Richardson, Lisa Jackson, Oliver Husain, Leila Sujir, and Michael Snow.

In keeping with the cinematic genre typical of IMAX films—the larger-than-life landscape that forms an outer world beyond the limits of the human sensorium—Outer Worlds explores expanded cinema through various ecologies of the non-human: the forest, lichen, snails, water, and sky.

Proposing different worlds of experience and distinct grammars of immersion through a meeting with the camera, the films imagine common worlds by reflecting upon the exigencies of intercultural and interspecies communication, a task that has taken on great urgency in the 21st century as we grapple with how to adapt to the ecological realities brought about by anthropogenic climate change.

The program features a new sound remix of Michael Snow’s final film, Cityscape.

In addition, Outer Worlds will be preceded by a rare screening of Graeme Ferguson’s North of Superior (1971), the first film shot entirely in the IMAX format!

This screening is curated by Janine Marchessault and is part of a three-stop Canadian tour of Outer Worlds supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. Following the program, there will be an artist and curator Q&A in the theatre.