Electro-pythagorus
Special Location: SFU Woodward’s, Cinema 149 W Hastings St. Electropythagorus is a portrait of computer music pioneer and Western Front co-founder Martin Bartlett. Created largely from…
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Bodies of Knowledge
Organized alongside TERMINAL, the Bodies of Knowledge screenings are a meditation on the ‘user’ side of technological relationships. This two-part series brings together three different…
À Vancouver
The Vancouver premiere of a new work by Toronto-base artist Vincent Chevalier. The screening will be followed by a talk by the artist. “À Vancouver…
As a Wife Has a Cow
Western Front is pleased to present the upcoming screening: As a Wife Has a Cow, a video portrait of the charismatic rancher Keely Moll. An intimate interrogation of the life and…
Eternal
Eternal Directed by Daniel Fish Presented with the PuSh International Performing Arts FestivalFebruary 2–6 @ 8pm, February 6 @ 2pm Artist Talk: February 3, following the…
Jennifer Chan
Resident artist Jennifer Chan’s work addresses gender and race politics in reaction to the media’s promise of happiness. Her videos thrash through an immense image culture,…
To the Editor of Amateur Photographer
Western Front Media Arts and Cineworks present: To the Editor of Amateur Photographer Screening and Q & A with Luke Fowler 27 July 2015—8:30pm-10:00pm Cineworks…
Duncan Campbell: Bernadette
Western Front presents a weekend-long screening in the Grand Luxe Hall of Duncan Campbell’s film Bernadette, as part of the Contemporary Art Gallery’s exhibition The Act of Seeing…
Shama Khanna: On Flatness
Western Front Curator in Residence Shama Khanna will present a series of films, writing and research related to her ongoing project Flatness. The Flatness project…
Ways of Something, Episodes 1-3
Ways of Something is a contemporary remake of John Berger’s BBC documentary, Ways of Seeing (1972). Commissioned by The One Minutes at the Sandberg Instituut in…
Past is Prologue: Alex Muir Lucky Pennies: Fiction Video at the Dawn of the New American Morning
Past is Prologue is an ongoing program that invites artist, curators, writers and scholars to consider works in the Western Front Media Archive. Researcher Alex…
Past is Prologue: Project Rainbow Screening and Talk
Project Rainbow (Heidi Nutley, Sydney Vermont, Jesse Birch, and Jade Boyd) will present research and work-in-progress produced during their recent Past is Prologue residency. Past…
Kuchar/Rudnick
Co-produced by The Apartment and Western Front Media Arts This screening will feature the ever expanding video series Claude by San Francisco filmmaker Michael Rudnick and HotSpell, the last weather…
Isabelle Pauwels LIKE…/AND, LIKE/YOU KNOW/TOTALLY/ RIGHT.
Western Front Media Arts is pleased to present a series of screenings of the first cut of Isabelle Pauwels’ LIKE…/AND, LIKE/YOU KNOW/TOTALLY/ RIGHT. This new…
Daria Martin Film Screening
Western Front is pleased to announce a screening of selected films by the London-based artist Daria Martin, presented in collaboration with the Catriona Jeffries Gallery.…
Three Readings: Camera, Tape and Sound (Kathy Acker, bpNichol/Steve McCaffery, and Kevin Davies as introduced by George Bowering)
Western Front Media Arts is pleased to welcome Michael Turner as inaugural Western Front Media Archive researcher-in-residence, as part of Past is Prologue, an ongoing…
Perspectives on an Archive
Perspectives on an Archive is a curatorial mentorship and community outreach project initiated by Western Front Media Arts. From September 2008 to December 2008 three…
Video Screening
The Oratory is a 28-minute experimental narrative docudrama. The OR, or the Oratory is a film exploring the inter-personal relationship between a god and goddess,…