Collapsing Cinema and Stage: Autumn Knight Live at the Walker
In the lead up to their new improvisational work that blurs live performance and film, Autumn Knight discusses their history with drama therapy, the power of group dynamics, improvisation, and nothingness.
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Explore the Walker Dialogues and Film Retrospectives archive some of the most innovative and influential filmmakers of our time.
What Gifts Do We Already Have?: adrienne maree brown and Speculative Fiction
Writer, activist, and facilitator adrienne maree brown explore hope in the face of dystopias, what stories can be found in our DNA, and the potential that speculation has for making the world a better place.
Collapsing Cinema and Stage: Autumn Knight Live at the Walker
In the lead up to their new improvisational work that blurs live performance and film, Autumn Knight discusses their history with drama therapy, the power of group dynamics, improvisation, and nothingness.
An exploration into the potential for resistance and struggle for change within a selection of Winnipeg films brought together by artist-filmmaker Rhayne Vermette.
What does it mean when one of the 20th century’s most successful athletes can re-immortalized as an avatar of failure through a single meme? Guest curators Brett Kashmere and Astria Suparak consider the relationship between moving image, sports, identity, resistance, and pleasure.
A Galactic Aversion to the Mainstream: Theo Jean Cuthand in Conversation with Shaawan Francis Keahna
Credited with coining the term Indigiqueer, for contemporary Indigenous LGBTQI2 people, Theo Jean Cuthand (Plains Cree, Scottish/Irish) sits down with Shaawan Francis Keahna to discuss vampire video games, Indigenous trans visibility in filmmaking, as well as what futures are possible when we draw from multiple lived experiences.
How does a gesture, image, or word from history get passed down across time and space? What does it make possible in the here and now? Guest curator and writer Jon Davies, examines how queer signals sent decades ago via moving image works cry out to be heard.
A Non-Western Exchange: Looking Back at Transnational Cinema Education in the Cold War Eastern Bloc
From the 1950s through the end of the 1980s, the film and TV schools in Prague and Poland attracted hundreds of students from countries including Syria, Algeria, Iran, India, Colombia, and Cuba. Looking back at this history, a group of scholars reconsider the successes and failures of this attempt by authorities to promote global socialist solidarity.
In a season of questioning diplomacy, local artist Cameron Patricia Downey curates a collection of moving image works that explore how we perform anger and aggression.
Expanding on the nautical relationships found in Allan Sekula’s Fish Story, this collection of moving image works maneuver between globalized infrastructure and our associations with the physical and metaphorical world.
Free the Land, Free the People: Alanis Obomsawin’s Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
Writer and researcher Yasmina Price explores Alanis Obomsawin’s 1993 film Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, Fourth Cinema, and using the camera as an emancipatory weapon.
Gossamers Volume II: In & Out From Within, So From Without
Cameron Patricia Downey and Khari Lucas co-curate a playlist from the Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection and raise questions that explore the nature of documentary, performance, and portraiture in the films they chose together.
In the lead-up to the launch of the summer film series Hanif Abdurraqib’s Black VHS Experience, poet, essayist, music writer, and MacArthur Genius award recipient Abdurraqib sat down with Valérie Déus to discuss the impact of these films as well as their connections to music and art.
Amid today’s changing media landscape, this series considers how contemporary queer artists trace their lineage across generations and geographies through moving images.
This series looks to instances where the production of moving images reaches beyond creative collaboration to situations in which artists’ work serves to aid and abet others directly in the challenging of systems of power.
A program of commissioned moving image works by artists—including James Marwa Arsanios, Yto Barrada, Renée Green, and Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz—who respond to work in the Ruben/Bentson Collection.
Exploring the use of humor as a form of resistance across today’s art and design practices.
Collection playlists curated from the Walker’s Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection by local artist Cameron Downey.
Responses to the the question of what is truth in times of “alternative facts” and “fake news” by Werner Herzog, critic Ben Davis, filmmaker Sabaah Folayan, artist RaMell Ross, and investigative journalist Eric Schlosser.
