Media / Médias
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Sounds of the City
Perhaps even more than the rich visual details that the city has to offer, sound invades our experience of public space, yet this blog has rarely explored...
By Alanah Heffez -
Modest Rebel: Roadsworth @ Montreal Documentary Fest
Every morning, as I walk to the metro, I pass by a garage door next to my apartment. Like much of this section of the Plateau, this door is covered in...
By Olivier Plessis -
In absentia maps Mile End stories
in absentia, a web-based art project presented by Dare-Dare, reads as a cross between a map and a novel. When you have lived in a place for long enough...
By Alanah Heffez -
Calling all Montrealophiles: Free tickets to Memoires des Anges @ Cinema Ex-centris
Remember how annoyed you would get when your Mom would take pictures at family events? That is, until you grew up and realized how lucky you were to have...
By Olivier Plessis -
Richard Florida on Montreal’s Street-level Creative Energy
Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City?, published an epic, upbeat editorial in the Gazette yesterday...
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du jour : Warhol Live
Warhol Live est une exposition retraçant l’inspiration musicale et des arts de la danse chez le roi du pop-art Andy Warhol. Elle se tiendra...
By Cédric Sam -
From the NFB archives: Au Parc Lafontaine
Au Parc Lafontaine Pierre Petel, 1947, 6 min 9 sec Il y a toujours au parc Lafontaine des ours noirs, des renards, des chats sauvages, des oiseaux de...
By Christopher DeWolf -
From the NFB archives: Our Street Was Paved with Gold
Our Street Was Paved with Gold Albert Kish, 1973, 28 min 37 sec “Filmmaker Albert Kish revisits Montreal’s St Lawrence Boulevard – the...
By Christopher DeWolf -
From the NFB archives: 23 Skidoo
23 Skidoo Julian Biggs, 1964, 8 min 12 sec “If you erase the people of downtown America, the effect is bizarre, not to say disturbing. That is what...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Up the Yangtze encore at the Forum
If you didn’t get a chance to catch Montreal filmmaker Yung Chang’s excellent documentary, Up the Yangtze, it will begin an encore run at the...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Incredible online map collection
The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, started in the 1980s and digitized gradually over the last 10 years, now has over 18,000 maps available...
By Julie Fournier -
Get your bus schedules on the fly
Students will start getting their Opus cards soon, but for those who have snapped up Apple’s iPhone, perhaps from the shiny new Apple Store on Ste...
By Christopher DeWolf