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posted by widge in on févr. 25, 2011 - View profile

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Cinema Politica: sex, song and segregation

Spotlight on Canadian filmmaker and activist John Greyson


7:00pm
Lundi Février 28 2011

Venue: Room H-110, Concordia University
Address: 1455 de Maisonneuve West
Cost: contribution volontaire / Pay what you can

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sex, song and segregation

 

Concordia University (Montreal) 
Monday February 28, 2011
Screening begins 19h00 
Venue: Room H-110, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve West

This special event is co-sponsored by Queer Concordia and Tadamon! Montreal. John Greyson will be present for Q&A after the screening.  

Sex, Song, and Segregation

Spotlight on Canadian filmmaker and activist John Greyson
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John Greyson / Canada / various

Toronto’s prizewinning filmmaker in person to present nine shorts and excerpts, bringing together for the first time South African and Israeli apartheid, sodomy and safer sex, penguins and protest, megaphone music and Elton John, in an explosively political combination.

 This 95-minute program of shorts and excerpts celebrates 25 years of Greyson films on South Africa, Palestine, race, sex, politics, music, and art.

The lineup: A Moffie Called Simon, 1986, 14 min Chant d’Amour, 1989, 3 min Captifs d’Amour, 2009, 5 min Proteus, 2003, 20 min excerpt Two Tables, 2003, 3 min Motet for Amplified Voices, 2006, 5 min Fig Trees, 2009, 30 min excerpt Vuvuzela, 2010, 9 min Hey Elton, 2010, 6 min



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Organizer:Executive Director and Network Coordinator Email: svetla [at] cinemapolitica [dot] org

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