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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nTuesday, February 10, 2026 8:00 pm to 10:
 00 pm \n Deluxe Screening Room, IN-222E \n I\nis College \n 2 Sussex Aven
 ue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 \n\nSpeakers \nStephen Broomer (University of To
 ronto) \n\nDescription: \nThe “n-zone” is a hypothetical plane of philosop
 hical speculation: n is nirvana, n is nihil and none, n is nadir. As in 
 algebra, n has a specific but concealed meaning that is revealed by inqui
 ry, by the working out of an equation. By the poetic properties of the ph
 oneme, n can suggest infinity. By those same properties, it is the end z
 one, the scoring plane at either end of a football field, the goal. For 
 Arthur Lipsett, who had spent a decade making films about consumer societ
 y, the dense plenitude of worldly content, and Western civilization’s hu
 nger and pitilessness, the n-zone represented something ultimate and fina
 l. The n-zone first manifested when Henry Zemel came to Lipsett’s Coronet 
 Street apartment one day to find that Lipsett had cut out a series of lett
 ers from black and white paper. One man took a black surface, the other a
  white one, and they arranged and rearranged the contrasting letters unti
 l the expression appeared. Even as they settled on it, they played with t
 he orientation of N, the n-zone becoming the z-zone and the z-none and ba
 ck again, z as zero and as the end of point of the Latin alphabet. Betwee
 n nowhere and eternity, the zone became host to a legion of potential mea
 nings.Ad Hoc is proud to present this screening of Arthur Lipsett’s longes
 t, most controversial, and often misunderstood film, on 16mm, thanks t
 o the gift of a print from Canadian filmmaker Rick Hancox. This screening 
 follows our fall term screening in serving as a full retrospective of Lips
 ett’s filmmaking. Building from that presentation, Dr. Stephen Broomer, 
 author of Secret Museums: The Films of Arthur Lipsett (Wilfrid Laurier Uni
 versity Press, 2025), will give opening remarks on the film.Program:N-Zo
 ne (1970, 45 mins., 16mm, b&w, optical sound)AD HOC aims to rethink wh
 at an experience of cinema can be. We seek to reposition historical landma
 rks and buried treasures within the on-going tradition of experimental and
  other non- commercial modes of filmmaking, drawing on work from Toronto\
 , throughout Canada, and internationally. Within these parameters, we as
 pire to diversity in programming, as well as to multimedia and interdisci
 plinary screening events that bring together varied communities.AD HOC = S
 tephen Broomer, Madi Piller, Jim Shedden, Bart Testa.AD HOC would like 
 to thank Alberto Zambenedetti, Denise Ing, Charlie Keil, Eyan Logan, R
 ob Trevisan, Thom Chan, Jarret Sorger, and the staff of I\nis College a
 nd the Cinema Studies Institute. \n\nContact Information: \n Stephen Broom
 er stephen.broomer@utoronto.ca \n\nSponsors \nCinema Studies Institute, I
 \nis College \n2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 \n\nCategories \n Sc
 reenings \n\nAudiences \n Alumni and FriendsCommunityFacultyGraduate Stude
 ntsUndergraduate Students
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260128T163509Z
LOCATION:2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5
SUMMARY:AD HOC #86: Arthur Lipsett: N-Zone
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