Jodie Mack Keynote Address and Film Screening
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UPDATE: We regret to announce that for medical reasons, Jodie Mack is no longer able to make it to Toronto in person. Her keynote address will now be delivered online; the film screening will take place as planned.
As part of this year's Annual Cinema Studies Graduate Student Conference, the experimental filmmaker and animator Jodie Mack will be delivering the keynote address, accompanied by a special screening of experimental short films, to be viewed with 3D diffraction glasses.
The event is free and open to the public. No registration required.
The films to be screened include:
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Let Your Light Shine (Jodie Mack, 2013)
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Studie No. 7 (Oskar Fischinger, 1930)
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Spirals (Oskar Fischinger, 1926)
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Particles in Space (Len Lye, 1966)
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Synchromy #2 (Mary Ellen Bute and Ted Nemeth, 1935)
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Trap (Amy Kravitz, 1988)
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Pas de deux (Norman McLaren, 1968)
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The Bead Game (Ishu Patel, 1977)
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Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts (Rainer Kohlberger, 2016)
Films provided courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada, Amy Kravitz, Canyon Cinema, and Six Pack Films. Following the screening, Prof. Mack will be joined for a Q&A hosted by Prof. James Cahill and Srijita Banerjee.
The screening and talk are presented as part of Formations, the 2026 Annual Cinema Studies Graduate Student Conference, which runs from March 6-7, 2026