The DOXA Documentary Film Festival is bringing a special screening to New Westminster.
DOXA’s Motion Pictures Film Series, in partnership with the New Media Gallery, NewWest FilmFest, Momentum Youth Arts Movement and the city’s arts services, is presenting Mediated Visions: film, art and technology, running Tuesday, Oct. 18 at the Anvil Centre Theatre.
Mediated Visions is described as a “convergence of film, contemporary art, workshops and artist talks that address the interconnected nature of human society and technology.”
It’s running in conjunction with the ongoing WITNESS exhibition at New Media Gallery – a collection of five works that explore how our interaction with technology has reconfigured our ideas about public space.
The evening will include a screening of Werner Herzog’s documentary Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, which charts a course from the earliest days of the “world wide web” to the larger implications of today. It starts at 7 p.m., with doors opening at 6:15 p.m.
Following the screening, guest speakers Adam Basanta and Mazdak Gharibnavaz will be on hand. Basanta is one of the artists whose work is in the WITNESS exhibition. Gharibnavaz is a grassroots development officer at OpenMedia, where he is a staffer “in the fight for a free and open internet,” as a press release notes.
The day also includes a free workshop presented by the Momentum Youth Arts Movement from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at Anvil Centre. Phoned Footage, led by media artist Louisa Phung, will demonstrate the fundamentals of creating a media-based work using smartphones.
Tickets for the movie screening are $10, or $5 for students and seniors. You can buy at the door (cash only) or in advance at 604-521-5050 or www.ticketsnw.ca.
