Traces That Resemble Us

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The Cinematheque
1131 Howe Street
Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7
November 12 – December 17, 2015

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Over the next six weeks, The Cinematheque in Vancouver is hosting an incredible season of films in collaboration with Monte Clark Gallery. "Motivated by Jeff Wall’s history as a former film programmer at The Cinematheque, Traces That Resemble Us invites twelve prominent Vancouver-based artists to each program a film that has been influential to his or her practice, and to exhibit artwork for a corresponding group exhibition." This exciting event includes a wide range of classic, cult and off-beat films selected by the aforementioned Wall, alongside Rodney Graham, Myfanwy MacLeod and Stan Douglas, among others. The first two features, Contempt and Dog Day Afternoon selected by Ian Wallace and Dana Claxton respectively, will be shown this evening, with a new pairing screened every Thursday until December 17th.

—The Cinematheque

The Mirror at the Cinematheque

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Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR, 1974
106 minutes, 35mm

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"Tarkovsky’s visually-sumptuous fourth feature is the great director’s most personal and poetic (and Proustian) film. The Mirror offers an idiosyncratic history of 20th century Russia, in the form of a poet’s fragmented reflections on three generations of his family.” This presentation is set to be a real treat and couldn’t be better timed, as I’ve been on a bit of a Tarkovsky kick of late and this is a film I have yet to see. Check it out this weekend if you’re in Vancouver.

—The Cinematheque