2014-2015
News Release
REF NO.: 122
SUBJECT: Cinema and space in Newfoundland and Labrador
DATE: March 13, 2015
Memorial University’s Research Centre for Music, Media and Place (MMaP) will present the public lecture, Cinema and Space in Newfoundland and Labrador, on Wednesday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the MMaP Gallery on the second floor of the St. John’s Arts and Culture Centre.
Dr. Mark David Turner, currently a post-doctoral fellow in Memorial’s Department of English and School of Music, will deliver the lecture.
Based on his extensive research on film, film policy and filmmakers in Newfoundland and Labrador, Dr. Turner will be exploring the complex relationship between film and space in this province. How do we begin to speak of a Newfoundland and Labrador cinema? Does it even exist before the Jones brothers’ The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood? Is there such a thing as a Newfoundland and Labrador cinema? Are there features which unify the practice of film in this province? Dr. Turner will consider these questions as an approach to understanding Newfoundland and Labrador cinema as something rooted as much in space as it is in time. The lecture will be illustrated by clips from the work of Lee Wulff, Atlantic Films, Memorial’s Extension Services, the National Film Board and other individuals and organizations. ???
Dr. Turner’s research has explored development of film practices in Newfoundland and Labrador from the suspension of Representative Government (1933) to the creation of the establishment of the Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation in 1997.
“No one has mined the history of this province’s surprisingly rich legacy of film and filmmaking more than Mark Turner,” said Dr. Noreen Golfman, provost and vice-president (academic), pro tempore, and Memorial’s resident film scholar. “His research helps us make good sense of the province through its representation in moving images.”?? ?
Dr. Turner obtained his undergraduate degree from Memorial and continued his studies at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto where he earned his MA and PhD. He has worked extensively as a film historian, archivist, curator and advocate in Labrador, developing the Labrador Institute’s comprehensive film and video collection at Happy Valley-Goose Bay, preparing the James Robert Andersen collection at Makkovik and is currently in the planning phases of developing a collection for the Torngâsok Cultural Centre on the Labrador Inuit. More recently he has been working with the community of Rigolet to develop a media-language archive.? ?
This lecture is sponsored by Memorial University, and is a collaboration of the MMaP and the School of Music. The lecture is free and all are welcome.
REF NO.: 122
SUBJECT: Cinema and space in Newfoundland and Labrador
DATE: March 13, 2015
Memorial University’s Research Centre for Music, Media and Place (MMaP) will present the public lecture, Cinema and Space in Newfoundland and Labrador, on Wednesday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the MMaP Gallery on the second floor of the St. John’s Arts and Culture Centre.
Dr. Mark David Turner, currently a post-doctoral fellow in Memorial’s Department of English and School of Music, will deliver the lecture.
Based on his extensive research on film, film policy and filmmakers in Newfoundland and Labrador, Dr. Turner will be exploring the complex relationship between film and space in this province. How do we begin to speak of a Newfoundland and Labrador cinema? Does it even exist before the Jones brothers’ The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood? Is there such a thing as a Newfoundland and Labrador cinema? Are there features which unify the practice of film in this province? Dr. Turner will consider these questions as an approach to understanding Newfoundland and Labrador cinema as something rooted as much in space as it is in time. The lecture will be illustrated by clips from the work of Lee Wulff, Atlantic Films, Memorial’s Extension Services, the National Film Board and other individuals and organizations. ???
Dr. Turner’s research has explored development of film practices in Newfoundland and Labrador from the suspension of Representative Government (1933) to the creation of the establishment of the Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation in 1997.
“No one has mined the history of this province’s surprisingly rich legacy of film and filmmaking more than Mark Turner,” said Dr. Noreen Golfman, provost and vice-president (academic), pro tempore, and Memorial’s resident film scholar. “His research helps us make good sense of the province through its representation in moving images.”?? ?
Dr. Turner obtained his undergraduate degree from Memorial and continued his studies at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto where he earned his MA and PhD. He has worked extensively as a film historian, archivist, curator and advocate in Labrador, developing the Labrador Institute’s comprehensive film and video collection at Happy Valley-Goose Bay, preparing the James Robert Andersen collection at Makkovik and is currently in the planning phases of developing a collection for the Torngâsok Cultural Centre on the Labrador Inuit. More recently he has been working with the community of Rigolet to develop a media-language archive.? ?
This lecture is sponsored by Memorial University, and is a collaboration of the MMaP and the School of Music. The lecture is free and all are welcome.
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