The Moving Image Arts Collective showcases the work of past and current Concordia students.
Hosting its second edition start-of-the-year movie screening night at the Sir George William campus, the Moving Image Arts (MIA) Collective kicked off its school year events on Sept. 9. This screening invited viewers to experience the recent film production of Concordia students and alumni.
The evening’s screening was a collaboration between MIA and the Fine Arts Student Alliance (FASA) during its week-long FASA Fest, an orientation event for first-year students as well as any student interested in the process of filmmaking. Parsa Fard, MIA head coordinator, and Dennis Belopolsky, MIA programming director, organized this event.
This screening featured projects by current filmmaking students, Concordia alumni, and students from various majors experimenting with filmmaking. MIA organizes events that focus on the appreciation and creation of videos and exploration of the filmmaking process to assist Concordia students in their future filmmaking journey and to provide opportunities for networking.
”For this event, we reached out to our favourite filmmakers that we screened in the past,” Fard explained. “It is a mix of the movies that we have already screened and new productions as a way to introduce the type of work that we look for at MIA.”
Among its diverse programs, MIA offers “critique roundtables” sessions where people can bring their work in progress and receive feedback.
“It is especially beneficial for people who are in the midst of working,” Fard said. “They want to show their process, get an opinion, meet [like]minded individuals, and also have fun!”
As a club, MIA plans events on a monthly basis, especially for roundtables and workshops. They offer certain events on an annual basis, such as a year-end screening and a start-of-the-year screening. MIA’s events throughout the year are announced on their Instagram page.
“We are also working on a blog, and we are looking for writing contributions to write about the film, moving images, and art history, which will be advertised very soon,” said Fard.
“MIA is always looking for people from all programs because we know that not all filmmakers are studying film. We would like to create a community of diverse artists and filmmakers,” Fard emphasized. “It is our mission, as a club, to bring together these different departments and gather all-around moving images. And that is how we programmed tonight!”
Among the films presented at the screening night were Marianne Lavergne’s Toothache, Nevin Louie’s I Didn’t Sleep Last Night, Joé Barabé’s Jeremie, Soda!, Fanny Lord-Bourcier’s Abby, Noah Gehman’s The City And…, Noa Blanche Beschorner’s SLSE, Yuki Lafrance-Nagamine’s My Birthday 00:00 – 23:59, and Dennis Belopolsky’s understandably so.
