Le Chat dans le sac (1964)

Le Chat dans le sac (1964), dir. Gilles Groulx—prod. ONF

[winter; centre-ville; skyscrapers; Pont Jacques Cartier; escape to the country]

Watch this film with English subtitles here.

Watch this film in the original version, without subtitles, here.

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We Are Young! (1967)

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We Are Young! (1967), dir. Hammid & Thompson

We Are Young! was a massive multi-screen film experiment produced for the Canadian Pacific Railway/COMINCO pavilion at Expo 67 by Alexander Hammid (né Hackenschmied) and Francis Thompson.

[skyscrapers; department stores; neon; new space; abstract space; working girls; architectural sublime; urban sublime; centre-ville; rue Ste-Catherine]

To learn much more about multi-screen experimentation at Expo 67, check out Reimagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014), edited by Janine Marchessault and Monika Kin Gagnon. Featuring essays by Seth Feldman, Gary Mediema, Aimée Mitchell, Johanne Sloan, Monika Kin Gagnon, Janine Marchessault, and Yours Truly.

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