Upcoming
Absolutely Fabulated Research-Creation workshop
Absolutely Fabulated is a two-day research-creation event about films that fabulate, that create worlds in the process of filmmaking, that invent life instead of just representing it. We propose roundtables around the notion of fabulation. These conversations will be a springboard for our experimentation with various fabulatory practices.
Absolutely Fabulated: HOAX CANULAR
This time we are watching HOAX CANULAR by Montreal filmmaker Dominic Gagnon. This is in preparation of our upcoming research-creation event around fabulation, taking place on May 12-13. "Absolutely Fabulated" presents films that fabulate, that invent worlds in the filmmaking, that create new truths by falsifying others. At regular meetings, we'll screen a feature film, related short films, and discuss various notions of fabulation and falsification.
Absolutely Fabulated: THE ACT OF KILLING
This time we are watching THE ACT OF KILLING by Joshua Oppenheimer. The suggested reading is the chapter "The Powers of the False" in Gilles Deleuze's Cinema 2: The Time-Image. "Absolutely Fabulated" presents films that fabulate, that invent worlds in the filmmaking, that create new truths by falsifying others. At regular meetings, we'll screen a feature film, related short films, and discuss various notions of fabulation and falsification.
Absolutely Fabulated: MEGACITIES
This time we are watching MEGACITIES by Michael Glowagger. As a reading, we suggest the coda "Sci-Phi" from Gregory Flaxman's "Deleuze and the Fabulation of Philosophy." "Absolutely Fabulated" presents films that fabulate, that invent worlds in the filmmaking, that create new truths by falsifying others. At regular meetings, we'll screen a feature film, related short films, and discuss various notions of fabulation and falsification.
Absolutely Fabulated: PORTRAIT OF JASON
This time we are watching PORTRAIT OF JASON by Shirley Clarke. The suggested reading is Gilles Deleuze's short text "Mediators." "Absolutely Fabulated" presents films that fabulate, that invent worlds in the filmmaking, that create new truths by falsifying others. At regular meetings, we'll screen a feature film, related short films, and discuss various notions of fabulation and falsification.
Absolutely Fabulated: F FOR FAKE
This time we are watching F FOR FAKE by Orson Welles. The suggested reading is the first chapter of Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" on falseness and untruth as a condition of life. "Absolutely Fabulated" presents films that fabulate, that invent worlds in the filmmaking, that create new truths by falsifying others. At regular meetings, we'll screen a feature film, related short films, and discuss various notions of fabulation and falsification.
Absolutely Fabulated: KUMARE
This time we are watching KUMARE and reading the second chapter of Henri Bergson's "Two Sources of Morality and Religion." "Absolutely Fabulated" presents films that fabulate, that invent worlds in the filmmaking, that create new truths by falsifying others. At regular meetings, we'll screen a feature film, related short films, and discuss various notions of fabulation and falsification.
Absolutely Fabulated: GREY GARDENS
"Absolutely Fabulated" presents films that fabulate, that invent worlds in the filmmaking, that create new truths by falsifying others. At regular meetings, we'll screen a feature film, related short films, and discuss various notions of fabulation and falsification. Join us for our first screening to collectively fabulate this screening series into existence, deciding on further films to watch and texts to read. We are watching GREY GARDENS and reading a short text by Gilles Deleuze entitled "What is the Creative Act?"
