The Department of Film celebrates the work of recent alumni and current candidates in the master's program in film production with a screening of graduate works from 2009 to 2011. Dubbed "Depth of Field", two free programs of short films will be screened tonight, March 7, at 7pm and 9pm at Toronto’s TIFF Bell Lightbox. […]
A few months ago, I was introduced to Helen Papagiannis, an artist, designer and researcher working with the emerging technology Augmented Reality (AR), wrote Rob Rothfarb in Museum Virtual Worlds Jan. 10 in a published interview with the student in the York/Ryerson Joint Graduate Program in Communication & Culture: Papagiannis: “I began experimenting with AR […]
Funding supports projects in 3D film and personalized cancer diagnosis over three years Two York-led industry-academic partnerships have received a total of $1,237,136 through the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada's (NSERC) Strategic Projects Grants program. Sergey Krylov, professor in the Faculty of Science & Engineering and Canada Research Chair in Bioanalytical Chemistry, has received […]
Helen Papagiannis, a PhD student in the Faculty of Fine Arts' Department of Film, participated in York's inaugural TedxYorku event earlier this month. Her talk on how wonder guides the creative process is the now available on youtube: Papagiannis is an artist, designer and researcher specializing in augmented reality (AR). Hailed as being among the […]
York University will host a TEDxYorkU event at Glendon on Saturday, Nov. 6. Based on the popular TED Conference, TEDxYorkU invites speakers to share their important visions for the future and involves audience participants in sharing ideas, addressing new perspectives and spreading inspiration. York University community members are invited to apply to be an audience participant […]
The Department of Film in the Faculty of Fine Arts celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, and is marking this milestone with a series of events highlighting past achievements and looking to the future. One of the “birthday” productions is The 40 Film, a specially commissioned compilation of one-minute clips from 40 student films made […]
James Stewart, a director and founder of Geneva Films, a Toronto-based company specializing in 3-D commercial productions, is in the first wave of people with a great deal of experience filming in 3-D, wrote the Toronto Star Sept. 18: Stewart is in the first wave of people with a great deal of experience filming in […]
Walking into a movie theatre to watch a sequel, an audience generally knows what to expect – more of the same. But in recent years, there has been a trend towards discarding the standard sequel formula, allowing a new artistic team to reimagine a film franchise. For better or for worse – the cinematic results of […]
Avant-garde, thrilling, provocative, brainy and fascinating are just a few of the words used to describe films directed by several York alumni, as well as a current student, that are screening at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) . The York talent among the 300 productions showing at TIFF Sept. 9 to 19 includes debut […]
Everyone from video game console makers such as Nintendo, to satellite TV services such as Bell TV, is making a bet on 3-D, wrote the Toronto Star July 31: “The studios are realizing there’s a golden goose here because you get all these bums in seats that will pay a 30 per cent premium,” says […]