Reliance Theatre

Please join the Emily Carr Animation program for a screening of the animated documentary, Lida Moser, Photographe (2017, 25:50), and post-screening discussion with award-winning animation filmmaker Joyce Borenstein. Providing dialogic moderation will be Prof. Norman Cornett of University of Manitoba.

Lida Moser (1920-2014) was a New York photographer working for Vogue Magazine, and travelled throughout Quebec in 1950, documenting the Quebec people and lands along the St. Lawrence River. She took over one thousand exquisite photos of a society and place that was on the cusp of modernization. Sixty years later, Moser recounts this epic journey to the filmmaker Joyce Borenstein. The film tells her story by interweaving the photos with animation and time-lapse imagery and combines Moser's voice with archival voices from that time.

Joyce Borenstein is an Academy-nominated animation filmmaker, having directed and animated numerous films with the National Film Board as well as under the independent umbrella of her own production company Illumination Animation. Her topics range from the educational documentary to the poetic and whimsical. Visual warmth arises in these lovely 2D hand-crafted animations, and featuring varied mediums such as paint-on-glass, back-lit clay, collage and hand-drawn. Film titles include Travellers’ Palm, The Plant, The Man Who Stole Dreams, The Colours of My Father (Genie Award, Oscar-nominated). Joyce attended McGill University and California Institute of the Arts.

Norman Cornett is a specialist in theology and culture, particularly theology and the arts, at the University of Manitoba. He has published in numerous Canadian and American magazines as well as being a guest professor in many North American and European universities. During his career, he has built a "dialogical" approach, which has become a research topic in Canadian, American, French and German universities. He has published about Lionel Groulx, his PhD thesis subject. Professor Cornett’s translations have been featured in reference literary journals such as Canadian Literature, Windsor Review, Rampike, Literary Review of Canada, FreeFall and ARC.