Newsletter May 21, 2018

Talk with the author Shida Bazyar
Moderated by Agnès Gruda, writer and journalist for La Presse, followed by a reading.
In English and German with consecutive translation to French.

Four family members, four decades, four memorable voices. Stirringly and poignantly, Shida Bazyar tells a story that begins in 1979 in Teheran and reaches all the way to contemporary Germany.

(Das finstere Tal) from our film serie "Western"
Director: Andreas Prochaska, Germany/ Austria, 115 min., 2014. With: Sam Riley, Tobias Moretti, Paula Beer. In German with English subtitles.

In this adaptation of Thomas Willmann’s best-seller, a classic Western plays out in a late-nineteenth century alpine village. When a man named Greider (Sam Riley) arrives on horseback carrying a camera, he is met with distrust by the locals, who are led by the sons of Old Brenner, a brutal patriarch who holds the entire community under his thumb.

As part of the Festival TransAmériques

They dream of community. They probe each other with eyes and hands, they cling to each other, striving for black magic. In a night club – or is it a cellar? – they take part in an underground ceremony that promises to lead them to a mystical fusion of the initiated and the curious. To the sound of throbbing basses, piano and drums, Until Our Hearts Stop by Meg Stuart sheds light on the impossible encounters that define the human condition.

The 7th Annual Montreal Comic Arts Festival (MCAF – FBDM) will take place from Friday May 25th  to Sunday May 27th,  2018, at Espace La Fontaine in the heart of La Fontaine Park. This outdoor festival is your opportunity to meet local and international cartoonists, attend talks and live drawing sessions and pick up great new books. All activities are free and open to the public.
In 2018, the MCAF celebrates the various comic book professions by putting forward comic artists, inking artists, scriptwriters and other actors in the shadows

From our film series "Western"
Director: Thomas Arslan, Germany/ Canada, 101 min., 2013. With: Nina Hoss, Marko Mandic, Peter Kurth. In German with English subtitles.

Emily Meyer and some German settlers travel to the far north to seek their fortune in the gold fields of Dawson, but have no idea of the stresses and dangers lying ahead.

Every week, we present a document from our collection that we find particularly interesting, captivating, informative or otherwise especially worth mentioning. This week:

Sascha Hommer „In China“ (Reprodukt 2016)

In 2011, Sascha Hommer travels to China. This is his second trip to the Middle Kingdom. He spends four months in the western Chinese megacity of Chengdu, where a friendly couple publishes a city magazine. With a population of 14 million, the capital of Sichuan is a 21st-century boomtown that is growing and developing unrestrained. In his travel journal "In China," Sascha Hommer addresses the absurd and abysmal everyday stories that a city like Chengdu produces. 

Meet Sascha Hommer at the Festival de BD de Montréal at Espace Lafontaine:
Saturday, May 26, from 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm : Comics journalism
Sunday, May 27, from 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm, Discussion

Also in our library by Sascha Hommer: Insekt (2006), Orang 6, 8, 10 (2006, 2009, 2013), Dri Chinisin (2011), Vier Augen (2009), Im Museum: Die Treppe zum Himmel (2008)

 

Browse our library's online catalog and discover many new books, films and magazines! Library members can sign up for personalized access in order to renew or reserve documents online and to comment on recently borrowed titles.