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DATE MOVIES: A Guide to films in the Richmond, Vancouver, and UBC library collections

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Under construction... Greetings! This list offers a small sampling of the films in the Date Movie Project - eventually, a twelve-hour movie montage featuring clips from 1500 different films, representing every day of the year. Right now, Part 1 of this massive movie montage is screening at the Richmond Cultural Centre, home of the Richmond Public Library (Brighouse), as part of Culture Days, Canada's nation-wide celebration of the arts.  Richmond residents can easily sign up for a Vancouver Public Library card, and UBC Community borrower cards are available for $10/month to gain access to over 30,000 DVDs from the Videomatica Collection as well as many more titles added since that collection was acquired. The six-hour video runs from 10am to 4pm each day from Friday Sep 22 through Sunday Oct 8, with the exception of Truth and Reconciliation Day on Saturday, September 30.  Drop in any time! Come when you want, leave when you wish. For more information on the Date Movie project...
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christian marclay | doors

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" IT BECAME A NIGHTMARE": ARTIST CHRISTIAN MARCLAY ON GLOBAL SMASH THE CLOCK – AND HIS NEW WORK DOORS Aug 1, 2023 | Mark Hudson for The Guardian His 24-hour clock made of movie clips was a sensation. Can Doors, a montage of screen stars entering and leaving rooms, beat it? The artist reveals how lockdown and our new age of anxiety pushed him to finish it.   John Wayne, looking great in a battered old Stetson, emerges through a door on to a wood-panelled landing. The iconic screen cowboy looks cautiously around before pushing another door, which is opened by a young Brigitte Bardot. The French star barely has time to say “Oh, pardon” before she disappears back through the door, only to be replaced by a grizzled butler figure. With a palpably sinister sense of purpose, he walks across a small room towards a black and white door – from which he emerges, having been transformed into a full-colour Antonio Banderas, bristling with sensitive intent as he approaches yet another door
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