Curation

Keeping Score

Film programming series
Revue Cinema, Toronto, Canada

I created and curate Keeping Score, a semi-regular screening series for the Revue Cinema. The programme highlights the composers and stories behind the best, most beloved, and sometimes weirdest movie scores and soundtracks. Past events include screenings of Rocky IV and a special online Tweet-A-Long viewing party of The Rocketeer.

event poster art by Tony Smerek

Radical Empathy: The Films of Agnès Varda

Director retrospective
TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, Canada

co-programmed with the cléo editoral board

In spring 2018, as a member of the cléo editoral board I co-programmed a comprehensive retrospective of the films of French New Wave pioneer Agnès Varda for the TIFF Bell Lightbox. The sold-out screenings were hosted by the cléo editors, and featured guest speakers including actress Sarah Gadon (Alias Grace), arts curator and Black Gold programmer Sarah-Tai Black, filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz, writer Amil Niazi and Professor Corinn Columpar of the University of Toronto.

“The cinema of Agnès Varda is built on a radical, egoless curiosity.” - the cléo editors

The King of Comedy

Film introduction
TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, Canada

part of Scorsese: A Retrospective

As a part of the TIFF Bell Lightbox’s retrospective on the work of Martin Scorsese commemorating the release of The Irishman, I introduced the screening of The King of Comedy (1982). The lecture included context regarding how the film fits into Scorsese’s body of work, the casting of Jerry Lewis and the continued influence on modern-day films — including Todd Phillips’ Joker.

Art House Theater Day

Annual event curation
Revue Cinema, Toronto, Canada

Each September on Art House Theater Day I host a free screening of a celebrated art house film at the Revue Cinema (a celebrated art house theatre). Past events featured Agnès Varda’s Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) and Éric Rohmer’s The Green Ray (1986).