Metro Cinema Society: Metro Cinema at The Works

Metro Cinema at The Works

Each summer Metro Cinema partners with The Works Art and Design Festival to present films in conjunction with the annual celebration and exhibition of contemporary visual and conceptual art. We'll be teaming up with The Works again this year by screening two films that are generating lots of buzz in local art communities around the world.

We're especially excited that the directors of both works - Robert Adanto, The Rising Tide (therisingtidefilm.com) and Pamela T. Boll, Who Does She Think She Is (whodoesshethinksheis.net) - will be coming to Edmonton to engage with audiences to discuss their work as well as the practices and challenges faced by the artists featured in each of their feature length documentaries.

The Rising Tide

Director: Robert Adanto

USA 2008, 93 min

Jun 19 & 21 (2009) @ 7pm
Jun 20 & 23 (2009) @ 9:30pm

“I believe that the reason the young people are escaping is that they are not able to cope with globalization.” The scene of one of the greatest economic and cultural metamorphosis of our time, China is not only at the... view more

Who Does She Think She Is?

Director: Pamela Tanner Boll

USA 2008, 73 min, DigiBeta

Jun 19 & 21 (2009) @ 9:30pm
Jun 20 (2009) @ 1pm
Jun 20 & 23 (2009) @ 7pm

In a half-changed world, women are often forced to choose: Mothering or working? Your children's wellbeing or your own? Responsibility or self expression? Who Does She Think She Is?, is a new documentary by the Academy Award winning producer of... view more