CRITICAL MEDIA LAB


The Critical Media Lab was founded in fall of 2021 to provide scholarly, critical, and creative resources for faculty and students working in documentary arts and multimodal anthropology. Housed in McGill University’s Department of Anthropology, in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal), and part of the Leadership for the Ecozoic network, the CML offers practical workshops in video, film and sound, as well as screenings, artist talks and round-table discussions for members of the McGill community wishing to incorporate practice-based approaches into their teaching and research. With a teaching lab, screening room, and audiovisual equipment, the CML provides hands-on instruction in production and post-production. It exposes scholars and makers in a range of disciplines, to both the history of ethnographic film and the flourishing contemporary field of sensory ethnography. It is committed to fostering innovative pedagogical approaches and strategies for knowledge production and dissemination, and to supporting creative work that furthers equitable social, political and environmental change. 



CONTACT
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criticalmedialab.anthro@mcgill.ca




CRITICAL MEDIA LAB 



UPCOMING EVENTS 

Special Screening
Thursday, April 7th 
5:30-7:30 pm 
3475 Peel, Tio’tia:ke

Don’t Worry,
The Doors Will Open

by Oksana Karpovych

Documentary, 78min,
2020, Canada / Ukraine.

with the support of the McGill Refugee Research Group.


Registration link



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UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

GoPro Cinematography

Friday, April 8th
2pm-6pm
3475 Peel St. + EXT

Other Points of View, with Aunérade Beaucage. Screening of Poulpe (2016) and hands-on workshop.

Presented in partnership with L4E.

Registration link





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PAST EVENTS

17/03/2022

Podcasting workshop with Kassaye Berhanu MacDonald & Pascal Huynh, co-creators of Out of the Fog.

11/03/2022
Artist Talk with Sharlene Bamboat (If From Every Tongue It Drips) + roundtable with Dr. Pasha Khan & Sabeena Shaikh.

11/02/2022
Artist Talk with Pawel Wojtasik
(Every Pulse of the Heart is Work)

02/12/2021
Artist Talk with Philip Rizk (Mapping Lessons)



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WORKS IN PROGRESS & SEMINARS

In-house presentations: 

01/04/22 Worldling Landscapes in Times of Ecological Crisis, Andrea Bordoli, University of Bern. Info

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MEMBERS

Learn more about the CML team and find out how to get involved!


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