Ephemeral cinema

by GENEVIEVE PAIEMENT

What can be more pleasant than walking down the street and stumbling upon a fine outdoor film projection on a random street corner? Not much, so don't miss the street-savvy celluloid set up by Quartier Ephemere at the corner of Ste-Catherine and St-Denis in conjunction with the Cinema and Urban Remains festival. Two short films looped back-to-back are being projected onto a window of UQAM's Centre de diffusion (405 Ste-Catherine E.). Visite du port, by French artists Kristina Solomoukha and Regine Gallard, is a slightly re-edited found film of engineers visiting Montreal's old port in the late '50s. Smithfield consists of one long tracking shot of a reflective building in London's Smithfield Market, by Canadian-born, U.K.-based Mark Lewis. Until May 15, 8 p.m.-midnight, free. : <

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