Category: Cinema Medica

Cinema Medica screening – “SHIVERS” – October 10, 2017

Posted on by Allan Peterkin

Please join us for a screening of :

SHIVERS (directed by David Cronenberg, 1975)

October 10, 2017 7pm
Mount Sinai Hospital, 9th floor, Room 939

Admission free. All are welcome!

Join us for a very special screening of one of David Cronenberg’s earlier films, which is only shown infrequently. A lively discussion will follow.

Dr. Emil Hobbes is conducting unorthodox experiments with parasites for use in transplants. He believes that humanity has become over-rational and lost contact with its flesh and its instincts, so the effects of the alien organism he actually develops is a combination of aphrodisiac and venereal disease. Once implanted, it causes uncontrollable sexual desire in the host.

A classic of body horror, the film all takes place in an isolated luxury apartment building on an island off of Montreal. It reflects anxieties about an epidemic of infectious disease, cross-bred with good old-fashioned moral panic.

A truly Canadian pre-Halloween delight!

CINEMA MEDICA IS A MONTHLY FILM SERIES EXAMINING REPRESENTATIONS OF MEDICAL, SOCIAL  AND PSYCHOLOGICAL THEMES IN CINEMA.

The series is curated by Elysse Leonard MA ( Toronto International Film Festival) and Dr. Michael Tau ( Chief Resident in Psychiatry), in conjunction with the Program In Health, Arts and Humanities, University of Toronto.

Please join our list-serv to receive notices of future events. 

 Instructions to join can be found at  www.health-humanities.com 

Stand By For Tape Backup

Posted on by Allan Peterkin

Please join us on January 24th at 7pm for a screening and discussion of:

standbyfortapebackup

STAND BY FOR TAPE BACKUP (Hot Docs ’15) is a film about memory, death and re-runs, written and directed by Ross Sutherland.

Through repetition and the close reading of pop culture artifacts, this film gives form to the cognitive process of rumination in connection with grief. It demonstrates how individuals bring their own experiences to bear on the meaning they derive from media.

Related themes: narrative medicine, client/patient experience, mental health, grief, performance

2015 · 65 minutes · Cooper Centre (60 Murray St.), Classrooms A&B

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Elysse Leonard
Coordinator, Reel Comfort Programme
TIFF Bell Lightbox
Reitman Square
350 King Street West
Toronto, ON M5V 3X5
Phone: 416.599.8433 ext.2246
email: eleonard@tiff.net
Website: www.tiff.net

CINEMA MEDICA-November 22 and offerings for 2016-17

Posted on by Allan Peterkin

Please join us November 22 at 7:00PM at the Cooper Centre –
60 Murray St, third floor Classrooms A and B for :

Dan and Margot

DAN AND MARGOT provides an intimate look into the life of a young modern woman struggling to take back the three years of her life that she lost to schizophrenia. With transparency and even humour, we will confront the notion of schizophrenia through a female character-driven portrayal that asks questions about the deep-seated stigmatization of mental illness within our culture and the way in which we all choose to cope with our past, present and future.

Margot gives a voice to the many relatable stories of mental illness as she demonstrates a person’s right to fail, living with one’s past traumas and hope, the key to human existence.

75 min. Filmmaker Chloe Sosa-Sims will be in attendance for a Q&A following the screening!

Co-presented by the TIFF Reel Comfort programme. For more info: http://danandmargot.com

HOLD THESE DATES FOR CINEMA MEDICA IN 2017 !

January 24, February 28th and March 21st  -Programming to be announced

 

CINEMA MEDICA Offerings 2016-2017

Posted on by Allan Peterkin

Please join us November 22 at 7:00PM at the Cooper Centre-60 Murray St, third floor Classrooms A and B for :

Dan and Margot

DAN AND MARGOT provides an intimate look into the life of a young modern woman struggling to take back the three years of her life that she lost to schizophrenia. With transparency and even humour, we will confront the notion of schizophrenia through a female character-driven portrayal that asks questions about the deep-seated stigmatization of mental illness within our culture and the way in which we all choose to cope with our past, present and future.

Margot gives a voice to the many relatable stories of mental illness as she demonstrates a person’s right to fail, living with one’s past traumas and hope, the key to human existence.

75 min. Filmmaker Chloe Sosa-Sims in attendance for a Q&A following the screening!

Co-presented by the TIFF Reel Comfort programme. For more info: http://danandmargot.com

HOLD THESE DATES FOR CINE MEDICA IN 2017 !

January 24, February 28th and March 21st  -Programming to be announced

Applications for THE STORYTELLING WORKSHOPS with the BARBARA MOON

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ARS MEDICA: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts and Humanities  and MASSEY COLLEGE invite applications for
THE STORYTELLING WORKSHOPS with the  BARBARA MOON EDITORIAL FELLOW, DAMIAN TARNOPOLSKY PHD

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 31, 2016

WORKSHOPS BEGIN SEPTEMBER 2016 and run for 10 weeksThe art of telling – and listening to – stories is fundamental to what it means to be human.  If you are a student in medicine, nursing or any of the allied health professions, learning how to write and reflect on  narratives will give you a powerful ability to  build therapeutic and collegial relationships.
The act of storytelling is a craft that can be developed with practice .    Each of us can develop our own individual style and develop our unique voice in the writing genre of our choice.  The Storytelling Workshop will introduce you to the art of telling stories and help you find your own approach to practicing this craft.

WHO CAN APPLY? This series of 10 weekly evening workshops will center on developing storytelling, narrative competence and written communication abilities, in a relaxed, supportive  setting. A small inter-professional group of University of Toronto students from dentistry, medical radiation science, medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, pharmacy, physiotherapy, physician assistants, and social work speech pathology will be selected for the opportunity to enhance their skills through writing, editing and focused discussions. Trainees not yet in full-time independent professional practice, including residents, Fellows, Masters and doctoral students  are also welcome to apply. Students from arts and humanities disciplines are most welcome to apply if they have an interest in further developing the health humanities /medical humanities field here at the University of Toronto.

GOAL: We encourage workshop participants to craft at least one piece of poetry, fiction, memoir or creative non-fiction for submission  to ARS MEDICA:  A Journal of Medicine, Health and the Humanities  (www.ars-medica.ca) by the end of the seminar. ARS MEDICA actively recruits creative writing by  students and trainees across healthcare disciplines.
SUBMISSION PROCESS: Please write a 500-1000 word personal essay, poem or story, on any subject you choose. Send your submission as a PDF or Word document to Damian@tarnopolsky.com by  July 31, 2016. Please indicate which faculty you belong to and your year of study.
FACULTY: Moon Fellow BIO

Damian Tarnopolsky is the author of two books: the novel Goya’s Dog, a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and theAmazon.ca First Novel Award, and the short fiction collection Lanzmann and Other Stories, which was nominated for the ReLit Award. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto and has taught writing and literature at the School of Continuing Studies, Humber College and the Junction Writes workshop. He is the proprietor of Slingsby and Dixon, an editorial services company in Toronto, a former editor at Random House of Canada, and Managing Editor of the Toronto Review of Books. He previously served as the Barbara Moon/Ars Medica Editorial Fellow in 2014-15.

The Storytelling initiative is an ongoing collaboration between Massey College and Ars Medica – A Journal of Medicine, The Arts and Humanities (www.ars-medica.ca<http://www.ars-medica.ca/>), in conjunction with the University of Toronto Health, Arts and Humanities Program (www.health-humanities.com<http://www.health-humanities.com/>) and was created with the help of the  estate of Ms. Barbara Moon. Ongoing funding from the Faculty of Medicine and Massey College have kept this wonderful inter-professional initiative alive.