Geist Screening of In the Daytime
In the Daytime
Special Presentations
(Canada, 1948, 22 mins)
16mm
Directed By: Stan Fox A Special Archival Presentation. A remarkable portrait of postwar Vancouver emerges in In the Daytime and Summer Afternoon. VIFF is pleased to be able to offer again these two must-see films after their hugely successful engagement at DOXA and The Vancity Theatre in a program curated by Graham Peat. The new twist in the program will be the inclusion of three of the late Phil Borsos’s masterful and now too-little-seen early shorts: Nails, Cooperage and Spartree.
Perhaps the first poetic portrait of our city, In the Daytime is an ode to post-war Vancouver (which goes unnamed, adding to its mystery). Morning mist over the city’s west side burns off and the bustling populace arise in full pursuit of a weekend day of leisure, via trolley buses, streetcars, ferry boats to Indian Arm and canoes on Lost Lagoon. They stroll Chinatown and our original downtown at Main and Hastings for lunch in a diner or a drink via the gender-separated entrances to beer parlours. The eclectic scenario plays over original pre-beat poetry and a dramatic score.
Special thanks to the Royal BC Museum Corporation in the presentation of this film.
Screenings
Special Presentations
(Canada, 1948, 22 mins)
16mm
Directed By: Stan Fox A Special Archival Presentation. A remarkable portrait of postwar Vancouver emerges in In the Daytime and Summer Afternoon. VIFF is pleased to be able to offer again these two must-see films after their hugely successful engagement at DOXA and The Vancity Theatre in a program curated by Graham Peat. The new twist in the program will be the inclusion of three of the late Phil Borsos’s masterful and now too-little-seen early shorts: Nails, Cooperage and Spartree.
Perhaps the first poetic portrait of our city, In the Daytime is an ode to post-war Vancouver (which goes unnamed, adding to its mystery). Morning mist over the city’s west side burns off and the bustling populace arise in full pursuit of a weekend day of leisure, via trolley buses, streetcars, ferry boats to Indian Arm and canoes on Lost Lagoon. They stroll Chinatown and our original downtown at Main and Hastings for lunch in a diner or a drink via the gender-separated entrances to beer parlours. The eclectic scenario plays over original pre-beat poetry and a dramatic score.
Special thanks to the Royal BC Museum Corporation in the presentation of this film.
Screenings
Tuesday, September 30
4:30 p.m.
Pacific Cinémathéque
Monday, October 6
3:45 p.m.
Vancity Theatre
Thursday, October 9
7:00 p.m.
Vancity Theatre
For ticket information, visit viff.org.
