Trains of Winnipeg | Significant Dates
Below are some major 2006 dates, anniversaries and birthdays. The events or people chosen either have some direct historical significance to Trains of Winnipeg, or have somehow influenced the making of this project.
years
100 years ago: 1906, often cited as the year of the birth of narrative filmmaking – in this essay by Karen Beckman, she discusses film's earliest roots in magic theatre and spectacle, the advent of narrative cinema, and the interesting tension between these two directions of cinema that exists to this day.
100 years ago: 1906, Spanish painter Pablo Picasso began working in a revolutionary new style that was the beginnings of Cubism.
50 years ago: 1956, American filmmaker Stan Brakhage was working in a revolutionary new style in the early days of a genre of cinema called experimental film.
20 years ago: 1986, Canadian filmmaker Phil Hoffman was working in a revolutionary new style in the early days of a genre called 'personal cinema' when he completed ?O,ZOO! (The Making of a Fiction Film). This making-of film is partly a meditation on the relationship between the linear and non-linear/narrative and non-narrative filmmaking process. A member of Canada's Escarpment School, Phil is a master of the increasingly popular but very loose category called experimental documentary in which the notion of an objective truth and the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction are challenged in both content and especially form.
40 years ago: 1966, writer Susan Sontag published her first book of essays Against Interpretation.
25 years ago: 1981, author Raymond Carver publishes the short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.
25 years ago: 1981, U.S. experimental filmmaker Peter Rose completes The Man Who Could Not see Far Enough.
days
100th anniversary: January 1, 1906, Canada's first cinema the Ouimetoscope opened in Montreal.
100th birthday: April 13, 1906, Samuel Beckett.
70th birthday: May 13, 1936, Arthur Lipsett's seventieth birthday.
100th birthday: May 8, 1906, film director Roberto Rossellini.
110th anniversary: June 27, 1896, the first film exhibition in Canada (in Montreal).
100th birthday: August 5, 1906, film director John Huston.
80th birthday: November 5, 1926, art critic, author and painter John Berger.
100th anniversary: December 26, 1906, premiere of the world's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang in Australia. It traced the life of the legendary bushranger, Ned Kelly (also possibly the birth of the anti-hero Western).
