Understanding the Image Mill™

To celebrate Quebec City’s 400th anniversary in 2008, renowned theatre and film director, Robert Lepage and his production company Ex Machina created The Image Mill™, a nocturnal outdoor spectacle of moving images, sound and light projected onto a giant screen refashioned from 81 grain silos in the Louise Basin. Thousands of spectators will continue to view this open-air projection representing Quebec history, as it is restaged every summer through 2013. An exclusive Congress event will present an evening with The Image Mill™, including an abridged version on a theatre screen, architectural maquettes, and an exhibition of related artifacts. An interdisciplinary roundtable will engage experts in film and architecture, national histories and commemoration, to explore the artistic and technological legacies of public representations of history.

The panel will feature:
Janine Marchessault (York University)
Philippe Dubé (Université Laval)
John Greyson (York University)
Joseph-Yvon Thériault (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Read about Understanding the Image Mill in the May 13 issue of the Concordia Journal.