Architecture in Film
Date: Oct 6
7:00 pm
- 9:00 pm
Where: Theatre
Special Film Festival
October 2 – 7 marks NL Architecture Week. Join us along with the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Architects for two evenings of Architecture in Film at The Rooms.
THE TRUMAN SHOW
Director – Peter Weir/ Writer – Andrew Niccol
Producers Scott Rudin, Andrew Niccol, Edward S. Feldman, and Adam Schroeder, USA 1998
The Truman Show features Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, a man who grew up living an ordinary life that –unbeknownst to him – takes place on a large set populated by actors for a television show about him.
The Truman show has been analyzed as an exploration of simulated reality, existentialism surveillance, religion, meta-philosophy, privacy, and reality television, and described as a genre-blending that features elements of dystopian fiction, metafiction, psychological drama, romantic comedy, satire, and social science fiction. The majority of filming took place at Seaside, Florida, a master-planned community located in the Florida Panhandle.
It is this last notion as why there is such an architectural connection. Current Single-use Zoning Codes throughout North America and particularly in St. John’s create unimaginative and unsustainable sprawl. The planners for Seaside Florida were Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, famous for their ground breaking and lifelong work or New Urbanism. They provide the method and means to design new communities based on 19th century Town-Making Principles. We can do the same or better in St. John’s.
Charles Henley will be on hand to introduce the film and to offer a short Q&A following the film.
This is a free event, but seating is limited so please reserve your free ticket by clicking "Buy Tickets" or by calling 757-8090.
Events & Programs
How do place, identity, and art intersect, and what do their points of intersection tell us about this place we call home?
In this talk, Rhea Rollmann will explore the significance of queer and trans art in Atlantic Canada with particular emphasis on the work of Erica Rutherford as well as iterations of queer and trans art in NL. There will be an opportunity for questions after the talk.
Tickets: $12 plus HST. Free for Rooms members. Get your tickets online or by calling 709-757-8090.
About the Presenter:
Rhea Rollmann (she/her) is an award-winning journalist, writer and audio producer based in St. John's, NL, and is the author of A Queer History of Newfoundland (Engen Books, 2023). She is a founding editor of The Independent NL and her journalism has appeared in Briarpatch Magazine, CBC, Xtra Magazine, Chatelaine, PopMatters, Riddle Fence, Macleans and more. Her academic work has been published in the Journal of Gender Studies, Labor Studies Journal, Canadian Woman Studies, Journal of Work and Society, Canadian Theatre Review, Canadian Review of Sociology, Screen Bodies and elsewhere. She also has an extensive background in labour organizing and queer/trans activism, and she is Station Manager at CHMR-FM, a community radio station in St. John's.