Date: Aug 4
10:00 am
- 9:00 pm
Where: Theatre
Films on loop
Films are screened daily on a loop during opening hours.
Memento Mori
Director: Shan Leigh Pomeroy; Runtime: 4 minutes
A stop-motion meditation on the inevitability of death, dedicated in loving memory to Gravy, the Nebelung gremlin kitty.
Meg Writes a Reference Letter
Director: Katelyn McCulloch; Runtime: 10 minutes
Meg is tasked with writing her own reference letter and naming all of her best qualities which ultimately brings out the worst in her.
Bounce
Director: Elizabeth Hicks; Runtime: 11 minutes
Darcy is a fifteen-year-old mix of energy, perfectionism, and insecurity. When an ultra-cute boy from her cadet corps insists that she attend that night’s Trampoline Social, Darcy raids her sister’s drawers and sets o? for a dramatic evening of self-acceptance and sweet backflips.
FRAMED: Spirit Song Festival
Director: Framed Documentary Crew; Runtime: 15 minutes
Nearly a decade ago, the Spirit Song Festival began as a one-day event. It has since blossomed into a weeklong, award winning, world-class gathering of Indigenous artists with audience members in the thousands.
Through the lens of an Indigenous-led SJIWFF Framed Documentary program, and in partnership with First Light, this short documentary charts the rise of the festival through performances by, and interviews with, Indigenous icons and artists from across Canada.
Esther & Sai
Directors: Rosie Choo Pidcock, Anaïsa Visser; Runtime: 13 minutes
Esther and Sai are strangers with a few things in common: they are new immigrant students, they are homesick and they are hungry. When a racially charged interaction with a grocer goes awry, each finds themselves back in their dorm room with the only meal they could find: a box of macaroni and cheese. A night of loneliness and self doubt threatens to unravel each of them, but ultimately meeting a kindred spirit sparks the possibility of belonging. Based on a true story, Esther & Sai captures the struggle of immigrating to a new country through the beginning of a lifelong friendship.
Vegas
Director: Anna Wheeler; Runtime: 11 minutes
A disillusioned artist- turned taxi driver picks up an unassuming stranger and things take a dramatic turn when it is revealed not everything is as it appears. Vegas is a coming of age dramedy, wraped inside a neon-noir urban mystery.
In partnership with the St. John's Women's International Film Festival.
Two very significant, early European paintings depicting Newfoundland are coming to The Rooms in early November for an extended exhibition. These works by the Dutch artist Gerard van Edema may be the earliest European paintings of Newfoundland (if not of North America). It is thought that he may have visited the island in the late 1600s to travel and sketch along the “English Shore” between Bonavista and Trepassey.
Who was Edema? How and why did he come to Newfoundland? What do we know about these works and why they were created?
Rooms Curator Mireille Eagan moderates a conversation about these paintings with Heidi Sobol, Senior Conservator of Paintings at the Royal Ontario Museum, and Mark Ferguson, Collections Program Supervisor at The Rooms.
Tickets: $12 plus HST. Free for Rooms members. Get your tickets online or by calling 709-757-8090.