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CURRICULUM VITAE
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B.A. English Literature, Trent University, Canada
M.F.A., Concordia University, Montréal, Canada |
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Part-time lecturer in Modern, Documentary, and American Cinema: John Abbott College,
Lecturer in Film Studies, Graduate Section, Visual Arts, MFA programme, Concordia University |
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Atheism , 71:22 minutes, 2006
Save and Burn , 80:34 minutes, 2004
The Library in Crisis , 46 minutes, 2002
two sixty second clips:
Visible Minorities Hired by the Media , 60 seconds, 2001, (co-directed with Abouali Farmanfarmaian)
Things That are Good , 60 seconds, 2001, (co-directed with Abouali Farmanfarmaian)
Lettres du Caire , 14:32 minutes, 1999.
City of the Dead and The World Exhibitions , 76 minutes, 1995
Into The European Mirror , 56 minutes, 1994
The Raft of the Medusa; Five voices on colonies, nations and histories, 99 minutes, 1993
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1986
1985
1984
1983
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1981
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1973-80
1979
1976
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Red Star over the Western Press, Archive: Algeria; 1954-62, 84 minutes, 3/4 inch
Ministry of Revolution: the Concept of Terrorism in the Western Press, 59 minutes, Interview with Two Africans, 40 minutes
Free Nelson Mendela, 8:30 minutes
Imperial Postcard, 6 minutes
Blood City Montréal, October 23,1983, 6 minutes
Resisting the Pharaohs, 33:34 minutes
The Long Sleep and Big Goodbye, 14 minutes
Dictators, 6:30 minutes
In India and Pakistan, 50 minutes
Literature/Language/Film (three parts) 75 minutes
Black Skin White Masks, 5 minutes
Slight Sight: Sonata Towards Spring, 15 minutes
Portrait of I, 5 minutes
Portrait of C, 52 seconds
Formation, 11 minutes |
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2004 CALQ, writing
2003 Canada Council, video |
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Aga Khan Visual Archives, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Queen's University
University of California, Berkeley
University of Melbourne
University of Western Australia
York University
McGill University, Rare Books and Special Collections
Banff Center for the Arts
National Gallery of Canada
Ontario Arts Council (Stills)
National Film Board of Canada (Stills)
National Television, Radio, and Sound Archives, (documentaries) |
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Atheism , Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois
Atheism , Official selection: La 35e édition du Festival du nouveau cinéma
Atheism , 1 - 5 December 2006, Cinema Parallele, Ex-centris
Save and Burn , Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois
Canadian premier of Save and Burn , Cinema Parallele, Ex-centris
World premier of Save and Burn , Singapore Film Festival, 14 April, 2004
Free Speech TV, Boulder, Colorado, The Library in Crisis , 2002
World premier of The Library in Crisis , Singapore Film Festival, 14 April,
Millennium, New York City: The Library in Crisis (46 minutes) and various universities across the USA and Canada
Alfred University, School of Art and Design
Screening of trilogy and Fatwa 447 (51:24 minutes, 1999) at DEPOT in Vienna, Austria
Trilogy shown at Banff Center for the Arts, The Long March programme
Free Speech TV, Boulder, Colorado: Into the European Mirror (56 minutes, 1994), and City of the Dead and the World Exhibitions (76 minutes, 1995)
- cinémathèque Québécois, 25 May: The Raft of the Medusa (99 minutes, 1993); and, 1 June: Into the European Mirror and City of the Dead and the World Exhibitions
Into the European Mirror :
'...east of here.. (re) imagining the "orient," ' YYZ Artist's Outlet,
20 November to 14 December, 1996
City of the Dead and the World Exhibitions , Images, Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, 5 May
The Raft of the Medusa , Into the European Mirror and City of the Dead and the World Exhibitions , cinema parallèle, November, 1995
City of the Dead and the World Exhibitions ,
Images du monde arabe, Montréal, November, 1995
Première: City of the Dead and the World Exhibitions ,
Le nouveau festival International Cinema Video, June, 1995
Into the European Mirror :
Philosophy Department and Middle East Studies, McGill University; Images du monde arabe, video tiers monde, Montréal; Ceras Montréal; One World film and video festival, Ottawa; Department of Arabic Studies, The American University in Cairo; Montréal premier: cinema paralléle, February, 1994 Open Space, 'Post-colonialism in the Commonwealth', Victoria; Video Inn, Vancouver, June 1994
The Raft of The Medusa: five voices on colonies, nations and histories:
Première, cinema parallèle 21 February 1993, Montréal, Desh Pardesh, Canadian Images, Canadian Film Studies Association, McGill University, racism conference, 18 March
Desh Pardesh, (Third Inter-National Conference and Festival exploring the politics of South Asian Cultures in the West), Toronto, 27 March 1993, Canadian Images, Toronto, April 1993, Prim Video: Fenêtre sur L'Orient, (this exhibition featured three works on the 'Orient', April, 1993, Canadian Film Studies Association, Ottawa, 2 June 1993, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, 3 June 1993, Festival da Gueira dal Oz, Portugal
Retrospective, Le Cinéma Parallèle, Montréal, "Les Oeuvres Film and Vidéo de Julian Samuel," 1976 -1987
International Images, Peterborough, Ontario
Guelph International Film Festival, Guelph, Ontario October, 1988
Millennium, New York City
Premiere of Red Star over the Western Press, Archive: Algeria, 1954-62 ,
Le Milieu, Montréal
London Filmmakers' Co-op, United Kingdom, introduced by John Akomfrah; Grierson Documentary Seminar, participant, Toronto; Algeria - Frantz Fanon conference; Ontario College of Art; Graduate seminar, Concordia University; Undergraduate Class, Concordia University, "Rites" - Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario
Resisting the Pharaohs, (1984), shown at cinématèque Québécoise, Montréal; 1988;
National Gallery of Canada,
Solo show, The Funnel, Toronto, Ontario
Retrospective: Cinéma Parallèle, Montréal
Informal showing of Dictators, Havana Film Festival
University of Ottawa
The Funnel, Toronto
Ten Years of Living Cinema, New York City,
Film shown: "Formation", (1976)
Tyneside Film Festival, UK, "Dictators," (1986)
The Funnel, Toronto
Le musée d'art contemporain, Montréal
Millennium, New York City
University of Ottawa
Canadian Images, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario
Retrospective, Cinéma Parallèle, Montréal
Group show at Déjà-Vue Gallery, Toronto
Show of films at Canadian Images, Trent University
Retrospective, The Funnel, Toronto
Visiting filmmaker at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto
Solo show of photographs at the Mackenzie Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario, Group show of photographs at the Bowmanville Photography Gallery, Ontario Group show of paintings at Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario Four films shown at Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario
Two films, "Formation" and "January", shown at
Cinéma Lumiere and Harbourfront, Toronto
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1996
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1993
1986
2007
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De Lahore à Montréal , French version of Passage to Lahore , translated by Jocelyne Doray; Les Editions Balzac, 1996
Into the European Mirror , a work by Julian Samuel , Editors, Aruna Handa and John Kipphoff; Montréal; Black Rose Books, 1996
Passage to Lahore , Mercury Press, 1995
The Raft of the Medusa: Five voices on colonies nations and histories. Edited by Jocelyne Doray and Julian Samuel, Black Rose Books, 1993
Lone Ranger In Pakistan , Emergency Press, 1986
Works in progress
1. Novel-in-progress: Dark Interloper of the Eastern Trade / Radius Islamicus |
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Frederic Eger: Atheism by Julian Samuel;
http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-11-7/47843.html
29 November 2006
Mirror, 30 November, 2006 "God Day Afternoon," by Melora Koepke
Hour, 30 November, 2006 "God be damned," by Malcolm Fraser
Le Devoir, 1 December 2006, "Croire ou ne pas croire," par Odile Tremblay
La presse, 2 December 2006 "Quand le spirituel déprime," par Anabelle Nicoud
Gazette, 1 December 2006, "" Firebrand pushes Atheism," by John Griffin
Gazette, 2 December 2006: "Two that didn't come easy," by John Griffin
Le Devoir, 26 Septembre 2005 "La bibliothèque sur la ligne de feu," par André Lavoie
La presse, "Save and Burn Documentaire de Julian Samuel," par Aleksi K. Lepage, 24 Septembre, 2005
Voir, 22 Septembre, 2005, "Biblotheques, entre espoir et chaos," par Carlo Mandolini
Montreal Gazette Wednesday, September 21, 2005, "Books in the balance: Documentary looks at threats to libraries," Bernard Perusse
Quartier Libre, 7 September 2005, Vol. 13, numéro 1, "Préserver le savoir," par Karolyne Marengo
Le Devoir, 4 June 2005, Save and Burn, par Jean-François Nadeau
La Presse, 27 April, 2005, Grande bibliothèque, petites considérations par Nathalie Petrowski
Montreal Serai, May, 2005, "Save and Burn," reviewed by Maya Khankhoje
18 th Singapore International Film Festival, 2005, Vinita Ramani and Julian Samuel discuss Save and Burn, http://www.filmfest.org.sg/main_js-int.php
Counter Punch, October 2 / 3, 2004, The War on Libraries; Save and Burn, a Film Review, by Steve Fesenmaier,
http://www.counterpunch.org/fesenmaier10022004.html
Libraries and Culture, Spring, 2003, by Consuela G Metzger,
Library Journal, January 2003, "Centuries of History in Minutes," by Dale Farris
Interview with Vinita Ramani, published on web, Singapore Film Festival, April, 2002
The Globe and Mail, "Filmmaker pulls work from Quebec festival," Matthew Hays
Friday, February 1, 2002
The Mirror, "A Racist Rendez-vous?" Matthew Hays, 31 January - 6 February, 2002
'Shooting Imperialism: Three Documentaries by Julian Samuel,' Left History 6.2,
Cecilia Morgan, University of Toronto. Summer, 2000
The Mirror, "Asians, blacks need not apply, Are visible minority artists being cut out of government funding?" Philip Preville, 20-27 May, 1999
Le Devoir, "La haute saison des tournages," Brian Myles, 30 April, 1999
Hour, "Fair Sentence: Julian Samuel's on his video, Quebec nationalism and getting the cash," Dimitri Katadotis, 25 March, 1999
Parachute, Libertés fondamentales. Perspectives vidéo sure les droits de la personne, Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, 18 - 3 janvier, 1998-99; Olivier Asselin
The Toronto Review, "Manic Immediacy," (Passage to Lahore), Scott Gordon, winter, 1998;
Lettres Québécois, "Un réquisitoire haineux," Francine Bordeleau, # 88, hiver, 1997
Spirale, "L'identité re-visitée," Sherry Simon, novembre-décember, 1997
Le Devoir, "L'orangisme déguisé en esprit frondeur - Un vidéaste-écrivain dénonce les Québécois pour leur nationalisme," Robert Chartrand, 21-22, Juin, 1997
Voir, "De Lahore à Montréal," Robert Beauchemin, 8-14 Mai, 1997
The Montreal Gazette, "Gadfly on our body politic," Elaine Kalman Naves, 5 July, 1997
Rungh, "Dogs Barking in the Cool Damp Distance, Iron Nails Rusting in the Tree: Julian Samuel, Passage to Lahore," Gregory Shea, Vol. 3 No.4, 1997
CBC, a reading from and commentary on 'Passage to Lahore,' 8 February, 1997
Le Devoir, "Vous sentez-vous chez vous ici," Louise Leduc, 17 March, 1997
Rungh, "Beauty in Complexity: Julian Samuel's 'The Raft of the Medusa' and 'Into The European Mirror,'" Sue Donaldson, Vol. 3 No.2, 1995
The Montreal Gazette, "Film-maker is establishment's foe," Mark Abley, 11 June, 1995
Hour, "Global Thinker, Writer-filmmaker Julian Samuel is an intellectual alien," Martin Siberok, November 9-14, 1995,
Now, "Julian Samuel takes tottering system to the edge," Cameron Bailey, 16 June, 1994
The Montreal Gazette, "Master of Tongue-Fu, Restless author wanders from the Main to Pakistan" review of "Passage to Lahore," Carol M. Davison, 9 December, 1995
Link, "Novelist questions nationalist clique" and "Chew on this Parizeau," Paul Cherry, Link, November, 14 and 28, 1995
Link, "Parizeau's Ethnics, An interview with Julian Samuel," Arafaat Valiani,
Arthur, 28 November, (Trent University) 1995
Hour, Video: "Fact Denial," February, 1994; "Another View: The Raft of the Medusa examines history from a non-European perspective," Martin Siberok 22-28 April, 1993
Serai, "al-humble europe," Rana Bose, fall/winter, 1994
Le Devoir, "Un voile se lève sur l'Orient," Marie-Michèle Cron, 28 April, 1993
McGill Daily, "Samuel looks thorough European Mirror," Chris Sheridan, 17 February, 1994
Matrix, "Points of contact," Maurie Alioff, summer, 1993
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Book and Film Review "The Case Against Israel" and "Munich" by Julian Samuel; www.dissidentvoice.org April 4, 2006
Books in Canada, "In the Name of the Father, an essay on Quebec Nationalism," by Daniel Poliquin, volume 30, No. 1, (2001)
Le Devoir, "L'absence des minorités visible dans les institutions culturelles québécoise," 19 March, 2001 (response by Michaëalle Jean, published, 27 March 2001)
Short book reviews published in Serai, 2000-2001; online
"The Constant Gardener," John Le Carré
"White Teeth," by Zadie Smith;
"When We Were Orphans," by Kazuo Ishiguro
"Experience," by Martin Amis
Montreal Gazette, 'Room at the top, Cultural bodies in Quebec lack an meaningful minority representation,' 17 June, 2000
Hour, "Is the Future All White?", 9-15 December, 1999
" Visible minorities in Quebec's cultural institutions: is the future all white?" HOUR, (9-15 December, 1999)
'Fanon for Beginners' by Deborah Wyrick, (1998), 13 June, 1998
Borderlines, "The Birth Of A Nation? Author and film-maker Julian Samuel, an ethnic Canadian citizen, looks at post-referendum Quebec," winter: 1998
Fuse Magazine, "Ignoring the role of violence in Fanon: playing with the bones of an exhumed hero," book review: The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon and Visual, Representation; Edited by Alan Read. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Bay Press, Seattle, 1996); vol. 20 No. 3, 1997; also published in Race and Class, vol 34, October-December, 1992, #2 (1997)
Conjonctures, "Lettre ouverte d'un pakistano-britannico-Canadien à un ami nationaliste-européo-Québécois," numéro, 25, printemps,1997
Public, number 14, "A Post Referendum Exchange: Julian Samuel and Fred A. Reed," 1996
"Culture and Imperialism" by Edward Said, Hour, 23 June, 1993
"Imagining The Middle East" by Thierry Hentsch, Gazette, 16 January, 1993
"Salman Rushdie in The Age of Reason" in "Us and Them," Edited by Gordon Collier, Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA, Rodopi, 1992
"Towards an Aesthetics of Opposition, essays on Literature Criticism and Cultural Imperialism" by Arun Mukherjee, (Williams Wallace Publishers, Stratford, Ontario, 1988): reviewed in Matrix, summer 1990
"Gandhi; Prisoner of Hope" by Judith Brown; Yale University Press, 1989; Montréal Gazette, 17 February . 1990; "Was Gandhi a hero or a vegetarian hindrance?"
Excerpt from "Salman Rushdie in The Age of Reason" Artrage, Inter-cultural Arts Magazine, London, UK., Spring 89; long version published in "Us and Them," Edited by Gordon Collier, Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA, Rodopi, 1992
Sections of Passage to Lahore, published in Ba.Zaar, South Asian Arts Magazine, (London) Issue no. 8, 1989
"Welcome to Canada" a film by John Smith, Serai, September 1989
"Harriet's Daughter" by Marlene Nourbese Philip; Toronto; The Women's Press, 1988 - in Matrix, number 29, 1989.
Festival review, "Vues d'Afrique" - Serai, June 1989.
"The European Tribe" by Caryl Phillips, Serai, winter, 1989.
"State and Ideology in The Middle East and Pakistan" edited by Fred Halliday and Hamza Alavi, Serai, 1988,
"Blaming the Victims, Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question" Edited by Edward Said and Christopher Hitchens: The Arab World Review, (Montréal), April 1988.
"Le pouvoir des mots, les maux du pouvoir" by Jean Jonassaint, Canadian Literature, No.116, Spring, 1988
interview with Julian Samuel, Ba.Zaar, no.3 Winter, 1987 (UK)
"Hand on the Sun" by Tariq Mehmood, News and Views, 1987
"Palestinians under Israeli Rule" Arab World Review, August, 1986
"Nehru, Wrong History, Wrong Film; Recollections of State filmmakers" in Pakistan Progressive (Economics Department, University of Wisconsin), 1986
interview with Julian Samuel on cinema with Karen Bastow and Eyal Kattan, in RED SHE SAID, Montréal, November, 1984
"Gandhi" film review, published in The McGill Daily, reprinted in FUSE, summer, 1983
"Le douzième festival international du nouveau cinema" in The McGill Daily,
"The Patriot Game" in the McGill Daily, 1982
"Micheal Snow's Rameau's Nephew: A polite rupture," MFA, exam support paper, unpublished,
1981
"The Raft of the Medusa: Five voices on colonies, nations and histories" reviewed in: Matrix; Fuse, summer; CBC, Daybreak, 23 April; Le Devoir, 28 April; all reviews 1993
"Red Star over the Western Press, Archive: Algeria, 1954-62" reviewed in:
The Arab World Review, "A revolutionary Effort in Video," Colin Tomlins,
June, 1987; reprinted in Video Guide, Winter, 1988; Cinema Canada, October, "Julian Samuel's Red Star," Cameron Bailey, 1987
Interview with Julian Samuel in Ba.Zaar, UK, 1987
Resisting the Pharaohs (16mm): The McGill Daily, 15, November, 84, Chris Cavanagh
Reviews of "Loneranger in Pakistan" (1986)
CBC Radio-Home Run-12.03.87
What Magazine-#9, by Martin Dowding
The McGill Daily-15.01.87 by Chris Cavanagh
The McGill Tribune-07.04.87 by Melanie Clulow
Serai Montréal-February 1987
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Canada Council: film, 1996; literature, 1996; Multiculturalism and Citizenship Heritage Cultures and Languages: media arts, and film and video production, 1993; CC: film, 1995; CC, video production, 1991; CC: visiting international artists, 1990; Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec: consultation and writing jury (2004). |
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Artist-in-residence, Banff Center for the Arts, Television and Video programme, 1998 and 1993; POUR FANON Rencontre internationale d'Alger Centre des Arts-Riadh El Feth 10 au 15 Decembre 1987 (Hommage à Frantz Fanon), Algiers, interviewed by Algerian Television (interviewed by Abdelhamid Sahel in Arabic version of El Moudjahid-Hebdo); Conference participant Canadian Film Studies Association, Ottawa, 1993; Conference participant Canadian Film Studies Association, Ottawa, May 15 1990, Panel: Race and Representation; Conference participant Maison de la Culture Frontenac, Table-Ronde Art/Politique 15 Février, 1990; Conference participant at XIIth Annual Conference of The German-speaking Countries on the New Literatures in English, Gissen, West Germany 14-18 June 1989; presented: "Salman Rushdie In The Age of Reason"; Conference participant in a debate on "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie at Ramjas College, University of New Delhi, January, 1989 |
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Reading from Passage to Lahore , on CBC, 1997; Julian Samuel and Richard Flint on cultural politics on CBC "Brave New Waves", interview with Augusta La Paix, Winter, 1986; Julian Samuel with Ian Mclachlan and David Hogarth on media and readings from Lone Ranger In Pakistan (read by Christine Parlour),"Brave New Waves," 1987
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Radio Centreville: Montréal (CINQ FM 102.3); Radio show host Julian Samuel: "events in the Third World, 15-minute weekly programme, sample topics: Pre-conditions for political assassination: Indira Gandhi's Emergency and the Western Press (in two Parts); Jesse Jackson: the American option; Sabra and Chatila: historical perspectives; Thatcher and the Rise of the New Right; Musdoor/Kisan (peasant/worker): Pakistan's Struggle for democracy: an interview with Feroz Ahmed.
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