Café Ex

Founded 2008

This ongoing visiting artist series presents artist-curated evenings of independent experimental film and video in an intimate atmosphere. The series features Canadian experimental cinema, with guest filmmakers presenting their work and engaging in extensive discussions with audience members for a "pay-what-you-can" admission.

Inauguré en 1998, cette série continue d’artistes invités offre des soirées organisées par les artistes de vidéos et de films expérimentaux et indépendants. La série met en lumière le cinéma expérimental canadien, où les cinéastes invités présentent leurs œuvres et participent à des discussions approfondies avec les membres du public, le tout pour une admission du type « donnez ce que vous pouvez ».

Upcoming Events

Matthieu Hallé

Our second presentation of the 25th season of Café Ex will showcase the protean, fascinating work of Ottawa experimental moving image maker, Matthieu Hallé.

For over a decade, Hallé has been exploring the complex, often electrifying aesthetic effects of the intersections of cinematic language, interactive performance, and the materiality of film medium itself. His absorbing, immersive, occasionally haunting work includes film and video, as well as moving image creations for live performance in collaboration with other artists and musicians. Our Café Ex presentation, curated by Hallé, will incorporate all these aspects of his distinctive and decidedly exploratory cinematic practice.

Matthieu Hallé’s works have been presented across North America, including at CROSSROADS (San Francisco), Ann Arbor Film Festival, Particle + Wave Media Arts Festival (Calgary), the 8fest (Toronto), and The Mobile Museum of Art (Alabama). He was an artist in residence at LIFT and PIXFilm (Toronto) and the Knot Project Space (Ottawa). He has a Bachelor of Communication and Media Studies from Carleton University and is a member/co-founder of Ottawa’s Lightproof Film Collective.

The Canadian Film Institute honoured to have Matthieu Hallé as our guest artist in our 25th anniversary season of Café Ex.

Past Events