The Road Ended at the Beach and Other Legends: Parsing the “Escarpment School”
November 1, 2011 
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His Romantic Movement by Richard Kerr
The Road Ended at the Beach and Other Legends: Parsing the “Escarpment School”
Curated by Brett Kashmere
November 16, 17, 30 and December 1, 2011 at CinemaSpace
With curator and artists in attendance
Part of the PARALLAX VIEWS Series
CinemaSpace at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts is proud to present The Road Ended at the Beach and Other Legends: Parsing the “Escarpment School” in four programs beginning Wednesday, November 16th at buy levitra overnight 6:30pm.
Taking place on November 16 (Part 1), 17 (Part 2), 30 (Part 3) and December 1 (Part 4), this series – the first critical survey of the artistic trajectories of a group of Ontario-based filmmakers that came to be known as the “Escarpment School” – brings together 27 filmmakers and 32 films with non-fiction approaches as diverse as first-person documentary, diaristic filmmaking, poetic travelogue, landscape study and proces -based, formalist exploration of materiality.
The “Escarpment School” is a loosely knit band of Ontario-based filmmakers that came together in the late-70s at Sheridan College, led by Rick Hancox and Jeffrey Paull. Its assumed “members” include Hancox, Carl Brown, Philip Hoffman, Mike Hoolboom, Richard Kerr, Gary Popovich and Steve Sanguedolce. The name “Escarpment School” comes from from the Niagara Escarpment, one of many land shelves cialis online us formed in the bedrock of the Great Lakes near Sheridan College. The movement’s central figures either grew up around, or lived and worked near the escarpment.
Brett Kashmere’s laudable effort to contextualize the significance of this widely overlooked “movement” and its legacy passed on to younger generations of filmmakers responds to the need to fill the gap in the history of Canadian cinema. At once a thoughtful homage and provocative, open-ended examination, The Road Ended at the Beach and Other Legends: Parsing the “Escarpment School” reveals, as Kashmere says, “a unique confluence in Canadian film history (…) offering an inclusive, inter generational interpretation of its membership.”
Curator Brett Kashmere as well as filmmakers Rick Hancox and Michael Rollo will be in
attendance.
About the author:
Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), canadian pharmacy viagra generic and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).
