Chase Joynt: Working at the Edge of Genre

Truth and Imagination: A Green College Leading Scholars Series

Chase Joynt, filmmaker; Gender Studies, University of Victoria
Coach House, Green College, UBC
Tuesday, November 26
4:30-6 pm: film screening; 6-7 pm: discussion with Q&A (livestreamed)

Registration required for this event. To register, please see the event page.

Join filmmaker and writer Chase Joynt, in conversation with the School of Creative Writing’s Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, for a film screening and discussion of his work. The event will begin with a 4:30 pm screening of Framing Agnes, which received multiple awards and was hailed by Buzzfeed as “a brilliant and enlivening investigation into the role of trans history and the limits of visibility.” After the screening, beginning at 6:00 pm, Joynt and Marzano-Lesnevich will discuss genre as a strategy for interrogating absences and erasures; making art into archival gaps; and other questions at the intersection of art, memory, and history. Joynt’s latest book, Vantage Points, was recently shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust of Canada Prize for Nonfiction and was described in prize jury citation as “a disorienting and disruptive mosaic, a powerfully challenging work that stays with the reader long after.” An audience Q&A will follow, concluding by 7:00 pm. Please note that only the Q&A portion will be livestreamed.

This is the inaugural event of the Green College Leading Scholars “Truth & Imagination” series and it is co-sponsored by Green College, the School of Creative Writing, and DocUBC.