Date: Friday 29 November 2024
Time: 17:00-19:30
Venue: Room 113, Dun Mikiel Xerri Lecture Centre (LC), Msida Campus
In 2022, director Justin Hardy invited his half-brother Dominic to collaborate on a documentary about their father, Robin Hardy, director of the cult classic The Wicker Man (1973). Drawing on a treasure trove of newly discovered original source materials, the film was completed in May 2024, co-directed by Justin and Dominic Hardy, along with Chris Nunn (University of Birmingham). Its narrative is rooted in the brothers’ live interpretation of their father’s correspondence with actors, producers, and family members from 1970 to 1974.
On 29 November 2024, Dominic Hardy will deliver a talk at 17:00 in LC113, reflecting on the innovative approaches to writing that he aims to explore in both creative writing and academic contexts as a result of his first venture into documentary filmmaking.
Prof. Dominic Hardy is currently serving as Creative Writer-in-Residence at the University of Malta’s Faculty of Arts (November 2024).
He holds the Chair in the History and Historiography of Art in Quebec/Canada within the Department of Art History at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).
With degrees in art history (PhD, Concordia University), interdisciplinary Canadian studies (MA, Trent University), and visual arts (BFA, Concordia University), Prof. Hardy specialises in the study of caricature and the circulation of satirical imagery in Quebec from the 18th to the 20th centuries. In 2009, he founded the research group Caricature et satire graphique à Montréal (CASGRAM) at UQAM.
He teaches undergraduate courses on Canadian and Quebec art histories and the history of visual satire, while at the MA and PhD levels, he leads seminars on the writing of art history, museums and heritage, and visual satire in historical and contemporary art practices. A prolific scholar in the field of caricature and graphic satire, he is currently developing a study of the multidisciplinary British artist Helen Chadwick (1943-1996).
Since 2014, Prof. Hardy has directed the activities of Lab-A, a digital laboratory dedicated to art history studies in Quebec. As UQAM’s consultant to the Black Art History Montreal coalition, he is pioneering community-based methodologies for developing local art histories.
