Issue 109 - Fall/Winter 2018
Sharkewater Extinction, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, and Being Animal are among a new set of environmental films that confront the age of the Anthropocene. Subscribe today!
Jamie Miller’s Prince’s Tale, Sophy Romvari’s duo Norman Norman and Pumpkin Movie, and Sofia Bohdanowicz’s Veslemøy’s Song highlight some of the newer voices in Canadian documentary. The films are loosely connected by themes of mortality, history, legacy, and memory, but they share a greater connection in
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Did concerns over taxes and French-language production at Netflix prove to be Mélanie Joly’s undoing as heritage minister?
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"This film tries to project the future, but in doing so, it looks at the past," says Igor Drljača on his documentary The Stone Speakers, which offers an unconventional of Bosnian tourist sites.
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The Anthropocene is a concept ripe for exploration by documentarians, who have a unique ability to depict the scale of human impact on the world. How films like Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, Sharkwater Extinction, and Becoming Animal engage with this
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When Rob Stewart perished in a diving accident in January of 2017, he left behind a huge legacy as an artist and activist. He had become the dream figure for the international conservationist movement. Handsome, charismatic and well-spoken, Stewart made
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“The mystery in Kane is largely fake…” — Pauline Kael, Raising Kane, 1971, on the “shallow masterpiece” Citizen Kane. “We Hanky Panky men have always been with you.” — Orson Welles, F for Fake. F for Fake, first released in 1973, is Orson
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Since the creation of the Vancouver and Montreal based studios, interactive works and VR have taken off and the Board has expanded production in new media across the country.
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1968 was a year of cultural and political seismic shifts, marked more by assassinations, strikes and demonstrations than the peace, love and rock ‘n’ roll clichés remembered fondly by Boomers and derided by their children and, increasingly, grandchildren. Only a
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A Thousand Thoughts is a “live documentary” about the avant-garde contemporary music ensemble the Kronos Quartet, which comprises an onstage musical performance by the group, narration by Green and carefully assembled footage projected on a screen behind the participants.
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