Issue 117 - Fall/Winter 2022
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On celebrates the life, music, art, and legacy of the iconic Cree singer-songwriter. The Oscar winner and her director, Madison Thomas, join POV to discuss their new film. Subscribe today!
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Cover photo by Stephen Paniccia, Blair Johannes
Also inside this issue:
Editorial by Marc Glassman
Publisher’s Notes by Patrick Mullen
“I Ink, Therefore I Am” by Liam Lacey
-How do you make ink? Brian D. Johnson’s The Colour of Ink discloses that and more with its portrait of eclectic artisans.
“Disrupting Canadian Myths” by Laurence Butet-Roch
-An incisive analysis of award winning photographer Deanna Bowen’s Black Drones in the Hive, a provocative gallery assembly of found objects.
“Documentaries in the Age of Apocalypse” by Justine Smith
-Embracing the paradox of destruction and rebirth, apocalyptic docs like Leviathan and Sleep Has Her House explore humanity’s impact on the earth.
“Women on the Road and Behind the Camera” by Vivian Belik
-Filmmakers like Trinh T. Minh-ha, Jocelyne Saub, and Sophie Bédard Marcotte see life on the road in a genre normally limited to male perspectives.
Ever Deadly is a collaborative concert doc profile of Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq directed by the artist and filmmaker Chelsea McMullan.
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Launched in 2022, Being Seen is an industry guide from the Black Screen Office to facilitate authentic storytelling in Canada's screen sector.
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Highlights from the 25th edition of RIDM include Jouvencelles/Bloom, Herbaria, Inner Lines, Way Out Ahead of Us, Chaylla.
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Remembering filmmaker Terence Macartney-Filgate, the man behind films such as The Back-breaking Leaf and The Days Before Christmas, and a formative member of the direct cinema movement.
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Canada's wireless service, governed by the Rogers-Bell-Telus troika, is the laughing stock of the world with high costs and bad service.
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Dear Jackie pays tribute to Black Montrealers with the story of baseball player Jackie Robinson as a hook to explore the community of Little Burgundy.
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Kat Jaymes' The Grizzlie Truth is a documentary from the heart that seeks closures for the fans of Vancouver's short-lived NBA team.
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Summit 72 and Ice-Breaker are two new documentaries that revisit the 1972 Canada-Soviet Union hockey games that gripped the nation.
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Black Ice, directed by Hubert Davis with Drake and Vinay Virmani as executive producers, is a timely study of racism in hockey.
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An interview with Brett Morgen on Moonage Daydream and telling the story of David Bowie in a kaleidoscopic montage unlike anything you've seen before.
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