Issue 118 - Spring/Summer 2023
Academy Award winner Davis Guggenheim captures the life and work of Canadian actor Michael J. Fox in the inspiring documentary Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie. The film leads our issue full of highlights from the 2023 Hot Docs festival. Subscribe today!
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Cover photo by Emily Assiran
Also inside this issue:
“Family Matters” by Connor Garel
-Contemporary artists find inspiration while reconsidering the portraits and candid amateur shots that form Black American visual history.
“Beyond the Photograph” by Laurence Butet-Roch
-Through “materializing” photographs into objects ranging from dresses to dioramas, Indigenous artists reclaim their ancestors’ legacies.
Terra Jean Long's Feet in Water, Head on Fire captures he mutable history, complexity, and contradictions of the Coachella Valley.
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Khoa Lê's Mother Saigon evocatively depicts family, life, and love for the LGBTQ community in Vietnam with a collaborative lens.
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Omar Mouallem's The Lebanese Burger Mafia explores the secret sauce behind an eclectic Alberta fast food chain that provides immigrant families with a slice of the Canadian dream.
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What are one’s moral responsibilities when holding the camera in a documentary? A view of new practices in ethics and accountability from the USA.
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Veteran film editor Nick Hector explores how approaching material with both analogue and digital methods yields distinct results.
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Silvicola, directed by Jean-Philippe Marquis, examines the state of British Columbia's forestry industry through the eyes of labourers.
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Remembering John Kastner, whose contribution to documentary was recently honoured with an award presented in his name at Hot Docs.
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Films like 20 Days in Mariupol, Iron Butterflies, When Spring Came to Bucha, and Eurodonbas capture the unfolding story of the war in Ukraine.
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Former National Film Board of Canada curator Albert Ohayon offers a playlist of hidden gems available on the NFB's online streaming platform.
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How will the documentary community be affected by artificial intelligence (AI) and deepfakes? A look at the trend that has everyone talking.
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