I have mixed feelings about our film, pilgrIMAGE, young as I was when we made it and rather self-conscious about being on camera. But Pete was unfailingly proud of it.
Peter Wintonick was interviewed at great length by Pepita Ferrari for her acclaimed 2008 National Film Board feature Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary.
"It took nothing more than a kitchen table chat over a bottle of scotch for us to decide to proceed together on the film that would become Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media," writes Achbar.
Peter Wintonick and I never worked together on his films or mine. We just liked to hang out, do things together, talk about docs and discuss my newest rant about how the creative moving arts are at the bottom tier of a broken, stupid industrial model.
A lot can change in the span of a decade. During this time film studies at the University of Toronto has progressed from a college-controlled programme into an independent Cinema Studies Institute.
If B.C.’s film education centres could be compared to a famous movie character, one could do worse than to suggest the campy alien the Blob, whose modus operandi was an unstoppable quest for girth, imperiling not just one neighbourhood or even a city with its ravening, but possibly the entire world.
