After an artistic lifetime spent educating those of us who should have known of these things long ago, Obomsawin now wishes to return to the most important link in the chain and help provide them with the material they need to maintain it.
Nuit Blanche turned out to be more avant-garde than a new façade or exhibition space could hope to be because it was a gift of interconnectedness, a kind of “positive emotional activism.”
When Bensimon was appointed NFB Film Commissioner, he embarked on an ambitions five-year plan. Who well did he do? A conversation with Bensimon and Tom Perlmutter.