Review of the Oscar-nominated short documentaries Heaven Is a Traffic Jam, Edith and Eddie, Heroine, Knife Skills, Traffic Stop.
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Keep ReadingThere aren’t too many documentaries outside the TIFF Docs programme this year, but this observation doesn’t mean the festival comes up short. TIFF’s Short Cuts offers half a dozen short docs scattered around the
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Keep ReadingMotel (Canada, 57 min.) Dir. Jesse McCracken Programme: Canadian Spectrum (World Premiere) Jesse McCracken strips away the postcard perfect image of Niagara Falls in Motel. This compassionate and restrained observation doc
Keep ReadingEye, Camera (USA, 17 min.) Programme: Singular Sensations In 2005, artist Tanya Vlach lost her eye in a car accident. Looking towards artistic influences, such as science fiction or superhero narratives,
Keep ReadingThe Quiet Zone looks into the lives of a few of the people in the electrosensitive community.
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Keep ReadingArguably the first Canadian music video, The Ballad of Crowfoot sees Mi’kmaq singersongwriter Willie Dunn setting his own epic protest ballad to visuals. In Dunn’s song, the biography of legendary 19th-century Blackfoot chief
Keep ReadingWhy Terre Nash's NFB Oscar winner If You Love this Planet is one of Canada's essential documentaries for its portrait of the harms of nuclear war.
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