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A French Canadian “documentary” on the disappearance of Victor Pellerin that keeps viewers guessing as to whether or not this supposed young painter/star of the Montreal art scene actually existed. Also known as Rechercher Victor Pellerin, this engrossing, witty, hard to categorize piece of verite trickery might not provide answers, but you’ll find what actual […] |
CANADIAN FILMS
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Loaded with intricate set designs, strong cinematography and a mordantly absurd sense of humor Jamie Travis (The Saddest Boy In The World, Why the Anderson Children Didn’t Come to Dinner) lies somewhere between the worlds of David Lynch and Wes Anderson. An odd combination, yes, but a remarkably compelling one. The Saddest Boy In […] |
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An experiment in time travel turns into a narcissistic nightmare when a scientist returns to the past and discovers that his former self deplores what he later became. A.J. Bond’s (a graduated from the University of British Columbia Film Program where he produced and edited the award-winning short, Why the Anderson Children Didn’t Come to […] |
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This “absorbing if unsettling documentary” (New York Times) was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema Documentary at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. The subject of Manufactured Landscapes is Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, who travels through China capturing images of terrain irrevocably changed by industrialization. Junkyards, recycling plants, factories, quarries, dams, and mines […] |
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The documentary Anger Me is the story of the life, literary and motion-picture accomplishments of Kenneth Anger, a pivotal figure in the history of experimental film. An innovator and a pioneer, he literally blazed his own trail. Considered to be one of the major personalities of the 1960’s and 1970’s underground art scene, Kenneth defined […] |
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Winner of the Best First Canadian Feature at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, French-educated Quebecois director Noel Mitrani’s debut “has all the earmarks—pink from cold though they may be—of a confidently assured and dangerously promising new talent” (Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star). “A deadpan tragicomedy that fits snugly in the tradition of Aki Kaurismäki and […] |
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An accomplished performance artist, Vancouver based David Yonge creates intense, physical and emotional work that interlocks themes of masculinity, gender, anxiety, violence and spectacle. THE DAMNED in 3D is a slow-paced, one man costume drama in the 3rd dimension using conventions of cinematic lycanthropy- the transformation of a man into primal animal- to illustrate a […] |
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In 1998 filmmaker Deco Dawson (co-directed and edited Guy Maddin’s Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary) appeared on the filmmaking scene in Winnipeg, Manitoba, reintroducing techniques of silent period, particularly the use of adrenalin-infused quick-paced editing, the use of lens obstructions and authentic period photography. |