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Thoughts on an Invisible Cinema

Thoughts on an Invisible Cinema

In the Winter 1991 issue of The Independent Eye, the magazine published by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Martin Rumsby offered his “Thoughts on an Invisible Cinema.” Rumsby, a New...

Thoughts on an Invisible Cinema

In the Winter 1991 issue of The Independent Eye, the magazine published by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Martin Rumsby offered his “Thoughts on an Invisible Cinema.” Rumsby, a New...

Larissa Fan: Sketches from the Garden

Larissa Fan: Sketches from the Garden

LARISSA FAN: SKETCHES FROM THE GARDEN by Stephen Broomer Larissa Fan has compared her filmmaking to sketching or writing, something that could become part of everyday life. She was speaking...

Larissa Fan: Sketches from the Garden

LARISSA FAN: SKETCHES FROM THE GARDEN by Stephen Broomer Larissa Fan has compared her filmmaking to sketching or writing, something that could become part of everyday life. She was speaking...

The Man Who Left His Will on Film: Two Essays on Mike Hoolboom

The Man Who Left His Will on Film: Two Essays o...

Two small pieces today on one of Canada's most prolific advocates for his fellow moving image artists, Mike Hoolboom. The first comes from a recent publication, Clint Enns's edited collection...

The Man Who Left His Will on Film: Two Essays o...

Two small pieces today on one of Canada's most prolific advocates for his fellow moving image artists, Mike Hoolboom. The first comes from a recent publication, Clint Enns's edited collection...

One Thing After Another: Arthur Lipsett and the Strange Codes Notebook

One Thing After Another: Arthur Lipsett and the...

I restored Arthur Lipsett's Strange Codes in 2017, in collaboration with the Cinémathèque Québécois. The film is available with a vast trove of contextualizing features from our store. This article...

One Thing After Another: Arthur Lipsett and the...

I restored Arthur Lipsett's Strange Codes in 2017, in collaboration with the Cinémathèque Québécois. The film is available with a vast trove of contextualizing features from our store. This article...

Josephine Massarella: a diary, April 5, 2017

Josephine Massarella: a diary, April 5, 2017

Josephine Massarella wrote “a diary, April 5, 2017” while reflecting on 165708 and beginning work on another film. It accounts for her practice written without much retrospective distance, concerned with...

Josephine Massarella: a diary, April 5, 2017

Josephine Massarella wrote “a diary, April 5, 2017” while reflecting on 165708 and beginning work on another film. It accounts for her practice written without much retrospective distance, concerned with...

David Rimmer: West Coast Workprint

David Rimmer: West Coast Workprint

David Rimmer, Self-Portrait, April 1979. 9 gelatin silver prints, 50.8 x 66 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CMCP Collection. Photo: NGC. DAVID RIMMER: WEST COAST WORKPRINT by Stephen Broomer Among...

David Rimmer: West Coast Workprint

David Rimmer, Self-Portrait, April 1979. 9 gelatin silver prints, 50.8 x 66 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CMCP Collection. Photo: NGC. DAVID RIMMER: WEST COAST WORKPRINT by Stephen Broomer Among...