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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...
Kelly Egan: Language Lessons
The following essay is an expansion of a portrait I wrote on Egan and her films in the 2021 survey collection Moments of Perception: Experimental Film in Canada (ed. Jim...
Kelly Egan: Language Lessons
The following essay is an expansion of a portrait I wrote on Egan and her films in the 2021 survey collection Moments of Perception: Experimental Film in Canada (ed. Jim...
The Evolution of the Pacific Cinemathèque
This post is, in part, a celebration of the Pacific Cinémathèque, but it's also a glimpse of a film community as it was still taking shape. When the Australian filmmakers...
The Evolution of the Pacific Cinemathèque
This post is, in part, a celebration of the Pacific Cinémathèque, but it's also a glimpse of a film community as it was still taking shape. When the Australian filmmakers...
The World at Large: Plans for the Films of Jack...
Among Jack Chambers’ early notes for The Hart of London is a drawing of the Chambers family backyard. The yard is a square crossed by lines and arrows, with family...
The World at Large: Plans for the Films of Jack...
Among Jack Chambers’ early notes for The Hart of London is a drawing of the Chambers family backyard. The yard is a square crossed by lines and arrows, with family...
Keewatin Dewdney: Interlocking Parts
This short introduction to the films of Keewatin Dewdney first appeared on the Lumière website, in conjunction with a screening in Spain of Dewdney's work, in November 2016. Below I've...
Keewatin Dewdney: Interlocking Parts
This short introduction to the films of Keewatin Dewdney first appeared on the Lumière website, in conjunction with a screening in Spain of Dewdney's work, in November 2016. Below I've...
Film as Guerilla Warfare
John Hofsess’s “Film as Guerilla Warfare” offers one of the filmmaker's clearest statements of his therapeutic cinema. Appearing in 1967 in Take One, while Hofsess was making Palace of Pleasure, his...
Film as Guerilla Warfare
John Hofsess’s “Film as Guerilla Warfare” offers one of the filmmaker's clearest statements of his therapeutic cinema. Appearing in 1967 in Take One, while Hofsess was making Palace of Pleasure, his...