Category Archive: Film
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Shirin Neshat – Women Without Men
When I first moved to Montreal, more than 10 years now, one of my first exhibits I remember going to was Shirin Neshat‘s retrospective exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum in Montreal. It was Wednesday free night at the museum and it was packed but Neshat’s work was just so incredibly striking that sitting on [...]
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Searching for the wrong-eyed jesus
Representing a place may certainly be more than simply showing physical space. How does one goes about representing a specific area of the world has been the challenge of countless artists, including photographers and in the case that interests me today, film makers.
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John Max at Montreal’s FIFA
I am just coming back from the screening of John Max, a portrait, a film by Michel Lamothe, presented this afternoon (Sunday) at the Festival International des Films sur l’Art, in Montreal. I am moved by this incredible story about an artist that I have only heard about through my studies and through some enigmatic [...]
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Michael Flomen – La Nuit est ma Chambre Noire
La Nuit est ma Chambre Noire (The Night is my Darkroom) is a film about Michael Flomen and his photographic process. This past week, the film was being shown at the NFB in Montreal during the International Film Festival on Art and was sold out almost a week in advance. So I didn’t get to [...]
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Carl Valiquet’s short film Blood and Incense (Darah dan dupa)
I’ve been wanting to talk about Carl Valiquet’s work for a while now and i think now is the most suitable time. Carl is a photographer and filmmaker who shares his home between Montreal and Bali, Indonesia. I met Carl while i was still in school, some years ago now. He gave me work, he [...]
