Soir de pleine lune au Janicule. On m’a dit un jour que les Japonais voient un lapin dans la lune. C’est tout ce que j’y perçois depuis, et j’en ai marre. Il m’a toujours gêné ce lapin à demi renversé […]
As I run along my routine jogging trail from middle-class NDG in Montreal, up the hill into the Westmount maze of mansions, I often catch myself staring at the wealthy estates, some I should call castles… Spacious gardens colored with […]
Je n’ai pas découvert la musique au concert mais au cinéma à travers le son feutré des haut-parleurs qui s’associe facilement aux images absorbe les sens et approfondit certaines dimensions de l’histoire dans une salle noire traversée d’un faisceau lumineux […]
Indo-Canadian filmmakers have contributed to bringing stories and faces that we don’t see in Canadian Cinema. Srinivas Krishna (Masala, 1991) refuses to be dubbed a Canadian filmmaker. Eisha Marjara (Desperately Seeking Helen, 1998) and transpacific phenomenon Deepa Mehta, who films […]
A film by Marie Boti and Malcolm Guy-52 min, productions Multi-Monde 2012. The wind beats against a high telecom tower in Quebec. The camera finds a man on top of the tower, hard hat, safety glasses on. Several hundred feet […]
As we prepare to release our latest documentary, the End of Immigration? we wonder whether it will be our last, with the new round of funding cuts from the federal government that has this sector reeling. The hunger for documentaries […]
If you were to ask your friends whether they thought Canadian films were sexy, they would probably laugh and unanimously say no. Collectively, they would all probably be pretty hard pressed to make a list of many Canadian films at […]
Cigarette smoke rises in small plumes, merging into the dust beam created by the projection light in a full theatre of young Canadian adults staring transfixed at the screen; a crippled fishing boat floats in dark, still water… The weathered […]
[This piece originally appeared in Five Dials Number 15 and is reproduced with their kind permission.] In Sophocles’ tragedy, the incestuous Oedipus only gains wisdom after experiencing darkness by piercing his own eyes. For the Greek playwright, wisdom, redemption and […]
Avec huit documentaires achevés, je devrais pouvoir me considérer une réalisatrice expérimentée et envisager le restant de ma carrière avec confiance et optimisme. Mais quand on réalise des documentaires de nature politique, avec des nuances poétiques par dessus le marché, […]
Welcome to Canada (1989) and Monsieur Lazhar (2011) This film review will comment on two Canadian films that deploy immigrants and political refugees. These films are separated by over two decades. Within this period so called “visible minority” film directors […]
Dreaming By Movies In 2012, a great number of people of the world’s population live and stay in one place, with very little material wealth, and without any luxury. But in absolute terms, there are also many individuals today who […]
Many years ago, Bernardo Bertolucci, on a visit to Canada, was asked what he thought of the movie industry in this country. He confessed he did not know much about it but he felt that this would be a good […]
Aonan Yang was born in Wo Long Quan, (Dragon Creek Village), Liao Ning Province, China. As a youngster, he wrote his own plays, stand-up routines for pairs (“in the Chinese style”), and poetry. His family was one of […]
I would like to share with you a few thoughts on my experience as someone born and brought up in Montreal and by now having lived for over fifty years in Kolkata. How did that happen and what am […]
[audio: Diamond.mp3] The Diamond that Used to be You Oh honey, after you died from eating that bad meat Didn’t seem right to just keep your remains on a jar in top of the t.v. But […]
