You’ll recall Marshall McLuhan, the “medium is the message” man. He knew. He knew what the computer could do… this extension of ourselves. Like so many fruits hanging on vines… unpicked…disconnected in our connection. Could he have foreseen what we […]
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Maria Worton
In January 2009 Caryl Churchill penned the play Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza in response to Israel’s Operation Cast Lead military strike upon Gaza. Cast Lead lasted 3 weeks, ending January 18th 2009 and was responsible for the […]
I have a relationship to traffic, similar to the kind of relationship a goldfish has to the water in its bowl. It’s never just about the fish and the water. Rather, it’s an ecology, and the ecology relates to […]
…I don’t know why I’ve agreed to this… but here I am… here we are… he briskly raps the knocker. We’re standing in the corridor by the stairwell, with its dank smell and hollow sounds. There are 3 locks. […]
Reading A Woman Among Warlords you may find yourself forgetting on occasion that this is, in fact, a work of non-fiction, so extreme are the terms of its author’s life and homeland. The youngest MP ever to be elected […]
We’re not idiots. But as Canadians, we’re told things, contradictory things, things that don’t add up… about Afghanistan, our mission, security, democracy… February 19th, here in Montreal, Robert Fisk, respected Middle East correspondent of 33 years, argued fervently for NATO […]
In the following short reconstructed video, De-Construction, I’ve used a home video report from Gaza and extracts from other videos found on Youtube, along side my own recordings, to try to convey something of how development, occupation and destruction […]
"Cinema should speak to the mind, to the heart and to the senses."
Scott Camil in Vietnam, taken from archival footage used in the Winter Soldier documentary. In his life Scott Camil has been shot three times: twice in Vietnam and once by the US government. A well known anti-war activist and […]
This issue of Montreal Serai is dedicated to the environment which is why it contains facts, probabilities and imagining. We need all three to see the environment, to see ourselves, because the environment is us. Whatever we do to it […]
“Hello. My name is Betty. You don’t know me for I am no-one of import. I live the simple life of a commoner. Until now my life has been one of blundering about, eating egg and chips with the occasional […]