Book Review “More than Moonlight” Rana Bose Days of Moonlight by Loren Edizel, Inanna Publications Inc., Toronto, Ontario, 205 pages The compelling, contradictory nature of cover […]
Film Review Dispatches from TIFF 2018 43rd Edition Mirella Bontempo This was my third time at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). It was also Piers Handling’s final […]
Editorial Beyond the Pale Dipti Gupta This issue of Serai, “Beyond the Pale” (Vol.31, Issue 3), is one that resonates with me deeply. Hence, I […]
Essay Cinema, Identity and Openings Rather than Fences Diana Goldberg Mayo Commentary on La Negrada, Sueño en Otro Idioma and El Violín [Note: References to film portrayals of Indigenous dramas […]
Interview Screening Truth to Power – Cinema Politica: Audio Interview with Svetla Turnin and Ezra Winton Dipti Gupta & Raphael Cohen-Demers As Cinema Politica turns 15 in Montréal, Dipti Gupta and Raphael Cohen-Demers interview co-founders Svetla Turnin and Ezra Winton to walk us through […]
Commentary The Evocation of a Sea Island Heritage Sharon Bourke 1. Tradition NANA PEAZANT (narrating) “In this quiet place, simple folk knelt down and caught a glimpse of the […]
Interview Rumble: the Indians who Rocked the World Jody Freeman, with Catherine Bainbridge and Ernest Webb Interview with Catherine Bainbridge and Ernest Webb Introduction: The evening of the interview, I showed up at Catherine […]
Essay Women Who Say ‘I’: Courtesans, Actresses, and a #metoo Movement That Spans Millennia Kerry McElroy In 1991, Indian feminist filmmaker Reena Mohan produced a little-known documentary called Kamlabai. The film chronicled the remarkable […]
Film Review What should have been a Spike Lee spliff…Review of BlacKkKlansman Rana Bose In response to a three-page critique[1] of the film by Boots Riley, the first point I want to […]
Essay From Hum Aapke Hain Kaun to Padmaavat – India’s cultural identity Karan Singh Padmaavat (2018), Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s latest magnum opus, became mostly notorious for what was claimed as its attack […]
Film Review Escaping Agra – A short film by Pallavi Somusetty Dipti Gupta [Note: The film was featured in the diaspora panel at the South Asian Film Festival of Montreal (October […]
Meditation Minnie and Moskowitz and Jesse and Durga Jesse Noah Klein & Durga Chew-Bose Magnificent. Maddening. John Cassavetes’ Minnie and Moskowitz (1971) is a small story about big love. Seymour Moskowitz, played by […]
Art Mon environnement urbain Anne Bruneau Démarche artistique Ma pratique photographique est inspirée de l’environnement qui m’entoure. Un premier projet abordait le thème […]
