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• Broken Knobs and Glass Eyes: Jan Svankmajer's ALICE

  Alice shares only a few aspects with the well-known 1951 Disney film adaptation, which also mixes in some of the characters from Carroll’s 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass, such...

• Navigating History, Memory, and Mythology: The Challenges of Depicting the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike

  While Foote’s photos have stood the test of time, films shot during the strike have largely been relegated to obscurity, and many of them have been lost forever. According...

• Navigating History, Memory, and Mythology: The Challenges of Depicting the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike

  From Arsin to Gonick, Kelly to Schur, the past 100 years of films about the Winnipeg General Strike reveal as much what we don’t know about the strike...

• Navigating History, Memory, and Mythology: The Challenges of Depicting the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike

  It’s a surprisingly slippery story for such an important moment in Canada’s labour history, but that hasn’t prevented filmmakers from taking a stab at telling the strike story over...

• Isaac Wurmann

  *Isaac Wurmann* is a freelance journalist living and working in Winnipeg. He is a recent graduate of the journalism program at Carleton University, where he completed a double major in journalism and...

• How Real Do You Want Me To Be?: Kate Craig’s DELICATE ISSUE

  The soundtrack contains heavy breathing accompanied by the sound of a heartbeat. At times the heartbeat and breathing become slightly muffled by the microphone. In the initial shots of...

• Fostering Women and Filmmaking: 30 Years of Herland

  Herland is an organization that seeks to bring films by and about women to a larger audience. Originally a festival, Herland is now focused on advancing women's careers...

• Fostering Women and Filmmaking: 30 Years of Herland

  The recent mentorship screening began with Lydia Adair's Errands, a multi-threaded film that examines the intersecting lives of people who meet in line at the bank. Adair’s narrative is...

• Fostering Women and Filmmaking: 30 Years of Herland

  Somers remembers a far different political climate from today. Feminist films, especially those that openly dealt with women’s bodies and sexuality, were considered controversial by the mainstream. Criticism came...

• Fostering Women and Filmmaking: 30 Years of Herland

  Somers made it her goal to work against this pattern, and looked for ways to bridge the gap and bring women’s voices forward. She theorizes that emerging female...