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• The Spectacle of Power: Ken Russell's THE DEVILS (1971)

  The original 107 minute X-rated British cut of Ken Russell’s controversial film, The Devils (1971) is set to be screened on DVD for the first time in Calgary...

• Calling All Queers: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  In A Short Film about Tegan & Sara (2018), Asian-Canadian artist Ann Marie Fleming⁹draws stick figures on brightly coloured backgrounds to illustrate the career of Calgary born musicians and identical twins Tegan and Sara Quin....

• Stalking Our Doppelgängers: An Interview with Filmmaker Isaac Ezban

  George Melnyk interviews Ezban about Parallel (2018) and how working in Western Canada has impacted his career and his vision as a filmmaker. *GEORGE MELNYK: This is your first English-language film made...

• Calling All Queers: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  The animation draws attention (forgive the pun) to the duo’s Safer Spaces Program,which aims to make their shows a safe space for everyone: “You’re not going to feel like...

• The Monsters Are Due in Calgary: RED LETTER DAY and the Suburban Gothic

  Red Letter Day has plenty of echoes of other films, ranging from The Purge franchise (2013-ongoing) that represents a special “day” that encourages violence, to Calgary filmmaker Gary Burns’s...

• Equinox Vigil in Calgary’s Historic Union Cemetery 2012 –2018: A Farewell

  Equinox Vigil was a free, family-friendly and non-religious evening to remember the dead in an artist-led, participatory way that over 500 people a year experienced as moving and magical. The...

• Creating a Baseline

  *TS: What has surprised you about this process so far?* GM: Finding that people believe in my project and that people want to help me. I think there’s...

• Bruce Hugh Russell

  Born in Vancouver in 1952, Bruce Hugh Russell studied at the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University) and at Concordia University. An independent curator and art historian,...

• THUMBS THAT TYPE AND SWIPE: The DIS Collective at Plug In ICA

  Facing the AV equipment was a couch made of small, square hay bales, the type that was ubiquitous on Prairie farms into the 1970s, and for which I...

• The Sounds and Sights of Dance: Rosanna Terracciano's A QUIET FLAMENCO

  a quiet flamenco offers the audience an opportunity to reacquaint themselves with flamenco by presenting a different relationship between sound and dance. While flamenco is traditionally a cacophonous dance,...