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• That Battle is Over, Girl: Alice Schoenberg

  The perceived achievement of equality is an insidious form of repression itself. It manifests in the statement, “Well I sure don’t feel oppressed”. In creating a lack of challenging...

• That Battle is Over, Girl: Alice Schoenberg

  Swaying drums link up to organs and synths that create an expanding field for Hval’s sharp-witted lyrics. She moves between deep murmurs to high crests, polysyllabic runs to drawn...

• Editor's Note

  This issue of Luma Quarterly looks at film, video, performance, and media art grounded in a sense of discomfort. Whether it is the abject, ejaculating cactus in Matthew Rankin’s...

• Matthew Rankin Asks “Who Owns The Twentieth Century”?

  The film is a beautiful mixture of history, satire, dedication, and deep questioning. Rankin has been absorbed in all of the aesthetic power of Winnipeg, and taken it...

• Matthew Rankin Asks “Who Owns The Twentieth Century”?

  *GC: The heart is on the sleeve in Québec. * MR: Denis Coté, Stéphane Lafleur and Robert Morin, those are great Québécois ironists. I think for the most part, everyone...

• 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...

• Intimacy and Distance: Mona Hatoum at the Western Front

  In Hatoum’s video Variations on Discord and Divisions, created at the Western Front in 1984, the boundary between the inside of the body and the outside is breached....

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

  While Calgary’s official brand splits the difference between anachronistic fantasies of rural simplicity and the skyscraper-strewn capitalist mecca, the reality is that suburbia vastly outstrips them both. It’s perhaps...

• Matthew Rankin Asks “Who Owns The Twentieth Century”?

  *GC: There’s something so Canadian about that.* MR: Yes! We’re living in this very binary era and the elastic is really stretching to the snapping-point. So the centre is...

• Being Artful: An Interview with Multimedia Artist Brad Necyk

  *SC: The presence of place is very prevalent in your work. A combination of literal and representative spaces. Where do these environments come from and why are they...