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*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...

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...

The realisation that the movement of this mass of bloody flesh in the video is caused by breathing is very disturbing.  In the initial close-up shots, patches of...

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....

Hatoum’s So Much I Want to Say (1983) fragments the body through the devices of the close-up and remote viewing. The video documents a live performance at the...

One might suppose that the fragmentation of the body creates a disconnection between viewer and object so that the viewer is unable to relate the videos to their...

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...