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Broken Knobs and Glass Eyes: Jan Svankmajer's ALICE
Calgary’s Giant Incandescent Resonating Animation Festival (GIRAF) screened Alice on November 23, 2018. A loose adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s 1865 literary classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Svankmajer’s film shares the...
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Broken Knobs and Glass Eyes: Jan Svankmajer's ALICE
Svankmajer’s film is a free adaptation, opting to rely on visual nonsense rather than the original’s verbal nonsense. Carroll’s Alice strives to get home in the end, back to...
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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...
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Broken Knobs and Glass Eyes: Jan Svankmajer's ALICE
The Victorian-looking kettles, large brass keys, stopwatches, archaic playing cards in the film are all objects we still use often, but versions of which that have faded into obscurity....
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Desolate Stillness, Infectious Creativity: Polina Teif at WRECK CITY
Wreck City is a collective of artists and curators who organize public exhibitions in unconventional sites including pre-demolition houses, abandoned buildings, and vacant commercial spaces (https://www.wreckcity.ca/residency[https://www.wreckcity.ca/residency]). This year, the collective hosted...
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Desolate Stillness, Infectious Creativity: Polina Teif at WRECK CITY
In anticipation of our first meeting, Polina’s film had been on my mind. As I passed the Bow River by taxi that first day in Calgary, I was...
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