Issue 001

Summer 2015

Lindsay Sorell Read More; Murray Leeder and Guy Maddin discuss film as a haunted medium, and the Internet as promised immortality; J.D. Mersault reads the future through Hollis Frampton’s lens; Stephen Nachtigall renders the intermediary spaces between art, science, and philosophy; Jesse Cumming talks tennis courts with Vancouver’s Iris Film Collective; Jasmin Risk digital textile: a riddle of attention spans, blinding patterns, and emotions in a digital age.

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Issue 002

Fall 2015

Lindsay Sorell Read More; Weiyi Chang contextualizes Geronimo Inutiq’s collaborative film-fragment remix, ARCTICNOISE; Stephen Broomer discuss the implications of superimposition and chance-driven filmmaking; Mark David Turner outlines audio-visual political activism in the ’70s on Canada’s North Coast; Mark Clintberg interviews Jacob Wren and Jeanne Randolph—under oil; Brianna Strong reviews Calgary Cinematheque’s Robert Altman retrospective.

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Issue 003

Winter 2016

Lindsay Sorell Read More; Rebecca Smyth has a phone conversation with Indigenous Futurist Jason Edward Lewis; Tianna Fischer on experimental celluloid filmmaker Lindsay McIntyre; Ashley Bedet chases Lisa Lipton through her journey in THE IMPOSSIBLE BLUE ROSE; Sally Raab uses homemade pinhole cameras as a gateway to art-making; Ginger Carlson haunts the badlands with Nicole Kelly Westman.

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Issue 005

Summer 2016

Lindsay Sorell Editor's Note; Rebecca Smyth reflects on labour, Calgary, and REAL FAILURE NEEDS NO EXCUSE at the Esker; Ted Stenson interviews director Ted Kotcheff about the making of his underrated classic WAKE IN FRIGHT; Bogdan Cheta investigates activism, subjective labour and a soft call to action through Sandra Vida’s PORTAL; Riva Symko on poetry taking 2 or 3-dimensional forms, and taking the form of Mark Templeton’s project VARIATIONS; Nick Johnson compares horror and gender narratives BLACK CHRISTMAS and THE BLOODY CHAMBER.

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Issue 006

Fall 2016

Lindsay Sorell Read More; Nancy Webb bodies onscreen—from NANOOK OF THE NORTH to LEMONADE; Nicola Waugh interviews Manuela De Laborde—thinking of the frame and the blackness; Murray Leeder and Gemma Files discuss her latest book, EXPERIMENTAL FILM, and the enduring qualities of cinema; Alex King on Armenian film and Atom Egoyan's examination of trauma, migration, and memory in celluloid; Lauren Lavery What can art do to fulfill a mandate of hope and agency.

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Issue 007

Winter 2017

Lindsay Sorell Read More; Anj Fermor with Nine Kennedy and Dan McCartney on sustaining the complexity of the queer experience; Jem Noble interviews Canada's pre-eminent diary filmmaker, Philip Hoffman; Christopher McKinnon on 'death culture' and Tasman Richardson's JANUS; Tyler J Stewart Miruna Dragan's ANOTHER NAME FOR EVERYWHERE at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery.; Sarah Todd and Lorenzo Fusi discuss the moving image and the landscape tradition.

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Issue 009

Summer 2017

Lindsay Sorell Editor's Note; Areum Kim three reviews of FOR THE TIME BEING: 2017 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art; Mikka Jacobsen responds to Maryse Larivière's 16 mm UNDER THE CAVE OF WINDS with original prose; Lindsay Sorell interviews Aran Wilkinson-Blanc and Sabrina Naz Comanescu about their new dance short, BONUM; Bryn Evans looks at the works of Michelangelo and Hokusai from a plush reclining seat: Cineplex's IN THE GALLERY series; Sarah Todd draws parallels between the work of Derek Liddington and Merce Cunningham

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Issue 010

Fall 2017

Lindsay Sorell Editor's Note; Paige K Boudreau round-tables parity in film with directors Sandi Somers and Michal Lavi; Kaylin Obst with a Holga and poetic magic realism; Shelby Gray reviews Greta Gerwig's critical darling LADY BIRD; Michelle Lazo reflects on Postcommodity's A VERY LONG LINE; Ted Stenson and Gillian McKercher chat about pre-production for her first feature film CIRCLE OF STEEL

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Issue 011

Winter 2018

Lindsay Sorell Read More; Felicia Glatz chronicles Calgary's longest running film festival; Özgün Eylül İşcen on THE CHANNELERS, Marxism, and immaterial labour; Neil Surkan responds to Kapwani Kiwanga's film A PRIMER with four original poems; Ted Stenson interviews Gillian McKercher about the trials, tribulations, and hidden inspirations in CIRCLE OF STEEL's production phase; Mary Arnatt interrogates the construction of voyeurism and paranoia in KLUTE

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Issue 013

Summer 2018

Lindsay Sorell Read More; Shelley Boettcher tells the story of the only woman behind Free Cinema—the Italian filmmaker, artist, and author Lorenza Mazzetti; Steffanie Ling reviews Susan Hiller’s PSI GIRLS, and adolescent female power in cinema; Jacob Bews unpacks Ken Russell’s famously censored and widely banned film, THE DEVILS (1971); NIK invents a game guide for PORTABLE CLOSETS by Kyle Alden Martens; Steph Wong Ken examines Eurocentric representations of women in the landscape

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Issue 014

Fall 2018

Kristen Hutchinson Read More; Kyle Whitehead examines genealogical theology in the work of experimental filmmaker Jeremy Moss; Suzette Chan unpacks the complacency of media consumption through DIS Collective’s exhibit; Kristen Hutchinson scrutinizes the censorship of trans identity through popular culture; Jacob Bews unpacks the child-like dream state that stop-motion animation creates in ALICE; Carlin Brown ruminates on filmmaker Polina Teif's Wreck City residency

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Issue 015

Winter 2019

Kristen Hutchinson Read More; Isaac Wurmann explores the dynamic filmography of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike; Kevin Dong interrogates the relationships between experimental film and the Anthropocene; Anj Fermor presents an intimate analysis of Ryan Danny Owen’s performance at M:ST; Maeve Hanna examines how the conventions of flamenco are challenged in a quiet flamenco at PARTICLE + WAVE; George Melnyk chats with Isaac Ezban about directing his recent film PARALLEL, parallel universes, mirrors, and doppelgängers

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Issue 017

Summer 2019

Kristen Hutchinson Read More; Aran Wilkinson-Blanc captures the spirit of EQUINOX VIGIL, a public ritual for remembering loss; Steph Wong Ken examines loss and betrayal through Sandi Tan's documentary SHIRKERS; Uii Savage reviews RITA MCKEOUGH: WORKS, an extensive monograph that surveys McKeough's rich career and expansive practice; Kelaine Devine explores Donald Lawrence's multi-sensory rural installation, Nanton Camera Obscura; Suzette Chan surveys the careers of various Edmonton sound artists in attendance at the 2019 AMAAS Conference

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Issue 018

Fall 2019

Kristen Hutchinson Read More; Chelsea Yang-Smith interviews Elyse Bouvier, Rocio Graham, and Heather Saitz on being female photographers; Suzette Chan dives into the diverse experimental sound scene in Edmonton; Jacob Bews frames Abbas Kiarostami’s CLOSE-UP in terms of deception and discovery; Ziwei Huang examines tourists in Venice in the act of looking; Kaylee Maciejko reviews Eveline Kolijn's THE OCEAN INSIDE

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Issue 019

Winter 2020

Kristen Hutchinson Read More; Guillaume Carlier interviews Matthew Rankin about his first feature film THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; Alexa Bunnell dissects feminist activism in the work of artist Alice Schoenberg; Kristen Hutchinson examines Mona Hatoum's videos and performances at Vancouver's Western Front; Shaun Crawford interviews Brad Necyk about his recent artistic explorations; Murray Leeder explores RED LETTER DAY, a grisly treatment of Calgary's suburbia with nary a cowboy hat in sight

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Issue 021

Summer 2020

Kristen Hutchinson Read More; Terrance Houle reflects the COVID-19 pandemic through analog photography; Trent Warner on multimedia artist Khrysta Lloren ; Uii Savage ruminates on resisting capitalist tendencies in the digital art landscape ; Kristen Hutchinson discusses recent queer animation from the NFB; Ziwei Huang explores the labyrinthine identities of Hong Kong through street photography

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Issue 022

Fall 2020

Kristen Hutchinson Read More; Sanaa Humayun on embodiment and place in Cheyenne Rain LeGrande's Maskekewapoy ᒪᐢᑫᑫᐊ.; Kate Barry regarding making space for media art where space has been taken.; Matthew Cardinal explores of the pleasures of analog photography.; Kristen Hutchinson delves into five feminist animated shorts from the NFB.; Zach Green on queer memory and cinematic time in PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE

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Issue 023

Winter 2021

Kristen Hutchinson Read More; Rocio Graham explores mystic concepts that influence her self portrait series. ; Laurie White As the eternal isolation of post-covid life ensues, this article explores bringing the wild swamp sounds of The Wetland Project in a format accessible from home.; Mary Hunter Mary Hunter takes us through Greetings from Isolation; a capsule collection of short Canadian Isolation movies. ; Kathryn Armstrong interviews CSIF Programming Director on Western Canadian Filmmaking; Murray Leeder analyzes film depictions of Dungeons & Dragons

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