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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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...