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Femme, Fierce, & f-stops: Women Working in Photography
*CHELSEA YANG-SMITH: How many years have you been doing photography? When did you decide to start taking on freelance work and what has that process been like so...
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Edmonton Sound Travels
Shawn Pinchbeck The “Shawn” that Dion mentioned was Shawn Pinchbeck, who was just 15 when he showed up on CJSR's doorstep with tapes of his own original music. “We would...
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Edmonton Sound Travels
NEW HORIZONS The Edmonton sound art scene now counts generations of artists. In the weeks after AMAAS’s On Sound conference, Matthew Cardinal and Raylene Campbell played at The Works, Shawn...
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The Darkened Room and Reflected Magic: Donald Lawrence and the Camera Obscura
The siting of Nanton’s Camera Obscura is very deliberate. When asked about its placement, Lawrence responded, “While we looked at a couple of other locations around the perimeter of...
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Creation, Loss, and Rediscovery: On Sandi Tan’s SHIRKERS
These are snippets from Shirkers, the first feature made by Singaporean filmmaker Sandi Tan in the early 90s when she was nineteen. There is no sound in the...
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Creation, Loss, and Rediscovery: On Sandi Tan’s SHIRKERS
The exploration of what happened that summer, when Tan and her friends decided to make a movie, is a messy dive twenty years into the past. The documentary...
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Creation, Loss, and Rediscovery: On Sandi Tan’s SHIRKERS
Tan’s concept for the original Shirkers film is rooted in her upbringing in Singapore, a sweaty little island with a government that stressed politeness and decorum, going so far...
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Creation, Loss, and Rediscovery: On Sandi Tan’s SHIRKERS
Though I wish we could see the original film on its own, separate from the backstory of Cardona, his imprints are everywhere in the documentary Shirkers. The two...
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Creation, Loss, and Rediscovery: On Sandi Tan’s SHIRKERS
Regardless of the dynamics between her friends and Cardona, she was determined to do whatever she needed to get her film made. Talking about the production, Tan equates...
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Creation, Loss, and Rediscovery: On Sandi Tan’s SHIRKERS
Though what remains of the original Shirkers film is soundless, it is still very much alive. Watching the footage Tan salvaged from the recovered film canisters, there is...