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The Monsters Are Due in Calgary: RED LETTER DAY and the Suburban Gothic
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...
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Matthew Rankin Asks “Who Owns The Twentieth Century”?
*GC: I feel like it comes across in the film. Even the acting, everyone seems very much living in the world you created. It’s like they bought in...
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Matthew Rankin Asks “Who Owns The Twentieth Century”?
*GC: We learn it in school, we’re taught the steps.* MR: Exactly, and to some degree it can be a source of great collective action, and emancipation, but...
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Matthew Rankin Asks “Who Owns The Twentieth Century”?
*GC: There’s something so Canadian about that.* MR: Yes! We’re living in this very binary era and the elastic is really stretching to the snapping-point. So the centre is...
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Intimacy and Distance: Mona Hatoum at the Western Front
In the 1980s Hatoum created a series of videos at the Western Front that greatly informed the themes of her later artistic practice including fragmentation of skin, issues...
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Being Artful: An Interview with Multimedia Artist Brad Necyk
*SC: The presence of place is very prevalent in your work. A combination of literal and representative spaces. Where do these environments come from and why are they...
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The Monsters Are Due in Calgary: RED LETTER DAY and the Suburban Gothic
We are introduced to divorcee Melanie (Dawn Van de Schoot) and her two teenage children Madison (Hailey Foss) and Timothy (Kaeleb Zain Gartner), newly moved into Aspen Ridge and...
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K. J. Aiello
*K. J. Aiello* is a disabled writer whose previous publications have appeared in The Globe and Mail, This Magazine, Toronto Life, eTalk, The Loop and West End Phoenix. K. J.’s work tends to...
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Editor's Note
It is fitting that the 20th issue of Luma Quarterly is comprised of articles all about Alberta: mainstream films shot here, the innovative distribution of media art in Edmonton, an exhibition...
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Serenity, Destruction & Inauthenticity: The Transformation of Alberta in BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and THE REVENANT
The cinematic trick of using shooting locations as stand-ins for other places has been a historically popular one. Getting spectators to forget the setting ever used to be Alberta...