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Demons and Demonization: Filming the Anti-Dungeons & Dragons Hysteria
Today it is striking how non-hysterical Mazes and Monsters is. Its TV movie glossiness makes it appear neutered and anodyne. Its score is especially saccharine. The other gamers are...
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Demons and Demonization: Filming the Anti-Dungeons & Dragons Hysteria
Skullduggery has elements of a slasher film and of a demonic possession film but regularly swerves into other genres with little warning. It even becomes a teen comedy...
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Editor's Note
As noted in the Tate Museum description of the work: “In the House of My Father was made for the 1997 exhibition ‘9 Nights in Eldorado’at South London Gallery which Rodney dedicated to his father...
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Requiem for a Glacier: Mourning Climate Change
One critique I have is of the inclusion of a black box which appears twice in the piece. During one section, the box begins in the centre of the screen, as seen in the above still, and...
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Savanna Harvey
*Savanna Harvey* is a multidisciplinary creator. She is an organizer of secret midnight meetings, an instigator of resistance, and a recruiter of accomplices. As a creator-performer, she has toured...
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Requiem for a Glacier: Mourning Climate Change
To draw attention to this issue, Victoria BC composer and artist Paul Walde created Requiem for a Glacier, a forty-minute video installation and sound performance currently on view at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Filmed on July 27, 2013, the...
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Requiem for a Glacier: Mourning Climate Change
The text sung by the solo vocalist and chorus during the first two movements of the requiem are based on a Latin translation of a 2012 BC government press release that approved the construction of the year-round Jumbo Glacier Resort for skiing.5The last two...
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Requiem for a Glacier: Mourning Climate Change
One of the first images in the video installation is of the chorus, shot from behind, being led by conductor Ajtony Csaba, music professor and symphony orchestra director at the University of Victoria. Everyone dressed in black to...
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Requiem for a Glacier: Mourning Climate Change
Several times throughout the piece, the camera focuses upon the conductor. He stands alone, in the centre of the screen on an outcropping of rocks, facing the glacier in his tuxedo...
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Requiem for a Glacier: Mourning Climate Change
Another strength of the piece is the use of close-ups of the terrain of the glacier, many of which focus of the large rivulets of water flowing downward. In a number of shots, the...