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• B.G-Osborne's A THOUSAND CUTS: Misconceptions of Trans People in Popular Culture

  The New Gallery, who selected and exhibited the work, offered a number of accommodation options such as “the placement of a QR code in the vitrine allowing viewers...

• Editor's Note

  I have been thinking a lot lately about whose stories are being told, and even more importantly who gets to do the telling. Is it important who the...

• Broken Knobs and Glass Eyes: Jan Svankmajer's ALICE

  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...

• Broken Knobs and Glass Eyes: Jan Svankmajer's ALICE

  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...

• Broken Knobs and Glass Eyes: Jan Svankmajer's ALICE

  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...

• Broken Knobs and Glass Eyes: Jan Svankmajer's ALICE

  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....

• Desolate Stillness, Infectious Creativity: Polina Teif at WRECK CITY

  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...

• Desolate Stillness, Infectious Creativity: Polina Teif at WRECK CITY

  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...

• Desolate Stillness, Infectious Creativity: Polina Teif at WRECK CITY

  In Eulogy for the Dead Sea, Polina’s lens follows the falling of the sun and the rolling saline lake from the sky. Text across the bottom of the...

• Desolate Stillness, Infectious Creativity: Polina Teif at WRECK CITY

  Between voice-overs, a soundtrack of solemn string instruments creates tension, a tightening, until eventual silence; an exhale. Polina uses the camera’s perspective to move us through a broken landscape—dry,...