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• Navigating History, Memory, and Mythology: The Challenges of Depicting the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike

  It’s a surprisingly slippery story for such an important moment in Canada’s labour history, but that hasn’t prevented filmmakers from taking a stab at telling the strike story over...

• Navigating History, Memory, and Mythology: The Challenges of Depicting the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike

  Newspapers from across Canada and the United States descended on the prairie city to cover the strike, but according to media historian Michael Dupuis, many of them failed to...

• Navigating History, Memory, and Mythology: The Challenges of Depicting the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike

  For Schur, Sokolowski’s story illustrates the connections between the experiences of immigrant workers living in Western Canada just after World War I, and the growing nativist sentiment around the...

• Navigating History, Memory, and Mythology: The Challenges of Depicting the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike

  At the core of Stand! is a compelling love story involving Sokolowski’s son (played by Marshall Williams) and their Jewish neighbour (played by Laura Wiggins). Here, Schur takes the...

• Navigating History, Memory, and Mythology: The Challenges of Depicting the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike

  Beyond the change in its name, the movie version will also have some significant changes in plot and characters. Schur says the film’s director Robert Adetuyi convinced him...

• Navigating History, Memory, and Mythology: The Challenges of Depicting the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike

  The inclusion of Emma’s character represents a trend in films about the Winnipeg General Strike towards representing marginalized communities who weren’t part of the original strike narrative. “Absences in...

• Navigating History, Memory, and Mythology: The Challenges of Depicting the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike

  1919 was the first film made by Gonick, who says he’s always had an interest in the strike, in part because his father was the prominent labour historian,...

• Navigating History, Memory, and Mythology: The Challenges of Depicting the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike

  The idea of creating a film about the strike as seen through the windows of a steam bath came to Gonick after seeing an exhibit for its 75th...

• Carbon Capture: Experimental Strategies for Re-Presenting the Anthropocene

  The term Anthropocene was popularized in the early twenty first century by Dutch chemist Paul J. Crutzen, who proposed a new demarcation of geological time characterized by a variety...

• Carbon Capture: Experimental Strategies for Re-Presenting the Anthropocene

  Nisha Platzer and Malin Schmid’s Seed (2018) is an example of hand processing used in this way. The rough, mottled, hand-processed textures complement the close-up images of plants, water,...