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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...

• Serenity, Destruction & Inauthenticity: The Transformation of Alberta in BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and THE REVENANT

• FAVA TV: Bringing Media Art to the Masses

• 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...

• Serenity, Destruction & Inauthenticity: The Transformation of Alberta in BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and THE REVENANT

  In Brokeback Mountain, the setting is the third protagonist alongside Jack and Ennis. Their fleeting encounters in the Wyoming mountains transform their shared desire into love from their first...

• Serenity, Destruction & Inauthenticity: The Transformation of Alberta in BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and THE REVENANT

  After another cut, they stand in front of a messy desk, not saying a word to one another. Ennis leans against a wall with hat in right hand,...

• Serenity, Destruction & Inauthenticity: The Transformation of Alberta in BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and THE REVENANT

  The transformed Albertan landscape is given fleeting snapshots in these opening moments, unrecognizable on account of the little time spent on them as well as the extent of the...

• Serenity, Destruction & Inauthenticity: The Transformation of Alberta in BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and THE REVENANT

  The Revenant places a similar emphasis on incapacitation, but the source of Glass’ difficulties is the active danger of the narrative environment. Gone is the deceptive calm of landscapes,...

• Serenity, Destruction & Inauthenticity: The Transformation of Alberta in BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and THE REVENANT

  Both films are about the inherent tensions of difference and diversity, between truth and lies – a natural fit for works that pass Western Canada as elsewhere in...

• Serenity, Destruction & Inauthenticity: The Transformation of Alberta in BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and THE REVENANT

  The entire foundations of their separate lives are as false as the searing image of Ennis and Alma’s trailer home, a perfect “L” shape aligned with a small...