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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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Serenity, Destruction & Inauthenticity: The Transformation of Alberta in BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and THE REVENANT
Fitzgerald’s understanding is that the brutality of the world around them can only justify atheism: “In that moment, he told me, he found God. And it turns out,...
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Digging in the Dirt: Uncovering the Silent Epidemic Among Albertan Oil Workers
The 2019 documentary Digging in the Dirt, co-directed by Dylan Rhys Howard and Omar Mouallem, is an exploration of the mental health crisis in the lives of Albertan...
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Digging in the Dirt: Uncovering the Silent Epidemic Among Albertan Oil Workers
Digging in the Dirt is Howard’s first feature-length film: “I went to film school because I wanted more than anything … to make movies that reach people and...
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Digging in the Dirt: Uncovering the Silent Epidemic Among Albertan Oil Workers
Chris Johnson’s story follows Dallen’s. When Johnson started working in the trades at 19, it was perfect for a young kid. It gave him something to focus his...
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Digging in the Dirt: Uncovering the Silent Epidemic Among Albertan Oil Workers
Glenn Bielech was another one of those fly-in fly-out workers. He was in the oil fields for over 35 years, living in remote regions of Alberta. Over the...