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• 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 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,...

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

  After a three-year long project like Eulogy, the playfulness and camaraderie of Wreck City allowed Polina to explore the documentary format with a lighter hand and a shorter...

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

  Although there are some thematic similarities,—abandoned buildings, places in transition—the energy of the two projects couldn’t be further from one another. Where Eulogy documents the desolate stillness and deterioration...

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

  Among the eccentric programming, artist collective WYRDOS dressed as Charlie Chaplin, performing silent comedy acts through the glass of a vacant radio recording booth inside one of the exhibition’s...