Still from ReRuin by Solomon Nagler (2001), completed at the Film Farm
THE WFG'S FIRST DECADE IN A NEW CENTURY
Essay by Cecilia Araneda
A film producer stopped me on the street in 2010 and told me he was interested in making a documentary on the Winnipeg Film Group – he wondered what I thought of the idea. Ambitious, I told him, because for every filmmaker in the city, there is a different Film Group, and each of these versions of reality is true, even if it is in direct opposition t...
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"What Comes Between" to screen in Santiago, Chile at the Museo de la memoria y los derechos humanos as part of a free screen series at the Festival Cine B, Wed Nov 9 at 6 PM.
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I'm thrilled to have been honoured today by the Province of Manitoba as a woman artist in Manitoba who expresses and inspires new visions and perspectives for change in our world. Read the press release.
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THE MACHINE AS AN ACT OF PEACE by Cecilia Araneda In 1973, shortly before his death, Pablo Neruda, one of the 20th century’s most acclaimed poets, declared poetry to be an act of peace. Perhaps this was not an unanticipated declaration, given that Neruda’s life had been filled as much with diplomatic service as it had with poetry, gradually clarifying his commitment to human rights and political action at the same time as he was developing himself as a world-renowned poet. The execution of...
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