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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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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GUY MADDIN AND THE LANGUAGE OF EARLY CINEMA
by Cecilia Araneda
Guy Maddin is undoubtedly one of the most original voices in contemporary moving image art, not only in Canada, but also in the world. His body of work resonates in an unexpected way, using the tropes of early cinema as the mechanism behind his art practice.
As the language of cinema evolved in the 20th century, itself building on theatre and performing art traditions to explore the full potential of the-then new media, it devel...
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WNDX: Winnipeg's Festival of Film & Video Art Thursday September 30 - Sunday October 3, 2010
Curated by Cecilia Araneda
Introduced by Barbara Sternberg
Barbara Sternberg hails from the Maritimes where she began using cinema as a philosophical tool. Her interests in memory and repetition seemed a natural fit for a medium whose material is time. Working alone, and using small, hand-held cameras, Sternberg uses the possibilities of stretching and compressing events, or presenting the...
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