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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

WNDX: Winnipeg’s Festival of Film & Video Art Sunday October 11, 2009 Curated by Cecilia Araneda and Solomon Nagler Quirky, fun and loveable – the recipe of many independent short films produced by Manitoba filmmakers right here at home. Ranging from innovative animations to fun performance work, this collection of ultra short works will bring [...]

WNDX: Winnipeg’s Festival of Film & Video Art Wednesday October 7 – Saturday October 10, 2009 Curated by Cecilia Araneda Introduced by Philip Hoffman Death, live, love, memory and loss together comprise the essential stuff that forms the oeuvre of Canadian experimental documentary filmmaker Philip Hoffman. Indeed, in an interview with Barbara Sternberg, Hoffman acknowledges [...]

WNDX: Winnipeg’s Festival of Film & Video Art Sunday October 10, 2009 Curated by Cecilia Araneda   There is one constant, and that is that it is there and we are here. But in as much as a new generation of Chilean Canadian filmmakers have in common with each other, there are also significant differences. [...]

WNDX: Winnipeg’s Festival of Film & Video Art Thursday October 4, 2007 Curated by Cecilia Araneda and Solomon Nagler   Traveling around the world with their films and yet remaining in their prairie hideaway, Jason Britski and Ian Toews initiated their filmmaking exploits when the both enrolled in the Univerity of Regina’s Film Production program. [...]