Screenings Fall 2009
Lola (2008) Ghosts and Gravel Roads (2008) and Lola (2008) will be screening at the following venues and festivals: Pacific Cinematheque (DIM Cinema), programmer Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk, The Films of the Double Negative Collective, September 28th DIM Cinema Pacific Cinematheque Festival du film de Saint-Severin, October 2nd http://www.festivalcineseverin.org Gimme Truth: The Winnipeg Documentary Project, October […]
GGR // EXiS // SPLICE MAGAZINE
Ghosts and Gravel Roads will be screening at the EXiS Experimental Festival in Seoul, South Korea, in September as part of the Competition Section Ex-Now. In other news, an article written by One Take Super 8 Event founder Alex Rogalski for Splice Magazine features myself and other prominent Saskatchewan filmmakers including Brian Stockton and Lea […]
GGR // Curt.doc Festival Internacional de Curtmetratges Documentals de Vidreres
photo credit: Jessica Grosman Ghosts and Gravel Roads was awarded 2nd Prize at the Curt.doc Festival Internacional de Curtmetratges Documentals de Vidreres this week. The jury comprised of film critic Angel Quintana, director German Garcia, programmer Carlos Puig, and producer German Garcia picked German director Wolfram Huke’s film Stiller abtrag (2007) as Best Film. Curt.doc […]
The Eye of the Storm
On June 30th 1912, Regina Saskatchewan was thrashed by a powerful tornado that destroyed the residential and warehouse districts of the downtown core and near Wascana Lake. To this date it remains one of the most deadliest tornadoes in Canada’s history. The tornado killed 28 people and injured thousands. Approximately 500 buildings were either destroyed […]
Nightwood // Electric!
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Pablo Ferro
Yesterday I watched a rough cut from Marianna Milhorat‘s new film and we had a discussion about beginnings / entries / openings. After thinking about opening sequences and title credits later in the afternoon my mind started to wonder to the work of Pablo Ferro, a self taught animator. Ferro created numerous opening credits for […]
Everett Baker – Saskatchewan in Kodachrome
As summer approaches, nostalgia of Saskatchewan overwhelms me. I was born and raised in the prairie province and most of my films are shot there. Recently I purchased a book about the photography work of Everett Baker, a field man for the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. His job took him on travels to remote places in […]
What’s Playing Tonight?
Ingmar Bergman – Persona (1966) Hiroshi Sugimoto – Tri City Drive In 1993 Weegee – Lovers at the Movies 1940 Hiroshi Sugimoto – Cinerama Dome Hollywood 1993 Edward Hopper – New York Movie 1939 Edward Ruscha – Exit 1990 Artists: Ingmar Bergman Hiroshi Sugimoto Weegee Edward Hopper Edward Ruscha
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