Festival Screening – October 4, 2015 @ 7:30 PM at The Woodstock Playhouse The Forbidden Room is Guy Maddin’s ultimate epic phantasmagoria. Honoring classic cinema while electrocuting it with energy, this Russian nesting doll of a film begins with the crew of a doomed submarine chewing flapjacks in a desperate attempt to breathe the oxygen […]
From The Brooklin Rail by Leo Goldsmith and Rachael Rakes Experimental film seems to occupy an increasingly marginal place in contemporary cinema. Even as microcinemas and local scenes and collaboratives continue to proliferate, what should be cinema’s most vital form remains, for most, the sideshow attraction to commercial cinema’s decaying mainstage. Running against this current, […]
from tiff FESTIVAL’S WAVELENGTHS PROGRAMME CELEBRATES INNOVATION AND EXPERIMENTATION IN FILM AND VIDEO WITH A LINEUP OF ART WORLD NOTABLES, MASTER FILMMAKERS AND EMERGING LOCAL ARTISTS Including works by Tacita Dean, Rose Lowder, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, James Benning, Nathaniel Dorsky, Mark Lewis and Ben Rivers Toronto – Wavelengths, the Toronto International Film Festival®’s curated presentation of […]
