…her art studio. I also shot some 16 mm of Jessica Jackson Hutchins in a studio at Cal State. It was sort of wading in, in that kind of respect,…
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Pray for Our Sinners: TIFF Film Review
…the widespread suffering of pregnant unmarried women at the hands of the church that happened over decades. There were several films at TIFF about state-sanctioned institutional oppression of women and…
Stonewalling Film Review: Surviving an unwanted pregnancy
Alex Heeney reviews Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka’s film Stonewalling. China’s two-child policy casts a long shadow on twenty-year-old Lynn who finds herself with an unwanted pregnancy — and loses…
Cannes Film Review: Manuela Martelli’s 1976 ratchets up the tension
…a film defined by a perpetual state of anxiety fueled by government and gender oppression. In the coastal Chilean town of Las Cruces during the third year of Pinochet’s dictatorship,…
The fifty best documentaries of the 21st century
…neighbourhood in the United States, full of different groups of people from different walks of life. One of Wiseman’s biggest challenges was figuring out where to shoot and who to…
Bootlegger, Albedo, The Boathouse and more fall highlights from so-called Canada
…the States to discover how mega-dams (not unlike Site C) are obstructing the migratory path of the salmon population. They soon find, too, that killer whales aren’t the only species…