Strange things are happening at Uncle Boonmee’s farm in the lush greenery of Thailand’s countryside. The ghost of his dead…
In what is amongst the best collections of short films at VIFF 2010, ‘Acquired Trait’ deals with memories. Like ripples…
Quick—who is the greatest inventor who ever lived? Edison? Tesla? Frink? How about Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu? Never heard of him?…
“If the work of an isolated little old woman on the edge of nowhere is too modern for the Canadian…
A shotgun shatters the silence of the countryside in China, forcing European artist Thomas to dive for cover. This begins…
It is 2009 in Southern Afghanistan and fresh recruits are flown into forwarding base Armadillo as missiles fire periodically at…
by Athena Wong Jia Zhangke has been acclaimed internationally in many important film festivals such as those of Cannes, Venice,…
No hint of a plotline sullies Amazon Falls. Twenty years ago Jana starred as a curvy, big-boobed warrior princess on…
The fog from a smoke machine rolls across the stage as the black veiled queen dies giving birth to Snow…
Hilary is a nice middle aged lesbian with multiple personalities. She has a hard time making friends because the “alters”…
The film A search for home, an experimental documentary directed by Gillian Greenfeld, tells the story of…
Oliver Russler’s Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies is a thematic interactive art installation that challenges the audience to look their own…
The photographs of Sebastião Salgado, are some of the rawest accounts of the disparity of human civilization. Compositionally and graphically,…
At first listen, Conjure One’s self-titled album (2002) is just a standard electro-pop record. Delve deeper, however, to find that each…
Pierre Leichner’s exhibit Food Wars is currently running at the Maple Ridge Art Gallery, and consists of sculptures as well as…
Musicians in Exile (1992), directed by Jacques Holender, follows the lives of several musicians who had fled their country. This film…
Alighiero Boetti, born in Italy in 1940, was part of the Arte Povera movement that began in 1967. This movement…
In 2006, Matt Harding embarked on a 6 month trip through 39 countries to dance in front of famous landmarks.…
Writer and director Morgan Spurlock documented the effects of a nation’s love of fast food, and what the consequences to…
Dan Perjovschi is an anti-communist and visual artist, mixing drawings, cartoons and graffiti in artistic pieces drawn directly on the…
What happens to the culture of a country that is subjected to civil war, genocide, poverty, corruption and foreign industrial…