Arts & Culture

Send + Receive ready for 13th season

By
Ryan Simmons
Winnipeg’s festival of sound art Send + Receive, one of the most exciting festivals to grace the city’s arts scene, is about to celebrate its 13th season. Outside of a few local concerts throughout...
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Movie Review: Public Domain

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Ryan Simmons
Public Domain is a collection of videos commissioned by SAW Video, Ottawa’s version of Video Pool. Six renowned video artists were given access to all of the audio-visual material available in the public archives...
Arts & Culture

Diaristic documentaries

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Ryan Simmons
From Feb. 11-13, the Winnipeg Film Group’s Cinematheque will be hosting Alan Zweig, one of Canada’s greatest documentary filmmakers, with a retrospective of some of his best works. Cinematheque is not alone in highlighting...
Arts & Culture

See it, receive it

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Ryan Simmons
Sound art: what’s that? Whether you know or not, send + receive’s director crys cole believes, “Some people have an idea that since they may not know much about sound art, or s +...
Arts & Culture

Winnipeg eats its young

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Ryan Simmons
In 2010, Winnipeg became “Canada’s Cultural Capital.” Much has been said about the strength of our local art scene. However, many in the community note that a number of the most talented Winnipeg artists...
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There Will Be Lawyers

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Ryan Simmons
Joe Berlinger has spent the past 18 years creating some of the greatest legal documentaries ever made with his creative partner Bruce Sinofsky (as well as a much-regretted Blair Witch Project sequel, from which...
Arts & Culture

Not over the Hill

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Ryan Simmons
On Jan. 4, 2007, at the age of 36, animator Helen Hill was murdered, for no known reason, in her home in the midst of hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans. This tragic end exists in...
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