1982 Camerawork calendar. Accounts include Drinking Driving CounterAttack, HMS Media Services (local ads running in Time magazine BC edition), Bob Masse Studios, Eli Productions (Powder Blues).

Frida Kahlo: Her Photos | Artisphere

ARLINGTON, VA.- Artisphere is the first and only venue in the United States to present Frida Kahlo: Her Photos, 259 images from her personal collection of over 6,500 photographs sealed until 2007 that allow viewers to experience a rarely seen intimate side of the artist.

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LOOSE CANNONS

MINE VAGANTI

Italy 2010

DIR Ferzan Ozpetek

CAST Riccardo Scamarcio, Nicole Grimaudo, Alessandro Preziosi

Tommasso is the youngest son of a large traditional southern Italian family that has been in the pasta-making business since the 1960s. Whereas they think he is in Rome studying finance, he is actually studying literature, writing a novel, and living with his boyfriend. At an upcoming gathering, he has decided to tell his family the truth, but unexpected complications develop. The humour is way over-the-top, but delicately handled in this thought-provoking and hugely entertaining film.

Film not seen. Home with the flu. Doctor I found on the internet recommends Jamesons

Diane Arbus — 80 Artworks @ The Vancouver Art Gallery

Diane Arbus | 80 Artworks @ The Vancouver Art Gallery selection of Bif Naked. 80 artworks from the VAG collection to celebrate its 80th Anniversary.

A SCREAMING MAN

UN HOMME QUI CRIE
Belgium, France, Chad 2010

DIR Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
 SCR Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

CAST Youssouf Djaoro, Diouc Koma

In his glory days, Adam had been the swimming champ of central Africa. But now, at age 55, the new Chinese owners of the tourist hotel have decided he is too old for his job as pool attendant and have transferred it to his son Abdel while Adam has been relegated to the more demeaning job of gatekeeper. Making his personal crisis worse, the country is at war with rebels, and everyone is expected to help with the war effort, either with money or with conscriptable family members. Adam has only his son to give. This rare and moving glimpse into everyday life in central Africa was a huge hit at Cannes where it won the Jury Prize (runner up to the Palme d'Or).

CITY OF GOD
CIDADE DE DEUS
France, Brazil 2002
DIR Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
SCR Paulo Lins, Bráulio Mantovani
CAST Leandro Firmino, Alexandre Rodrigues
Phellipe Haagensen, Alice Braga,

AMÉLIE
LE FABULEUX DESTIN 
D'AMÉLIE POULAIN
France, Germany 2001
DIR Jean-Pierre Jeunet
SCR Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 
Guillaume Laurant
CAST Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, 
Rufus, Dominique Pinon

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IN A BETTER WORLD
HÆVNEN
Denmark, Sweden 2010
DIR Susanne Bier
CAST Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm

Anton lives in 2 worlds. As a doctor in an African refugee camp, he treats victims of civil war and negotiates with the local warlord. Back home in an idyllic Danish village he is under pressure to deal with the macho father of a local bully who is making his son's life at school miserable. In a better world, how should one respond to violence? Director Bier (After the Wedding, Brothers, Things We Have Lost in the Fire) has teased us with moral speculation before. Winner of the Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film.

But... conflicting with the Western Edge production of The Glass Menagerie at the City Centre Stage.

Vancouver Art Gallery — Shore, Forest and BeyondArt From the Audain Collection

From the VAG website: The role of private collectors in the art world has always been essential to both artists and museums. Private collections are formed in a variety of ways, yet some achieve particular distinction for their depth, breadth and quality. 

The works assembled by Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa over the last two decades form one of the most important private holdings of work by First Nations and non-First Nations British Columbia artists. The Audains have created a collection that allows a particularly rich history of the art of British Columbia to be told.

Emily Carr Alert Bay Burial Ground I pass a crowd of school kids being enthusiastically guided through the exhibition. Look closely kids, yes it's a burial ground but check out the picture of her dog and look, there's an Orca whale. What's it doing in the grave yard? 


On the way to the gallery, I turn onto Robson and approaching with speed the high energy bubble of the US Women's National Soccer Team on Robson heading to stadium. The Olympic qualifying CONCACAF tournament is on.

Sintaluta, Danny Singer 2007

Danny Singer Calder 2005 Kincaid 2004

Lawren Harris Mount Thule, Bylot Island, 1930
Lawren Harris Mount Thule restoration

John Webber b1751

Nootka Sound engravings 1784

Nuu-chah-nulth man + woman

Jeff Wall River Road




Attila Richard Lukacs (b1962)Varieties of Love, Painting the Lovers' Portrait (1991)
Laurie Papou (b1964) She saw her fallen clothes as a charity, a homage (2000)
John Webber b1751


EJ Hughes
Brady's Beach near Bamfield
Departure From Nanaimo
Ferry Passing Malaspina's Gallery
Echo Bay
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Bill Reid Killer Whale
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Shadbolt

Gathie Falk Apples 22
Brian Jungen

UNDERTOW
CONTRACORRIENTE
Colombia, Germany, France, Peru 2009
DIR Javier Fuentes-León
SCR Javier Fuentes-León
CAST Cristian Mercado, Manolo Cardona, Tatiana Astengo

Set in the gorgeous, isolated coastal community of Cabo Blanco, primarily a fishing village this film blends local community ritual and drama with Latin American magic realism. Miguel, a macho and charismatic young man is married to the gorgeous Mariela, who is very pregnant with their first child. However, Miguel is also carrying on a secret affair with Santiago, a very handsome young painter. Only after Santiago dies does their relationship come into the open since from then on no one can see him except Miguel. Hanging on to both worlds and loves, refusing to let Santiago go, Miguel is pulled by the countercurrents until he realizes his true male identity, not his machismo is at stake, as well as his love and his community. Now he must make a decision

VIU Alternative Film Series, Spring 2012

Notes: Shirley Goldberg, Ron Bonham, VIU Humanities

January 13

THE TIME THAT REMAINS

LE TEMPS QU'IL RESTE

DIR Elia Suleiman

Suleiman (Chronicle of a Disappearance, Divine Intervention) returns to his native Nazareth to trace the history of Palestine from 1949 to the present in a series of absurdist dead-pan vignettes. As a sad-eyed witness, he registers the conflicts and contradictions of this half-century of tragedy and turmoil — as well as the impotence and stasis that has ensured. Instead of an angry diatribe, he has created a masterpiece of cogent dissent.

January 20

AFTERSHOCK

TANGSHAN DADIZHEN

China 2010

DIR Feng Xiaogang

Spectactular disaster film framed by the huge (8.2) Tangshan earthquake of 1976 and the Sichuan quake (8.0) of 2008. Director Xiaogang pulls out all the stops in this high action, emotional drama, focussing on the "aftershocks" for a particular family when a mother must choose between saving her son or daughter. When Feng Deng hears that she isn't chosen, yet later survives, her family bonds are pulled asunder. The film's emphasis on both physical and emotional restoration takes us over 30 years and all the way to Vancouver!! Part commercial blockbuster, part feel-good propaganda, part melodrama, Aftershock is to date the most popular Chinese film ever.

January 27

THE TREE OF LIFE

United States 2011

DIR Terrence Malick

Malick (Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line) is a true artist and perfectionist, whose work is so all-inclusive that it must be seen on the large screen. A film which has generated a lot of controversy and opinion, Tree is demanding since we must leave all our expectations at the door (thus, the film stars Brad Pitt as the father of Sean Penn, but is far away from any Hollywood endeavour). While the central human story is set in 1950s Texas around the O'Brien family, American values, and the loss of innocence the film also shifts from pre-human, prehistoric time to the present. Malick's deeply humanistic meditation on birth, life and death moves with his inimitable vision between the cosmic order and the family order, showing that their stories for each of us are one and the same. Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

HAPPINESS
LE BONHEUR
France 1965
DIR Agnès Varda
SCR Agnès Varda
CAST Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Marie-Françoise Boyer