Film
In Conversation
Canadian Filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin
By Randolph LewisOne of Canada’s most distinguished documentary filmmakers, Alanis Obomsawin has made 20 powerful films on the lives and political struggles of Aboriginal people in North America. Born into the Abenaki Nation in New Hampshire in 1932, Obomsawin began her career as a singer, writer, and storyteller until being hired as a National Film Board (NFB) consultant in 1967. In 1971, she seized an opportunity to direct her first film, Christmas at Moose Factory, a study of life in a small Northern settlement that was based on children’s drawings
The Shape of Things, Indeed
By Lisa RosmanPallid affairs aesthetically, LaBute’s triumvirate shares a stiltedness with his two other films, the bracing comedy Nurse Betty (2000) and last year’s Possession, a bloodless adaptation of A.S. Byatt’s terrific novel.
Food For Sharks: A Personnel Tribute to Stan Brakhage
By Peter AchesonTribute, in the meaning of what the farmers pay to the king, is an apt image for what we younger artists owe to the memory of Stan Brakhage.
Media That Matters Film Festival
By Williams ColeFilm students aspiring to make cookie-cutter Hollywood dung take note: film, especially documentary, has tangible uses that can affect social change.
