Program 5: Making Strange, Making Familiar
In these works the videomakers reframe everyday objects, activities, and situations, by turns rendering the real surreal, reversing the seductions of climactic and cinematic spectacle, and elevating the seemingly mundane. Included are experiments with daily language, explorations—both sobering and hilarious—of routine rituals, and performative reenactments of daily life.
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98.3 KHz: Bridge at Electrical Storm
Directed by Al Razutis.
British Columbia, 1973, video, color, 11 min. -
Disaster
Directed by David Hoffos.
Alberta, 2000, video, color, 4 min.Le Beau Jacques
Directed by Stéphane Thibault.
Québec, 1998, video, color, 17 min.Good Afternoon Royal Tower
Directed by Leon Johnson.
Manitoba, 1986, video, color, 26 min.Qulliq
Directed by Arnait Ikajurtigiit.
Nunavut, 1992, video, color, 10 min.
.Say
Directed by David Askevold.
Nova Scotia, 1986, video, color, 9 min.
.1/4 Moon
Directed by David Askevold.
Nova Scotia, 1986, video, color, 9 min.
.Slang
Directed by Rae Staseson.
Alberta, 1994, video, color, 5 min.
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