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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.

PROGRAM

  • 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.
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  • Say

    Directed by David Askevold.
    Nova Scotia, 1986, video, color, 9 min.
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  • 1/4 Moon

    Directed by David Askevold.
    Nova Scotia, 1986, video, color, 9 min.
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  • Slang

    Directed by Rae Staseson.
    Alberta, 1994, video, color, 5 min.




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