“In making “Viva Riva!,” I wanted to find a new way to talk about life in Kinshasa today to describe how my hometown works and how it doesn’t work.”
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Art Threat: CTV’s Quebec City bureau chief Kai Nagata tells why he quit his job
Kai Nagata was CTV’s bureau chief in Quebec City at 24 years of age. That was until he left the world of centrist journalism earlier this week and revealed his reasons and his criticisms of the state of mainstream news in Canada on his blog Freedom 24 . His bold truth-telling hits to the core of how Canadian […]
Continue readingArt Threat: The fight to sell or save water – Friday Film Pick: Water on the Table
New DVD release of Water on the Table, a doc beautifully showcasing the public-vs-private fight over water.
Continue readingArt Threat: 11th Annual Signal + Noise Media Art Festival – June 23 – 27 in Vancouver
VIVO in Vancouver presents the 11th annual Signal + Noise Media Art Festival. From the press release: The 11th annual Signal + Noise Media Art Festival presents a collision of revolutionary Armenian Kino Cinema, remixes of ex-Yugoslav and CBC Television Broadcast ID Music, travelogues from an arctic sea voyage, and science fictional rediscovery of diminishing […]
Continue readingArt Threat: Cancel your concerts in Israel – Friday Film Pick: Gaza Island
A musical parody drawing attention to Gaza, riffing on Gilligan’s Island.
Continue readingArt Threat: A Public Service Announcement – From all us cyclists to all the law-makers and police
bike lanes from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.
Continue readingArt Threat: Non-violent solutions in Palestine/Israel – Friday Film Pick: Budrus
One of the best political films of 2010 has recently been released on DVD. If you didn’t catch Budrus in select indy theatres, at activist events or at the many film festivals it won awards at, now’s your chance to see this gem of a documentary. The feature length doc, directed by Julia Bacha, compiles […]
Continue readingArt Threat: A film festival grows up – Hot Docs wrestles with the politics and popularity of documentary
Dissecting the huge sprawling beast that is the Hot Docs film festival.
Continue readingArt Threat: The need for satire – Canada’s troublesome lack of a consistent satirical voice
Canada lacks a consistent satirical voice to point out whatever political contradictions and hypocrisies were so often set forth into the airwaves.
Continue readingArt Threat: St-Henri, the 26th of August – Documentary offers a cinematic look at a vibrant Montreal neighbourhood
Shannon Walsh’s feature documentary À St-Henri le 26 août (known in English as St-Henri, the 26th of August) takes the viewer on a visceral and honest journey through the bilingual, working-class neighbourhood St-Henri in Montreal. The film follows a day in the life of about a dozen diverse residents as they navigate the neighbourhood, each […]
Continue readingArt Threat: Help make this documentary! – Friday Film Pick: The Secret Trial 5
A new crowdfunded documentary looks at Canada’s security certificates and asks you to get involved.
Continue readingArt Threat: Walk the line in Palestine – Explore the West Bank perimeter through Mark Thomas’ gonzo rambling and Francis Alÿs’ action painting
It is possible to experience aspects of the Palestinian political drama through complementary events on both sides of the Atlantic; through the work of the British comedian and activist, Mark Thomas, in London and the Belgian artist Francis Alÿs in New York.
Continue readingArt Threat: Looking back at Toronto’s G20 – Friday Film Pick: Into the Fire
Finally, a decent analysis of one of Canada’s darkest days – last summer’s G20 protests and police repression explored in Into the Fire.
Continue readingArt Threat: Courage, candour and inspiration – A review of The Interrupters
The new Steve James documentary is courageous and beautiful social cinema.
Continue readingArt Threat: The activist-terrorist complex – A Review of Better this World
A new documentary charts the courageous and tragic course of two activist’s lives, now charged under anti-terrorism laws.
Continue readingArt Threat: The sordid tale of the Trump golf course – A Review of You’ve Been Trumped
A new documentary takes aim at Donald Trump’s Scottish golf course adventure.
Continue readingArt Threat: Forgiving a mass murderer – A review of The Redemption of General Butt Naked
General Butt Naked was Liberia’s most ruthless and feared general – now he’s asking for forgiveness in a new documentary.
Continue readingArt Threat: Berlusconi assassinated – A review of Draquila – Italy Trembles
Berlusconi is properly skewered in a new investigative doc from Italy.
Continue readingArt Threat: A voice of African resistance and exile – Review of Mama Africa
An new doc on Miriam Makeba shakes with revolution.
Continue readingArt Threat: History reloaded and remixed – A review of The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Remixing the revolution: new doc resurrects archival footage of the Black Power movement.
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