Wavelengths
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TIFF 2017: Dragonfly Eyes Review
TIFF 2017: Dragonfly Eyes Review.
TIFF 2017: A Skin So Soft Review
TIFF 2017: A Skin So Soft Review.
TIFF 2016: Mimosas Review
Mimosas TIFF 2016 Review.
TIFF 2014: Wavelengths 4: Night Noon Reviews
In fourth and final program of the Wavelengths short films series, entitled Night Noon, we enter the psyche and delve deep into the human experience. We begin with Malena Szlam’s Lunar Almanac, a four minute piece compiled together from still photographs of the moon over various nights. The moon becomes moons as the photographs are […]
TIFF 2014: Wavelengths 3: Tales Told Review
In Wavelengths Program 3, Tales Told, we deal with the structure of narratives, and observe as they are manipulated and conveyed, with varying results. Yuri Ancarani’s San Siro is filmed in and around the football stadium in Milan of the same name. We watch as preparations are made before the match- the tedious, arcane details […]
TIFF 2014: Wavelengths Shorts Program 2: Something in the Atmosphere
In Wavelengths shorts program 2, Something in the Atmosphere, we have strange encounters with both the past and present through a series of jarring, evocative and visually arresting films. Toronto artist Jean-Paul Kelly channels Truman Capote’s desire in his short film The Innocents. The focus is a shot-by-shot re-enactment of a scene from With Love […]
TIFF 2014: Wavelengths Shorts 1: Open Forms Reviews
In the first Wavelengths short film program, Open Forms, landscape is explored, challenged and assaulted through fascinating experimental work. In Brouillard- Passage 14, experimental filmmaker Alexandre Larose guides us on a path through a forest glade that finishes at a lakeside dock. The surrounding images float freely in the shot, while the viewer’s focal point […]
TIFF 2014: Letters to Max Review
Letters to Max Wavelengths “What does the diplomat for a country that isn’t recognized do when he comes to the office in the morning?” This question is one of many posed by French filmmaker Eric Baudelaire in his latest essay film, Letters to Max, and sets the theme and tone for the film. This story […]
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The Dork Shelf Guide to TIFF 2013
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TIFF 2013: Focus On: Wavelengths Shorts
We place the TIFF '13 spotlight on the shorts in the avant-garde Wavelengths series, where past meets presence and "art" gets put back into "the seventh art."