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Awake from your slumber: Patti Smith & Ralph Nader music video
2008-03-15 15:32:00
Ralph Nader and Patti Smith have teamed up to make a music video in support of Ralph Nader's presidential bid ? Awake from your slumber?, available on youtube and a growing number of sites. The posting notes on youtube suggest that the video was posted by the Ralph Nader team. This seems increasingly to be an integral part of U.S. politics, no doubt in part because of the phenomenal success of will-i.am's Barack Obama video ?Yes we can? which has been downloaded over 6 million times and links the Obama campaign with a who's who of cultural literati. What can I say? I am a long time Patti Smith fan ... and Ralph Nader fan (as a Canadian I do not have to make the sticky decision about voting or not voting for Mr. Nader). Check it out.
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Katariina Lillqvist's political puppets illicit hate mail at Tampere Film F
2008-03-14 02:11:00
Katariina Lillqvist's political puppet film recently caused a bit of a ruckus - including hate mail and increased security - in Helsinki before it launched at the Tampere Film Festival, according to the Helsingin Sanomat: The fantastical puppet animation Uralin perhonen (?Butterfly from the Urals?, ?Far from the Urals?) tells in tragi-comic fashion the story of the alleged homosexual relationship between Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim and his Kirghiz valet, but it also delves into the life of members of the Red faction in Tampere during Finland?s bloody Civil War in 1918. Lillqvist wants her film to provoke discussion on the Mannerheim myth, but admits she has been surprised and shocked at the furore that the film has generated in the evening papers even before it had its first screening. The 26-minute puppet animation takes part next week in the Tampere Film Festival. At the advance screening in Tampere on February 29th, there were considerable security measures in place, owi...
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Katariina Lillqvist's political puppets illicit hate mail at Tampere Film F
2008-03-14 02:11:00
Katariina Lillqvist's political puppet film recently caused a bit of a ruckus - including hate mail and increased security - in Helsinki before it launched at the Tampere Film Festival, according to the Helsingin Sanomat: The fantastical puppet animation Uralin perhonen (?Butterfly from the Urals?, ?Far from the Urals?) tells in tragi-comic fashion the story of the alleged homosexual relationship between Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim and his Kirghiz valet, but it also delves into the life of members of the Red faction in Tampere during Finland?s bloody Civil War in 1918. Lillqvist wants her film to provoke discussion on the Mannerheim myth, but admits she has been surprised and shocked at the furore that the film has generated in the evening papers even before it had its first screening. The 26-minute puppet animation takes part next week in the Tampere Film Festival. At the advance screening in Tampere on February 29th, there were considerable security measures in place, owi...
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Building brand loyalty with genocide jokes: Mac ads on aboriginal televisio
2008-03-12 08:00:00
Update: It seems the Mac ads referenced in this blog are spoofs, not real ads at all -- whoops. Had me fooled. Kudos to the makers - nicely done. Sorry for any confusion. I've left my original post for the record. How far we've come in the culture of marketing -- or should I say, the marketing of culture. Brand experience, it seems, now includes marginalized & resistant historical narratives, at least for the folks at Apple it does. For two years running, Apple has been placing PC v. Mac ads (you know the ones, the clever ads that involve a PC dork being humiliated in one way or another by a Mac hipster) on the Aboriginal People's Television Network. The ads cleverly use the colonial history of European / First Nations relations to recreate tensions in the personal computer market through encounters between a whitey PC user and Fist Nations Mac user. I should out myself before going further: I am a whitey Mac-head. And, I find the ads clever and funny, at least on the ...
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Building brand loyalty with genocide jokes: Mac ads on aboriginal televisio
2008-03-12 08:00:00
Update: It seems the Mac ads referenced in this blog are spoofs, not real ads at all -- which makes them brilliant, and me somewhat foolish. Kudos to the makers - nicely done. Sorry for any confusion. I've left my original post for the record. How far we've come in the culture of marketing -- or should I say, the marketing of culture. Brand experience, it seems, now includes marginalized & resistant historical narratives, at least for the folks at Apple it does. For two years running, Apple has been placing PC v. Mac ads (you know the ones, the clever ads that involve a PC dork being humiliated in one way or another by a Mac hipster) on the Aboriginal People's Television Network. The ads cleverly use the colonial history of European / First Nations relations to recreate tensions in the personal computer market through encounters between a whitey PC user and Fist Nations Mac user. I should out myself before going further: I am a whitey Mac-head. And, I find the ads cl...
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Alberta tar sands documentary raises questions about the newest bonanza
2008-03-12 02:59:00
As the price of crude oil peaked today and another Hummer rolled out on to the asphalt, another hectare or three was dug up in Alberta , Canada - home to the elusive and mythical tar sands oil reserves. What rapacious oil companies and myopic politicians are calling "solutions" and "progress", others - from environmentalists to Human Rights advocates to First Nations communities - are calling the worst environmental disaster of the 21st Century. In the toxic dust that is the wild west resource grab of Canada's Texas, a small army of media activists and artists have been busy like bees who smell bad honey. Among the many, many media projects emerging from this free-for-all of pollution and profit is a new documentary to air on the CBC this week. The doc is TAR SANDS : THE SELLING OF ALBERTA. Tag line: What price is Canada willing to pay for a stake in this century's greatest energy bonanza? It airs this Thursday, March 13th on CBC television at 9PM Pacific. From the film's press r...
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Alberta tar sands documentary raises questions about the newest bonanza
2008-03-12 02:59:00
As the price of crude oil peaked today and another Hummer rolled out on to the asphalt, another hectare or three was dug up in Alberta , Canada - home to the elusive and mythical tar sands oil reserves. What rapacious oil companies and myopic politicians are calling "solutions" and "progress", others - from environmentalists to Human Rights advocates to First Nations communities - are calling the worst environmental disaster of the 21st Century. In the toxic dust that is the wild west resource grab of Canada's Texas, a small army of media activists and artists have been busy like bees who smell bad honey. Among the many, many media projects emerging from this free-for-all of pollution and profit is a new documentary to air on the CBC this week. The doc is TAR SANDS : THE SELLING OF ALBERTA. Tag line: What price is Canada willing to pay for a stake in this century's greatest energy bonanza? It airs this Thursday, March 13th on CBC television at 9PM Pacific. From the film's press r...
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Banff Centre on Literary Journalism: Residency
2008-03-10 08:00:00
The Banff Centre is offering a program involving off-site manuscript development (April 21 to June 20, 2008) and an on-site residency (July 7 to August 2, 2008). This program offers eight established non-fiction writers an opportunity to develop a major essay, memoir, or feature article. Writers are encouraged to explore new ideas in journalism, or to work on a culturally relevant piece that might otherwise be difficult to complete. In addition to a $3,000 commission, successful applicants may also receive financial assistance to cover the program fee, accommodation, meals, and travel costs. The deadline for application is Friday March 14, 2008. For more information visit the Banff Centre website.
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Banff Centre on Literary Journalism: Residency
2008-03-10 08:00:00
The Banff Centre is offering a program involving off-site manuscript development (April 21 to June 20, 2008) and an on-site residency (July 7 to August 2, 2008). This program offers eight established non-fiction writers an opportunity to develop a major essay, memoir, or feature article. Writers are encouraged to explore new ideas in journalism, or to work on a culturally relevant piece that might otherwise be difficult to complete. In addition to a $3,000 commission, successful applicants may also receive financial assistance to cover the program fee, accommodation, meals, and travel costs. The deadline for application is Friday March 14, 2008. For more information visit the Banff Centre website.
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Mind the funding gap...
2008-03-09 00:16:00
Today is International Women's Day, marked world-wide to celebrate women, but also to stop and consider what obstacles continue to be placed in their way. Last week the International Trade Union Confederation published a massive study showing that women's lots are clearly not as equal as men's. They found that around the world women still earn, on average, 16 percent less than their male colleagues. While the study doesn't single out particular industries, another new study shows that the arts industry is hardly an exception to this rule. A study released Wednesday by Réalisatrices Équitables, a Quebec pressure group composed of women film and television directors whose main objective is equity for women directors in Quebec, reveals women directors are consistently awarded less money by Quebec and Canadian agencies which fund cultural businesses. For example, between 2005 and 2007, while women were accepted for 27 percent of projects at the Canadian Television Fund they were on...
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Mind the funding gap...
2008-03-09 00:16:00
Today is International Women's Day, marked world-wide to celebrate women, but also to stop and consider what obstacles continue to be placed in their way. Last week the International Trade Union Confederation published a massive study showing that women's lots are clearly not as equal as men's. They found that around the world women still earn, on average, 16 percent less than their male colleagues. While the study doesn't single out particular industries, another new study shows that the arts industry is hardly an exception to this rule. A study released Wednesday by Réalisatrices Équitables, a Quebec pressure group composed of women film and television directors whose main objective is equity for women directors in Quebec, reveals women directors are consistently awarded less money by Quebec and Canadian agencies which fund cultural businesses. For example, between 2005 and 2007, while women were accepted for 27 percent of projects at the Canadian Television Fund they were on...
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Remembering Larry and making media that diversify collective memory
2008-03-06 21:10:00
February 12th is a date permanently etched in my brain and should be on the collective memory of North America. On this date, nearly one month ago, eighth grader Lawrence King was shot in the head by fellow fourteen year old student Brandon David McInerney in the middle of a class lab. King, an incredibly courageous openly queer fifteen year old, had asked McInerney to be his valentine. He was murdered for being queer and it is a story that the media in America had nearly ignored until Ellen Degeneres gave her sombre monologue on the incident on her show just over a week ago. Degeneres told her audience that being gay does not make you a second class citizen, that neither King nor herself were second class citizens. And, barely able to control her emotions, she warned of a culture that sends the message if you?re gay you?ll be murdered. Queer sites, advocacy groups and activists have reported and commented on this story, filling in for a complacent and heteronormative corporate new...
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Remembering Larry and making media that diversify collective memory
2008-03-06 21:10:00
February 12th is a date permanently etched in my brain and should be on the collective memory of North America. On this date, nearly one month ago, eighth grader Lawrence King was shot in the head by fellow fourteen year old student Brandon David McInerney in the middle of a class lab. King, an incredibly courageous openly queer fifteen year old, had asked McInerney to be his valentine. He was murdered for being queer and it is a story that the media in America had nearly ignored until Ellen Degeneres gave her sombre monologue on the incident on her show just over a week ago. Degeneres told her audience that being gay does not make you a second class citizen, that neither King nor herself were second class citizens. And, barely able to control her emotions, she warned of a culture that sends the message if you?re gay you?ll be murdered. Queer sites, advocacy groups and activists have reported and commented on this story, filling in for a complacent and heteronormative corporate news...
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Kill Bill (C-10) campaign gathers steam; Right-wing Christians mobilizing s
2008-03-06 17:30:00
The Kill Bill (C-10) firestorm is getting hotter. Canada's television industry has entered the fight telling the government to keep its hands off of Canadian film and television production. The Directors Guild of Canada and ACTRA (Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists) are both urging the government to stop Bill C-10, an amendment to the Income Tax Act that would allow the Minister of Heritage to claw back tax credits from any production deemed ?contrary to public policy?. A Facebook page has also been created "Keep Your Censoring Hands Off Of Canadian Film and TV! No to Bill C-10!" to provide information and make it easier for Canadians to contact elected representatives. At the centre of the storm is a relatively new lobby group on Parliament Hill, the Canada Family Action Coalition, a small group of Christians who, according to their website, have a ?vision to see Judeo-Christian moral principles restored in Canada?. The CFAC is an anti-abortion, ho...
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Kill Bill (C-10) campaign gathers steam; Right-wing Christians mobilizing s
2008-03-06 17:30:00
Image by Eric Drooker The Kill Bill (C-10) firestorm is getting hotter. Canada's television industry has entered the fight telling the government to keep its hands off of Canadian film and television production. The Directors Guild of Canada and ACTRA (Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists) are both urging the government to stop Bill C-10, an amendment to the Income Tax Act that would allow the Minister of Heritage to claw back tax credits from any production deemed ?contrary to public policy?. A Facebook page has also been created "Keep Your Censoring Hands Off Of Canadian Film and TV! No to Bill C-10!" to provide information and make it easier for Canadians to contact elected representatives. At the centre of the storm is a relatively new lobby group on Parliament Hill, the Canada Family Action Coalition, a small group of Christians who, according to their website, have a ?vision to see Judeo-Christian moral principles restored in Canada?. The CFAC is...
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Call for Proposals : Residency and Co-Production Program at Studio XX
2008-03-06 08:00:00
Studio XX is accepting submissions for its residency and co-production programs. Project selection is made and announced at the end of April each year. Residencies are open to Quebecois and Canadian women. They are intended to offer an environment where artists can conceptualize and develop contemporary networked practices. Residencies are eight weeks in length and include a $750 artist's fee, 45 hours of technical support ($1125 value), access to the Studio's equipment ($3335 rental value), the possibility to participate in certain group workshops ($200-300 value), and distinct working space for the artist and her instructor. For more information about Residencies and co-production visit the Studio XX website.
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Call for Proposals : Residency and Co-Production Program at Studio XX
2008-03-06 08:00:00
Studio XX is accepting submissions for its residency and co-production programs. Project selection is made and announced at the end of April each year. Residencies are open to Quebecois and Canadian women. They are intended to offer an environment where artists can conceptualize and develop contemporary networked practices. Residencies are eight weeks in length and include a $750 artist's fee, 45 hours of technical support ($1125 value), access to the Studio's equipment ($3335 rental value), the possibility to participate in certain group workshops ($200-300 value), and distinct working space for the artist and her instructor. For more information about Residencies and co-production visit the Studio XX website.
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Jack Layton and the NDP weigh in on Bill C-10
2008-03-05 14:46:00
Apologies to all our readers in the US who may not be as interested in this issue, but up here in Canuckland, Bill C-10 and its implications are big news and Art Threat is committed to providing steady updates as they come in. Now a word from the NDP's Jack Layton : Thank you for contacting me about Bill C-10 and the Harper government's plans to censor film in Canada that it finds "offensive". I agree that expanding the criteria used for denying tax credits to artists amounts to censorship and will have devastating consequences for the film and television industry. New Democrats are standing up in Parliament to protect freedom of artistic expression in Canada. NDP House Leader Libby Davies was the first to raise the issue in Question Period and NDP Industry Critic Peggy Nash has made a formal statement in the House of Commons. NDP Culture and Heritage Critic Bill Siksay pushed this matter at the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage and in related media interviews. I invite you t...
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Jack Layton and the NDP weigh in on Bill C-10
2008-03-05 14:46:00
Apologies to all our readers in the US who may not be as interested in this issue, but up here in Canuckland, Bill C-10 and its implications are big news and Art Threat is committed to providing steady updates as they come in. Now a word from the NDP's Jack Layton : Thank you for contacting me about Bill C-10 and the Harper government's plans to censor film in Canada that it finds "offensive". I agree that expanding the criteria used for denying tax credits to artists amounts to censorship and will have devastating consequences for the film and television industry. New Democrats are standing up in Parliament to protect freedom of artistic expression in Canada. NDP House Leader Libby Davies was the first to raise the issue in Question Period and NDP Industry Critic Peggy Nash has made a formal statement in the House of Commons. NDP Culture and Heritage Critic Bill Siksay pushed this matter at the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage and in related media interviews. I invite you t...
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Call for Partnerships and International Projects
2008-03-05 08:00:00
The 8th Biennale of Champ Libre will take place in the Quartier International de Montreal (QIM) from September 24?28, 2008. The theme for the biennale event is Forêt/Forest. Artists, curators, architects, and lecturers are reminded that the deadline to present an artistic project to Champ Libre for this event is the 10th of March 2008. Individuals or organizations working in fields related to art, architecture, new technologies or the public space are invited to submit applications for a partnership project with Champ Libre by March 10, 2008. For more information and the subscription form, visit the Champ Libre website.
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Call for Partnerships and International Projects
2008-03-05 08:00:00
The 8th Biennale of Champ Libre will take place in the Quartier International de Montreal (QIM) from September 24?28, 2008. The theme for the biennale event is Forêt/Forest. Artists, curators, architects, and lecturers are reminded that the deadline to present an artistic project to Champ Libre for this event is the 10th of March 2008. Individuals or organizations working in fields related to art, architecture, new technologies or the public space are invited to submit applications for a partnership project with Champ Libre by March 10, 2008. For more information and the subscription form, visit the Champ Libre website.
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Bill C-10 will protect Canadians from funding Porn. Like the porn industry
2008-03-04 22:48:00
Hey, my fellow film producers out there. Stop worrying about Bill C-10. It will protect us and our audience against the evils of the Porn Industry . Apparantly, Porn Producers have been milking the government Tax Credit system for years, because the Canadian Porn industry has been under-represented in the media. This is the only way that Bill C-10 will effect Canadian film productions says Pierre Poilievre during an interview on CBC Radio's The Current. But, a closer look at the current guidelines for film productions applying for the Federal Tax Credit refund shows that porn is already listed as an ineligible genre. Section 5 in the Tax Credit guidelines Ineligible genres of production plainly lists the types of projects that Heritage Canada will not consider funding. The following genres of production are not eligible for the tax credit program: news, current events or public affairs programming, or a programme that includes weather or market reports; talk show; productio...
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Bill C-10 will protect Canadians from funding Porn. Like the porn industry
2008-03-04 22:48:00
Hey, my fellow film producers out there. Stop worrying about Bill C-10. It will protect us and our audience against the evils of the Porn Industry . Apparantly, Porn Producers have been milking the government Tax Credit system for years, because the Canadian Porn industry has been under-represented in the media. This is the only way that Bill C-10 will effect Canadian film productions says Piere Poilievre during an interview on CBC Radio's The Current. But, a closer look at the current guidelines for film productions applying for the Federal Tax Credit refund shows that porn is already listed as an ineligible genre. Section 5 in the Tax Credit guidelines Ineligible genres of production plainly lists the types of projects that Heritage Canada will not consider funding. The following genres of production are not eligible for the tax credit program13: 1. news, current events or public affairs programming, or a programme that includes weather or market reports; 2. talk sho...
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An open letter to Prime Minister Harper and Minister Verner
2008-03-04 06:34:00
An open letter from educator and former Film Studies Association of Canada president Michael Zyrd, regarding Ottawa's proposed censorship bill: Dear Honourable Prime Minister Harper, and Honourable Minister Verner, I write with extreme concern about the proposed Bill C-10, and the ways that it would enable de facto government censorship of film and television. According to a story in the Globe and Mail: ?Bill C-10, currently at third reading in the Senate, contains an amendment to the Income Tax Act which would allow the Minister of Canadian Heritage to deny eligibility to tax credits of productions determined to be contrary to public policy,? Charles Drouin, spokesman for Canadian Heritage said in a statement. ?... Upon royal assent of C-10, the Department of Canadian Heritage plans to update the eligibility requirements for the [Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit] program.? As an educator and researcher of artists film and video, I know that artistic freedom and the fre...
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An open letter to Prime Minister Harper and Minister Verner
2008-03-04 06:34:00
An open letter from educator and former Film Studies Association of Canada president Michael Zyrd, regarding Ottawa's proposed censorship bill: Dear Honourable Prime Minister Harper, and Honourable Minister Verner, I write with extreme concern about the proposed Bill C-10, and the ways that it would enable de facto government censorship of film and television. According to a story in the Globe and Mail: ?Bill C-10, currently at third reading in the Senate, contains an amendment to the Income Tax Act which would allow the Minister of Canadian Heritage to deny eligibility to tax credits of productions determined to be contrary to public policy,? Charles Drouin, spokesman for Canadian Heritage said in a statement. ?... Upon royal assent of C-10, the Department of Canadian Heritage plans to update the eligibility requirements for the [Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit] program.? As an educator and researcher of artists film and video, I know that artistic freedom and the fre...
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Stephen Harper should cut his hair, not film board funding
2008-03-03 20:30:00
In part two of this week's attack on culture in Canada, Stephen Harper 's Conservatives have cut $2.5 million from the budget of the National Film Board . It now appears that Canadian producers will have even less money to create and promote films that fulfill the government's new puritanical requirements. Not cut from the budget, however, is Harper's fashion advisor. Given that Harper's hair is even worse than the coiffe of the creep in No Country For Old Men, taxpayers not getting very good value for their money. (Disclosure: I work part-time at the NFB.) More on Bill C-10: Like the porn industry needs Tax Credits Bill will yank funding from "offensive" film Jack Layton weighs in on Bill C-10 An open letter to Prime Minister Harper
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Stephen Harper should cut his hair, not film board funding
2008-03-03 20:30:00
In part two of this week's attack on culture in Canada, Stephen Harper 's Conservatives have cut $2.5 million from the budget of the National Film Board . It now appears that Canadian producers will have even less money to create and promote films that fulfill the government's new puritanical requirements. Not cut from the budget, however, is Harper's fashion advisor. Given that Harper's hair is even worse than the coiffe of the creep in No Country For Old Men, taxpayers not getting very good value for their money. (Disclosure: I work part-time at the NFB.)
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Proposed censorship bill threatens to pull crucial funding from "offensive"
2008-03-03 16:01:00
For our readers working in the industry this is probably by now old news, but for the rest of us, we may be surprised at just how much mileage Young People Fucking is getting as a catalyst for culture-clampdown. The Canadian feature that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival is repeatedly cited by right wing reactionaries such as Charles McVety and his group Canada Family Action Coalition as the arbiter of all that is unholy in the Canadian culturescape. McVety and his gang are disgusted that their taxes go into funding productions like YPF, a soft-core romantic comedy about, you guessed it, horses skydiving. Lucky for McVety and the Victorian moral police, they have a fearless leader who has responded with action. Stephen Harper and his gang of moralizing crusaders, the Conservative party, have a bill before the Canadian Senate called C-10 that would give Heritage Canada power to deny tax credits to film and TV works they decided were too offensive, essentially putt...
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Proposed censorship bill threatens to pull crucial funding from "offensive"
2008-03-03 16:01:00
For our readers working in the industry this is probably by now old news, but for the rest of us, we may be surprised at just how much mileage Young People Fucking is getting as a catalyst for culture-clampdown. The Canadian feature that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival is repeatedly cited by right wing reactionaries such as Charles McVety and his group Canada Family Action Coalition as the arbiter of all that is unholy in the Canadian culturescape. McVety and his gang are disgusted that their taxes go into funding productions like YPF, a soft-core romantic comedy about, you guessed it, horses skydiving. Lucky for McVety and the Victorian moral police, they have a fearless leader who has responded with action. Stephen Harper and his gang of moralizing crusaders, the Conservative party, have a bill before the Canadian Senate called C-10 that would give Heritage Canada power to deny tax credits to film and TV works they decided were too offensive, essentially putt...
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Russian election mocked in Moscow's art galleries
2008-03-03 13:00:00
While I was milking a free litchi cocktail at the Canadian Centre for Architecture late Saturday night during Montreal's infamous Nuit Blanche, vodka connoisseurs on the opposite side of the Arctic Ocean were busy rubber stamping Vladimir Putin's choice of successor. As president-elect, Dmitry Medvedev's first order of business was publicly promising a "direct continuation" of Putin's policies. Perhaps the only news less surprising was back in Montreal as our bartender announced that the pro-bono booze had run dry. While some Russia n s were filing through the polls, however, others were hitting the art scene, as several galleries boasted election-themed collections. In an ArtInfo article, Valentin Diaconov discusses the artistic climate during the elections, focusing on five Moscow exhibitions that were directly related to the vote. Since Moscow has only fifteen or so contemporary art galleries, this feat is even more impressive. From the article: There is a long tradition here o...
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