Film
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A coming-of-age in the Indigenous Renaissance
According to Polaris Prize-winning musicologist Jeremy Dutcher, the Canadian arts scene is in the midst of an “Indigenous Renaissance.”
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CRITIPEG: United Skates
United Skates is a documentary exploring the subculture of roller skating rinks.
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Collecting culture for a quarter
Over the last few years, the Winnipeg Film Group (WFG) has been hosting a 16-millimetre film screening event called Secret Cinema.
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CRITIPEG: Studio 54
Studio 54 is the confession of a man trying to find closure, trying to explain himself to his family, to the world at large – though on his own terms. Ian Schrager is setting the record as straight as he feels is responsible in a (mostly) flattering light.
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CRITIPEG: Aida’s Secrets
Aida’s Secrets is another entry in the genre of “long-lost family” documentaries that have seen a recent explosion in popularity.
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Tinker, Tailor, Sparrow, Water
As the old song says, “Everything old is new again.” But when the old things are nuclear tensions, anxieties about espionage and global power struggles, is it anything to sing about?
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Black Panther’s role in society
The recently released movie Black Panther attempts to demonstrate what it means to be African.
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Sea Levels
Laine Groeneweg’s Sea Levels is a collection of works derived from aquatic dreams. Utilizing traditional printmaking techniques dating back centuries, Groeneweg’s work examines oceanic imagery with a storybook cadence and a fairytale sense of darkness.
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CRITIPEG: Human Flow
Human Flow, the new film from Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei, is more than just a powerful activist documentary.
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CRITIPEG: The Florida Project
Walt Disney World is located between the cities of Orlando and Kissimmee, Fla., places where America’s wealth disparity is egregious.
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Screening Black narratives
The very first Afro Prairie Film Festival, a weekend devoted to the screening of films featuring and created by Black individuals, takes place from Feb. 23 to 25 in Winnipeg.
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CRITPEG: My Friend Dahmer
As a teenager in 1970s Ohio, future cartoonist John Backderf struck up a friendship with future serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
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CRITIPEG: The Square
Attempting to discuss writer-director Ruben Östlund’s The Square in the arts and culture pages borders dangerously close on self-parody.
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Limelight to twilight
Winnipeg exists in an odd cultural space; we’re self-deprecating but have fierce hometown pride.
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CRITIPEG: Birth of a Family
Birth of a Family, the documentary from director Tasha Hubbard, chronicles the first meeting of the four Adam siblings more than 50 years later.
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CRITIPEG: The Road Forward
Marie Clements’ The Road Forward bills itself as a “musical documentary” exploring the history of Indigenous activism in Canada.
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CRITIPEG: Gas Can
Mattias Graham’s Gas Can is a seemingly simple short film.
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Arts Briefs
Half Moon Market // Cold Specks // Pitaloosie Saila at the WAG // Holiday movies at the Park // Terra Botanica // New Constellations at WECC
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Whose house? Sonya’s House!
Sonya Ballantyne is at the forefront of Winnipeg’s new wave of Indigenous cinema.
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Women in film
The Winnipeg film industry has been growing in recent years. In 2016, the film industry in Manitoba brought in $127 million in production, and Carole Vivier, CEO of Manitoba Film and Music says this year is anticipated to exceed $150 million.