FILM
Picture Start, dir Harry Killas, at the FIFA Sunday 18 March
by Oksana Cueva
17.03.2012
In Picture Start, Harry Killas, Canadian director and producer, portrays an extraordinarily talented trio. The so called Vancouver School – Jeff Wall, Rodney Graham and Ian Wallace – are doubtless the biggest artists Canada produced in recent years and pioneers of conceptualism.
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FILM
Talking with Eisha Marjara, director of House For Sale, screening at the AmerAsia Film Festival, March 11
by Matthew Hays
08.03.2012
“I’ve always been fascinated by the femme fatale archetype in cinema,” says Eisha Marjara, as she sits down to chat about her latest film, House for Sale. The short, which stars Montreal-based trans actor Atif Siddiqi, tells a complex story about a woman showing a gay man (Siddiqi) the house she wishes to sell, not realizing he’s had an on-again, off-again affair with her husband.
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