At this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival, I took part as the supervillain on a directors’ panel ostensibly titled “Art Lives! Canadian Outsider Cinema vs. the Machine” – essentially about no-budget alternative filmmaking. This is a non-redacted manuscript of everything I was ready to say, of which I only got through about a third becauseContinue reading “Defending Outsider Art”
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Soon enough the beginning
I miss my stray cat Gigi. He’s been gone for two months now (four at the time of publication)—disappeared, the last previous record six days. The hard part of mourning him is gauging how much I should mourn him given there’s no confirmation of death or how he’s doing. Cats don’t send postcards or callContinue reading “Soon enough the beginning”
No matter what
I spent the midday afternoon at a friend’s art studio, the workshop building situated in the closed-off but simultaneously sprawling landscape of a working industrial neighborhood. The sun blazed in through the studio’s wall-spanning windows, melancholically making its way across the room, never not shining as the windows faced west and the horizon was openContinue reading “No matter what”
True Love Will Find You In The End
“Never find happiness. . . It kills your creativity.” — former co-worker who found happiness I was gonna write about how I fell in and am in love—sincerely and reciprocatingly—for the first and only time in my life. I was alive way past long enough and knew myself way past long enough to know thatContinue reading “True Love Will Find You In The End”
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