ACCESS
ARTIST-RUN
CENTRE
Shawn Bristow
Gareth Moore
Norma
ARTSPEAK
Dick Averns
Allen Fisher

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PERFORMANCE

ART

CENTRE A
Mo Sa'lemy
CONTEMPORARY
ART GALLERY
Eric Cameron
CRYING ROOM
Mima Preston
FOLLY
Hester Reeve
GALLERY
GACHET
Reona Brass
Irene Loughlin
Berangere
Parizeau
Naufus RamirezFig ueroa
GRUNT
Rebecca Belmore
Randy and
Berenicci
Boris Nieslony
Alastajr
MacLennan
Jocelyn Robert
Andre Stiff
Roi Vaara

Cowards Bend the Knee (Cana
This hour-long melodrama fror
Guy Maddin (you lucky things
began as a gallery installatio
whose episodes were viewed c
ten separate peepholes. Unle
you had your heart set on linin
up ten times in an art galler
give thanks that you can hunk<
down in a cinema and hoov<
up the feast in one go. Th
silent, subtitled action, the grair
monochrome and frequent ii
zooms are all Maddin staples, bi
there's also a very coherent,
demented, narrative that involve
hockey, commitment phobic
father issues, sexual franknes
some gore and a lead chara<
ter named—of all things—GL
Maddin. Most interesting was th
strange physical sensation of ha'
ing to follow the images throug

HASTINGS
ART GALLERY
Julianna Barabas
HELEN PITT
GALLERY
Devon Gifford
Mark Giliiland
Vanessa Kwan
Josh Neelands
Kara Uzelman
IMAG
Dolores Dallas
IMPERIAL
SLACKS
Lea Donnan
LIVE SOCIETY
Rodney Graham
Paul Wong
NEUTRAL
GROUND
O N EDGE
OR GALLERY
Igor Santizo
OPEN SPACE
John G. Boehme
Judith Price
RADIX THEATRE
Half-a-Tank
VANCOUVER
ART GALLERY
Kristine Stiles
VIDEO-IN
Dinka Pignon
Lori VVeidenhammer
WESTERN FRONT
Rebecca Belmore
Peter Conlin
Kirsteh Forkert
Jamie McMurry
Lezli Rubin-Kunda

THE 22ND VANCOUVER
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
runs until October 10 at various
locations
By the time this issue is out, we
have just past the half-way poin
The rest of my life will have falle
around me in neglected heap
my eyes will have become blac
holes and I'll have had a coupl
of epiphanies. If this more or le
describes you, you might wai
to skip to the reviews or just ru
off to catch another screening
Otherwise, consider that oi
access to the world's cinem
is distressingly narrow relativ
to what's out there; but for tw
weeks each autumn, that acce
is blown wide open and this is yo
chance to see some fiction fee
tures, documentaries and shor
that won't even make the loci
art houses, let alone the multiple
Of the films I saw by deadline, th
following five aren't particular
obscure, but they're all good an
you can still catch them—alon
with with many others—i
the final week of the festive

INFORMATION
604.875.9516

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OCT 18 - NOV 29 2003