Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Alwyn O’Brien

Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Alwyn O’Brien

Sell Out is a series by interdisciplinary artist Angela Fama (she/they), who co-creates conversations with individual artists across Vancouver. Questioning ideas of artistry, identity, “day jobs,” and how they intertwine, Fama settles in with each artist (at a local café of their choice) and asks the same series of questions. With one roll of medium format film, Fama captures portraits of the artist, after the verbal conversations have been had.

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Cosmic Forecast December 2022

Cosmic Forecast December 2022

For many of us, December is one of the fullest months of the year. There are celebrations and obligations. There’s pressure to finish up work before the holidays, and pressure to participate in the season in ways that might not feel comfortable. There are also expectations about crossing the threshold from this year into the next, and you might find yourself wondering if you’ve done enough, grown enough, accomplished enough to go peacefully into our next collective chapter. The astrology this month is expansive yet protective. It’s asking us to widen our perception of what “enough” really means and to find that within the context of a strange, infinite universe, we can only always be enough.

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Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Annette Payne

Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Annette Payne

Sell Out is a series by interdisciplinary artist Angela Fama (she/they), who co-creates conversations with individual artists across Vancouver. Questioning ideas of artistry, identity, “day jobs,” and how they intertwine, Fama settles in with each artist (at a local café of their choice) and asks the same series of questions. With one roll of medium format film, Fama captures portraits of the artist, after the verbal conversations have been had.

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Cosmic Forecast November 2022

Cosmic Forecast November 2022

November is the month of darkness. It begins with celebrations of the dead–a time when we’re allowed to open ourselves up to grief and sink into the hard things about being a human. At the end of October, a New Moon eclipse in Scorpio welcomed the new astrological season. Now, as we move through Scorpio and into Sagittarius, we’re shadowed by the energy of that eclipse.

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Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with KeAloha

Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with KeAloha

Sell Out is a series by interdisciplinary artist Angela Fama (she/they), who co-creates conversations with individual artists across Vancouver. Questioning ideas of artistry, identity, “day jobs,” and how they intertwine, Fama settles in with each artist (at a local café of their choice) and asks the same series of questions. With one roll of medium format film, Fama captures portraits of the artist, after the verbal conversations have been had.

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“Just the Two of Us”: Diasporic Intimacies in Anthony Shim’s Riceboy Sleeps

“Just the Two of Us”: Diasporic Intimacies in Anthony Shim’s Riceboy Sleeps

Directed by Vancouver-based Anthony Shim, Riceboy Sleeps tells the story of single mother So-Young (Choi Seung-yoon) and her son Dong-hyun (Dohyun Noel Hwang, Ethan Hwang). Their immigrant narrative begins after So-Young’s partner, Han Won-Shick, struggles with schizophrenia and commits suicide in Seoul, leaving Dong-hyun to be born out of wedlock and therefore delegitimized for South Korean citizenship.

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Vancouver International Film Festival Review: Until Branches Bend

Vancouver International Film Festival Review: Until Branches Bend

Set in the Okanagan, Until Branches Bend introduces the fictional peach-harvesting town of Montague. Robin, a worker of the town’s packing house, discovers a bug that threatens the community’s semblance of calm. With elements of environmental and psychological drama, the film crafts an enveloping examination of the dangers that lurk beneath the surface, depicting more than one type of invasion.

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Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Meaghan Kennedy

Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Meaghan Kennedy

Sell Out is a series by interdisciplinary artist Angela Fama (she/they), who co-creates conversations with individual artists across Vancouver. Questioning ideas of artistry, identity, “day jobs,” and how they intertwine, Fama settles in with each artist (at a local café of their choice) and asks the same series of questions. With one roll of medium format film, Fama captures portraits of the artist, after the verbal conversations have been had.

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