Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Annette Payne

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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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“NOBODY PUTS BABY IN A CORNER”: Summer Slaughter EDITION

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“NOBODY PUTS BABY IN A CORNER”: Summer Slaughter EDITION

Though distant from our current fall bliss, local band Babe Corner’s first single off their debut album Crybaby, entitled “Summer Slaughter,” recounts the awfully familiar feeling of the end-of-summer comedown. The breezy tune is paradoxically a song about grief; one that was inspired by the passing of a band member’s family member in August.

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Cosmic Forecast November 2022

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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

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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

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“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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A World Not So Far Off: A Review of Jesse Pickett's Short Film, Reformat

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A World Not So Far Off: A Review of Jesse Pickett's Short Film, Reformat

"If a human kisses a human, it's love or sex. If an A.I. kisses another A.I., it's a performance. If a human kisses a robot, it's an experiment, but the sad thing is, aren't they all experiments?"

With the intersection of racism, homophobia, and sexism, we've become familiar with a world of inequity. Jesse Pickett's debut short film Reformat offers a refreshing take on the harrowing reality with an open letter to his audience about the cost of discrimination captured through a sci-fi lens.

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Vancouver International Film Festival Review: Until Branches Bend

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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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Cosmic Forecast October 2022

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Cosmic Forecast October 2022

As autumn begins, a shifting wind blows into through the stars. This month will bring with it a much-needed reprieve from the intense astrology of September. The summer’s Saturn and Pluto retrogrades are wrapping up, as is last month’s Mercury retrograde. The crisp fall air is inviting in a chance for restfulness and reprieve that will cool off anxiety and ease our bodies into the slowness of winter.

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