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What is (a) Punk? New Acquisitions Screening
Leading up to the screening, I found myself mulling over this very question: what is punk? To me, punk was discovering The Ramones or The…
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Poplife | Film Review
“Come on, boy. We’re taking you home.” Said as a drunken joke, this opening line holds a much more sober meaning in Sam Mohseni’s short…
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DOXA 2018: The Rankin File
Sitting on a stool against a black backdrop on the eve of the 1986 mayoral election, a calm and confident Harry Rankin looks into the camera: “I don’t have any doubts of what I’m doing, I don’t have any doubts that the direction I’m taking is correct, I don’t have any doubts about how I could win an election if I set out to do it, and I don’t have any doubts of how I intend to win an election if I’m going to win it.”
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DOXA 2018: Virtually Absurd (Shorts Program)
Nick Jensen previews a shorts program screening at Vancity Theatre on Wednesday, May 9 at 8:30PM, as part of DOXA Documentary Film Festival running from May 3-13.
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The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park
Sung of a park and its denizens — The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park can be heard in two key scales at once. The first scale…