 Hi, art lovers! | | |  | From left, the Cannes jury members Carlos Reygadas, Payal Kapadia, Dieudo Hamadi, Jeremy Strong, Juliette Binoche, Alba Rohrwacher, Leïla Slimani, Halle Berry and Hong Sang-soo pose on the red carpet during arrivals for the opening ceremony and the screening of Partir un jour. (Stephane Mahe/Reuters) | | | | The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival opened Tuesday, and Rad Simonpillai, CBC Radio’s pop culture columnist, has been fulfilling his CannesCon requirements with stories from the scene. For CBC Arts, Rad will be covering some of the new Canadian projects debuting in Cannes, including the animated feature Death Does Not Exist. (According to its director, Félix Dufour-Laperrière, the elevator pitch was “an October Crisis film meets Alice in Wonderland in contemporary Quebec.”) That movie is screening as part of the Directors' Fortnight sidebar along with another Canadian film you can read about, Bread Will Walk. That one’s a surreal animated short about zombie loaves of bread, and it’s from the mind of Alex Boya, a Montreal animator you might remember from an episode of CBC Arts: Exhibitionists. Way, way back in 2018, we showcased one of Alex’s films on the program — a love story about a man with a jet engine for a face. And Alex isn’t the only Exhibitionists alum who’s got a film in Cannes this year! Martine Frossard’s Hypersensible (Hypersensitive) is screening at the festival. (I can’t believe it’s been 10 years since she answered our interview questions with drawings.) | | | | | Because we promised you eye candy ... | | | | |  | Mira Song | | Psst! Garden Whispers, an exhibition of new paintings by Mira Song, is on now at Gallery Jones in Vancouver. See it there until May 31. | | | | |  | Celeste Carter and Gwyn Rossiter | | I Can Hold You Like Soft Felt in My Hands by Celeste Carter and Gwyn Rossiter. And yes, the collage is totally made of felt cut-outs. The Ontario artists base the shapes on items they have around the house. Celeste splits their time between Guelph and Stratford; Gwyn is based in the GTA. And when they collaborate on a collage like this, it’s as if they’re bridging the distance between them. As they write, it’s a way “to capture love’s ability to transcend distance and tangibility.” See more of their work at Necessary Arts Collective in Guelph until May 20. | | | | |  | Valentina Mori | | | | | These 3D-printed structures, which can capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, will grow and change over the course of the exhibition. | | | | |  | Eric Milner/Warner Bros. Pictures | | | | | Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein tell us they’re filmmakers who care about the details. | | | | |  | Trevor Campbell | | | | | | | Comedian Trevor Campbell is having a crisis. World events are increasingly scary and depressing, he writes, “and worst of all, it’s messing with my jokes.” | | |  | Artwork: Oluseye; Photo: AGO | | This work, Orí mi pé, is at the Art Gallery of Ontario right now, and Oluseye dropped by Q to tell us all about it. As he explained to host Tom Power, the piece was inspired by a divination ritual involving cowrie shells, a practice he experienced for himself on a trip to Brazil. Listen to that story. | | | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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