Canadian filmmakers share the personal stories that brought them to this year's festival.
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Hi, Art!

Sunday, September 19, 2021

Hi, Art!

Sunday, September 19, 2021

Hi, art lovers!

 
The Toronto International Film Festival wrapped yesterday. Will the pandemic be over by next year's TIFF? Pull your hand out of the popcorn bag and cross your butter-stained fingers. More stars, less risk of contagion: keep repeating that mantra through the fall of 2022. But first, a recap of some special TIFF coverage we published this month: a series of essays from Canadian filmmakers attending the festival. We’ve got Catherine Hernandez (Scarborough) writing about how much she loathes schmoozing. (Relatable.) Fawzia Mirza relays her experience making The Syed Family Xmas Eve Game Night, a project that coincided with some life-changing news in her personal life. Find a few more of these dispatches in the featured spots below, or just click this. 
 

And because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Wide shot of a figure standing in an all-aqua room. A modified bicycle stands beside them. It has a painted steer's skull between the handlebars. The person wears a tall top hat and tan jacket with long fringe dripping from the sleeves. They hold a blue rope which they swing in the air like a lariat.

Dana Claxton. Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Audain BC Art Acquisition Fund

Vancouver’s Dana Claxton won the 2020 Scotiabank Photography Award, an honour that’s being celebrated at the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto right now. You’re looking at Lasso, a 2018 piece by the Hunkpapa Lakota artist.

 
Painting by Luke Ramsey. Image in the form of an orca/bird moving towards right of canvas. Colours are blue, red, coral, marigold and navy. A semicircle of light blue envelops the figure, reminiscent of a forcefield or suggesting great speed.

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Speed of Light by Victoria’s Luke Ramsey (previously seen here). Luke has a solo show at Toronto’s Mayberry Fine Art through Oct. 8.
 
Photo of a skyscraper shot from below. The corner of the building is wrapped in a tall mural, a watery surreal landscape in shades of aqua and gold.

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This mural by Jason Zante isn’t new exactly. (It was splashed on the exterior of the Four Seasons Hotel Toronto earlier this summer.) But the piece features as part of Yorkville Murals, a three-day event happening in the heart of the city’s luxury-handbag district Sept. 24 to 26. 
 
Collage by Andrea Mortson. Cut paper illustrations suggesting drawinggs from old comic books and Disney cartoons.

Andrea Mortson

Dream of being lost on the way home by Andrea Mortson. Love it? Get it! Struts Gallery in Sackville, N.B., is doing a pay-what-you-can poster sale to raise money for its programming, and there are lots more artist-made prints to choose from. (FWIW, this one by Lenka Clayton made me LOL.)
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Photo of an artwork by Kelly Wood hanging on a white wall. The art is a C-print of a colourful lollipop lying against an all-black backdrop.

Courtesy of Trapp Projects

 

Artwork for dental work

This Vancouver dentist has traded his services for 25 years, and his collection features some of the city’s most notable artists.
 
Still from Quickening. Close-up of a young woman of colour. Her dark hair is long and straight and she holds a serious experession, looking slightly away from the camera.
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Of all the places she’s lived, this is the place that feels like home

 
On the set of her new movie, filmmaker Haya Waseem discovered a profound sense of belonging. In this essay, she writes about her journey.
 
Still from Little Bird. Wide shot. A young woman and man are seen walking in profile towards right. It is dusk and they are in a filed of tall grasses. The woman wears a red top and matching headband. The man wears a dress shirt and tie and holds a silver urn.

Tim Myles

 

2 years ago, he was waiting tables at TIFF

Now, Tim Myles has a film at the festival. It’s called Little Bird and the project is a love letter to his late mother. 
 
 

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Shantel Miller

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Painting of a bathroom shower. Thetub is pink, the walls are green and rectangular pictures of colourful roses hang to the right of the shower stall. A Black woman steps into the tub, her back to the viewer. She pushes the pink floral shower curtain aside and reaches for the tap with her other hand. One foot rests on the edge of the tub.

@shantelmillerart/Instagram

We recently published a story about painters who are capturing Canadian perspectives that have long been overlooked, and Shantel is included in that survey. Click to read more about her work, including this painting of hers from 2019 (Lukewarm).
 

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