AIFF - Busy Sunday - Andrew Okeaha MacLean

Started today at Fireweed to see shorts, then to Out North to see Andrew MacLean's film maker workshop. Then more shorts at the museum- the last part of that group. And now I'm at Bear Tooth for The Last Days of Shismaref.

Well, my video is having the same problem I had the other night - the video is freezing.

The shorts at the Fireweed were hindered by bad projection - the films were way to dark and the sound was low. It was hard to watch. There was a great short Canadian animation - Profile - of faces being identified electronically. It very simply portrayed the ominous dehumanization in the name of 'security.'

Susan Cohen's Open Your Eyes was next. I'd met Susan a couple of times at earlier showings. Her film takes a nugget of life as a way of conveying the psychological impacts of having breast cancer. A wedding shower - lots of women in low cut tops only emphasizing to main character - wearing a very high cut dress - how she is now cut off from normality. But the darkness of the projection seriously detracted. The next one - Cocoon - was totally messed up by the darkness. You couldn't see faces for much of the short film.

I took off then to see Andrew at Out North. He showed two short films he'd made - one a documentary the other narrative.

We just saw Last Days of Shishmaref which was stunning and compelling No time now. The director Jan Louter was here to talk about the making of the film.

Here for the Queer Duck the movie and Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll now. As you can tell, I'm getting tired and the video problems are frustrating me.