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Review of Angirattut (Coming Home) Angirattut is the new film by by Zacharias Kunuk, the director of the Cannes award-winning Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner. In this film the timeframe is brought to the present—through the lens of a group of Inuit returning to the abandoned site of the camp they…
Revolution, Hollywood Style: From the Brutal to the Banal There are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to overcome the problems we face, just the familiar ones: honest search for understanding, education, organization, action that raises the cost of state violence for its perpetrators or that lays the basis for…
When I outline the keywords describing my vision or worldview at the present time (heading into 2016), I come across a snake in the garden: the question of evil, the inevitability of “death and taxes,” the seeming perpetual conflicts of politics and scourge of war, greed, exploitation and oppression. How…
“Every single rule can and should be broken when necessary.” – conference presenter Helen Moffett, after George Orwell Earlier this year I attended the national conference of the Creative Nonfiction Collective, held in Victoria. Inspiring presentations, reading and discussions left me both humble, amid such talent, and motivated to improve…
