Secret Mall Apartment | Vancouver International Film Festival | September 26 – October 6, 2024 Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live at the mall? It has probably crossed most of our minds at some point. Artist Michael Townsend managed to make it a reality, complete with smuggled-in furniture and a secret entrance. Luckily for director Jeremy Workman, Townsend and seven of his friends documented their experience on film from 2003-2007. This original footage is beautifully woven with interviews that provide deeper context and rich memories. The film is about so much more than pulling off an elaborate
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Elisapie’s Uvattini fills the Chan Centre with beautiful language and landscapes
Uvattini | Elisapie | VIFF Live | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | September 28, 2024 The breathtaking beauty of landscape and language fills the theatre as Elisapie swishes her long, large-shouldered, fringed dress and sings covers of popular songs in Inuktitut while footage of Nunavik fills a screen behind her. The multimedia show is moving, deeply personal, and full of powerful songs, “not just songs I stole from white people,” Elisapie laughs. After opening with “Uummati Attanarsimat” (Heart of Glass by Blondie) and “Taimangalimaaq” (Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper) from her latest album Inuktitut, which was shortlisted