Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2010: High School

In what’s surely to be one of the most out-of-left-field movies in a festival that resides squarely in the left field, High School brings together a bizarre, very eclectic cast and a screenplay that should be framed on your dealer’s wall.

Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2010: The Last Lovecraft, Relic of Cthuhlu

The Last Lovecraft is a tough movie to review - on one hand, it seems to have been shot on a budget of about $75 (with $74 reserved for visual effects). Director Henry Saine has devised a tale that will positively infuriate fans of H.P. Lovecraft’s work, transforming Lovecraft’s mythical octopoid alien god Cthuhlu into a badly-rendered tentacle-laden blob (that is, when you finally do see it). On the other hand, the film is quite enjoyable to watch and is, at least, somewhat self-aware. Saine chooses to direct the humour at the characters, rather than the Cthuhlu mythos or Lovecraft himself, and this works at least half the time.

A tribute to Enric Miralles

Enric Miralles passed away in 2000 at a young 44, leaving behind a rich body of architectural work and a wife, Benedetta Tagliabue. Her along with their studio EMBT, organized Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada to have tribute paid to Enric at a picnic for his friends and family in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of his passing. It’s a beautiful sand-painting, the very nature of which is fleeting serving as a...

Ode to G20 Art…?

Untitled, 2007. Erick Swenson. Polyurethane resin, acrylic paint, MDF, polystyrene 30″ X 181″ X 280″ Considering the numerous types of protest that will occur in Toronto over the next 48+ hours, here’s something that could be interpreted as stop BP and save the whales ‘climate activism’ art. Don’t be fooled by Erick Swenson’s hyper realistic polyurethane resin,...

Thomas Allen – Pulp art

Thomas makes some fantastic art work using pulp fiction books, a sharp blade, and a camera. Though we hate seeing books mutilated, this time we don’t mind so much because the results may be more interesting and precious than the books themselves. It’s quite charming. He’s even published some of his work in a book, which will inevitably lead to inevitable meta-book-art. [Thomas...