Directed by David Mackay + Laszlo George, 1977.
Mimicking the sensation of flight from the comforts of the theatre, Silent Sky places the audience in the capable hands of soaring champion Oscar Boesch as he gracefully navigates the clear skies about California in a non-powered sailplane. Elegant camera work, coupled with Boesch’s immaculate soaring skills, gives the audience the thrilling rush of open skies, and open possibilities. […]
Hosted by the George Brown Institute Without Boundaries, this Pop-Up Design Lab invites youth to imagine the future of Toronto’s neighbourhoods. Using design thinking and a charrette process, the Pop-Up Design Lab engages young people in creative dialogue about city planning with the results exhibited throughout the week! […]
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Hong Sung Hyun plays Janggu, a representative Korean traditional drum, and creates music based on Korean shamanic music. “Hong Sung Hyun’s Chobeolbi” is his creative work which is a collaboration project with various musicians, not only from Korean traditional music but also from western music. In the project, Korean percussion moves beyond the its usual role which has been a supporter of other instruments. It is played like a melodic instrument as it is collaborated with others and also played its own melody. Those kinds of music have been created by his musicologist acts as well as a musician acts. He has studied about Korean shamanic music and he is teaching students in music college. These works are reflected to his music and now he keeps writing new genre of music based of Korean tradition. […]
Huun-Huur-Tu, throat singers from Tuva are Sayan Bapa, Kaigal-ool Khovalyg, Anatoly Kuular, and Alexey Saryglar. Presenting their wonderfully tuneful songs, using instruments (igil, byzaanchi) reminiscent of banjo and fiddle and a combination of low growling and highpitched harmonics, the khomuz and dazhaanning khavy make these songs jawdropping.
http://www.huunhuurtu.ru
The Chicago Tribune said “It is unfamiliar yet very accessible, an other worldly but deeply spiritual music that is rooted in the sounds of nature.”
“A rustic joyousness and unadulterated expressiveness come out of these musicians.”
– JAZZ TIMES
“The Tuvans will ride into your brain and leave hoofprints up and down your spine.”
– THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN
“Imagine cool, fresh air, high altitudes, the wild open spaces of the steppes, rushing rivers, singing birds, galloping horses, yurts, and a culture that combines Buddhism with shamanism, and then imagine that you hear the sounds of all these elements in the music. With a beat. That’s what it sounds like.”
– UNION NEWS, (Springfield, Mass.)
Nothing in music circles has quite marvelled, fascinated, and entranced the ears of musicians and listeners like the sound of Tuvan throat-singing, brought to the global stage by the virtuosic quartet Huun-Huur-Tu. It is a sound that is virtually impossible to describe, at once primordial, spine-tingling, and stunningly beautiful. – THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT
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Directed by John Sebert, 1984.
A panoramic journey through centuries of Ontario history (ending in the not-so-distant future of 2040), Journey of Discovery follows 13-year old Inouk Demers, the principal actor, through sequences depicting life from a settlement of United Empire Loyalists 200 years ago to the aforementioned, and domed, 2040. Tracing Ontario’s past and 1984’s hopes for the future, Journey is a lyrical and poignant take on our eclectic province. […]
Directed by Roman Kroitor + Colin Low + Hugh O’Connor, 1967. Built around the theme of “Man the Hero,” Labyrinth was one of the most ambitious and striking films presented at Expo 67, attracting over a million visitors during its run. Screened in a five-story building with three unique chambers, the multiscreen images in each theatre, when reconciled, present the viewer with a film that challenges us to examine the self, our beginnings, our families, our world, and our impending and inevitable passing. […]
Directed by: Graeme Ferguson, 1974
Coming to us from Expo 74 (Spokane, Washington), Man Belongs to Earth, a film whose message has only grown more (unfortunately) apparent, acts as a treatise on the value of American ecology, juxtaposing pastoral scenes of the American landscape with depictions of widespread environmental problems. The film was so realistic that motion sickness bags had to be made available. We hope they will not be necessary here! […]
Directed by Graeme Ferguson, 1971. As the seasons change, so too does the northern way of life in Graeme Ferguson’s spectacular and enduringly beautiful North of Superior. A tribute to Ontario’s northland and its landscape, the film has remained one of Canada’s most popular and famous films, and features a fiery climax that is sure to not only engulf your vision, but your thoughts for days to come. […]