Anyone who has ever taken it upon themselves to brave Montreal`s Fantasia film festival leaves with some scars. These scars can be subconscious, from the reptilian awakening that comes with sitting in a dark room occupied by porous, spongy, filmy humanoids. These scars can also be cerebral ones, the result of being subjected to a mind-numbing onslaught of light and sound. They can be existential as well, left from a shattered mind, fractured by having to chose between two films screening at the same time, like a parent having to chose between two drowning children. Or maybe the scars are literal ones, from sores left open by slow, methodical shifting on theatre seat cushions.
In the fifteen years and counting since I`ve been covering this festival, my scars have included any combination of the above. This year however, I found a new source of injury. While I had...
In the fifteen years and counting since I`ve been covering this festival, my scars have included any combination of the above. This year however, I found a new source of injury. While I had...
- 9/1/2017
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
This week Independent Lens tells the story of an Iraq War veteran suffering from Ptsd who has decided to become a farmer. In this documentary timed for Memorial Day, Independent Lens follows one veteran’s struggle to adapt to civilian life after the trauma of war has left him deeply scarred. These scars are the not the visible ones we see too often from those returning from combat, but the hidden ones that can often be just as debilitating. However, this vet has taken a leaf out of his father’s book and gone back to the land in order to try and...read more...
- 5/29/2017
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
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