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      • FoodFood has often served as a focalpoint of culture and community in film. Families warmly meet around the dinner table while lovers indulge in opulent feasts. Home cooked meals can evoke comfort, tradition, and sociality but its very absence can point to its commodification and politicization. The richness of food and drink on film asks us to think more closely about its primacy. It asks us to question how lives are shaped by its ubiquity, otherwise taken for granted.
      • Coming of AgeComing of Age stories focus on characters’ seminal shifts and changes. These narratives take place within transitional periods where further realisation of self isn’t necessarily restricted to age. Definitions of maturity vary depending on the nature of change, but we can expect to explore the awkwardness, confusion, and discomfort that is inherent in seeking (or being thrust into) growth.
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    • 2021
      • Into the Digital AgeAs we go Into the Digital Age this edition, we will be focusing on the coexistence of humanity and digital technology. Is this relationship conflict oriented, harmonious, or somewhere between the two? This coexistence can be analyzed through historical evolution, science fiction, artificial intelligence (AI), the impacts of neoliberalism, utopias, dystopias, current realities, and imagined futures.
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Author: Vincenzo Nappi

Vincenzo Nappi is an award-winning Canadian writer and director born in Montreal, Quebec. He is best known for making Canuxploitation films with a focus on the horror and thriller genres such as "First Bite" and "Is Your Daughter Home?". He also holds a BFA in Film Studies from Concordia University and is a writer for Short Ends.
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Festival Spotlight: SPASM 2022

8 Nov 2022
Just like that, another edition of Montreal’s gut-busting, demon-summoning, face-punching Spasm Film Festival comes to a close. Here is a list of short films that were the highlights of my…
Honour

Death Through Resurrection: The Tale of Canadian Cinema

1 Mar 20221 Mar 2022
“What you’re seeing isn’t really there. When you’re seeing a projection, it’s an image of something that once was. Whether it was just five minutes ago, or a hundred years…
Into the Digital Age

An Argument for the Loser’s Side: Physical Media in a Digital Age

1 Nov 202131 Oct 2021
“Video stores like mine have been crushed and forgotten about for the last ten years!” Having been born in the year 1995, I am a part of a group of…
Buddy Films

I Wanna Be Me

1 Jul 202130 Aug 2021
Watching On-Gaku: Our Sound (2019) directed by Kenji Iwaisawa is in many ways like watching a slice of the male teenage experience. It is part of the “slice of life”…
Underdogs

Mockumentary in the Hands of Peter Watkins

1 May 20217 Feb 2022
Filmmaker and media theorist Peter Watkins was no stranger to political filmmaking and reconstructing actual events in a faux-documentary style by the time he made Punishment Park in 1971. His…
New Beginnings

Man vs Wild

1 Mar 202130 Aug 2021
Written under the context of Canadian Cinema Seminar at Concordia University. When you think about Vancouver, you are most likely thinking of people living amongst beautiful scenery in harmony with…

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