NCCK "A stupid invention in someone's garages can completely change the way everybody thinks. And there are garages in which the lights are burning al] night." - Filmmaker Mike Cartmell Keeping an independent eye @ Inside the Pleasure Dome: Fringe Film in Canada by Mike Hoolboom, A Page Book for Gutter Press, Toronto, 1997. $24.95 John Goodman This Week Editor VIDEO and the inter have changed the way images are and dis. tributed forever. Mike the Hoolboom looks at how fected alternative ein his new Dome ~ Fringe Hin in Canada. Alternative cinema works in both form and content in opposition to standard Hollywood dominant film- making. In his foreword Atom Egoyan says that line on cast is ey mainstream cinema is constructed on ego-based story- telling while “fringe films are id-based. They address, liberated from the moderating influence of narrative, our Purest sense of impulse...” The two forms also operate on different economies of scale. Compare Annette Manguard’s film budgets to James Cameron’s $200-miliion Titanic: Nothing by Mouth (S150); She Bit Me Seriously ($300); Her. Sail is Gold ($1,000) There is in Power... Seduction ($1,000), The Iconagraphy of Venus (S1,000), Northbound Caira ($7,000) and A Dialague with Vision ($46,000). Most direcrors find that with larger budgets you have to give up some control of the material. Better paycheques, big- ger headaches. Photo Joanna B. Pinnea - aah Tuareg family doze in the midday heat of the Sahara ‘Desert on the May National Geographic cover. Buitenhuis' street lessons pay off Penclope Buitenhuts studied film production at Simon Frase Rimmer in che 1980s before heading off for Europe. She establi cU © shows to great cffe iength Alm Boulevard (1994), which stars North Shore resident Rae Dawn Chong and Lou Diamond Phillips. Chong also wrote ript about a group of women prostitutes to keep their independence while working on the streets of Toronto. Phillips oscillates between cartoon and horror show as a pimp who tries to keep ev tile corner of Yonge Sr. o. Park and Ti store has a copy for rental. The sixteen pustraits of Canadian filmmakers actually offers more hope for the art form than Heolbloon: might lead you to © beliew “The y definition, rate on the of the industry and many of them goto extravagant lengths to get thei: films made and ersity with David sd her name on the th a series of films on in her course, want to push the cnvelope and seg what an do from inside cts represeni a cross-section of current filmmakers from grand- Malofilm, is avail- master Michael Snow to iliord’s Blockbuster grads Pencivpe Buitenhuis and Fumike Kiyveoka. The other Vancouver-based film- makers profiled are anti-acad- emic Al Razutis (w ho was once head of the SFU film department) and Texas-native Patricia Gruben. plus a filmography of their work. Fringe Film in Canada is a must read for anyone interested in cine- ma or, for that matter, art practice in general. The best venue for secing some of the filmmakers mentioned in the book is the Pacific Cinematheque, 1131 Howe St., Vancouver. Their program guides are available at Afe News on Lonsdale and most North Shore libraries. A new schedule will be coming out at the end of April. Another film group to check out is the Celluloid Social Club which holds monthly screenings at the AOOTNOTES. @ B.C. Book Prizes: Winners in the 14th annual B.C. Book Prizes were announced last Saturday in Victoria: The Great Bear Rainforest (Harbour) by Ian and Karen McAllister with Cameron Young, received the Bill Duthie B.C. Bookseller Choice Award, as chosen by the province’s booksellers. The other winners were Patricia Young for What I Rememuer from My Time on Earth (Anansi), which received the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize; Marilyn Bowering for her novel Visthle Worlds (HarperCollins), which won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize; and Richard Bocking for his study of the Fraser River, Mighty River (Douglas &Mclntyre), which won the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize. Stolen From Our Embrace (Douglas & McIntyre) by Suzanne Fournier and Sto:lo Fisheries director Ernie Crey, received the Hubert Evans Non- Fiction Award and James Heneghan’s novel Wish Me Luck (Farrar, Strauss & Girous) received the Sheila Egoff Children’s Literature Prize. @ National Geographic: The May issue. of Nationaé Geographic is now on newstands. One of the featured articles “Cascadia: Living on Fire”, written by Rick Gore with pho- tographs by Jim Richardson, looks at the subterranean forces at work in the volcanic range that runs from California north trough British Columbia. Other pieces focus on Prince Edward island, gray wolves and the Whitbread sailing race. The beautiful cover photograph by Joanna Pinnco is cropped from a larger image which appears inside as part of a senes on the earth’s cli- mate. @ Elm Street: Stevie Cameron's elegant Ebn Street features acti- cles on Bowen Island, Stella MeCartney and author Marcia Kilgore in the May issue of the Canadian women’s magazine. gin Pain?: Short rt Term Memory Loss? . rye OT: Buy one bottle of GtS for $18.99 and receive the second bottie for tc. Ginkgo Biloba “ BUY one bottle at regular price $14.99 and receive the second borue for a Dente For more savings tn 90 capsies For £28.09 & receive the second porte fori. Vitamins & Herbs: 369 Marine Dr., W. Van. -4 newer directors such as SFU Hoolboom includes an interview with cach filmmaker Large Armoire ie et & Hutch a ° / Stdrage Bench witty Back peritte © Oak and Pine MIKE (€ HOOLBGOM Bo det Ne MIKE Hooiboom catalogues the werk of 16 indepen- dent Canadian filmmakers in his sew study. Anza Club (#3-West 8th Ave. ac Ontario Sr., Vancouver). See This Week’s cinema listings for their NeXt | show, Other venues include North Vancouver's Presentation House Gallery which exhibited the work of Michael Snow a couple of years ago and is an excellent resource for information on Canadian artists. Also check out the: National Film Board, UBC and SFU libraries. all ages et +2) per wut Hurry in... Video's, Nintendo . Toys Now open Sundays ‘PRICES oo aRe. 25% ‘Off ‘all our. Mexican pime furnjture in” _ astock! All-one of a kind: - Examples: oy : vExtra ‘ Behe /3199.95... 899.96 899.95. 64. °, 449. 95° 337396 THIS‘ ERL., “San. & SUN: ie April 24, 25 & 26th 4 a . a rn a sale 997 West Ist St. Noith. 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