Magnus Isacsson published this entry on Thursday 06 January, 2011 at 7:29 pm. It's been filed in the English + Français + Tribute category. {Share Your Thoughts}
I find it interesting that I sometimes get very positive response to blog items which are more personal. A while back I wrote about the visual artists in my family as a source of inspiration: my father Arne, who died a few months ago, my uncle Torsten, my sister Eva. But another big influence was [...]
Magnus Isacsson published this entry on Sunday 24 October, 2010 at 2:22 pm. It's been filed in the Festivals & public screenings + Français + Other directors' completed films category. {1 Comment}
“You don’t like the Truth – Four Days inside Guantanamo” The film is about the shocking case of the young Omar Khadr, the 24-year old accused of terrorism and killing an American soldier, who has been imprisoned for seven years, most of that time in Guantanamo. I will not summarize the case and describe this moving and incisive film in any detail, because I would not do as good a job as Cinema Politica’s Ezra Winton – read his article on the Art Threat blog.
Suffice it to say that the film is a deconstruction and analysis of the surveillance camera video of the seven-hour, truly revolting –Orwellian more than Kafkaesque– interrogation of Khadr by representatives of CSIS, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
Magnus Isacsson published this entry on Tuesday 19 October, 2010 at 3:43 am. It's been filed in the English + Festivals & public screenings + Français + My own projects + Raging Grannies category. {Share Your Thoughts}
The normal progression for a budding filmmaker has generally been from student films and shorty shorts towards longer shorts, and then medium-length films and finally feature length ones. Working on the short films, he or she would learn the ropes, learn how to use equipment and tell a story. Later on, with more resources, would [...]
Magnus Isacsson published this entry on Sunday 26 September, 2010 at 4:24 am. It's been filed in the Français category. {2 Comments}
Il ne m’arrive pas souvent de travailler sur les projets d’autres cinéastes. Mais voici que depuis quelques mois je travaille avec réalisateur Hugo Latulippe sur son film Alphée et les Étoiles et le projet web qui doit l’accompagner. Hugo est l’auteur de plusieurs long-métrages, dont Bacon, le film et Ce qu’il reste de nous (avec [...]
Magnus Isacsson published this entry on Tuesday 21 September, 2010 at 12:39 am. It's been filed in the ATSA + Festivals & public screenings + Français + My own projects + Other directors' completed films + Raging Grannies category. {Share Your Thoughts}
French would be the logical language for this post, but I’d like to share this content with people outside Quebec. This past week was Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette week. This extremely talented, 31-year-old Montreal director launched a novel, held a vernissage for a photo exhibition, and signed a terrific documentary broadcast on Radio-Canada Sunday night at 10.30. [...]
Magnus Isacsson published this entry on Saturday 28 August, 2010 at 10:50 am. It's been filed in the Français category. {1 Comment}
The Headless range, Funeral range, Murder Creek, Hell Roaring Creek…..some of the names in the Nahanni river valley (Northwest Territories, on the Yukon border) are pretty forbidding. They remind us of the many desperate stories from the explorations of the first half of the twentieth century, at the tail end of the gold rush. But [...]
Magnus Isacsson published this entry on Tuesday 13 July, 2010 at 4:22 am. It's been filed in the Français + Multi-platform + Other directors' completed films category. {Share Your Thoughts}
An English version of this blog post will follow shortly, with thanks to Tobi Elliott. Cette semaine: suite à mon petit texte sur le projet multi-plateforme PIB: L’indice humain de la crise économique canadienne de l’ONF, voici une entrevue avec Hélène Choquette, la réalisatrice-coordinatrice du projet. L’image ci-dessus est tiré de l’excellent photo-essai “Une chance [...]
Magnus Isacsson published this entry on Monday 28 June, 2010 at 9:45 pm. It's been filed in the Documentary debates + Festivals & public screenings + Français + Multi-platform + Other directors' completed films category. {Share Your Thoughts}
Cette semaine à Sunny Side of the Doc à La Rochelle, l’ONF et ARTE France ont annoncé une collaboration pour la production de documentaires pour le web. Ils produiront un documentaire par année, avec un budget de 100.000 $ Can. Les deux ont déjà une expérience considérable avec les webdocs. Depuis presque un an déjà, [...]
Magnus Isacsson published this entry on Tuesday 18 May, 2010 at 11:17 pm. It's been filed in the Festivals & public screenings + Français + Other directors' completed films category. {Share Your Thoughts}
Jocelyne Clarke qui contribue régulièrement à ce blogue nous parle d’une cinéaste très engagée, aussi basée à Montréal. À Vues d’Afrique cette année, j’ai vu un film important réalisé par Erica Pomerance, « Opération survie », sur un sujet pas très « sexy » mais o combien pertinent pour les femmes africaines, la fistule obstétrique. Selon les statistiques, environ [...]
Magnus Isacsson published this entry on Tuesday 06 April, 2010 at 9:30 am. It's been filed in the Festivals & public screenings + Français + My own projects + Raging Grannies + Uncategorized category. {1 Comment}
Louise-Édith Hébert et Marguerite Bilodeau. Photo Marie-Pierre Savard. Au cours des dernières semaines, nous avons lancé mon film Les Super-mémés, sur le mouvement des Raging Grannies et des Mémés déchaînées. C’est un film produit par Isabelle Couture et Ian Boyd aux films de l’Isle, avec une license cruciale de Canal Vie, et distribué par Vidéo-Femmes. [...]