SOUND
Tegan and Sara: Love You to Death
Out today: 31 minutes of magnificent pop sheen from the Quin twins. Again working with producer Greg Kurstin (who has also collaborated with the likes of Adele, Kelly Clarkson, Taylor Swift and Katy Perry) Tegan and Sara make their move into the mainstream even more explicit. The trick is not to lose what brought them to this point and they don’t. Kurstin’s own musical education is grounded in jazz (Jaki Byard, George Coleman) and other alternative sounds (Beck) blurring the lines between one genre and the next. The perfect musician to help Tegan and Sara translate their tunes into the next thing. The duo also put on fantastic live shows that adds another dimension to their music. Oct. 5 they swing through Vancouver for a gig at the Q.E. Theatre (http://bit.ly/25CQcjC).
VISION
Mountains May Depart
Like a Douglas Sirk 1950s Hollywood melodrama (Written on the Wind, The Tarnished Angels, Imitation of Life) filmmaker Jia Zhangke sinks his teeth into familiar material looking for something new. The director has worked with Chinese actress Zhao Tao over and over again to tell one long, sublime story. Mountains May Depart, the next chapter in Zhangke’s oeuvre, opens tonight at Vancity Theatre at 8:30 p.m. for an extended run (viff.org).
Pacific Cinémathèque Archive Day
Saturday, June 4, free day of screenings of films from the archives including West Coast Film Collection Shorts (bit.ly/1r5sKZv).
China Now: Independent Visions
at Pacific Cinémathèque June 5, 9, 16 and 23 (bit.ly/25ENVET).
WORD
Future Libraries
David Mitchell’s latest work, From Me Flows What You Call Time, will not be read until the next century. He is the second writer chosen to contribute to Scottish artist Katie Paterson’s Future Library project. Each year for the next 100 years one new piece will be buried in Oslo’s Nordmarka forest where 1,000 trees were planted two years ago. In 2114 the trees will be used to make paper for an anthology of the 100 texts. Margaret Atwood was invited to inaugurate the project last year and handed over Scribbler Moon. The texts will be held in a specially designed room in the New Public Deichmanske Library, Oslo (katiepaterson.org/futurelibrary).
Tegan and Sara “Boyfriend” video from Love You to Death:
http://bit.ly/1TwdApX
Mountains May Depart trailer:
http://bit.ly/1QPm8t9
Chinese film actress Zhao Tao and director Jia Zhangke discuss their multi-film collaboration in interview with Asia Society’s La Frances Hui:
http://bit.ly/1TRGZ1x
China Now: Independent Visions at Pacific Cinémathèque:
cinemaontheedge.com/
The Indie Film Fest That Has China Worried:
http://bit.ly/1TNlo4M
David Rimmer – Pushing the film. Filmmaker describes his intuitive creative process, in particular the way he created Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper (1972):
http://bit.ly/25D3GMg
Growing A Book For One Hundred Years:
http://bit.ly/1rS7lNo
Kaytranada new video for “Lite Spots” from 99.9% (at Surrey's FVDED in the Park July 2 and 3):
http://bit.ly/21SYIWe
Hevn film trailer (Director: Kjersti Steinsbø):
http://bit.ly/2894PKm
