Cabrera Bernal uses the moving image as the primary matter of a sculpture made out of metrics and rhythm. The filmstrip is an object, built with found celluloid in which the figurative motifs of the footage transcend banality, disappearing into abstraction by the grace of length and repetition.
When local heavy and ex-boxer Tom Sheridan (Ian Pirie) agrees to hire his strip club out to lifelong friend and colleague Ian Levine (Michael Mckell) he soon discovers the private party involves child prostitution and trafficking, catering for wealthy paedophiles.
In the near future: the EU has collapsed, stock market prices have collapsed, energy costs have exploded; many thousands lose the roof over their heads and literally end up on the street.
The film shows a strong bond between two brothers that live in a remote fjord with their parents. We look into their world through the eyes of the younger brother and follow him on a journey that marks a turning point in the lives of the brothers.
A true Canadian iconoclast, acclaimed transgender country/electro-pop artist Rae Spoon revisits the stretches of rural Alberta that once constituted “home” and confronts memories of growing up queer in an abusive, evangelical household.
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