Jordan Mounteer

The philosophical practice of Shugendo finds its roots in many of the proto-religious paradigms that made up Japan prior to the Meiji Period (1868-1912), including elements of Shinto, Daoism, and

There’s something deeply disturbing about the hopelessness one encounters in Robert Bresson’s 1977 film Le Diable Probablement about a youth who’s attempting to find meaning or significance in the world

Set in the birthplace of some of our modern conceptualizations of existentialism, Jacques Rivette’s 1981 hyper-real narrative of two women wandering around Paris —Le Pond Du Nord — still retains

When you give a philosopher a camera, you have to expect a product that defies (or otherwise transfigures) convention.  And if that convention is film-making, you may come up with

Written and directed by, and based on Benjamín Ávila’s infancy growing up in a family of political activists, Clandestine Childhood takes place at the tail-end of 1979.  Juan (alias Ernesto

If it’s possible to describe Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami’s style of shooting in one word, then careful comes to mind.  There’s elegance in his ability to capture the wholeness of

Combining the visual flair of film with the sultry seduction of dance, the March 12th premiere of The True Heroines webisode series at Vancouver’s Rio Theater brought the 1950’s back