The Lithuanian title of the film is “Sesė” meaning sisters but the English title is “Drowning Dry”. Both titles co-exist in a symbiotic relationship. Drowning dry happens after a near drowning victim has their lungs drained of water by various revival techniques, I know well being a member of the elite Royal Lifesaving Society, yetContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Drowning Dry” (Sesė)”
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RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “The Well”
The film commences with crackling and staticky news reports and desperate human cries. The world is running out of clean water. Special blue zones are established where water is available but access is largely denied. Mass migrations occur. Refugee “camps” are established. Chaos in the streets. Much of the water supply is contaminated with aContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “The Well””
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “The Bearded Girl”
What a fantasy film! Could it ascend to the heights of Cinderella, Pinocchio or “Nightmare Alley”? Eighty-eight generations of a family have produced a bearded girl. Commences as light peach fuzz and by maturity is wild mountain man thickness. Creates audience attraction in a carnival sideshow particularly when the bearded girl is s sword swallower.Continue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “The Bearded Girl””
RKS 2025 Film: “Cloud”: Up in the Sky or Down Far Below?
Ryosuke Yoshii (Masaki Suda) is an internet reseller of whatever he can bargain cheaply for and hopefully resell at retail or wholesale at an enormous profit. Good freedom of enterprise all legitimate unless the merchandise is counterfeit. Operate in the cloud as Yoshii does under a pseudonym Ratel then the transactions are all anonymous andContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Cloud”: Up in the Sky or Down Far Below?”
RKS 2025 Canadian Film: “Foreigner”: Polite Racism or Ignorance?
One associates racism with malevolent intent. The Canadian film “Foreigner” acknowledges malevolent racism also suggesting racism can possibly be “polite”, based more in ignorance than malevolence. Yasamin (Rose Deghan) is a newly arrived Iranian teenager to British Columbia living with her widower father (Ashkan Nejati) and her grandmother Zoreh (Maryam Sadeghi). There are hints Yasamin’sContinue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Film: “Foreigner”: Polite Racism or Ignorance?”
RKS 2025 Canadian Film: “LUCID”: Of Magic Mushrooms, Murder, Monsters and Mayhem
Mia Sunshine Jones is a struggling arts programme student unable to complete a project telling the world who she really is. Her professor and fellow students are far from impressed with her efforts and Mia is given a one-week deadline by her professor to produce a passable artwork. It isn’t too long before the viewerContinue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Film: “LUCID”: Of Magic Mushrooms, Murder, Monsters and Mayhem”
RKS 2025 Canadian Short Film: “Le Tour de Canada”: All You Need to Know About Canada versus Quebec in Six Minutes
Floating on top of this pond of a Canadian animated short film is an amusing Canadian cross country cycling race starting in St. John’s, Newfoundland and ending in Vancouver, British Columbia. Redolent with Canadian history and symbolism through beer, hockey, fish, Export A cigarettes, Canadian Pacific ships, TTC Red Rockets and even former Canadian PrimeContinue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Short Film: “Le Tour de Canada”: All You Need to Know About Canada versus Quebec in Six Minutes”
RKS 2025 Canadian Short Film: “Sorry for Your Cost”: Death is More Than Dying
Ren (Adeline Lo) is an aspiring teenage actor with a dream of attending the Studio Northwest acting programme and saved cash to accompany it. Ren’s mother (Olivia Cheng) reads the acceptance letter from Studio Northwest and the family is ecstatic. Life throws a wrench as Ren’s mother suddenly dies. The family lives in decibel wiseContinue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Short Film: “Sorry for Your Cost”: Death is More Than Dying”
RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “2000 Meters to Andriivka”: The Hamburger Hill Reality Show Continues in Ukraine
Moving along from the Russian documentary “Russia at War”, “2000 Meters to Andriivka” presents a “reality show” featuring a battle in the Ukrainian Russian war. And we are serious about a “reality show” here as the viewer is presented with a gritty and horrific slice of raw reality where reality is the name of theContinue reading “RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “2000 Meters to Andriivka”: The Hamburger Hill Reality Show Continues in Ukraine”
CBC On Design: And You Thought Watching Cement Dry Was Not Exciting! Think Again After Watching “How to Design With Concrete”
A new digital series CBC ON DESIGN launches on 4July2025 with a new episode weekly. In five 15-minute episodes, the CBC Arts Original Series explores how an industrial designer’s idea evolves to become a product in your home. The series begins with CONCRETE featuring Montreal designers Matt and Shawna Heide founders of CONCRETE CAT. MattContinue reading “CBC On Design: And You Thought Watching Cement Dry Was Not Exciting! Think Again After Watching “How to Design With Concrete””
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