Inside the Pleasure Dome : Fringe Film in Canada

by Hoolboom, Mike; Egoyan, Atom

• ISBN13: 9781552450994
• ISBN10: 1552450996
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-20
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

Everybody loves the movies. But a movie about the colour blue, or an isolated mountain range, or a man grown so thin the world floats through his perfect transparency? 'You know what would be really great - to make a two-hour movie about Taylor Mead's ass,' remarked Andy Warhol, the most notorious fringe filmer of them all. Welcome to the strange and wonderful universe of fringe cinema, where the only rules left unbroken are the ones that have been forgotten. Twenty-three interviews with Canada's finest underdogs lay it all down like a road, ready to take you through the vanishing point of personality.This new edition includes a foreword by Atom Egoyan, and features never-before-heard raps from Ellie Epp, David Rimmer, Ann Marie Fleming, Anna Gronau, John Kneller, Rick Hancox and Kika Thorne, joining fellow fringers like Mike Snow, Carl Brown, Patricia Gruben, Penelope Buitenhuis, Fumiko Kiyooka, Wrik Mead, Annette Mangaard, Gariné Torossian, Richard Kerr and Mike Cartmell.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 1
Introduction: Upon Leaving the Theatre	p. 3
Machines of Cinema	p. 6
Painting the Light Fantastic	p. 24
Sifted Evidence	p. 34
Transitions	p. 46
Three Decades of Rage	p. 56
Guns, Girls and Guerrillas	p. 74
The Place with Many Rooms Is the Body	p. 82
I Was a Teenage Personality Crisis!	p. 90
Out of the Closet	p. 100
Her Soil is Gold	p. 110
Sex, Madness and the Church	p. 120
Lies My Father Told Me	p. 128
Pictures of Home	p. 138
Girl From Moush	p. 148
Last Days of Living	p. 156
Watching Death at Work	p. 170
There's a Future in Our Past	p. 182
Transformer Toy	p. 194
Queen of Disaster	p. 200
Terminal City	p. 212
Fringe Royalty	p. 222
Notes in Origin	p. 234
The Church of Film	p. 244
The Dead Are Not Powerless	p. 252
What Is To Be Done?	p. 264
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