Thu, Dec 8 / 9:30pm
Dir. Alexandre O. Philippe
2021, United States, 76 min
Introduction and Q&A with director Alexandre O. Philippe.
A radical examination of Monument Valley’s representation in cinema and advertising, The Taking scrutinizes how a site located on sovereign Navajo land came to embody the fantasy of the “Old West.”
Plays with
Portage Place Mall (with love) / Dir. Ryan Steel, 2021, Canada, 2.5 min / In 1986, three city blocks in downtown Winnipeg were demolished to make way for a shopping centre/utopian community space called Portage Place.
