Conversations in the Book Trade: Books, art, art-books, and ... authorial movies.
Canada and the United States are often considered similar countries. But their histories, although traveling similar tracks, were anything but parallel. The Great Depression and its underlying causes are good examples of this.
One author, every frame — image, text, sound, and edit.
Award-winning writer, filmmaker, and musician working across English, French, and Korean. Based in South Korea.
The practice
Harvor's videopoems are what he calls authorial movies: films in which a single person originates every element of the work — the writing, the image, the sound, the performance, the edit — rather than directing a crew toward someone else's script or score.
The result sits closer to a poem or a piece of music than to a conventional short film: a single sensibility, followed all the way through.
Recurring concerns
How ecosystems and human systems now move together — extraction, weather, and the altered ground beneath ordinary life.
Inherited patterns, dependency, and the fragile work of repair, drawn in part from the life of the artist's late brother.
Drones, surveillance, and remote violence — and what these instruments do to the people who use and endure them.
Attention, tenderness, and the long labor of staying, examined without sentimentality.
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Before Canada could recover from one catastrophe, its response to that catastrophe helped set up the next.
Out of a population of roughly eight million, Canada suffered one of the highest per-capita death tolls of any Allied nation in the First World War. Whole cohorts of young men were gone from farms, small towns, and outport villages. The country that emerged in 1919 was short on labour, carrying an enormous war debt, and determined to reward the men who came home — decisions that would quietly shape the vulnerability of the decade to come.
You'll live through five of those decisions, from Ottawa, the Prairies, or the Maritimes. Choose as history did, and you'll watch the Depression arrive in Canada exactly as it did. Choose differently, and the story bends.
