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Fringe ArtsMeru Brings You Close to the Edge
Meru, an indie documentary about three of the best climbers in the world on a multi-year mission to climb the toughest mountain in the Himalayas, filmed by two of National Geographic’s best artists, was destined for failure.
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Fringe ArtsThe Link’s Guide to the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
The Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, one of Montreal’s most prestigious film-festivals, is taking off for its 44th year. The Link spoke with one of the festival’s programmers, Julien Fonfrède, about the highlights and focuses of the lineup.
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Fringe ArtsReality’s Bytes
In 1992, film critic Roger Ebert wrote an essay titled, “The Chilling Film Concept of Virtual Reality,” expressing anxieties about the ‘technical and ethical’ implications of submerging a live audience into a virtual world.
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Fringe ArtsMontreal Character Series: David Mitchell and William Eau
This was a pretty casual interview.
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Fringe ArtsThe Japanese Irreverence
Film POP will showcase a special retrospective of the work of a young, upcoming independent filmmaker from Japan, Sho Miyake for the 14th edition of POP Montreal.
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Fringe ArtsRefusing Silence
Almost a year ago on Sept. 26, 2014, 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teacher’s College in Iguala, Mexico were kidnapped on their way out of their rural town for a protest against government funding programs.
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Fringe ArtsMontreal Character Series: Greg Stroll
“It’s a journey either way, right? It’s gonna hang over you for a while, but it’s gonna help form a large portion of your life and you as a person. I mean, you can’t help what details impact us, right?”
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Fringe ArtsLinda Dawn Hammond: On the 25th Anniversary of the SexGarage Police Raid
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the police raid on the “SexGarage” loft party in 1990, where many patrons were beaten and arrested. The event is significant historically for Montreal’s LGBT community. It was immortalized by the photography of Linda Dawn Hammond.
