Fringe Arts
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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.
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Fringe ArtsAdventure in the Timeless Land
I lost myself in the forest for the whole weekend like the dirty hippie I deeply, truly am. I packed all my things and checked them twice, for I would be two hours from dear Montreal, partying with nearly a thousand other psychonauts under the scorching sun of a September heat wave, and under the shimmering stars of a clear country sky.
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Fringe ArtsMÖDERN YOUTH
The attempt to trace the origins and influences of the French coldwave and post-punk movement shows such a vast net of convergences with other realms of art and society that it deserves its own movie.

