Articles by Ben Harrison

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  Operation Avalanche

  Directed by Matt Johnson

  PUBLISHED May 2, 2016

  Matt Johnson is Canada's DIY punk Steven Spielberg. His ever-busy frames contain magic tricks within magic tricks, daring you to spot the s...

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  Weiner

  Directed by Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg

  PUBLISHED Apr 29, 2016

  Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg's Weiner is the pop political documentary of the year, a fly-on-the-wall look at disgraced former U.S. Co...

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  Chasing Asylum

  Directed by Eva Orner

  PUBLISHED Apr 29, 2016

  Chasing Asylum is a solid expository documentary about Australia's terrible treatment of refugees, an exposé in the truest sense that inten...

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  Tower

  Directed by Keith Maitland

  PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2016

  Keith Maitland's Tower is remarkable in its approach to history, depicting the 1966 University of Texas mass shooting through rotoscoped an...

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  Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World

  Directed by Werner Herzog

  PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2016

  The idea of Werner Herzog, one of cinema's greatest lunatics, making a documentary about the internet is a joke that pretty much writes its...

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  In Kingdom Come

  Directed by Vika Kirchenbauer, Martin Sulzer, Amanda Dawn Christie, Leandre Bourgeois, Johannes DeYoung, Phaisit Phanphrkaschat, Mike Stoltz and Ellie Epp

  PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2016

  In Kingdom Come, the first of two programs for Images' Monday (April 18) lineup, moves into the realm of the fantastical, breaking down and...

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  How Should A Person Be?

  Directed by Margaret Salmon, Dan Browne, Anna Linder, Fedora Romita and Allison Hrabluik

  PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2016

  How Should A Person Be?, the first of two programs on Sunday (April 17) at Images Festival, moved the festival towards a more introspective...

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  Conundrum Clinique: Works by Toronto Artists

  Directed by Ananya Ohri, Janis Cole and Holly Dale, Susan Britton, Robin Collyer, Bridget Moser, Jennifer Chan, Oliver Husain and Tobias Williams

  PUBLISHED Apr 16, 2016

  Toronto's Images Festival is about demolishing boundaries and forging new pathways towards art that speaks to us on a personal level. As su...