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hi i’m ryan ferguson the curator of film

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at the art gallery of hamilton

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wednesday april 21st is national

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canadian film day

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and we’re really excited to be

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presenting two canadian made films this

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month

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in our online film series at the art

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gallery hamilton the first

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shiva baby is the debut feature from

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writer director emma seligman

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who’s from toronto it’s a hilarious

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stressful

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comedy about a really bad day in the

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life of a young woman

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it’s already been one of our most

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popular films in our online film series

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so i know a lot of you already watched

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it

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um big news for that film it’s currently

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being developed into an hbo

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series so uh at some time in the near

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future you’re gonna have a lot more

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shiva baby in your life

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if you haven’t seen it i highly

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recommend going to check it out before

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the month ends

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the other film that we’re showing this

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month no ordinary man

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is from uh directors ashlyn chin yi

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who’s from montreal

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and chase joint it’s a really

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interesting um

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unconventional take on the documentary

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format uh

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and it tells the life story of trans

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jazz musician

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billy tipton um i i really can’t

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recommend this film any

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any higher it was one of the big hits to

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come out of tiff

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2020 and it’s it’s a really interesting

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look not only at the life of billy

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tipton

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but of of the way the media

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sensationalized

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uh his life after his passing and how

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the media has

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evolved and and treats trans stories

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over time

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uh like i said it’s available in the

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online film series

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at artgalleryofhamilton.com until uh the

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end of april so

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please please please check this film out

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it’s really really great

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um a lot of people always ask me i think

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it’s the most asked question i get is

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what are you what are you watching what

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are you watching

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and uh so i thought i’d take a second to

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talk about that as well

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the truth of the matter is most of my

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time is spent watching

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the films that end up in our film series

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end up in our film festival

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or don’t end up in our film series or

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film festival

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but every month i do like to go through

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my personal dvd

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and blu-ray collection sometimes even my

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vhs tapes

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and pick a few movies around a theme so

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with

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this april being national canadian film

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month

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i grabbed a few canadian films out this

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month so

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i thought i would share that with you

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here um when i think of canadian film

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the first filmmaker i think of always is

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guy madden uh this film the forbidden

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room we screened at our film festival

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back in 2015

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and it’s it’s just such a strange

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beautiful

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interesting ode to to silent film i’ve

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watched it several times over the years

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i think i watch

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probably guymod is a very prolific

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filmmaker i probably watch

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on average two of his films a month in

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uh just in my

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free time because i love his work so

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much but this one is just it’s just so

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beautiful and

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and fascinating it’s an ode to the

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silent films that have been lost

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so they tried to recreate um

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silent films that are no longer

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in existence that were lost over 90

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percent of silent films have been lost

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and it’s again

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i just think it’s a really fascinating

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film another one

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here is uh from the first year that i

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programmed the film festival

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uh 2013 that was

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2014 sorry uh two door nicole this one

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is great i really loved

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this um and seeing it on the big screen

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the beautiful black and white

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cinematography was fantastic

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maybe some month i’ll show you my

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viewing set up at home but for now

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uh i love this film i’m looking for it i

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haven’t watched it yet but i’m really

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looking forward to re-watching it

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uh on my uh on my screen here at home

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because it’s such a quirky

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interesting french canadian comedy small

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film but really

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really fun to watch and then the last

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one i i pulled out isn’t

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exactly a canadian film but the producer

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of the film tim johnson is from six

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nations and was very instrumental in the

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research

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and the uh original exhibition that

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started the process of this film being

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made

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rumble the indians who rocked the world

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i honestly believe this is one of the

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most essential films i’ve seen in the

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last

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10 years it’s you don’t have to be a

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music fan to appreciate

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um the wealth of interesting um

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information and how much uh we didn’t

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know

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about how influential the indigenous

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music of turtle island has been on

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rock pop jazz blues all the music

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that we essentially listened to today i

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can’t recommend this film

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any more highly i think everyone should

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watch this

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and quickly before i go i just wanted to

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make a plug for our monthly film club

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uh you can join the film club online

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through

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our website

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hhrkelerhamilton.comfilmfest.com

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or when you register to watch one of our

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films on the film series

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every month we get together over zoom

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and talk uh with a group of film

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film lovers about the films that we’re

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offering

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in our online film series so if you

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watch shiva baby if you watch

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no ordinary man or if you watch the

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inheritance which is our other film this

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month which is

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an incredible film my favorite film of

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2020.

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um i i i can’t recommend that film

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enough it’s it’s an

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amazing amazing film um but we’re going

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to talk about all three of those films

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in in more detail

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in the coming weeks so register online

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again it’s our gallerypendleton.com or

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ajfilmfest.com

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and i’ll see you at the movies

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