Michael and Us: Rising Expectations
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🗓️ 10 January 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Filmed in the aftermath of the 1970 "October Crisis" that brought martial law to Canada, Gilles Groulx's radical documentary 24 HOURS OR MORE (1973) takes a disapproving look at life in Quebec under capitalism during a moment when the postwar economic boom was receding. It's the kind of movie that isn't made anymore: a movie that questions the very premises on which society is built.
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Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.
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| 0:00.0 | I promise Luke that I wouldn't play the Great White North song that I play on any |
| 0:22.5 | Canada theme episode so I'm definitely not gonna drop it in right here. But we do have some Canadian |
| 0:34.6 | content on this episode and I'd actually like to kick things off with the death of a great Canadian |
| 0:39.5 | artist this week, Michael Snow. If you're not familiar with the name Luke you're definitely familiar |
| 0:44.6 | with some of his work. In my world he's well known as an experimental filmmaker. He made a film in 1967 |
| 0:52.0 | called Wavelength which was a 45 minute experimental film. It showed a slow zoom from one end of a |
| 0:58.8 | room to another with this strange like howling sound in the background and a couple of things |
| 1:04.2 | interjecting into the frame at a couple of different moments. Doesn't sound very appealing. I know |
| 1:09.1 | the way I describe it but it is a landmark of experimental cinema and a really bizarre hypnotic |
| 1:15.6 | viewing experience especially if you can see it projected. But he was a multi-hyphenate. He was a |
| 1:20.9 | visual artist, a jazz musician, did a lot of jazz piano, a sculpture, photography. You have |
| 1:27.9 | definitely seen at the Skydome also known as the Roger Center, our baseball stadium here in town, |
| 1:33.9 | his enormous sculpture on the side of the building of the fans, you know the bronze sculpture of |
| 1:39.4 | the fans sitting in the balcony. He also did that wonderful installation at the Eaton Center, |
| 1:45.5 | our big mall in the city. The geese, I believe it's actually known as flight stop. |
| 1:50.8 | And in addition to being a very famous art installation in Toronto that was the subject of a |
| 1:55.8 | very famous court case as well which was an important case on moral rights in Canada, the right |
| 2:02.8 | of the author. Michael Snow created this installation and then in 1981 during the Christmas season |
| 2:08.9 | the people who ran the Eaton Center put little Christmas bows on all of the geese and he sued |
| 2:14.8 | because he said that that compromised the integrity of the artwork and the judge agreed. |
| 2:20.7 | The ruling said that it quote distorted, mutilated, or otherwise modified the artwork. |
| 2:26.6 | And I know that it was quite a divisive ruling. There are certainly there certainly were people |
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