Evan Macdonald
Canada
2022
No Dialogue
Featured in:
VIFF Short Forum: Program 2
Fear, doubt, and loneliness give way to pleasure, empowerment, and reclamation—or, is it the other way around?
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The Croatian city of Rijeka rediscovers its own past in this delightfully unconventional hybrid documentary about Italian poet and proto-fascist Gabriele D’Annunzio, who seized the city known in Italian as Fiume in 1919.
The Art of Adventure
The unbelievable adventure story of how painter Robert Bateman and ecologist Bristol Foster drove a Land Rover from Africa to Australia in 1957, developing a love of nature to last a lifetime. An inspirational love letter to the adventure of life itself.
Bushido
An impeccable samurai (and "Go" expert), Kakunoshin is framed for a crime and forced into exile. Years later he stumbles across the true reason for his fall from grace, and sets about exacting his revenge...
Credits
Producer
Jack Parker
Screenwriter
Jack Parker
Cinematography
Adam Karczmarczyk
Editor
Jack Parker
Production Design
Mave Ky
Original Music
Ariel Ulysses
Director
Jack Parker
Jack Parker is an emerging filmmaker from Calgary, Alberta. He is interested in mundanity and routine, often blanketed with black comedy and absurdity. He makes fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid films. Parker makes his films with the Calgary film collective Sunhouse Cinema.


