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 Doll
In our new Film Studies series on Thursdays, Devan Scott guides us through the evolution of lighting techniques from the silent era to the present day. Each presentation will include a classic film screening; this week, The Doll (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.
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.


