Indie Game: The Movie at Sundance

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Winnipeg-based BlinkWorks Productions has just announced that their crowd-funded documentary Indie Game: The Movie about independent video game makers will be premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. I didn’t pay much attention when I heard they were making this movie, since my own opinion on video games largely skews into the “waste of time” category. But, the documentary looks like it focuses on more universal themes of creativity, struggle, and drive in the lives of the creators of these video games. What drives them to do what they do? I’m looking forward to seeing it.

Winnipeggers can watch the outside-of-Sundance premiere on Feb 3, 2012.

Congratulations to Lisanne and James on the Sundance selection!

Don’t Break the Internet

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Nobody wants the PROTECT IP Act, except for the deep-pocketed media industry that has lobbied for it. And it won’t just affect USAmericans. It’s unbelievable that they’re trying to copy China and Iran’s approach to the Internet: If you’re living in the USA, let your congressperson know that PROTECT IP is a terrible idea.

Justice Begins in the Negative

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My initial thoughts towards the Occupy Wall Street movement were like lots of people: “Okay, I see that you’re mad about something, but do you have anything constructive to say?” It seemed as though they were against the rubbish financial system, but what else? We always want critique to be constructive rather than filled with … Read more →

Hitler is the Devil

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The home of the film provocateur has expelled one of their own for crossing the only impermissible line. Or, Lars von Trier, the provocative Danish filmmaker, has been kicked out of the Cannes Film Festival for saying “I understand Hitler. I sympathize with him a bit,” and “I’m a Nazi.” The interview (which cuts off … Read more →

Democracy & Responsibility (to Love)

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It’s election season in Canada, which means it’s time to decide which distant oligarch is slightly less distasteful to us in the charade that many believe to be democracy. When Winston Churchill described democracy as “the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried,” I hear him differently than most, … Read more →

Light Indoctrination

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It’s currently taken as a truism that incandescent light bulbs–that old technology invented by Thomas Edison over a century ago–are incredibly inefficient and that everyone with an environmental conscience should switch to more energy efficient lighting such as compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs. Although I am very concerned about the state of our environment, the … Read more →