(Elinor) Light + (Svoboda) Freedom = (creator) Curious Equations.

How many times in a day do your thoughts drift to this type of question:

“When I ________, things will be _______”.

Lately, I’ve been finding myself considering the question of what it means to arrive. Reflecting back on various events of my life and wondering if that feeling of needing to “get there” has truly been staved off for any period of time, even if the stated goal has been met.

“It”. The great “it”

Has it happened? Will it happen? Did it just happen?

The question is, does “it” ever happen? Or is [...]

I have never been comfortable with the ways, both overt and subtle, that we gender define children. Gender expression is a huge issue in our culture today and is something that has fascinated me my whole life. I myself have never really fit in to the regular female norm, I was, growing up, the classic ‘tom boy’. I liked getting muddy and playing rough, I hated pink, dresses and dismembered my barbie dolls and buried them in the backyard. Coming into adulthood, I realized that none of these things made me less female or feminine, nor did they necessarily make [...]

It feels like an understatement to say that the last few weeks of my life have been transformative. The completion and release of 2 films, screenings and travel have taken many years of hard work and brought the sweet experience of reward. Not that it’s always easy to accept the experience of your work being viewed, assessed and complimented. Outside of the confines of the studio and onto a large screen where every blemish and decision examined and forcefully accepted. I saw myself in a new [...]

Hey friends -

Just in time to celebrate the Toronto screening of Get Along, IFC is streaming my Tegan and Sara Documentary INDIA for free! Watch it here

FRIENDS! IT’S TIME!! Come and join us for the official launch of short fiction film It Remains Unsaid – a 3 year labor of love come to fruition!

Saturday, November 19th from 2-3PM at the NFB Theater.
150 John Street, Toronto ON

Check the official website for more details!

CAN’T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!

This time last year, two twin projects were shot back to back in what seemed to be a purely accidental fashion.  Remaining in tandem throughout the year, these individual entities took most of my creative caretaking and in subtle ways, managed to inform each other, despite their apparent differences.  In any case, I’m proud and excited to see them having their official Toronto launches two days apart.

Short documentary INDIA is one of 3 films from Tegan and Sara: Get Along that will be screening at the Bell TIFF Lightbox on November 17th for more information www.teganandsara.com/getalong:

Check out the trailer

The vast muted skies of Northern Alberta under a blanket of snow, ushered my family and I to bid a sacred goodbye to my beloved Grandmother, Brita Von Harpe, this January.  This landscape, a home of the past for most who attended, bids a sense of origin, the sturdy fixtures of the menial town of Demmitt almost never changing.  For me it is a sacred place, one that on this day deafened my ears with a empty silence that broke only with the occasional gust of wind and winter-bird caw.  An empty, reverent silence, filled with a range [...]

I was a tom-boy as a kid, because it seemed easier to be a boy in the world.  Boys were easier to play with, they didn’t gossip or play complicated emotional games, they just played sports and cracked dirty jokes.  And because I was a girl, I never got bullied.  And the girls left me alone because I didn’t compete for boys.  Until they noticed I was pretty.  So into my early adult years, I was un-even, and had to learn how to be feminine, how to find the joy in what I saw as the ‘weakness’ of being girly.  [...]

For whatever reason, at some point in my artistic career, I decided to stay away from cute.  You know, babies, animals, painted faces and balloons….I guess it just seemed like a cop-out, an easy way to conjure a recognizable emotion of pleasure, the “awwwwww!” (insert high-pitched tone at the end)

But you know, cuteness is something that brings perspective and humility into my life every day.  And though I try to limit my dog-parent gushing, I have to share with you all what I wake up to first thing in the morning.  How can you feel bad about life when this [...]