Critical Writing Index

Valery's Ankle: 1972 Canada-Russia Summit Series erodes the Canadian hockey mythos

by Antoine Tedesco

SceneandHeard.ca, June 26, 2008, v. 8, no. 4

Brett Kashmere's film Valery's Ankle is a contempletive digital essay reflecting on how Canada's permissive stance on hockey violence contradicts a Canadian image as a sportsmanlike, polite, peacekeeping country. SceneandHeard is an online magazine, and the film is discussed in relation to it's screening in the International Shorts program 2 at Toronto's Images Festival in 2008.

ITEM 2008.062 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Valery's AnkleBrett Kashmere