The Illusion of Paradise: A History of Film in Vancouver
Reverse Shot, 1995, v. 2, no. 4, pp. 26-35
Author Colin Browne recaps the history of filmmaking in Vancouver from the creation of the first movie theatre in 1898 until 1995 when the relationship between filmmaker and city is complex and problematic. Browne covers how Vancouver based-filmmakers were heavily influenced by European aesthetic, while rejecting their own hometown dubbing it "a cultural ghost". By the 1980s interest in the city's history is revived and filmmakers seek out found footage to appropriate for their own works.
ITEM 1995.150 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
City of Gold – National Film Board
Skid Row – CBC
"And-" – Dorothy Fowler
"And-" – Margaret Roberts
The Bitter Ash – Larry Kent
Madeleine Is... – Sylvia Spring
Queen of the Coast
In the Daytime – Vancouver Film Unit
Skid Row – Alan King
Warrendale – Alan King
A Married Couple – Alan King
Waiting for Caroline – George Robertson
Waiting for Caroline – Ron Kelly
Un homme et une femme – Claude Lelouch
Skip Tracer – Zale Dalen
Goin' Down the Road
Me, Mom and Mona – Mina Shum
Double Happiness – Mina Shum
Marshall McLuhan