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KQEK.com / ArtScopeTO --- Interview with abstract painter Donna Wise (2021)
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - July 11, 2021 19:46 - 29 minutesFor ArtScopeTO, I interviewed Toronto-based abstract painter Donna Wise on her unique techniques, and working during the 2020-2021 pandemic. Further info and stills are available via the Editor's Blog at KQEK.com. If you enjoyed this podcast, connect with us on Facebook and follow us on Twit...
KQEK.com --- Film historian Jason Pichonsky discusses restoring Julian Roffman's THE BLOODY BROOD (1959)
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - April 25, 2020 06:46 - 39 minutesFilm historian, home video producer, and restorationist Jason Pichonsky discusses the premiere Blu-ray and DVD release of Julian Roffman's restored suspense-drama THE BLOODY BROOD (1959), from KINO Lorber. This podcast follows in the footsteps of my prior Q&A with Peter Roffman and his book DE...
KQEK.com --- Interview with composes Amin Bhatia & Ari Posner (2020)
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - January 30, 2020 10:02 - 29 minutesComposers Amin Bhatia and Ari Posner discuss scoring ANNE WITH AN E, CBC and Netflix's recent production of L.M. Montgomery's ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, as adapted by BREAKING BAD's Moira Walley-Beckett. Visit KQEK.com for additional film reviews, soundtrack reviews, interviews, and read the Editor...
KQEK.com --- Interview with composer Austin Wintory (2019)
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - October 10, 2019 18:36 - 35 minutesComposer Austin Wintory discusses scoring the new interactive full motion video game ERICA from Flavourworks, and published by Sony, and his compilation album REMNANTS. Music from both albums are available via Bandcamp. A prior interview from 2010 regarding Paul Solet's psychological shocker G...
KQEK.com / ArtScopeTO --- Interview with photographer Pengkuei Ben Huang (2019)
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - May 08, 2019 07:43 - 9 minutesFor the latest edition of ArtScopeTO, I interview photographer Pengkuei (Ben) Huang, whose current eco-series SOLEMN PINES FADING THINGS is exhibited at Toronto's Urban Gallery (400 Queen Street East) from May 2-31st, as part of the 2019 Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival. Huang discusses...
KQEK.com --- Interview with composer John Murphy (2019)
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - May 02, 2019 01:32 - 31 minutesComposer John Murphy (28 DAYS LATER, MIAMI VICE) discusses scoring the BBC's lavish new 6-part mini-series LES MISERABLES (2018), based on Victor Hugo's epic novel; his main themes & use of the viola; and taking a break from scoring in 2015 after the album ANONYMOUS. Prior interviews with the ...
KQEK.com / ArtScopeTO --- Interview with photographer Lori Ryerson (2019)
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - April 08, 2019 16:49 - 14 minutesIn the latest ArtScopeTO podcast, I interview photographer Lori Ryerson, whose current series OFF THE BEATEN PATH is showcased from April 6-27, 2018, at Toronto's Urban Gallery, 400 Queen Street East. Topics include abandoned landscapes, vintage cars, capturing small details in unlikely places, ...
KQEK.com --- Interview with composer James T. Sale (2019)
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - April 01, 2019 08:41 - 24 minutesComposer-Arranger-Orchestrator James T. Sale discusses his score for SAINT JUDY (2018), the bio-drama on attorney Judy Wood and her successful efforts to improve the laws for immigrants seeking asylum. Also touched upon are temp tracks, Jerry Goldsmith, and Mark Mothersbaugh, with whom Sale wo...
KQEK.com --- Interview with director Zach Weddington (2018)
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - June 14, 2018 17:10 - 49 minutesFilmmaker Zach Weddington discusses the making of Viva Amiga (2017), his affectionate chronicle of the beloved home computer that evolved from a game machine to a pioneering multimedia system for musicians, filmmakers, gamers, and artists. Available digitally from Vimeo, we also discuss the ex...
KQEK.com --- Patricia Rozema and Kiva Reardon on I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, recorded live at The Revue Cinema (2018)
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - May 24, 2018 05:43 - 35 minutesFollowing the April 18, 2018, screening of I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) at Toronto's Revue Cinema for National Canadian Film Day, writer-director Patricia Rozema discussed her feature film debut with cléo journal’s Kiva Reardon. Topics include the casting of Sheila McCarthy, developi...
KQEK.com / ArtScopeTO --- Interview with photographer Andre Vittorio
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - April 16, 2018 03:35 - 10 minutesIn this month's ArtScopeTO podcast, I interview photographer Andre Vittorio, whose current series Abstractions on Metal is showcased from April 5-28, 2018, at Toronto's Urban Gallery. Topics include the aesthetics of shooting architectural subjects, especially Brutalist forms in Toronto. Furth...
KQEK.com --- Interview with composer-performer Marilyn Lerner (2018)
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - February 21, 2018 21:49 - 29 minutesJazz composer & improviser Marilyn Lerner discusses performing her score live for Frank Borzage's silent classic Street Angel (1928) at Toronto's Revue Cinema in November of 2017. Also discussed are Lerner's prior scores, including Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), and t...
KQEK.com --- Peter Roffman on "Dear Guelda: The Death and Life of Pioneering Canadian Filmmaker Julian Roffman."
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - January 11, 2018 18:27 - 1 hour2018's first podcast features a conversation with Peter Roffman, who edited and authored Dear Guelda: The Death and Life of Pioneering Canadian Filmmaker Julian Roffman, newly published as an ebook and available from Amazon. The nearly hour-long program has son Peter reflecting on the incredib...
KQEK.com / ArtScopeTO --- Interview with painter Donna Wise
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - December 06, 2017 07:58 - 8 minutesIn this month's ArtScopeTO podcast, I interview Toronto-based abstract painter Donna Wise, whose current series Flights of Fancy is showcased from December 2-30, 2017, at Toronto's Urban Gallery. Further info and stills from the exhibition are available via the Editor's Blog at KQEK.com. If ...
KQEK.com / ArtScopeTO --- Interview with painter Mary Lynne Atkinson
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - November 20, 2017 17:54 - 9 minutesIn this month's ArtScopeTO podcast, I interview renowned painter Mary Lynne Atkinson, whose current series Land on Fire is showcased from November 2-25, 2017, at Toronto's Urban Gallery. Further info and stills from the exhibition are available via the Editor's Blog at KQEK.com. If you enjoy...
KQEK.com --- Goblin on Dario Argento's Suspiria, recorded live at The Royal Cinema (2017)
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - October 20, 2017 15:08 - 39 minutesRecorded live at Toronto's Royal Cinema, this week's podcast features an edited version of the Q&A with Italian prog-rock and horror masters Goblin, including Maurizio Guarini, Fabio Pignatelli,Massimo Morante, Agostino Marangolo, and Aiden Zammit, and Rue Morgue Magazine's Aaron von Lupton as m...
KQEK.com / ArtScopeTO --- Interview with abstract painter Chris Marin
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - October 10, 2017 02:25 - 12 minutesIn the latest ArtScopeTO podcast, I interview abstract painter Chris Marin, whose current series Passages is showcased from October 5-28, 2017, at Toronto's Urban Gallery. Further info and stills from the exhibition are available via the Editor's Blog at KQEK.com. If you enjoyed this podcast...
KQEK.com --- Interview with film composer Joe Kraemer (2017)
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - September 27, 2017 16:47 - 39 minutesIn this week's composer interview, Joe Kraemer discusses his latest work, the Amazon production Comrade Detective, a satire of a fake Soviet era detective series; and King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen. Also discussed are DVD audio commentaries and vinyl, and a lengthy editor...
KQEK.com / ArtScopeTO --- Interview with artist Hanna Kostanski
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - August 21, 2017 06:33 - 20 minutesIn my occasional non-film podcast, ArtScopeTO, I chat with Hamilton-Toronto painter & photographer Hanna Kostanski, whose paintings of urban Toronto locations spanning the 1910s through the 1970s are showcased until August 26, 2017 in the exhibit 20th Century Toronto: Intersections & Interaction...
KQEK.com --- Interview with film composer Maurizio Guarini (2017)
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - April 07, 2017 08:36 - 15 minutesThis week’s podcast features a compact Q&A with legendary Goblin member Maurizio Guarini, who joined the iconic Italian prog-rock band and film composing group in 1975, and co-composed & performed on many of Goblin’s greatest albums, including Roller, Suspiria, and Patrick. Guarini, now based ...
KQEK.com --- Interview with Julia Marchese, director of Out of Print (2017)
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - January 04, 2017 08:14 - 35 minutesJulia Marchese discusses directing Out of Print (2014), a passionate documentary on the New Beverly Cinema, the feisty, independent rep cinema renowned for programming rare slices of film history; and the increasing difficulty for programmers to access and screen 35mm film prints in an age of di...
KQEK.com --- Interview with Craig Atkinson, director of Do Not Resist (2016)
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - November 21, 2016 18:33 - 32 minutesCraig Atkinson discusses his directorial debut, Do Not Resist (2016), an unsettling documentary on the militarization of local police departments. Filmed just as the violence in Ferguson began to erupt, Atkinson details the overuse of S.W.A.T. for mundane search warrants, and the current governm...
KQEK.com --- Interview with Jared Scott, director of The Age of Consequences (2016)
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - November 16, 2016 22:49 - 35 minutesJared Scott discusses his latest film, The Age of Consequences (2016), a provocative documentary on climate change, featuring many former military officials who add deeper credence to the correlation between extreme shifts in climate, mass population migration, and war. Scott also touches upon...
KQEK.com --- "BSV 1172" Update + Tom Roston & Norman Wilner at Bay Street Video, Pt. 1 (2016)
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - November 14, 2016 03:02 - 44 minutesBegun in 2012 and completed in the spring of 2016, my experimental documentary BSV 1172: Your Friendly Neighbourhood Video Store premiered November 13th, 2016, at the San Diego Underground Film Festival, and in this two-part blog I offer thoughts on its genesis (filming the environs of a so-call...
KQEK.com --- Interview with Victor Kanefsky, director of Art Bastard (2016)
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - October 22, 2016 14:15 - 39 minutesVictor Kanefsky discusses the art of editing, structure, balance, and pacing in a conversation that spans both his latest directorial work, Art Bastard (2016), a lively documentary on painter Robert Cenedella, and his lengthy career as an editor in many genres, including horror (Ganja & Hess) an...
KQEK.com --- Interview with Cary Mansfield, Varese Sarabande's V.P. of A&R
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - October 13, 2016 03:25 - 27 minutesIn what’s hopefully the first in a series of vinyl related podcasts, I speak with Cary Mansfield, Varese Sarabande’s Vice President of A&R, about the label's recent trio of limited LP editions of catalogue titles – John Powell’s The Bourne Identity (2002), Don Davis’ The Matrix (1999), and Marco...
KQEK.com --- Interview with film composer Mike Higham, Part 1 (2016)
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - October 12, 2016 23:23 - 13 minutesIn a radical move for director Tim Burton, the score for his latest film was written by the collaborative team of Mike Higham and Matthew Margeson, both skilled in composing, orchestrating, and arranging for a diversity of projects (including several Hans Zimmer productions). I’ve divided the...
KQEK.com --- Interview with film composer Matthew Margeson (2016)
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - October 12, 2016 23:16 - 13 minutesIn a radical move for director Tim Burton, the score for his latest film was written by the collaborative team of Mike Higham and Matthew Margeson, both skilled in composing, orchestrating, and arranging for a diversity of projects (including several Hans Zimmer productions). I’ve divided the...
KQEK.com --- Interview with film composer Nima Fakhrara (2016)
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - July 14, 2016 18:38 - 24 minutesIn my latest conversation with Iranian-American composer Nima Fakhrara, we touch upon some of the organic experimentation that gives his recent horror score The Girl in the Photographs its eerie tenor, and the fusion of Persian and vintage electronic sounds for 1979 Revolution: Black Friday (of ...
KQEK.com --- The Mask (1961) + The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul book launch (2015)
KQEK.com Digital / Big Head Amusements / ArtScopeTO - Podcasts - May 16, 2016 19:07 - 30 minutesThis partial Editor's Blog features edited excerpts from the pre-screening intros of Julian Roffman's The Mask (1961), Canada's first feature-length 3D and horror film, screened in 2012 and 2015 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. The 2012 extract focuses on the fragile state of a rare 35mm print ...
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