The Right Mirror
Curated by Panorama-cinéma, in collaboration with Festival Accès Asie, this retrospective explores the work of Keith Lock, Michael Snow’s former director of photography. His contribution to Canadian documentary filmmaking is now regarded as pivotal, particularly because it sheds light on a little-known chapter in the history of the Chinese diaspora in Canada.
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In the presence of Keith Lock
Through this program, which covers the first 15 years of Keith Lock’s career, we present 7 films with diverse styles and approaches that are evidence of a unique quest for identity in the history of Canadian cinema. Animation, experimental film, documentary, scripted and improvised fiction—all forms intersect in this rigorous exploration of styles that tentatively seek the right expression of a sense of community that rejects all forms of essentialism. Most of these films have never been shown in Quebec and will be screened in their original 16mm format.
Flights of Frenzy
Co-director. : Jim Anderson
[Can., 1969, 8 min, digital, no dialogue]
Touched
Co-director. : Jim Anderson
[Can., 1970, 12 min, 16 mm, English]
Base Tranquility
Co-director. : Jim Anderson
[Can., 1970, 7 min, 16 mm, no dialogue]
Arnold
Co-director. : Jim Anderson
[Can., 1971, 10 min, 16 mm, English]
Work Bike and Eat
Co-director. : Jim Anderson
[Can., 1972, 41 min, 16 mm, English]
Parade
[Can., 1977, 5 min, 16 mm, no dialogue]
A Brighter Moon
[Can., 1986, 26 min, 16 mm, English]
Keith Lock
Canada’s first Chinese Canadian filmmaker, Keith Lock, has an MFA in film from York University. His high school film, Flights of Frenzy, won Best Super 8 Award at the UNESCO 10th Muse International, Amsterdam, 1969. His experimental feature, Everything Everywhere Again Alive (1975) screened in TIFF’s Retrospective of Canadian Cinema,1984. In 2020, it was selected one of “100 Best Canadian Films of All Time”, by AGO Film Curator, Jim Shedden. Keith is the inaugural winner of the Reel Asian Film Festival’s Firehorse Award, 2022. He is the Executive Producer of the feature film, Café Daughter, 2023, Winner of Audience Choice Award at the ImagineNative Film Festival. His documentary, Relics of Love and War, 2023, tells a little known Chinese Canadian history and screened internationally in many film festivals and independent venues.
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