Well-Kept Secrets
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 the filmmakers
To accompany the special screening of Keith Lock’s latest film, Relics of Love and War—about the secret lives of his father, a spy, and his mother, a microbiologist, during World War II—we will present a carte blanche program curated by the Accès Asie Festival in the second half of the evening, featuring three short films by Rui Ting Ji (Still Moving), Gavin Seal (Brotherly), and kimura byol lemoine (TTT). The screening will be followed by a discussion between Keith Lock and the three filmmakers.
Relics of Love and War by Keith Lock
[Can., 2023, 44 min, digital, English]
Still Moving by Rui Ting Ji
[Qué., 2025, 11 min, digital, English, Mandarin with English subtitles]
Brotherly by Gavin Seal
[Qué., 2025, 9 min, digital, English]
TTT by kimura byol lemoine
[Qué., 2024, 3 min, digital, 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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