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Author: Ron Burnett, President and Vice Chancellor Emeritus of Emily Carr University
Mort Ransen, who recently died at the age of 88, is a prominent Canadian filmmaker. Sadly, his death gained little media politics, evidence of a large gap between Canada’s arts sector and the Canadian media and public.
We celebrate a small number of successful writers, filmmakers, theatricals, artists and dancers in the country, but we send the vast majority of creators involved in many fields, practices and disciplines to the margins of society.
It is an integral component of the intense regionalization of the country, the lack of wisdom of the extremely vital paintings being carried out in many disciplines in Quebec, and the isolation of the Maritime and Western from the general public of Ontario. , but center them in Ottawa with a few exceptions.
The hub of Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa is home to the vast majority of the country’s artistic practitioners. There is no unified national style motivated by the popularity that we live and breathe culture on a basis. There are very few national cross-cultural projects that inspire Canadians to reflect on their cultural priorities.
True masterpiece of cinema
Ransen, who from Montreal, lived the last component of his life on Saltspring Island in British Columbia. His ultimate life film, Christopher’s Movie Matinee, is a masterpiece of true cinema, precursor to many films that copied his casual taste and his real life. The cameraman who worked with Ransen, Martin Duckworth, is one of the most important filmmakers in the history of Canadian cinema.
Frederick Wiseman, the other master of this taste for cinema, made his call with a film titled High School the same year (1968) that Christopher’s Movie Matinee released. Both men have a debt to Pierre Perrault, Gilles Groulx and Michel Brault of the National. Film Board, whose paintings in the 1950s made Canada a world leader in documentary making.
I met Ransen in 1968 when he was an assistant coach for a giant film of elegance at McGill University. At the time, Ransen was interested in putting the creativity team in the hands of young people. this factor in elegance because he believed in democracy, making the creativity team available to everyone and giving voice to those excluded from the film industry.
A of cinema
Ransen a sweet and loving soul, a guy loyal to cinema and a life as a director. He made a short documentary called Falling From Ladders in 1969 in collaboration with the Swedish Film Institute that documents and explains our culture’s obsession with data.
The NFB noted that “simply by putting twenty Swedish men, women and young people in front of their camera and having them read the Statistical Yearbook aloud, filmmaker Mort Ransen recorded a wide diversity of impressions of Sweden’s economic and social existence. the complete diversity of exports and imports, from marriages formed or dissolved, to the number of other people falling off the ladder each year. The film cannot be had on the NFB website, which is a real shame.
Ransen described his career in Making Movie History, a short film and film that shows just how artistic Ransen was. During the movie, Ransen mentions Arthur Lipsett, who also worked at the NFB. Lipsett’s film, Very Nice, Very Nice, is a true masterpiece and has influenced Ransen and many other filmmakers for decades to come.
During this same era of 1955-69, explosions of experimentation occurred in the cinema in Toronto and Vancouver.
Take One, one of the first film magazines, was founded in 1966 in Montreal. Joyce Wieland began directing some of the most vital films of the decade. The migration of experimental filmmaker David Rimmer influenced filmmakers across the country. The same goes for Gary Lee. -Nova, whose film Steel Mushrooms is worth a visit. Kathleen Shannon began discussing the founding of Studio D on the NFB this time. Kathleen Shannon: On Film, Feminism
Ransen painted in a context of tumultuous change in which an entirely new cinematic language was being created. Canada was at the forefront in the 1950s and 1960s in creating the cultural foundations of a national cinema. how vital cinema has been to our cultural history and how vital it is to tell a new generation about our heritage.
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