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The underappreciated visual poetry of Satyajit Ray
Peak Web September 13, 2024By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer “What interests me is density, how much can you tell, how telling can you make your images.” — Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray was a Bengali filmmaker, composer, and writer from Calcutta (now known as Kolkata, India). During the early 1950s, Ray was an advertiser interested in telling stories that mattered to him. He had no funding for a film, so he managed to borrow a 16mm camera, gather a crew of amateur actors, and began filming in a village near Calcutta, called Boral. The village was rich with nature, from large fields with the occasional…
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Renowned Canadian author and storyteller Ivan Coyote begins new position at SFU
Peak Web September 30, 2018Written by Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor Beginning this fall, Canadian storyteller and filmmaker Ivan Coyote took over as the SFU english department’s 2018–19 writer in residence. Discussing their new role at SFU, Coyote told The Peak that they…
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