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291 Film Company
We are pleased that four of our gallery artists have been filmed for the Landscape As Muse Series. Landscape as Muse is aired on Bravo!, SCN, Knowledge Network, CBC’s Bold & Documentary, ACCESS, AVRO (Netherlands), The Arts Channel (New Zealand), and episodes have been licensed for in-flight screenings on Air Canada. It has been purchased by the National Gallery of Canada, the Glenbow Museum, a variety of schools, and the Banff Centre. We have episodes available at our gallery for purchase.
Landscape as Muse and the 291 Film Company were awarded a Gemini Award
in 2008 and the CFTPA Indie Award in 2009.
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| Director, Producer: Ian Toews |
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Regina, Saskatchewan
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Landscape as Muse Season II
Full Season - $69.99 CDN (13 episodes at 30 minutes each, episodes 14 through 26)
Landscape as Muse Season IV
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Landscape as Muse Season V
Full Season - $39.99 CDN each (6 episodes per season at 30 minutes each, episodes 40-5 and then episodes 46-51)
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| Landscape as Muse showcases both the world-class artists and the spectacular
landscapes that are found in Canada. Following the artist's gaze,
this beautiful cinematic series examines the inspirational relationship
that exists between artists and landscape. Each episode is approximately 30 minutes long.
Three of our gallery artists were featured in Landscape as Muse Season II and more recently one of our gallery artists is in Landscape As Muse Season V:
Each DVD is available in the gallery at $24.95 CDN each, scroll down for more information on each episode.
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Episode 18
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| Peace-Athabasca Delta with Doug Haynes |
| One of the largest freshwater deltas on earth, the Peace-Athabasca is a
UNESCO world heritage site. Hundreds of thousands of birds,
including the endangered whooping crane, come here to nest. From the
air and on the ground, painter Doug Haynes draws upon the shapes,
textures, and light of the delta for a series of paper works. He
provides us detailed insight into his process: transforming his initial
impressions and experiences of the landscape by manipulating scale and
media through collage. Later in his Edmonton studio, Haynes further
re-works and refines the original works on paper into large-scale
canvases.
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| Episode 25 |
| Waterton Lakes National Park with Tom Willock |
| Waterton Lakes National Park marks an abrupt convergence of the Great
Plains and the Rocky Mountains. This dramatic meeting of ecosystems
and landforms makes the Waterton area one of the most biologically and
geographically diverse locations in Canada.
Tom Willock's rich black and white large-format photographs capture the
texture and drama of this landscape. Underlying the aesthetic value
of these images is an unwavering concern for the preservation of nature.
When I photograph something, I secure it in my own mind. I secure it
for myself. Just to show what we really are losing - or
saving. These photographs are real. These aren't imaginary
places, this is what our earth looks like.
This episode was purchased for screening by AVRO, a large broadcaster in the Netherlands.
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| Episode 26 |
| The Forest with Peter von Tiesenhausen |
| West-Central Alberta's Peace River country is a mosaic of aspen
woodlands and fescue grassland laid out over the gently rolling foothills
of the Rockies. Here, amid Alberta's vast oil and gas fields and
insatiable logging industry, Peter von Tiesenhausen's isolated farm has
remained relatively untouched - except by his own hand. Using
materials that the land provides - trees, wood, pulp, rock, fire, ash -
von Tiesenhausen, his home, and his art demonstrate an inextricable link
to nature:
I use the landscape and nature because it's right here. I
understand it better than I understand anything else. It becomes my
philosophy. It becomes my artwork. It is co-creating with me
This episode was nominated for a Gemini Award (2007) and was accepted to the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula Montana (2008).
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| Episode 46 |
| The Searcher John Chalke |
Governor General's Award-winning ceramicist John Chalke is an explorer, cowboy, and child at heart. His search for the perfect clay leads him to Saskatchewan's Frenchman River Valley. Later in his Calgary studio, he uses both rigorous and playful techniques as well as sophisticated glazes to create experimental pieces. Finally, a firing in his kiln transforms the earth into elegant works of art.
Our gallery was pleased to screen The Searcher - John Chalke at our recent artist's reception for the exhibition John Chalke The Shape I'm In (June 2009).
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