291 Film Company
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Nominated for Two Gemini Awards
in 2007
Best Direction in a Documentary Series
Ian Toews, Landscape as Muse II: The Forest with Peter
von Tiesenhausen
and
Best Performing Arts Program or Series or Arts
Documentary Program or Series
Ian Toews, Landscape as Muse III
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| Director, Producer: Ian Toews |
| Regina, Saskatchewan |
Landscape as Muse Season II
Full Season - $69.99 CDN (13 episodes)
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| Landscape as Muse showcases both the world-class artists and 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
Three of our gallery artists were featured in Season II:
Their DVD's are available in the gallery at $24.95 CDN each
Scroll down for more information on each DVD.
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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.
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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 |
