ARTS & CULTURE
The ouroboros of nostalgia
The 2016 trend is everywhere on social media, but the discussion surrounding the year has a major oversight.
A lesson in obsession
The Vic Alumni Reading Series featuring Alex Pugsley
On modern art, or the need for the physical
A case for modern art as resistance to modernity
Why scrolling reels is exhausting
A cognitive-resource inspired take on the dopamine reward system for fast and complex media
Autumn is a ritual
Found families and the romance of academia
Living in a fantasy
“Playing house” in the ROM’s European exhibit
Nuit Blanche 2025
The city comes alive with colour and messages of resistance and hope
Grief, memory, and the movies
Eylul Guven in Blue Heron. Cr: TIFF Blue Herona film directed and written by Sophy Romvari, and screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 4–14, 2025 Affeksjonsverdi [Sentimental Value]a film directed by Joachim Trier and screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 4–14, 2025 After 11 long days, ...
FELT
Blake Williams and any consistency which forms a set FELTa film directed by Blake Williams and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 4–14, 2025 Blake Williams’s recent filmography is composed using anaglyph colour filters—the 3D effect produced by a stereoscope of chromatic opposites. FELT is first and foremost ...
Too much love for this life
A review of David Freyne’s Eternity Eternitya film directed by David Freyne and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 4–14, 2025 Death is humanity’s great unknown: we are constantly faced with the vast uncertainty of what happens when our mortal, physical bodies cease functioning. Where do we go ...