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<div><b>Atom Egoyan</b><br>
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<div><img src="cid:f0624080dd4048bd76e36@[192.168.0.59].1.0"><font
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Arts</font></div>
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<div>The MacKenzie Art Gallery, in collaboration with Strandline
Curatorial Collective and University of Regina, brings to North
America, for the first time, Atom Egoyan's most important lens-based
installation work to date. The<i> Steenbeckett</i> immerses the viewer
in a continuously moving web of 35mm film strung floor to ceiling and
wall to wall. Driven by a Steenbeck editing table, the 2,000-foot film
loop features the last reel of Egoyan's brilliant film adaptation of
the Samuel Beckett play<i> Krapp's Last Tape</i>. With the wear and
tear produced by each rotation of celluloid through the system, the
whole work edges, like Krapp himself, inexorably toward extinction.
For the MacKenzie installation, Egoyan takes advantage of noise
cancelling headphones, to project a digitally remastered version of
the film within the same space as the meandering and chattering film
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<div><b>MacKenzie Art Gallery</b></div>
<div>3475 Albert St<br>
Regina SK S4S 6X6</div>
<div>Canada</div>
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<div>www.egoyanatthemackenzie.ca</div>
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<div><b>About Atom Egoyan</b></div>
<div>Atom Egoyan is one of the most celebrated contemporary filmmakers
on the international scene. His body of work-which includes
independent features, television, theatre, music, opera, and art
installations-delves into issues of memory, displacement, and the
impact of technology and media on modern life. As a lens-based
installation artist, Egoyan has contributed to the development of
expanded cinema through his work on trauma, memory, and witnessing as
they relate to historical events, such as the Armenian Genocide and
diaspora, and more personal histories involving desire, lost love, and
family relations.</div>
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