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Films by Michael Ondaatje

Films by Michael Ondaatje"Michael Ondaatjeäs film about The Farm Show is quite simply my favourite Canadian feature film - funny, touching and deeply moving - it is a national poem of breath-taking originality." - Allan King
For the first time ever, Michael Ondaatjeäs films are being released on DVD. This special collectoräs disc contains three seminal pieces of work created and shot in the 70äs by Canadaäs award-winning and internationally recognized author.

The Clinton Special: A Film About The Farm Show (1974, 71 mins.) chronicles a group of actors who in 1972 went into an Ontario farming community to build a play of what they saw and learned. This famous experimental collaborative 'grass-roots' play by Paul Thompson and Theatre Passe Muraille brought to that community a sense of awe, delight and reflection of their own language and culture. In Sons of Captain Poetry (1970, 29 mins.) Ondaatje captures the work and spirit of bpNichol (1944-88), ÜCanadaäs convention-shattering voice of poetry¹ (Globe & Mail). Ondaatje captures the artist/writer and sound performer and uncovers what made him influence a generation of North American and European poets and writers. Carry on Crime and Punishment (1970, 5 mins.), Ondaatjeäs whimsical slapstick 'docu-drama' follows a couple of crooked Canadian Poets who try to kidnap a dog. $34.95.

DVD Special Features

  • A conversation between Michael Ondaatje and David Young
  • Interviews with actors, directors and writers about how The Farm Show has continued to influence Canadian theatre
  • Inside Booklet Featuring Farm Show actors and bp nicol sketches and notes
  • Michael Ondaatje Biography

Also by Michael Ondaatje: The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film "The Conversations should be required reading for every aspiring writer -- and anyone else involved in learning to shape a work of art." Devin Crawley, Quill and Quire.

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