2018 PYIFF Dailies: Borders & Boundaries in Seigner’s Los Silencios & Xue’s The Crossing | Day 9

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These days, the notion of borders is commonly associated to building walls and keeping what some deem as social ills at arm’s length. In my screen pairing of the day in Beatriz Seigner‘s Los Silencios and festival award winner Bae Xue‘s The Crossing, one gets the sense that borders are about clutching onto positive streams of acute consciousness, keeping its inhabitants in a cloak like protective layering that and spaces that are boundaryless.

The pictures below represent what happens when you walk into a restaurant to discover a courtyard or you walk into a shop with no consumerist wants or needs. You’ll also find odds and ends videos of the last couple of days.

2018 PYIFF day 9

2018 PYIFF day 9

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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