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Pleasant Artistic Experience

Michał Kozłowski
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The best and worst of Whitehorse, during the Available Light Film Festival, February 29

Telefilm Canada: “Just watch
it.” (You know, like Nike, except Nike dropped that line years ago.)

A
character from
directed
by Juraj Lehotský): “We wish you a pleasant artistic experience.”

directed by Brett Gaylor, about the mash-up
artist Girl Talk: “He dropped AC/DC in the middle of Black-Eyed Peas. People were blogging
about it for weeks.”

, directed by Danny
Boyle and Loveleen Tandan (the film did not play at the festival), heard in a
bar in Whitehorse: “So this kid wins a hundred million rubbles or whatever. The
movie’s based on
—you know that one? You
know it’s funny to hear it in East Indian. But I got to tell you, it was time
well spent.”

“If you’re gonna act like a drunk, I’m gonna treat
you like a drunk.”

Worst evaluation of Whitehorse,

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Michał Kozłowski

Michal Kozlowski is the former publisher and editor-in-chief of Geist. Read his work at geist.com.

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