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A B O U T
Brett Kashmere is a Pittsburgh-based filmmaker, curator, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at Oberlin College in Ohio, USA.
His work combines traditional research methods with hybrid interfaces,
handmade equipment, and materialist aesthetics. Through intricate experimental documentaries and unadorned camera movies, Kashmere explores
the intersection of history and (counter-) memory, geographies of identity, and the politics of representation. His films, videos and scholarship
have been presented at festivals, conferences and venues internationally and used in university curricula. The film scholar Thomas Waugh writes that
Kashmere’s essay-film Valery’s Ankle, about the contradiction of hockey violence and Canadian identity,
“may well give momentum (and integrity) to the discourses
of sports, masculinity, and nationalism in Canadian cinemas.”
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N E W S
An article I co-wrote with Astria Suparak about Canadian live cinema practices is now available on my
website here.
It will also be published in forthcoming volume, Cinematograph 7: Live Cinema, edited by Thomas Beard.
I'm currently writing an essay about Garine Torossian's collage film Sparklehorse for an anthology on Torossian's work being produced
by the Canadian Film Institute.
"Counter-Archive," the second issue of INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics
is in production and should be available in May 2010. Watch for upcoming launch parties in Oberlin, Pittsburgh, and elsewhere.
Also, Valery's Ankle will soon be available for online viewing via the Hot Docs Doc Library.
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VALERY'S ANKLE!
 Valery's Ankle
An essay-film by Brett Kashmere
Canada, 31 minutes, digital video, colour, 2006Music by Mitchell Akiayma
In September 1972 Canadian hockey pros faced the amateur Soviets for the first time ever. Canada's victory in this famous Cold War showdown, thanks to a last-minute winning goal, has become the most celebrated Canadian story of all time. But the games were also marked by extreme acts of violence that are only subconsciously remembered.
Valery's Ankle explodes the spectacle of hockey violence and its representation in North American media. From Eddie Shore's vicious, career-ending hit on Ace Bailey, to Bobby Clarke's pre-emptive smashing of rival star Valery Kharlamov's ankle, to Todd Bertuzzi's revenge assault on Steve Moore, filmmaker Brett Kashmere uncovers a disturbing history of unforetold and abject Canadian aggression.
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