{"id":788,"date":"2023-01-03T02:30:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T02:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jondavies.ca\/?page_id=788"},"modified":"2023-01-03T18:57:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T18:57:55","slug":"xtra-writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jondavies.ca\/?page_id=788","title":{"rendered":"Xtra! Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

“TIFF lands Jo\u00e3o Pedro Rodrigues retrospective”<\/a> in Xtra!<\/em>, 15 June, 2011. Interview with the Portuguese director.<\/p>\n

“John Greyson Has Got Us\u00a0Covered<\/em>“<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 10 September, 2009. Feature on filmmaker John Greyson and his new short\u00a0Covered<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Hide-&-Seek”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 10 September, 2009. Feature on filmmaker Jamie Travis and his new short\u00a0The Armoire<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cQueerly Provocative\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 4 December, 2008. Interview and article on Bruce LaBruce for his retrospective at the Royal Theatre, Toronto.<\/p>\n

\u201cFerocious Empathy\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 6 November, 2008. Article on Paul Wong.<\/p>\n

“Savagery, Slums & Cinema Magic”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 28 August, 2008. Feature interview with filmmaker Terence Davies and review of his film\u00a0Of Time and the City<\/em>\u00a0at the Toronto International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

“High Artifice & Raw Performances”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 17 July, 2008. Article on the Luchino Visconti retrospective at Cinematheque Ontario.<\/p>\n

“The Dream Machine”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 10 April, 2008. Interview and review of Nik Sheehan’s documentary\u00a0FLicKeR<\/em>\u00a0at Hot Docs.<\/p>\n

“Images Fest: GB Jones” and “Queer View”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 27 March, 2008. Interview and preview of Jones’s film\u00a0The Lollipop Generation<\/em>\u00a0and overview of queer programming at the Images Festival. Reprinted by Dirty Looks and Pleasure Dome in 2014.<\/p>\n

“Drawing Blood: Artist Daniel Barrow”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 27 March, 2008. Interview and preview of Barrow’s performance\u00a0Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry\u00a0<\/em>at the Harbourfront Centre (during the Images Festival).<\/p>\n

“Viva Anna Biller!”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, February 28, 2008. Review of Anna Biller’s film\u00a0Viva<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Deviant Wishes”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 6 December, 2007. Interview with John Waters about his one-man Christmas show.<\/p>\n

“Diva Face-off”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 13 September, 2007. Interview and profile of artist Francesco Vezzoli.<\/p>\n

“Breathing Life into Phantoms”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 7 June, 2007. Interview and profile of filmmaker Barbara Hammer.<\/p>\n

“The Lost World of Atlantis”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 24 May, 2007. Review of Mary Jordan’s film\u00a0Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Written in the Body”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 29 March, 2007. Review of Babette Mangolte’s film\u00a0Seven Easy Pieces by Marina Abramovic<\/em>\u00a0and other programming at the Images Festival.<\/p>\n

“Deeply Unsettled and Uncertain”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 1 March, 2007. Profile of artist Steve Reinke.<\/p>\n

“The Diva of Suburbia”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 1 February, 2007. Review of Oliver Husain’s video art trilogy\u00a0Swivel<\/em>,\u00a0Shrivel<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Squiggle<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 23 November, 2006. Biography of Charles Laughton and appreciation of his classic film\u00a0The Night of the Hunter<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Are You You or Are You Me?”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 17 August, 2006. Review of Louis Pepe & Keith Fulton’s film\u00a0Brothers of the Head<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Queer Manifestations”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 20 July, 2006. Review of the exhibition\u00a0Andy Warhol\/Supernova: Stars, Death and Disaster 1962-1964\u00a0<\/em>at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.<\/p>\n

“Prairie Babylon”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 13 April, 2006. Interview with artist Daniel Barrow and review of his public access TV curatorial project\u00a0Winnipeg Babysitter\u00a0<\/em>at the Images Festival.<\/p>\n

“The Passion”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 16 February, 2006. Review of Javier T\u00e9llez’s video installation La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (Rozelle Hospital)<\/em> at The Power Plant, Toronto.<\/p>\n

“Sexual Environments”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 2 February, 2006. Interview with painter Rebecca Anweiler and review of her exhibition Nature Lover<\/em> at Katherine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto.<\/p>\n

“Dawn of Gay Time”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 19 January, 2006. Review of Kenneth Anger’s 1947 film\u00a0Fireworks<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Astounding Adventure”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!, 5 <\/em>January, 2006. Review of John Geiger’s book “Nothing is True Everything is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin.”<\/p>\n

“The Bold and the Blubbering”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 22 December,\u00a0<\/a>2005. Compendium of the most potent scenes in sixties Hollywood queer cinema.<\/p>\n

“Bounding over Boundaries”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 10 November, 2005. Preview of the Toronto Dance Theatre and The Hidden Cameras’ performance In the Boneyard<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Love Avant-Garde”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 27 October, 2005. Reviews of The Memo Book<\/em> (ed. Stefanie Schulte) and of the art of Matthias M\u00fcller and Chirstoph Girardet.<\/p>\n

“Manned Claims”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 13 October, 2005. Feature interview with artist and filmmaker Kent Monkman.<\/p>\n

“Libertine Liar”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 21 July, 2005. Article on Federico Fellini’s 1969 film\u00a0Fellini Satyricon<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Eloquent Ambiguity”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 7 July, 2005. Review of the Fennel Plunger Corporation’s exhibition\u00a0Regarding the Pain of Susan Sontag (Notes on Camp)<\/em>\u00a0at Gallery TPW, Toronto.<\/p>\n

“Haunting Reality”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!, 9 <\/em>June, 2005. Interview and feature on Gregg Araki’s film Mysterious Skin<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“A Funky Parliament”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 26 May, 2005. Review of Luis Jacob’s installation\u00a0Flashlight<\/em>\u00a0at the Toronto Sculpture Garden.<\/p>\n

“Energetic Freedom”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 31 March, 2005. Review of the exhibition\u00a0Edgewise: A Slice of Video by Paul Wong<\/em>\u00a0at Vtape, Toronto.<\/p>\n

“Sexual Liberation”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 17 February, 2005. Review of Bruce LaBruce’s film\u00a0The Raspberry Reich<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Howling & Homemade”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 20 January, 2005. Review of Jonathan Caouette’s film\u00a0Tarnation<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Sex = Knowledge = Power”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 6 January, 2005. Career overview and interview with artist Shu Lea Cheang.<\/p>\n

“Humiliation”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 30 September, 2004. Review of Steve Reinke’s exhibition\u00a0Anthology of American Folk Son<\/em>g at Robert Birch Gallery. Revised and reprinted as “Anthology of American Folk Song<\/em>” in\u00a0The Little Joe Clubhouse Reader<\/em>, edited by Sam Ashby and printed 2012.<\/p>\n

“Trash or Treasure”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 8 July, 2004. Review of Laura Kikauka’s installation\u00a0Exactly the Same, But Completely Different <\/em>at The Power Plant, Toronto.<\/p>\n

“Flickering Liquor”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!<\/em>, 1 April, 2004. Review of Peter Kingstone’s video installation\u00a0The Strange Case of Peter K.\u00a0<\/em>(1974-2004).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“TIFF lands Jo\u00e3o Pedro Rodrigues retrospective” in Xtra!, 15 June, 2011. Interview with the Portuguese director. “John Greyson Has Got Us\u00a0Covered“\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!, 10 September, 2009. Feature on filmmaker John Greyson and his new short\u00a0Covered. “Hide-&-Seek”\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!, 10 September, 2009. Feature on filmmaker Jamie Travis and his new short\u00a0The Armoire. \u201cQueerly Provocative\u201d\u00a0in\u00a0Xtra!, 4 December, 2008. Interview and article […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-788","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jondavies.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jondavies.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jondavies.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jondavies.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jondavies.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jondavies.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/jondavies.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/788\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jondavies.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}