fig. a: Shipwreck!*
Things that quickened the heart and managed to keep it beating, 2025 edition.
Moving Images
Twin Peaks Night (A Tribute to David Lynch), Microcinema, Niagara Artists Centre, February 6, 2025—featuring the pilot episode of Twin Peaks, as seen on Global TV in 1990, complete with all the original ads
Soundtrack to a Coup d’État, dir. Grimonprez
The Secret Agent, dir. Mendonça
Vermiglio, dir. Delpero
Instruments of the Beating Heart, dir. Yamazaki
Eno, dir. Hustwit
Little, Big, and Far, dir. Cohen
Sentimental Value, dir. Trier
Hamnet, dir. Zhao
Cover-Up, dir. Obenhaus and Poitras
Expo 67 Expanded Cinema screening at the Niagara Artists Centre, November 2025
Nickel Boys, dir. Ross
Sinners, dir. Coogler
It Was Only An Accident, dir. Panahi
The Leopard, dir. Visconti—35mm print, Metrograph, New York City, July 2025
Union, dir. Maing and Story
Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29, dir. Rafferty
Nouvelle Vague, dir. Linklater
The New Yorker at 100, dir. Curry
Black Bag, dir. Soderbergh
The Curse of the Cat People, dir. Von Fritsch/Wise @ the Cinémathèque Française
The Man Who Skied Down Everest, dir. Crawley and Nyznik
Expo 67 (a.k.a., The Exponauts), dir. Bonnière [prod. Crawley Films]
The Brock University Film Society’s “Festival of Fifty,” celebrating its 50th anniversary
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), dir. Forman
Jaws (1975), dir. Spielberg
Three Days of the Condor (1975), dir. Pollack
Barry Lyndon (1975), dir. Kubrick
The Mighty Niagara Film Festival 2025
Marcel Broodthaers showcase, Anthology Film Archives, July 2025
The American Revolution, dir. Burns, Botstein & Schmidt
Song
The Secret Agent OST
Sentimental Value OST
Soundtrack to a Coup d’État OST
Nina Simone, “The Ballad of Hollis Brown”
Destroyer, Dan’s Boogie
sample track: “Bologna (feat. Fiver)”
Destroyer @ Foufounes Electriques, Montreal, QC, October 9, 2025
Six Arils, In Carnations
sample track: “Tomorrow’s Bird”
Steve Gunn, Daylight Daylight
Blonde Redhead, The Shadow of the Guest
sample track: “Before (Choir Version)”
Foxwarren, 2
Labi Siffre, Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying
Hania Rani, Esja
Conjunto Concerto Viola, “Retiro: Temo de Amor Número 3”
Ennio Morricone, “Guerra e pace, pollo e brace 1”
Nancy Sinatra, “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)”
Sudan Archives, The BPM
sample track: “YEA YEA YEA"
Cate Le Bon, Michaelangelo Dying
Austra, “Fallen Cloud”
Rosalía, “Reliquia” & “La Rumba del Perdón”
Mind Enterprises, “Misty Jungle”
Mocky, “Music Will Explain”
Ahmed Malek, Habibi Funk 003: Musique Originale de Films
Ahmed Malek, Habibi Funk 027: Musique Originale de Films (Volume 2)
v/a, Habibi Funk 015: An Eclectic Selection of Music From the Arab World, Part 2
sample track: Fadoul, “Ahl Jedba”
Mavis Staples at the Montreal International Jazz Festival
Gloria Jones, Vixen
v/a, This is Northern Soul
sample track: Rita & the Tiaras, “Gone With the Wind is My Love”
v/a, Eccentric Northern Soul
Nâ Hawa Doumbia, La Grande Cantatrice Malienne
v/a, Edna Martinez Presents Picó: Sound System Culture From the Colombian Caribbean
La Serenissima, Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
Concerto No. 1 in E Major, RV 269 "Spring": II. Largo & Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, RV 315 "Summer": III. Presto
Vanilla Fudge, “You Keep Me Hangin’ On”
v/a, Eccentric Soul: The Tragar & Note Labels
v/a, Congo Revolution (Revolutionary and Evolutionary Sounds from the Two Congos) [1955-62]
v/a, African Jazz Invites OK Jazz (1961-1970)
sample track: “Clarie Télé”
Amir Amiri & Christophe Lamarche Ledoux, Une Langue Universelle/Universal Language OST
Billy Joe Royal, “Hush”
Lou Barlow, Plainfield Opera House, Plainfield, VT, August 2025
Myriam Gendron, Ma Délire
Derya Yildirim & Grup Şimşek, Yarin Yoksa
Geese, “Trinidad”
Summer Soulstice, with DJ Tom Mix, Memorial Hall, North Calais, VT
Food & Drink
King Street Pantry, St. Catharines, ON
Takja BBQ, Toronto, ON
Mhel, Toronto, ON
Caputo’s/Luisa Abram, Wild Juruá Brazilian Cacao
Hinterland, East Albany, VT
Wilson Herb Farm, Greensboro, VT
La Cabra, NYC
Elbow Bakery, NYC
Le Bistrot Paul Bert, Paris, France
Le Baron Rouge, Paris, France
Tapisserie, Paris, France
Comptoir sur mer, Paris, France
Holy Belly, Paris, France
tinned fish from Lisbon, Portugal
Café de São Bento, Lisbon, Portugal
pastéis de nata @ Manteigaria, Lisbon, Portugal
Pig & Khao, NYC
Baba au rhum à la Michelle
La Lune, Montreal, QC
Pasta Pooks, Montreal, QC
Hainanese Chicken Pop-Up, J’ai Feng, Montreal, QC (with chefs Jesse Grasso & Marc-Olivier Frappier)
Michelle Marek & Camilla Wynne, All That Crumbs Allow + book launch @ Good Egg, Toronto, ON
Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle
Patti Smith, Bread of Angels
Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country
Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything
Deborah Levy, August Blue
Lauren Elkin, No. 91/92: A Diary of a Year on the Bus
Lauren Elkin, Flâneuse
Rowan Jacobsen, Wild Chocolate: Across the Americas In Search of Cacao’s Soul
Ernesto “Che” Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America
Alissa Timoshkina, Kapusta: Vegetable-Forward Recipes From Eastern Europe
Eric Hazan, A Walk Through Paris: A Radical Exploration
Eric Hazan, The History of the Barricade
Linda Rosenkrantz, Peter Hujar’s Day
Chelsea Edgar, “The Motley Vermont Town Trying to Tell Its Own Story,” The New Yorker, January 31, 2025
Movie, No. 1, June 1962
The Canadian Journal of Film and Media Studies, special issue on Crawley Films of Ottawa
Elijah Wald, Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties
Luisa Weiss, Classic German Cooking
Miscellany
“A Boy in a Beauty Parlour: Collages by Guy Maddin, “ Niagara Artists Centre, November 2025
“Agnès Varda’s Paris: From Here to There,” Musée Carnavalet, Paris, May 2025
“Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction,” Museum of Modern Art, NYC, July 2025
“Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography,” Museum of Modern Art, NYC, July 2025
Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France
Crawley Films research, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa
After the City Symphony Symposium, Université Toulouse—Jean Jaurès, May 2025
Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France
“Joyce Wieland: Heart On,” Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal, QC
“Battre le pavé: la photo de rue à Montréal,” McCord Museum, Montreal, QC
“Costume Balls: Dressing Up History, 1870-1927,” McCord Museum, Montreal, QC
ouija board by Eighty A Day ( @eightyaday )
tiles at Cortiço & Neto, Lisbon, Portugal
A Vida Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal
Musée Paul Dupuy, Toulouse, France
Paynter jackets
Équipement audio & réparation audio, Aux 33 Tours, Montreal, QC
R.I.P.
Marianne Faithfull
David Lynch
Bill Fay
Terence Stamp
Garth Hudson
David Johansen
Jane Goodall
Max Romeo
Sly Stone
Rob Reiner
Sebastiao Salgado
Roberta Flack
Lalo Schifrin
Jimmy Cliff
Steve Cropper
Robert Redford
Gene Hackman
Mani
among others…
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*“Botched Suicide Pact” by Guy Maddin, “A Boy in a Beauty Parlour: Collages by Guy Maddin,” Niagara Artists Centre, November 2025.