Images require no words to tell a story and it follows therefore that film and photography are both best equipped to bridge the divides between people.
Taking that as a simple premise, filmmaker Atom Egoyan and academic Ian Balfour take us through this 550 page tome to explore the power of the image in Subtitles: on the foreignness of film.
Reading Atom Egoyan is the literary equivalent of watching one of his highly stylised movies. His ideas and the way he presents them require subtitles and who better to explore the meaning of "foreignness" than an Armenian born in Cairo and living most of his life in Toronto, Canada?
What draws us into this exploration into the role and effect of images and image-makers is Egoyan's... MORE
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