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October 18, 2006
Atomic energy: Egoyan instructs
Atom Egoyan's directed opera, shorts and multimedia on top of his feature work: now those who can direct, decide to teach for three years, reports the CBC. 
"Canadian film director Atom Egoyan sees his three-year teaching stint at the University of Toronto as a way of extending his creativity into a new form." The course, which began in September, won't be "Atom Egoyan 101," yet "his own films and a reading list will form part of the course material and he plans a series of artistic labs, where he and his students will work through the process of artistic creation. "It's not a traditional course... We will look at how works translate from one medium to another, which is my area of interest." His dilettantism is purposeful. ""I think for me the peak of it came around 1998 when I was nominated for the Academy Award for The Sweet Hereafter, but I was doing a premiere of a new opera in London, and at the same time I was doing this experimental chamber piece and there was this surprise that someone who's riding the crest of the commercial film world would be interested in these other mediums... I just find that baffling because it's what nourishes what I do." Egoyan's post at U of T? "The dean's distinguished visitor in theatre, film, music and visual studies." Working with the ideas of 20 year olds, Egoyan says, means that "The discussions of how images affect our lives are as acute as ever."
Posted by Ray Pride at October 18, 2006 12:04 PM
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