{"id":18916,"date":"2011-04-01T09:02:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T13:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=18916"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:28:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:28:46","slug":"watch-nfb-radiant-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/04\/01\/watch-nfb-radiant-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch NFB: Radiant City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"516\" height=\"337\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"mID=IDOBJ37571&amp;bufferTime=10&amp;width=516&amp;height=337&amp;image=http:\/\/media1.nfb.ca\/medias\/nfb_tube\/thumbs_large\/2011\/Radiant-city_tv-big.jpg&amp;showWarningMessages=false&amp;streamNotFoundDelay=15&amp;lang=en&amp;getPlaylistOnEnd=true&amp;playlist_id=REL179&amp;embeddedMode=true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/media1.nfb.ca\/medias\/flash\/ONFflvplayer-gama.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"516\" height=\"337\" src=\"http:\/\/media1.nfb.ca\/medias\/flash\/ONFflvplayer-gama.swf\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"mID=IDOBJ37571&amp;bufferTime=10&amp;width=516&amp;height=337&amp;image=http:\/\/media1.nfb.ca\/medias\/nfb_tube\/thumbs_large\/2011\/Radiant-city_tv-big.jpg&amp;showWarningMessages=false&amp;streamNotFoundDelay=15&amp;lang=en&amp;getPlaylistOnEnd=true&amp;playlist_id=REL179&amp;embeddedMode=true\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Editor<\/strong><\/em>: <em>Spacing is pleased to continue our partnership with the <a title=\"NFB.ca\" href=\"http:\/\/nfb.ca\/\"><strong>National Film Board of Canada<\/strong><\/a> to showcase films and interactive projects from their online screening   room. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nfb.ca\/author\/julie-matlin\/\">Julie Matlin<\/a> of the NFB will be occasionally posting films here  on  Spacing that explore public spaces, Canadian or international cities   and anything urban. The NFB is one of Canada&#8217;s greatest resources.  Click  <a title=\"NFB.ca\" href=\"http:\/\/nfb.ca\/\">here<\/a> to view their entire online collection. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Grey Line\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/images\/line-grey-1pixel-600wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"NFB.ca - Radiant City\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/radiant_city\/\"><em><strong>Radiant City<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is one of those films that turn the documentary genre on its head.<\/p>\n<p>Director <a title=\"IMDB - Gary Burns\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0122672\/\">Gary Burns<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0219405\/\"><em>Waydowntown<\/em><\/a>) joins journalist Jim Brown on an outing into the Calgary suburbs and together they demonstrate how urban sprawl is eating the planet. They look at the brutalizing aesthetic of strip malls and listen to fears about the soul-eating suburbs. Making heavy use of cultural references, they riff off sitcoms and reality TV and drop names from Jane Jacobs to <em>The Sopranos<\/em> while all the while using a wide range of cinematic devices to examine what happens when cities get sick and mutate.<\/p>\n<p>Happy viewing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor: Spacing is pleased to continue our partnership with the National Film Board of Canada to showcase films and interactive projects from their online screening room. Julie Matlin of the NFB will be occasionally posting films here on Spacing that explore public spaces, Canadian or international cities and anything urban. The NFB is one of<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/04\/01\/watch-nfb-radiant-city\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Watch NFB: Radiant City&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4093,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21759,15,14],"tags":[661,457,17333,353,195,17332,504,196,1460,13013,193,16478,11604,194,17334,75,192,97],"class_list":["post-18916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-media","category-spacing","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-cinematic-devices","tag-director","tag-gary-burns","tag-gary-burns-waydowntown","tag-jane-jacobs","tag-jim-brown","tag-journalist","tag-julie-matlin","tag-nfb","tag-online-collection","tag-online-screening-room","tag-radiant-city","tag-radiant-city-editor","tag-suburbs","tag-urban-sprawl","tag-watch-nfb"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Watch NFB: Radiant City - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/04\/01\/watch-nfb-radiant-city\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Watch NFB: Radiant City - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Editor: Spacing is pleased to continue our partnership with the National Film Board of Canada to showcase films and interactive projects from their online screening room. 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