Corner Pieces

by Lance Blomgren

Corner Pieces is Lance Blomgren's eagerly anticipated follow-up to Walkups, his docudrama about Montreal apartments. Evolving out of Blomgren's ongoing fascination with architecture, Corner Pieces finds his distinctive voice expanding out of the domestic sphere and moving onto the streets. Composed as a series of elegies to particular places, both real and imaginary, Corner Pieces traces a cartography of desire and frustration, loss and redemption, set amidst the backdrop of the contemporary urban spectacle. In Blomgren's city, the familiar becomes decidely strange. Street corners,...

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