One could be forgiven for assuming the Nitrate Picture Show proffers sanctuary from the uncertainty reigning outside, but this year’s edition inverted this presumed mandate, with a program of films that presented the past not as a refuge from our present tumult, but as a reflection of it.
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Dylan Adamson is a critic and programmer based in Toronto. His writing on cinema can be found at MUBI Notebook, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Screen Slate, In Review Online, and Ultra Dogme. He is currently employed as an audiovisual archivist with the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and he has guest-programmed film series at TIFF and Anthology Film Archives.

