Oct 1, 2026
Oct 1, 2026
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5.30pm
5.30pm
Critical Media Club
Critical Media Club
Critical Media Club
Alberta Number One
Alberta Number One
10/01/2026 @ 5:30 PM
Alberta Number One (2024)
A film by Alexander Carson
Artist talk + Q&A with the filmmaker in attendance
Presented by the Critical Media Club
Synopsis:
An eccentric documentary crew treks across the vast roadways of Alberta, Canada, to document monuments, museums, and other roadside curios. Armed with only a loose idea of the project’s final form, the wayward director struggles to manage a slew of messy personal entanglements and rivalries embroiling her collaborators. They look for meaning in the landscape, but their search turns inward as they’re inspired to reckon with their own lives.
Directed with a light touch, this charming cross-country odyssey is part revisionist Western and part road movie. Punctuated by moments of extraordinary tenderness and unexpected violence, it invokes poetry, magic, and prayer to imagine a radical, caring form of wildness on the Canadian frontier.
Bio:
Alexander (Sandy) Carson is a Canadian filmmaker whose work explores the intersection of collective practices and personal storytelling. Carson’s films have been screened at events such as the Toronto International Film Festival, the Reykjavik International Film Festival, and the San Francisco International Film Festival, where he received the Golden Gate Award for New Visions in 2014. Carson is a graduate of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University (BFA, MA) in Montreal, and a founding member of the North Country Cinema media arts collective in Calgary.
10/01/2026 @ 5:30 PM
Alberta Number One (2024)
A film by Alexander Carson
Artist talk + Q&A with the filmmaker in attendance
Presented by the Critical Media Club
Synopsis:
An eccentric documentary crew treks across the vast roadways of Alberta, Canada, to document monuments, museums, and other roadside curios. Armed with only a loose idea of the project’s final form, the wayward director struggles to manage a slew of messy personal entanglements and rivalries embroiling her collaborators. They look for meaning in the landscape, but their search turns inward as they’re inspired to reckon with their own lives.
Directed with a light touch, this charming cross-country odyssey is part revisionist Western and part road movie. Punctuated by moments of extraordinary tenderness and unexpected violence, it invokes poetry, magic, and prayer to imagine a radical, caring form of wildness on the Canadian frontier.
Bio:
Alexander (Sandy) Carson is a Canadian filmmaker whose work explores the intersection of collective practices and personal storytelling. Carson’s films have been screened at events such as the Toronto International Film Festival, the Reykjavik International Film Festival, and the San Francisco International Film Festival, where he received the Golden Gate Award for New Visions in 2014. Carson is a graduate of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University (BFA, MA) in Montreal, and a founding member of the North Country Cinema media arts collective in Calgary.
