Jason Rodi

This year, more than ever, I’ve felt grateful and proud to be Canadian. Filming The Canadian from Toronto to Vancouver was my way of rediscovering the country, not through commentary, but through presence. Across 28 hours of Slow TV, I invite you to look out the train window as generations have before: lakes, prairies, Rockies. These rails are more than steel, they’re the veins of our history, carrying memory and identity across the land.

I’ve always had a complicated relationship with screens. As a filmmaker and cinephile, my life revolves around them. As a self-proclaimed...

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave  suggests that reality is but an illusion, a dance of light and shadows  that we take for granted. We...