Arts

With kung-fu, kebabs and the clashing of cultures, Kebab Connection kicked off Carleton’s German film series Sept. 21 in Paterson Hall.

Anno Saul’s Kebab Connection (2004) is the first of four films in the German film series organized by Carleton’s department of language and linguistic studies, along with the support of the German Embassy and the Goethe-Institut, which provided the films.

“3, 2, 1, raise it!” yelled an excited crowd of approximately 100 in the tight, but intimate Mercury Lounge for the Capital Slam poetry season launch Sept. 17.

“Raise It” is a ritual where audience members pump their fists into the air at the Ottawa poetry series before nervous poets take the stage.

As opposed to making an EP in a studio, Ottawa band StillNative looked back to the sounds of nature and decided to record in a forest, said lead guitarist and vocalist Patrick Bourget.

“We also just wanted to go away for a bit and be isolated and have some time to really put some of the material down,” Bourget said.

While some bands might think the only way to get a good quality recording is by renting a high-tech studio, it seems going back to making self-produced albums is also an option.

Film connoisseurs in Ottawa gathered Sept. 17 for a rare screening of Deadly Eyes, the first film in the Canadian Cult Revue series at the Mayfair Theatre.

The series, which runs through April 4, is put together by the Lost Dominion Screening Collective. It plays host to a wide range of different films, released as far back as the early 60s to recent underground films, and hopes to give filmgoers a chance to see material unavailable in any other form.

The outline of an old barn, the silhouette of a child swimming and a foggy landscape are all snapshots of memories Ottawa artist Leslie Reid has captured in her paintings hung on the walls of the Carleton University Art Gallery.

The paintings, which resemble fuzzy photographs, are meant to make audiences reflect on memories, Reid said.