Arts

Rubber
Directed by Quentin Dupieux
Distributed by Magnet Releasing

Have you ever seen an abandoned tire by the road and wondered if it would ever try to kill you?

Rubber, a wildly original genre experiment, is probably the only film where that’s an option.

Horror movies about cars are nothing new, but Rubber strips away everything but a lone homicidal tire, who becomes self-aware and learns he can blow things up with his mind.

If she had wanted to, Katie Stelmanis could have been an opera singer. Instead, she’s become an electro-pop powerhouse, known by most as the frontwoman of burgeoning Canadian club act Austra.

Stelmanis has always been involved in music. As a kid, she studied piano, viola, and sang with the Canadian Opera Company’s youth choir. But instead of staying classical and studying opera after high school, she started an alt-rock band.

The leftovers of most anniversary parties include deflated balloons, leftover pieces of cake, empty bottles of champagne and a few lipstick-stained napkins left haphazardly on the dinning room table. However, the remnants of Carleton University’s School for Studies in Arts and Culture’s 20th anniversary are more philosophical than your typical celebration.

As the May 13 celebration drew to a close, the dean of the school, Brian Foss said it has been a time to not only focus on past achievements, but the future of the school.

From the violent brushstrokes that captured Rita Letendre’s youth on canvas to the soft fading lines in her more recent prints, the contemporary artist said the exhibition gave her a retrospective look at her career and her life.

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