On ancestral responsibility and how to pull off cinematic interventions as an independent filmmaker.

Vancouverites know of Seán Devlin as a stand-up comedian or as the prankster that orchestrated a tactical media intervention against a former Canadian Prime Minister. The local artist is back in the limelight, this time as a filmmaker, with his genre-defying feature film, Asog. 

Art that makes you linger a little longer, that draws your attention to a quiet detail you might have missed at first glance is a rare gift. Missing Pieces, Seema Shah’s solo art show at Outsiders and Others from August 2 to 30, is one such gift. Seema is a collage artist and writer based in Vancouver, BC.

The show features a collection of 366 miniature collages on shipping tags, each just 2 ¾” x 1 ⅜”, created daily throughout 2024, alongside earlier works on tags and vintage envelopes from 2014. The repetition of form, the layering of paper and the juxtaposition of image and text create a language that, when viewed together, hums with the ongoing work of living and the gift of small surprises along the way.