Film and music at Monday event at Catalina’s
Newfoundland musician and filmmaker Ian Foster will screen his new film, Keystone, Monday night at Catalina’s on Hunter St. W.
He’ll also perform. Showtime is 7 p.m.
Foster wrote and directed the short film and wrote its music. It’s described as a story of memory, “and our tendency to want those memories to follow a narrative, even though life is rarely that organized and simple,” a press release states.
The film is being distributed by Gonella Production in France, and has been screened around the county and in the U.S. Screenings include its world premiere at the Calgary International Film Festival in 2015 and showcases at other festivals.
In the film, an older man named Jack starts losing his memory, so he visits an organization called Keystone which makes important memories unforgettable. This leads him to review his relationship with one woman and the importance he’s always assigned to their time together.
Foster has been compared to Bruce Cockburn and Daniel Lanois. His latest album, Sleeper Years (2017) features acoustic tunes and cinematic pieces that tie into his film work.
“The common thread between a lot of the songs seems to be a sense of anticipation, and the idea of waking up,” Foster says. “Whether it’s a song like Feels Like It Wants To Rain, which was inspired by recent travels, or a song like The Stinging Nettle, about my great uncle at The Battle of Beaumont Hamel in WWI,
Sleeper Years is about becoming who you are, because of and in spite of the world.”
Foster’s music/film tour takes him east after his Peterborough show, with dates in the Maritimes before he heads down in the U.S.
For more information, visit www.ianfoster.ca and www.keystonefilm.net.