R E V I E W S & P R E S S

"Bridget Farr's Nobody's Nothing presents a nightmarish vision of urban alienation in which time is uncertain and identity at risk. A ghost-like creature, his features scratched away, moves through city streets. Sometimes bustling, sometimes funereal, these streets are devoid of human exchange. In only four minutes and with the simplest of means, Farr has achieved a masterpiece of depersonalized anxiety-more powerful in its intimacy than all the disaster movies that have ever come out of Hollywood."
Peter Harcourt - Founding Member of the Film Studies Association of Canada

"The standout of the bunch came from local photographer/filmmaker Bridget Farr whose 5-1/2-minute cultural critique, turnoff (35mm, colour), recharges the re-run issue of television brainwashing. Beginning with a dreary quote about power and obedience from techno-prophet Neil Postman, Farr overloads our cerebral cortex with familiar images from TV commercials. We see half a dozen women smilingly washing their hair in slow motion, kids smilingly ingesting crackers, creams and candy, and all kinds of other smiling people cut and pasted into a beautiful, hyper-colourful moving collage. Perhaps better than the visuals is the drumbeat soundtrack: cold, digital and repetitive, like the boob tube itself. This film has been around the world and back, so try not to miss it next week."
Stuart Trew, The Ottawa XPress


"TV is a constant source of inspiration for experimental, found footage and politically oriented works...and here's another great example. In classic found footage style the idea here is not to comment on the images per-se but let the images speak for and damn themselves. Using sometimes the entire screen, using at other times only certain parts of the screen this Turnoff has a very nice rhythm to it and one which will look and sound great on the big screen. We like this one...it says plenty without saying anything."
Selection Committee, Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Australia


"Bridget’s film Nobody’s Nothing, which will be showing in the festival's opening program, is a powerful evocation of alienated humanity, wonderfully executed with a hand-made aesthetic that comments on the very faceless conformity her film bravely faces."
Mike Hoolboom - Artistic Director of the Images Film and Video Festival


"Ottawa based filmmaker Bridget Farr's second short is a striking, high-contrast black-and-white examination of urban alienation. Partially funded, ironically enough by the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, Nobody's Nothing is a concentrated and defiant defense of individual identity in a world collapsing into high-velocity enchantments of technology and mass consumption. Eschewing dialogue, Farr prefers to allow image and sound to collide and suggest possibilities of response. Utilizing extremely high-contrast cinematography, optical tricks and a wonderfully dirty post-industrial soundscape, Farr's film observes a single figure (Ian Driscoll) wandering isolated through various streets, buildings and highways. The figure is anonymous, and his image is manipulated and obscured by a visually arresting and thematically appropriate scratch-on-film technique. Nobody's Nothing is a precise and poetic articulation of urban angst and solitude. With minimal means and maximum imagination, Bridget Farr has rendered an absorbing and daring portrait of the nation's capital at the end of the 20th century, a portrait much more relevant and memorable than a myriad of images of Mounties and Parliament buildings."
Tom McSorley, Take One: Film and Television Magazine

"...in her latest work area[code]...[Farr] juxtaposes timeless, postcard-perfect images...told through beautiful scenery, clever, perceptive visual links and small narrative reminders. The effect is at once intoxicating and eye-opening, even humorous at times. Farr, 28, is hardly a picture of the tortured artist, she's more like a clever activist who has a keen sense of how to get her message across."
Fateema Sayani, The Ottawa XPress


"Safe - Director Bridget Farr suggests a steamy darkroom encounter between two photographers, using nothing more than beautifully composed images, superb editing and great sound effects. Safe is top of the IFCO class and evidence of a major talent."
Paul Cantin, The Ottawa Sun

R A D I O

CBC Ottawa Morning
Making movies with the help of Mother Nature
August 26, 2024

CBC Radio One
Ottawa Filmmakers Teach in Burundi
August 27, 2007

CKCU-FM
Drunken Master Review
September 14, 2005

CBC Radio One
All In A Day
June 30, 2005

CHUO-FM
New Films by Local Filmmakers
August 23, 2002

CBC Ottawa
January 2001

T E L E V I S I O N

CTV News
IFCO Winter Gala
February 8 & 9, 2007

The New RO - Breakfast Show
IFCO's 13th Annual Gala Premiere
July 20, 2005

CBC - Canada Now
Beyond Compare Photo Exhibit
May 21, 2004

The New RO - Breakfast Show
Beyond Compare Photo Exhibit
May 21, 2004

CJOH News
Beyond Compare Photo Exhibit
May 18, 2004

Fashion File
Beyond Compare Photo Exhibit
March 2004

Roger's Television - Indie Xposed
Darcy De Toni & Bridget Farr
November 2003

The New RO
10th Annual IFCO Film Premiere
July 25, 2002

TVO - Studio 2
Bridget Farr: filmmaker and photographer
December 2001 (also repeated summer 2002)

The New RO
Beyond the Frame Vernissage
November 8, 2001

The New RO - Breakfast Show
Beyond the Frame Calendar Launch and Exhibit
November 6, 2001

TVO - Imprint
Emerging Talent
March 2001 (also repeated in August 2001)

The New RO
Algonquin Photography Exhibition
April 28, 2000

Roger's Television - Daytime
Ottawa-Based Filmmakers
May 1999

P R I N T

Ottawa Citizen
Lights, Camera, Action in Burundi
August 22, 2007

Elle Canada
Life is Beautiful: A photography exhibit redefines society's beauty standards
October 2005

Ottawa XPress
Weekend Warriors
July 14, 2005

Sprockets
The Art and Craft of Bridget Farr
June 2004

Ottawa Sun
Incomparable Beauty
May 20, 2004

Ottawa Citizen
Exhibit by Women Photographers Challenges Notions of Beauty
May 15, 2004

Montreal Gazette
Shooting Down Stereotypes
April 2004

Elle Canada
Calendar
April 2004

Toronto Sun & Vancouver Province
Photo Exposition Urges Women to Consider the Nature of Real Beauty
February 2004

Celsius Magazine
Farrout But Not Far Fetched:Bridget Farr exposes women's issues and urban life
August 2002 - third edition

Ottawa XPress (cover)
Still Life: filmmaker/photographer Bridget Farr reconstructs the rural/urban divide
July 25, 2002

Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa Filmmakers Screen New Shorts
July 24, 2002

Taloua Magazine
Bridget Farr: "beyond the frame"
January / February / March 2002

Ottawa Life Magazine
Best Picks: farr out fotos
December 2001

The Ubyssey
Not at Your Neighbourhood Theater
November 27, 2001

Ottawa XPress
Creative Construct: Bridget Farr keeps her composure in photographic work
November 8 - 15, 2001

Pilot Press
Cross-Country Cyclists Retreat in Lewisport
August 22, 2001

Kultura Magazine
Film Clip
July / August 2001

Lola Magazine
Shot Gun Reviews
summer 2001

Fort Frances Times
Cross Country Trek Worth Documenting
June 20, 2001

Core Magazine
Going Farr
May / June 2001

Voir
Cours Bridget Cours
April 5 - 11, 2001

Ottawa Life Magazine
Ottawa Independent Filmmaker Does'Nothing' Well
April / May 2000

Ottawa XPress
Far-out Cross-Canada Adventure
November 23 - 30, 2000

Take One Film & Television in Canada
Short Takes
Winter 2000

Ottawa XPress
Reel Time Colour
June 24, 1999

Ottawa Citizen
One Chance to See Seven Short Films
June 23, 1999

Ottawa Sun
Independent Spirit
May 8, 1997