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Reviving The Roost

Name: Reviving The Roost
Released: Nov. 6, 2019, 2:10 p.m.
Duration: 6 min

Vivek Shraya

2019 | 6 min

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Filmmaker and bestselling author Vivek Shraya’s ode to a popular Edmonton gay bar that closed in 2007. With pulsating neon-light animation, Reviving the Roost is a story about community complexity and longing, and an elegy to a lost space.

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