We at Spacing (and Spacing Montreal) have written a fair bit about Roadsworth, the Montreal stencil artist, over the years. A documentary on this once-elusive artist, from the same film collective as H2Oil, was screened at this year's Hot Docs.When filmmaker Alan Kohl found out his bandmate, Peter Gibson, was Roadsworth, he started work documenting the conflicting reactions to Gibson's art. Roadsworth: Crossing the Line follows the artist from anonymity to fame (that brings both commissions and legal troubles). Just before Hot Docs, I spoke with Kohl about the film and the reactions to Gibson's work that he saw as he traveled the world with Roadsworth. People tend to think of Europe as an artistically inviting society, did you find the attitudes toward Peter's work much different than in Canada? The only people who really responded were in the scene in the film when he's in England. I couldn't go totally into it in the film, but there was an event that he was part of that [featured] a bunch of other artists and had taken over that town for two weeks. They were putting art installations all over the place, in a really conservative little town outside of London. There was a road they were rebuilding, all this art was coming in and they were just like ‘God!' they hated the whole thing. The city under construction for so long…. It was a chaotic time for that little town so on top of it all these artists were coming and installing stuff that they don't really want. I don't think it's totally indicative of what the rest of Europe might think of him.

It's your last chance to check out this year's CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival as most of the exhibits wrap up today. The theme this year was "Between Memory and History," which led many photographers to focus on historic sites and spaces that hold meaning to them. Here are a couple you shouldn't miss. Angela Del Buono's A New City points the camera at Bramalea, the city Del Buono grew ...

During transit strikes, commuters are forced to think of alternate modes of transportation. As the title of British Columbia filmmaker Murray Siple's documentary Carts of Darkness suggests, his main characters have found an odd way to get around — via shopping cart. Big Al is an unemployed North Vancouverite who had his driver's license taken away, preventing him from operating a motor vehicle. Just before rolling down a hilly highway at 60 kilometers-per-hour on the back of a shopping cart he says he still gets pulled over by the cops while riding his cart even though, he ...