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Director makes prophecy into. art by David Jurasek

Czechoslovalaan hector, Juraj Jakubisko, is passionate about his craft.

“It’s my thirteenth film and different from my previous f b , ” he says when tallung about his latest GLm, The Ambiguous Report About 7’he End of 7’he World.. “I don‘t know whether number h e n will bring me good luck or bad luck. I decided to make a film that will con- tain everythmg: all of the genres, there is the western, the action film, black humour, magic, and ballad, and a detective

Though Jakubisko‘s f h m a k q origk nates from an experimental tradition and he began his career in the period of the radical New Wave cinema in the former Czechoslovakia, he is now less interested in form, rather than the message and impact of hish

“The purpose of art is to relieve us of the fear of death and if politics doesn’t allow then even fear of live. I was trying to do some- deeper in this film. As we are becoming more and more civhsed, smarter and more rational, and still [we find that] the passions that have been sleep ing in our souls for hundreds of years when finally they wake up they have more or less the same form as man knew in BRENDAN WOOLARD PHOTO

story.“

stone age: hate, revenge, envy-they are stronger than love in this world and it’s important to talk about this.”

W o r m with an impeccable cast and a complex novel- istic narrative (the Czech TV version being six hours long),

Jakubisko explains After finishing his ‘the ~ l m to me:

“The end of the tenure at the world has two mean-

this year and exhibiting end . ofthe ~. world: the

ings here. The first one is the story of the

isolated human set- his oikanvases in Prague, tlement just being touched by civhsa- tion. And the sec-

the Nostradamus prophecy. The dark

have always in us to

Hambu and London,

his wlfe Deana will begin production on passions which we

’ which will be about toward its definitive

Juraj rakubisko and and... is the story of

his next film project push our world

the third , . end.” Capturing the in-

tensitj of this vision resulted visually in a

film both theatrical and as Jakubisko says: “The most stat- ic of my films with much dialogue. In places archaic, [with] wild abbreviations. But when you catch a theme, as though you step on a wet soap, it takes you from there on ...”

7’he Ambiguous Report also relays Jakubisko’s person- al beliefs and SpiritualiQ.

“I called it Ambiguous Report because I didn’t want to believe that this catastrophic en- is e x a m out. In my heart of hearts, I a m optimistic. I believe in miracles. This is why I call it Ambiguous Report because, if we cannot avoid the catastrophe, at least we can minimise the influ-

ence it wdl have. It’s a film for sensitive people who want to spend time thinlung about it: Where did

remain. There will he women. chil-

we come horn? Where are we going? What will our &&en do? and a fool, my is

dren, a monkey

In fact, life plays an enormous part in this? - Because I the products we finally view from this tt-Lmk this is a good filmmaker. This is not only due to the model. The women

as birth-givers of

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autobiographcal nature of the characters inspi and the village of the I--t to savmmmllf I new life;-children film, but also being our extended hand

in the future; ani- ko’s keen perceptions .;. mals because they

attributed to Jakubis- youhuean somethin

and strong convictions. are honest; and “Ileal life is more fools be-cause we

surrealistic than SUIT* have too few of alism. We must get them and the world would be sad inspired by real life [in] without them.” what you want to say ... -JUW J~KUBISKO Describing his craft you have an interestmg idea, something you lived through experi- enced on your own, you don’t have to be a film- maker.”

Deana ‘Horvathova Jakubiskova, Jakubis-

leading actress of The Ambiguous Report, and she also happens to be hghly skitled at the art of raising funds for their films, not to mention being an understandmg pro- ducer. The director is grateful. “She is the only actress I have ever encountered who can play in a scene and have a mobile phone in her pocket.”

Without spoiling the fdm for the reader, it is

and l o o m the future, Jakubisko adds, “I always wrote my own screenplay. There are lives that are worth one screenplay, two screenplays, maybe some are more, but I think that the most important b b graphical thugs I wanted to share I still didn’t say.”

After finishing his tenure at the Prague Film Academy h s year and exhibiting his oil-canvases in Prague, Hamburg, and London, Juraj Jakubisko and his d e wdl begin

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Aquasoc renovations go over budget by Michael McGowan Kingsmill did the budgeting and design for the

Aquasoc renovations, as well as the AMs business A M C officials are following trends and a 65 per cent budget office renovations that went Over $28,000 on a overrun on renovations to the UBC Aqua Society proves it, planned $120,000 budget. The AMs renovation job is the second to come significantly Chen defended Kingsmill when questioned over budget since this summer. about the overruns. “I don’t think his competence is

Renovations to the Aquasoc club facilities went $23,000 in question. Michael KingsmiU has been w o r m over an original budget of $35,000, despite assurances last with the AMs for many years and nobody knows the month from Jennie Chen, AMs director of administration, SUB better than he does,” Chen said. that the project was late, but on budget. According to Chen much of the overrun was

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designer, said it was customary to build a 10 per cent mar- The racks were not included in the original budget, gin of error into all budgets. despite the university’s previous warning to vations overrun this summer was approved before that p r e

In a previous interview, Michael Kingsmill, the AMs which will be used to secure Aquasoc’s air tanks. A Q U ~ O C has got a pricey new look. LAM PHOTO

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SFU student society says no to APEC by Sarah Galashan support APEC because it fails to discuss issues of global

social conditions and human rights and is inherently A four hour SFU student society (SFUSS) meeting last undemocratic. Wednesday night centered around the issue of The elected student council r e p APEC, and ended with an overwhelming “ O b ~ i ~ ~ s l y resents the views of the SFU stu- vote to oppose the controversial eco- dent body and according to Mark nomic cooperation conference. the people Veerkamn. SFIlSS external rela-

A vote of 17-5 passed a motion that read the SFUSS

who am again& tions officer, the decision is repre- sentative of a “swelling movement”

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Creatine fitness pills get mixed’ reviews

The decision to hold the leader’s summit portion of the conference at UBC has created campus controversy for the very reasons addressed by the SFUSS motion.

Over the summer, UBC’s Alma Mater Society (AMs) faded to reach a two h r d s majority vote on the issue. Ruta Flwgold, AMs vice president, reaffirmed the student soci- ety‘s inability to take a position on APEC either way.

“The consensus of our council is to encourage and pro- mote debate instead of just promotug one side of the issue,” she said. ”There’s so many aspects to cover with APEC that we felt we could do it better from a neutral stance.”

Also in opposition to APEC is the Langara Student Union (LSU), which also voted to actively protest against the con- ference.

“Obviously the people who are against it are more vocal than the people who are for it, but I think there is a lot of support for [APEC] being held at our university,” said Flwgold. “There’s also quite a lot of people who just don’t care,” she added. *:*

by Aliyah Amarshi

Creatine is a legal, performance enhancing and reportedly safe fitness supplement that’s almost flying off the shelves at UBC. But a recent UBC study has researchers questioning whether the substance actually works.

Creatine monohydrate is a relatively new supplement that’s supposed to boost energy, stamina, strength and body mass, and decrease recovery time after a workout. By allowing essential acids to absorb more eas- ily in the muscles, the substance is supposed to help provide short bursts of energy.

v - According to Nick Christofides, a Birdcoop employee and Thunderbird rugby player, “...it’s the biggest selling thing [at the Birdcoop].’

The shop sells an average of two to three creatine products a day, Christofides said. Most popular is Experimental Applied Science brand, which costs about $70 for a month’s supply. According to Christofides, these products are most popular among sprinters, rugby players and football play- ers.

But the substance, an acid that occurs naturally in the body, might not be as strong as athletes think it is.

Ted Rhodes, a professor of Human Kinetics at UBC, supervised a study on crea- tine last year. “In most cases I don’t think that this creatine monohydrate works. I think it’s very inconclusive,“ said Rhodes.

“I think sometimes people, when you give them a supplement and you tell them it’s going to work, a lot of people think it works. They start lifting heavy weights any- way and try to improve their strength and they would improve their strength whether they were on it or not,’ Rhodes added.

The study of 2 1 male UBC students was conducted by exercise physiology grad stu- dent Mike Edwards

He gave ten of the subjects a placebo and the other 11 creatine. The subjects were tested for anaerobicm short burst-strength with repeated bouts of exercise on a tread- mill, followed by 20 grams per day of either the placebo or creatine.

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I n principle, Edwards said the theory behind creatine is a good one: it builds up the body‘s ener- gy store by loading crea- tine into the muscles, enhancing physical per- formance and delaying fatigue.

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Christofides said he has tried creatine. “I From the scientific standpoint, Rhodes gained lots of weight from it and I thnk I said, “a lot of studies are pretty inconclu- gained strength but ...y ou can’t say for sure. sive. There’s some that have shown an It’s like an”, you take it and you think increase in strength and others have had no okay, I’m taking this and I’m going to work results whatsoever.” *3

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