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BORN

FREED

A

conversati
on with Jo
sh Freed is
exercise in
an
keeping u
p. Freed is
published
a
author an
column fo
d he write
r the Mon
s a weekly
treal Gaze
takes eve
tte, in wh
ryday non
ich he
-events, a
humouro
nd turns
us observ
them into
ations on
lack there
civilizatio
of. He spe
n, or the
nt five ye
journalist
ars as an
/director
on-camera
for CBC’s
“The Journ
flagship p
al” and to
rogram,
day, he is
and proli
an award
fic docum
-winning
entary m
aker who
se films
have take
n him fro
m Mongo
the North
lia and Ru
Pole.
ssia to
His most
recent film
, My Mess
into the b
y Life, delv
attle betw
ed
een the c
neat to p
haotic an
rove that
d the
a messy d
a messy m
esk does
ind. While
not equa
l
Freed rea
clutter is
dily admit
his life, he
s that
also belie
for whom
ves there
order is im
are some
portant. “
to walk o
I would n
n to an air
ot want
plane to d
pilot has
iscover th
a Silly Putt
at the
y collectio
n he plan
s to play

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