Playing the Role of New York? Toronto. That View of Paris? Itâs Montreal.
At the Venice Biennale, Canada examines its citiesâ ability to stand in for television and film locations.
With green screens and special effects, the intersection of Dundas Street and Ossington Avenue in Toronto was reimagined as 1962 Baltimore for the 2017 film “The Shape of Water.”Credit...Impostor Cities
By Sam Lubell
May 20, 2021, 5:02 a.m. ET
As visitors to the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale make their way through the broad, leafy pathways of the eventâs main exhibition space, the Giardini di Castello, they will quickly notice that one of the national pavilions is wrapped almost completely in green fabric.