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There’s something about the quiet landscapes that line the walls of the Stephen Bulger Gallery that’s oddly disquieting. It’s easy to tell that they show vistas far from here—the vegetation and the topography carry those subtle but clear cues of an unfamiliar place—but it’s not that. The lighting seems suspended between an artificial dusk and the bleakest of mid-days, but that’s also not what’s out of place. It’s because there’s something intentionally absent from Canadian photographer Bertrand Carrière’s series “Lieux Mêmes.” They are photographs of something that is no longer there. The subject left the scene ninety years ago.

FILM: Already a favourite of Torontoist, Nollywood Babylon is kicking off a three-night stint tonight at the NFB Mediatheque. This NFB-produced documentary explores one of the largest film industries in the world, based in one of the poorest nations in the world: Nigeria. The B-movie aesthetics and the clash of "traditional mysticism and modern culture" makes for a fascinating look at this largely unexplored area of Nigerian life. NFB Mediatheque (150 John Street), 7 p.m., $6 ($4 for students, seniors, NFB and DOC members).

and is modeled after an annual Parisian festival that began in October of 2002 and has already spread to other cities such as Brussels, Rome, and Madrid.

John Redekop, whose work can be seen at Spin Gallery, takes strips of paper cut out of magazines and newspapers and laboriously transforms them into sculptures like “Heap.” A piece where Redekop glued thousands of pieces of paper and balanced them on a single nail. The resulting work looks and feels like a cross-section of a giant tree trunk. But instead of leaving us a record of the climate, of droughts and rainy seasons, Redekop instead gives us a conceptual archive of popular culture and disposable media.