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The film accompanying the album "Closer to the Bone" by Ian Foster.

SCRATCH is a musical drama that follows Angelot, a young Haitian immigrant who, along with his parents and brother Frantz, arrives in Montreal during the ’90s. Frantz quickly got involved in gang-related crime while the father, Saurel, diligently drove a taxi and lived a life of dignity. Years later, Angelot is now the proud leader of the hip hop act Lights and Shadows. He’s taken over his brother’s enterprise while Frantz is in jail, using the illicit gains to finance the recording of their first studio album. One night, following a concert and what initially looks like a random barroom altercation, Angelot falls into a deep coma, during which occurs a flashback through time, detailing the roots of his derailment.

While an opera singers sings in a snowy and cold street, we are allowed to witness a meeting between a man and a woman through blowing net curtains. The music is touched by sadness and the emotions of the characters are no different. Nearer they become while the singer sinks deeper into the melancholy.

Being the last girls at the party is the new girl power, and The Beaches are leading the way. The Toronto band's No Hard Feelings tour saw the band members perform in arenas across the country, culminating in a massive hometown show at Scotiabank Arena.

Experimental film with many sections, some of which are over 20 minutes long each, of mostly mundane tasks or odd comedy sketches. The goal of the film is to see how long it takes before the viewer becomes bored or switches it off.

Released just a few years after her death, this forms a picture of who Janis was through interviews and performance clips.

This video companion to the Canadian singer-songwriter's triumphant live album confirms in sight what that recording advanced in sound--Sarah McLachlan and her fine, flexible stage band have evolved into a superb live performing unit, breathing added fire and nuance into McLachlan songs that were already stunning in their original studio versions. Always a strong, charismatic singer, McLachlan now conjures a rare balance of delicacy and power, measured here in performances of signature songs that add a new, more muscular edge matching her band's rock firepower. Thus, "Possession" expands beyond its already sensual promise to touch on truly erotic abandon, while "Building a Mystery" focuses its portrait of a narcissistic poseur with a harder edge and a newly amended, R-rated lyric that's entirely appropriate.

A coming-of-age story set in the 2000s underground music scene, that follows quiet and naive punk, Casey, as he tries to piece together the broken memories recorded on his camcorder.

A choreographed interpretation to the music of Henry Purcell's opera.

Arcade Fire’s first feature film is called 'The Reflektor Tapes'. The project is “a unique cinematic experience, meeting at the crossroads of documentary, music, art and personal history.”

LUZIA takes you to an imaginary Mexico, like in a waking dream, where light (“luz” in Spanish) quenches the spirit and rain (“lluvia”) soothes the soul. With a surrealistic series of grand visual surprises and breathtaking acrobatic performances, LUZIA cleverly brings to the stage multiple places, faces and sounds of Mexico taken from both tradition and modernity.

Red Riding Hood is tried for the murder of The Wolf.

Straight No Chaser celebrates the holiday live from New York

Bleu Nuit is a track from Le Révélateur's LP on Gneiss Things, Fictions.

What is a true punk band? We sit down with St. John's punk band, Banana Vacuum, to explore punk culture and question what it takes to be punk in today's world. This new band has gained some notoriety in the past year for it's unusual lead singer and themes throughout the album. This film explore the people behind Banana Vacuum and the music that has made fans all over Canada go wild for their unapologetic true punk identity.

"In the Town of Banff they must have 50 candy stores on the main street. They sell these little candy deer. Banff is a National Park and so the real dear are all around you, and the stuffed and mounted ones too. I played with the images of the deer and idea of anthropomorphism in this piece. The sound track really up the ante on that." - Christina Zeidler

Documentary about the groundbreaking queer feminist art band Fifth Column, who were at the centre of Toronto’s influential Queercore scene in the 1980-90s.

Dracula: A Chamber Musical is a 1997 Canadian musical adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.

Groove-Rock band Animal recorded live at their Toronto jam space, The Habitat. An ode to the shape-shifting rooms where music is made, and to the magic they bring out.

A lush, evocative dance video, featuring Alvin Erasga Tolentino. Light/dark, simple/complex, birth/death.

Three years in the making, this feature documentary follows the progression of the Muslim Punk scene: from its imaginary inception in a novel written by a white-convert named Michael Muhammad Knight to a full-blown, real-life scene of Muslim punk bands and their fans.

An aspiring Canadian all-girl punk band reluctantly hires a down and out older male classic rock n roll guitarist.

A guitarist writes a song for his girlfriend, but this one does not seem to appreciate its composition while playing.

A tribute to the screen work of Joe Dallesandro set to the music of Judy Garland.

Charles has just moved into a new house with his mother. Cut off from the rest of the world, the young adult is having difficulty adapting to the change. While walking outside, he hears music that leads him to meet a man passionate about jazz who shares his musical knowledge to him.

A suspect in a child abduction case is questioned by a cop, and when things take an unexpected turn it becomes clear that the next victim could be minutes away. This film doesn’t use creatures or the fantastic to terrify you, just the suggestion of an all-too-human darkness.

A history of Toronto punk and new wave. A history of the first wave of Toronto punk rock and new wave music, from when the Ramones played in 1976 through to when the cops gave Teenage Head the boot at "The Last Pogo" concert in 1978.

A video designed to challenge existing models of AIDS treatment in our society. Using a collage of elements as well as techniques from video and performance, the themes of mourning, urgency and healing are explored in a poetic and highly charged video. Got Away in the Dying Moments suggests natural alternatives to the current treatments and attitudes that constrain our hearts and minds with respect to the AIDS crisis.

A visual art music/video album created by the members of the industrial/experimental group Throbbing Gristle, Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti.

Psychedelic Sci-Fi about mind travel.

A ballet about the settlement of the Canadian West and the fate of a young wife who comes to the prairies with her husband.

Short documentary on the life and music of scumpunk icon GG Allin, featuring insights from fans, friends and family.

From unlikely origins in northern Québec at the height of the Cold War, Voïvod’s post-apocalyptic sci-fi aesthetic, fuelled by a youthful obsession with their instruments, took them from underground success to sharing dates and tours with Iron Maiden, Rush, and Metallica. Despite adversity, and perhaps by cosmic intervention or just serendipity, Voïvod found guitarist Daniel “Chewy” Mongrain; subsequently, the band re-ignited their engines and laid a course back to Morgöth via numerous live shows around the world, a comeback album in Target Earth, singles, EPs, and finally, the late-career triumph, The Wake. In 2019, Voïvod were recognized by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences with a Juno Award for best hard rock/metal album of the year for The Wake.

Female composers' names are mentioned throughout history.

Billed as the first Ukrainian art film in colour to be produced in Canada, the film received mixed reviews from the Ukrainian press despite its folksy, mass appeal. The transfer onto film of a staged musical production without fuly understanding the specific demands of the film medium is reportedly one of the drawbacks.

The Seven Last Words sounds out the experiential states and rituals particular to humanity, based on seven themes expressed in an oratorio: forgiveness, hope, relation, abandonment, distress, triumph, and life after the death.

In the timeless world of fairy tales, villains and victims are visited by a vengeful fairy who offers to shift the balance of power.

Why Are You Making All That Noise? is a story of contemporaries who in 1965 formed the Nihilist Spasm Band. Their story encompasses thirty five years of art and performance. Don Alexander introduces a video style that reflects the band's abandon of the disciplines of time and genre.

The autobiopic "My Life in 5 Minutes" tells a life story with a bittersweet song, animation and family snaps. Some photos hold painful or awkward members for the artist; through computer animation, she enlarges her own eyes to blink the pain away.

Bleu Jeans Bleu, Les Shirley, Sylvain Cossette, Véronique Coutier, Antoine Gratton, Alain Lapointe and Ludovick Bourgeois vibrate to the sounds of Les BB's irresistible melodies in a tribute to the aesthetics of the music videos of the time.

Documentary filmmaker Brendan Langelle Lyle follows Halifax's DIY-band Customer Service on a two week Canadian tour. Stuffed inside a sketchy van and going through the repetitive motions of touring, get to know the band members and learn why they put themselves through the hell of the road.

Invited by the conductor Premil Petrovic to stage Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, a musical theater work from 1912 based on the poems of Albert Giraud, LaBruce transposed a strange and tragic episode of true crime onto the composition. Complementing the original atonal score is a narrative about a trans man who is outed by his girlfriend’s father and forbidden from seeing the young woman again. Crestfallen, the protagonist decides to prove the fact of his manhood by castrating a taxi driver and then revealing his newly transplanted member to the two of them. This story, which for LaBruce “serves as a kind of allegory for all gender radicals and outcasts driven to extremes by the disapproval and hostility of the dominant order,” is rendered in a visual style that nods to the era of Schoenberg’s melodrama. LaBruce cheekily appropriates the formal vocabulary of silent cinema with black-and-white photography, irises, and intertitles like “A cock, a cock, my kingdom for a cock!”

In 2003 this animated video of four adorable singing tough-skinned terrestrial mollusks went viral. If you listen closely you’ll probably be able to recognize the audio by a pretty famous quartet from a rather iconic movie.This is one where you should open up all the windows, “crank up” the volume, and let yourself FEEL the strength of these voices while you enjoy the visual eye candy.

Animated music video based on Stephen Coates' song under the same title from the album "When Psyche meets Cupid".

A guitarist wrestles with his inner turmoil, seeking elusive fulfillment in the ethereal echoes of his music.

A classic British pantomime version of the tale of Aladdin and the Lamp. The evil vizier Abanazar tries to manipulate Aladdin and his mother, Widow Twankey, into helping him acquire the magic lamp. But with the help of the Genie of the Ring, Aladdin wins through and captures the heart and hand of the Princess. Music, singing, dancing, and merriment throughout.

Jayli Wolf's powerful tribute to familial strength and resilience in the face of institutional and social abuse and trauma.

About Daniel Lanois, the Canadian musician and producer, during one of his most productive years in life, living and recording in New Orleans, LA. Daniel Lanois was born in Hull, Quebec. Sept. 19, 1951. His family moved to Hamilton, Ont. in 1963. In 1974 he and his brother Bob built and operated the Grant Avenue Studio, where he produced records by acts such as Martha and the Muffins, Parachute Club, Raffi, and Ian Tyson. In 1989 he released his first solo album, "Acadie". He also produced "Oh Mercy" by Bob Dylan and "Yellow Moon" by The Neville Bros. during the same year.

The Musical Republic Of Western Canada is a lovingly crafted tip of the chapeau not only to the artists of the Canadian Prairies, but to the land itself. The long, green and gold fields. The stark, short brush of the coulees. The bigger-than-heaven-itself skies and endless sunsets. The animals and ephemera that populate these prairie highways. From a land that pulses and breathes, Little Jack’s The Musical Republic Of Western Canada is as much a love letter to a place as it is to the music born here, a place where the beauty is revealed with time, and the patience of a long drive across the plains.

An experimental short film of images and music made by Norman McLaren.

Live recording of the musical theater adaptation of the Chinese novel with the same name.

Official DVD created on the basis of filming of two concerts of the Canadian singer, the Golden Voice of Quebec, Bruno Pelletier, held in Moscow, at the Variety Theater on November 5 and 6, 2011.

Music video for "Innergaze."

Courage & Patience & Grit is a DVD/CD set released by the band Great Big Sea on November 14, 2006. It contains video of the live performance from a concert at the Empire Theatre in Belleville, Ontario along with music videos for the songs "Captain Kidd", "When I Am King", "Lukey", and "Shines Right Through Me". The live performance was recorded during their The Hard and the Easy tour.