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Louie Sanchez is the performance moniker of Filipinx artist Eirene Cloma. Cloma has recently completed a small collection of songs that broadly reflects on their working-class Filipinx upbringing in North Vancouver and the entanglements of diaspora, interracial relations, and queer desire that texture their everyday experiences. The video for their song One Thing I Can Afford broadly addresses queer and trans friendship in the diaspora, Filipinx masculinities, and everyday enactments of transgenerational care.

Based on controversial play, a former Nazi and a madam meet 50 years after the Second World War to find Hitler's progeny.

A hybrid between concert film and observational slice-of-life, Stuck Inside follows a group of young Montrealers navigating the monotony and fleeting freedoms of the 2021 COVID lockdown through musical improvisation, winter activities, and post-curfew mischief.

The tale of a tragic love story set in Newfoundland. When illness takes the woman he loves, a simple man raises his voice in melancholy song as a last farewell. The film, based on a song by local musician Emile Benoit, is anchored in a beautiful, remote corner of the province, and pays homage to its land, sea and the harsh lives of the local fishermen.

The story of promoter Saul Holiff's turbulent life and his success making Johnny Cash a superstar.

Originally performed in the unprecedented circumstances of 2020, Live At A Drive-In shows a band at the height of their potent creative vision and technical prowess. Under the summer stars, in a field surrounded by parked cars tuned into the broadcast dial, July Talk brought people together (but not too close!) at a time when impactful live music experiences were nearly impossible.

Canadian concert pianist Glenn Gould enjoys a respite at his lakeside cottage. It is an aspect of Gould previously known only to the collie pacing beside him through the woods, the fishermen resting their oars to hear his piano, and fellow musicians like Franz Kraemer, with whom Gould talks of composition. (First of two parts.)

In the fall of 2017, 40 years after her first major tour of Quebec, Angèle Dubeau will embark on her final concert tour in Quebec. For this tour, entitled "Pour une dernière fois" (One Last Time), Angèle Dubeau will be accompanied by her orchestra La Pietà and will perform a program composed of beloved works requested by the public, works that have marked her career.

A lonely boy dreams after school.

A sing-song film, with the popular Four Gentlemen Quartet leading in four old favorites: Camptown Races, Bury Me Out on the Lone Prairie, Grandfather's Clock and Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay.

KIN is musical and visual piece that transports the viewer into a new world. Its about a journey, mystery and love.

Ben Power interviews his father, Darrell Power of Great Big Sea, and asks what it was like on the road, being away from his family, and how being in one of the most memorable Newfoundland bands shaped his life.

An animated safety film adapts the nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice" into a song where the mice are factory workers who disregard safety rules and wind up injuring themselves.

By combining ecstatic energy and artistry, Amplify Her follows talented young women in the electronic music scene as they come-of-age amidst the emerging cultural renaissance of the feminine.

RGBebop / Anthropology is an animated visual music improvisation in color and sound, made by hand with laser-cut stencils, pen, brush, ink, and paper.

A video of live performances by Chris & Cosy with visuals by John Lacey. Recorded during the CTI European tour of 1983. (throbbing-gristle.com)

Through Ukrainian songs and dances, a Canadian woman who came to Ukraine learns about her family history.

Documentation of the legendary all ages hardcore punk show held at a Jack Astor's Sports Bar & Grill during operating business hours in St. John's, Newfoundland. Featuring performances from local hardcore heavyweights Carnage, GlitterGlue, Buck 50'd, and the debut performance of Life Jolt.

Combining documentary footage and performance clips, the film traces the origins of Plume Latraverse's career and reveals, through his musicians, some of his hidden aspects. Filmed during the musician's show presented as part of Québec mer et monde 84. "With a look, a glance, a roar, Plume gives himself to the camera. Whole as Haddock, our Captain Harrock'n'Roll finally opens up." (Franco, Nuovo, 1985)

An experiment in pure design by film artists Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Lines, ruled directly on film, move with precision and grace against a background of changing colors, in response to music specially composed for the films.

Feature-length documentary filmed in three locations as far apart as possible: Louisiana, Acadia and Quebec, but where Le reel du pendu is played – a musical piece performed on the violin, harmonica and guitar or the accordion for over two hundred years. Through this improvised music of a death row inmate, the spectator is invited to discover for himself “the sound of the French in America”.

An indie rock trio tries to make it big in Montreal.

A musical documentary that tells the true life story of Trevor's great-uncle Jimmy in six original songs.

A forgotten musical record connects Caracas to Tehran, revealing untold stories of oil, not as a commodity, but as a political leverage for the liberation struggles in Palestine and building Pan-Arab solidarity between 1960-1970.

Angelic cold pearl winters and the brutality of war running simultaneously.

In the Wsanec territory, language revitalization efforts are underway. Through prayer and song, the youth demonstrates the importance of carrying on their language and culture in their community.

The nocturnal walk of a man obsessed with his imagination.

Samuel LeBlanc, a young transgender musician, embarks on a journey with his friends through the work of Acadian musician Angèle Arsenault (1943-2014). Coming from a small village, Samuel has long questioned his queer identity and his cultural identity. Does a queer Acadie exist? This musical documentary project will explore his double minority and the journey of young people, who like him, realize that despite the difficulties there is a star for each of us.

A macro exploration of the expanding and contracting nature of the universe underpinned by the belief that the path to a sustainable and healthy future lies in our ability to change minds through shifts in the perspectives that connect us. Through multimedia explorations of extreme environments, mental illness, memory, and the conscious mind, Munson aims to encourage mindfulness and play a role in constructing that path.

Celebrates the legendary – and largely forgotten – Canadian musician who fought for her right to play the slide guitar, a male-dominated instrument in a male-dominated world. Eight months after arriving in Greenwich Village with no prospects, she found herself opening for the biggest blues legends in the world, like Odetta, Richie Havens, and Mississippi John Hurt. But it’s the six magical nights that Ellen ignited the stage with Jimi Hendrix that changed the course of her life.

A musical documentary that travels across Canada and looks at four extraordinary Black Canadian families.

Three beautiful creatures bathe in our eyes. Behind three windows, so many women; owners of the places, as free inside themselves as in their antics. Exhibition? No! Exposure. Besides, who's watching? And who is watched? The bodies traversed by so many mental territories, FEMALE SPECIALTIES magnifies this "Second Sex" to flush out the random, the somatic, the elusive. ... not there to be understood but to be touched! ... and hated who thinks badly!

The story of the Big Three, the Liverpool band that refused to sell out.

When it was announced in May of 2016 that lead singer Gord Downie had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, the band decided that they would do one final run of 15 dates across Canada. A National Celebration was the final show of the Tragically Hip's Man Machine Poem Tour recorded on August 20th, 2016 at the K-Rock Centre in their home town of Kingston Ontario. Originally aired live by CBC across all platforms, the concert was experienced by an estimated one-third of Canadians, among the biggest events in the country's broadcast history.

With the magic of Loulou (Louise Deschâtelets), Patrice Michaud realizes his dream of temporarily returning to the past. It is with pride and swaying hips that he slips into the universe of the 1970s to 1990s! Accompanied by his musicians, Patrice Michaud invites us on his visual and sound journey where the funk, pop and rock rhythms of his songs intertwine. 1980s icon Martine St-Clair takes part in the journey and "ouh, stop, un instant", we capture a moment from the 1990s with Gabrielle Shonk. A great, colorful escape where pleasure abounds!

Shot in 1987 at the Montréal International Jazz Festival, this documentary film presents musical performances and conversations between three jazz pianists with remarkably different styles: Soviet Leonid Chizhik, Black Montrealer Oliver Jones, and French-Canadian Jean Beaudet. It introduces viewers to the diversity of interpretation within today's jazz world, explores the roots of modern jazz and the specific formative influences on the musicians profiled, and reaches for a definition of twentieth-century jazz.

A documentary about the Famous Jeff Healey Club which opened in downtown Toronto, Canada in 2001 until its closure in 2008. The movie tells the story of the Jeff Healey club ,the A- list musicians who played there from around the world and of course the amazing talent that Jeff had as a Blind Musician who never let his disability stop him from doing what he loved most -Music. With interviews with Cristie Healey, Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, Ronnie Hawkins and others and with rare live performance footage from the club with Jeff Healey, The Jeff Healey Blues Band, Ian Gillan, Jimmy Bowskill, Watermelon Slim and many more.

A meditative journey through colour, form and sound. This film was created for Toronto chamber music composer Frank Horvat. The composition is performed by Canadian percussionist Beverley Johnston. The animation is created by painting ink directly onto 16mm film.

Featuring indigenous women of various generations, Pidikwe integrates traditional and contemporary dance in an audiovisual whirlwind that straddles the border between film and performance, somewhere between the past and the future.

Three bandmates set out to professionally record their passion project - an extended playlist of songs they have been hard at work with. This is a documentary about the experiences of starting a rock band and the cost of what it takes to reach a fulfilling outcome. From the visionary minds of REVERA, a grunge-inspired rock band from Alberta, Canada.

Alannah Myles concert at The Diamond Club, Toronto, ON, Canada on October 31, 1989

Concert film of Exit Strategy performing in Calgary, Alberta in 2008.

Nikki Yanofsky live in Montreal (2010).

Tony Jeffrey aka Tonetta is a musician and visual artist with a considerable following on Facebook and Youtube. Featured in Vice, The Guardian and on Tosh.0, Tonetta has fascinated, terrified and captivated audiences alike with his avant-garde style and infecticiously catchy songs.

Setlist: The Ecstasy Of Gold, Hardwired, Atlas, Rise!, For Whom The Bell Tolls, The Memory Remains, The Unforgiven, Now That We're Dead, Moth Into Flame, Wherever I May Roam, Halo On Fire, Kirk & Rob I Disappear Jam, Rob Anesthesia Solo, Hit The Lights, Sad But True, One, Master Of Puppets, Fade To Black, Seek & Destroy, Blackened, Nothing Else Matters, Enter Sandman

Toronto’s hardcore music scene is loud, abrasive, and passionately independent; yet, even here, numerous independent bands and artists slip through the cracks. Just earlier this year, the Toronto Hardcore music scene was introduced to POISON 11, a young band still defining who they are while fighting to be heard. introducing POISON 11 explores what it is to be an artist in the big 2025.

The fictitious space-rock duo DEATH VAN tours through a miniature world inhabited by surreal creatures that are haunted and terrorized by a menacing and mischievous entity.

Inspired by the works of Jonas Mekas, Chantal Akerman and Angela Schanelec, Ive made what is my longest film diary so far. One that spans my two week vacation out to the New England region of North America. What i have here is another cerebral experience into a world that is so closely far away.

Recorded for a television program of the same name back in 1983, In Session bills itself as the only known recording of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert King, who was Vaughan's idol and mentor, playing together. That leads to some heavy expectations, which fortunately aren't disappointed, at least if you aren't expecting the customary over-the-top performances Vaughan was famous for. His playing here is much more laid-back and controlled, which is actually a recommendation--the stylistic similarities between teacher and student are that much more pronounced. The songs are mostly King concert staples, with the exception of "Pride and Joy"; highlights include the T-Bone Walker classic "Call It Stormy Monday" and one of King's own, "Overall Junction," which features some excellent guitar solo work. The snippets of recorded conversation between songs are interesting curiosities as well. --Genevieve Williams

In a city where every step tells a story, can a timid pair of sneakers find the courage to break routine and walk their way into love?

A music video turns into a conflict between father and son.