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The last concert of Gazoline at Ritz PDB.

A documentary about Vancouver metal band 3 INCHES OF BLOOD. The film follows the band on tour across Canada and gives a first-hand look at what it takes to thrive on the road.

The Montreal Symphonic Orchestra (MSO) and Kent Nagano share the stage with Fred Pellerin, a colorful character whose imagination seduces as much as it surprises. He tells Christmas in his own way, through his stories featuring the protagonists of the small village of Saint-Élie-de-Caxton. An unprecedented encounter of the symphonic world and the universe of this artist of words. Concert recorded on December 16 and 17, 2011 at the Maison symphonique de Montréal.

This mixed media video piece explores the healing process of recovery from childhood sexual abuse through the interwoven mediums of story, poetry, dance and visual art. For survivors and their supporters.

To celebrate the release of her first album "Phoenix", Charlotte Cardin offers a unique and unforgettable experience where the spectator is propelled into a rich universe that retraces the artist's journey from her beginnings to today. Presented through the symbol of the rebirth of the phoenix, the show is divided into 15 distinct scenes, where feature films and concerts intertwined. While remaining intimate, the event is a grand narrative that is sure to inspire its audience.

An animated film in which colored shapes dance to calliope music. The visuals were drawn by Norman McLaren directly upon the film with pen and ink. Simple forms dance about the screen to the discordant strains of an old-time circus calliope.

Live album by Canadian melodic death metal band Quo Vadis.

We illustrated "Envoions d'l'avant nos gens" with a set of puppets dressed in local fabric and "Auprès de ma blonde" with gouache drawings.

A musical film featuring Quebec pop-punk band "Les Trois Accords".

Canadian band Sons of Butcher's feature-length concert documentary, featuring live performances and skits.

Featuring all 8 songs from idialedyournumber's breakthrough album Hourglass, the film follows a young girl that falls in love with a green creature after washing up on a Halifax beach.

"The bridge built in 'Blakk wi Blak...k...k' takes its audience back and forth between Jamaica and Toronto in a rapid-fire commute that soon blurs the two places into one. At the centre of this swirl is world renowned dub poet Mutabaruka, possessed of one of the most trenchant tongues in Jamaica. In this fast-paced portrait co-directed by Canadian poet Lillian Allen, he brings his wit and sharp intelligence to some of his favourite subjects-tourism, Marcus Garvey, true Rastafari, and fast food as chemical warfare. Both in performance and interview, his liberation lessons, comic asides and dubwise Rastafarian philosophy cut hard to the bone." - Cameron Bailey

What do you do when your best friend dies doing something you both love? Paddle To The Ocean is a documentary film about using a banjo, a kayak and a bicycle to recover from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In 2011, Zac Crouse (musician, recreation therapist and expedition kayaker) toured his album 'You Plan To Do Nothing' from Ottawa ON to Halifax NS using only a sea kayak and a bicycle. It was a journey Zac had intended to do with his friend Corey; who sadly passed away while on a kayaking adventure with Zac in Nova Scotia. Paddle To The Ocean is a tribute to Zac's friend, but it also examines the stigma associated with mental illness while demonstrating the benefits of physical activity and music.

Vancouver, Canada’s queer village breaks into song in the incredibly coordinated and locally produced Laugh At Me.

This feature documentary uses music to reveal the many faces of jazz, New Orleans style. Colourful and alive with music, the film captures the street life and traditions of this vibrant city and explores the roots of the music that springs from the soul of the African-American community.

Behind the scenes of the production of The Subliminal Rabbit Presents!

An exploration of love and lust in nature.

A film-opera divided into nine segments, Au pays de Zom tells a day in the life of Mister Zom, a capitalist infatuated with his own person, whose conformism is only matched by his artistic velleity. A thematic sequel to his movie filmed with Mexican peasants, here Groulx asks, by making a business man sing, a second question on happiness: this time about the ones for whom happiness is linked with the possession of overabundance. He delivers, by developing the theatrical dimension with great emphasis, a social pamphlet with a strong satirical charge that he himself qualified as a "neo-surrealist fantasy".

This short documentary filmed in Pangnirtung features 2 elders reminiscing about the dances held in their community 50 years ago. One of the elders is master accordion player Simeonie Keenainak, and soon he's making toe-tapping music with his instrument. In this celebration of the pleasures of music and dance, Keenainak plays for the enjoyment of friends, family, and the community at large.

When his father has to work on Ferragosto (Italy's national holiday) instead of going to the sea, a boy has the adventure of his lifetime in the city of Florence with an unexpected friend.

FIG TREES is a documentary opera about AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of Capetown as they fight for access to treatment drugs. Documentary interviews, speeches, press conferences and demonstrations are sampled, taken apart, and set to music, replayed this time as operatic scenes. A surreal fictional narrative is intercut with the stories of their struggles against government and the pharmaceutical industry. In this fictional world, Gertrude Stein decides to write a tragic opera about Tim and Zackie and their saint-like heroism. She kidnaps them, transports them to Niagara Falls, and forces them to sing a series of complicated avant-garde vocal compositions. However, when Zackie ends his treatment strike and starts taking his pills, Gertrude realizes that there will be no more tragedy, and thus, no more opera.

01. West Song 02. Film III 03. Musique pour Gabrielle 04. Jam 3 05. By foot from 06. Hello 07. Monsieur Piment 08. Groove 09. Oiseau 10. CB/Vox 11. Battayum 12. Ratchakay 13. Le sacre 14. My little luck 15. Worries 16. Dit-elle + Bonus Interview

Dive down into the deep blue sea with Finny The Shark and friends. You’ll see a fish, an octopus, a whale, a shark, a jellyfish, and a starfish!

Features performances by: Necrophagist, As Blood Runs Black, Beneath The Massacre, Cattle Decapitation, Cephalic Carnage, The Faceless and Ion Dissonance. 1 As Blood Runs Black – Beneath The Surface 2 As Blood Runs Black – My Fears Have Become Phobias 3 The Faceless – Ghost Of A Stranger 4 The Faceless – An Autopsy 5 Beneath The Massacre – Nevermore 6 Beneath The Massacre – The System's Failure 7 Ion Dissonance – Cleansed By Silence 8 Ion Dissonance – The Surge 9 Cattle Decapitation – Unintelligent Design 10 Cattle Decapitation – Karma.Bloody.Karma 11 Cephalic Carnage – Counting The Days 12 Cephalic Carnage – Observer To The Obliteration Of The Planet Earth 13 Decapitated – A Poem About An Old Man 14 Necrophagist – The Stillborn One Drums – Marco Minnemann 15 Necrophagist – Ignominious And Pale Drums – Marco Minnemann 16 Necrophagist – Drum Solo Drums – Marco Minnemann

Writers, artists, and musicians celebrate the whale.

Sofia, a young trumpeter, prepares herself for the reunion with her childhood friend Paula. But fearing that their bond may have faded, Sofia revisits their memories to give her a welcoming gift - a song.

An animated presentation of Silent Night, Come All Ye Faithful, Good King Wenceslaus, Joy to the World, and What Child Is This sung by the Leslie Bell Singers.

When a man starts a new job as a college janitor, he is reminded of all that he has lost.

The Cure headline their self curated Curiosa Festival, live in Toronto 9th of August 2004

"Collective Unconsciousness: The Not Dead Yet Story" explores the annual Not Dead Yet festival that takes place in Toronto. This documentary dives into what makes the festival great and the impact it makes on the city's hardcore/punk scene. "Collective Unconsciousness: The Not Dead Yet Story" also features performances from bands that played in 2015, shot up close to give the viewer the feel that they are there. Features performances by S.H.I.T., V.C.R., Power Trip, Title Fight, Career Suicide and more alongside interviews with members of Dress Code, Title Fight, I.C.E. and more.

The Smalls...er Whatever charts the highs and lows of Alberta rock cowboys The Smalls as they cross Canada and tour France and Belgium for the first time. Features European riot footage, backstage antics, studio recording footage from 1998's My Dear Little Angle, van breakdowns and band fights in France.

A multimedia work set to Sufjan Stevens’ “The Hidden River of My Life” illustrates a cosmic, yet deeply intimate exploration of humankind: our past, our present, and the places we might go. Produced as a 2019 grad film at Emily Carr University of Art & Design in Vancouver, B.C.

The twisting, neon discomfort of body parts pulsates and trembles from the depths of the deepest ocean up to the cold and unforgiving vastness of space. Bones and tendons dislocate from performer Devours’s earthly queer vessel. A hand becomes the new building block of the universe: evolving from single cell, to fish, to mammal. Devours brings the genesis of a strange new planet of beard-based lifeforms.

Animated short film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

An ode by a socially conscious carnivore to creatures that get crunched.

A Gala Concert filmed during the Celtic Colours 10th Anniversary Festival at the Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

During the Second World War, the Canadian Army presents a Hollywood-style short musical film encouraging women to enlist.

With lush visual effects and evocative soundscape, this movement tape is a poetic exploration of one man's fall from grace, as he becomes disillusioned with gay ideals of beauty.

4 Albums. 13 Years. 200+ Shows. One Final Night. In November 2022, Edmonton’s own 'The Unfortunates' got together for one last celebration and played their final show at the legendary Starlite Room. A film account and presentation of their final concert, with interviews from all 6 members— this is the final chapter of their story.

Celine enlists her military pal, Vincent, for a robbery, banking on his expertise and unwavering loyalty. Vincent's motive? To reunite with the woman he's never stopped loving. however, the heist reveals a deeper yearning for reconnection.

Reveals Mathieu David Gagnon's musical project through a hypnotic concert filmed in the Saint-Pacôme church in Kamouraska. Neither entirely documentary nor pure performance, the film reveals a discreet artist and music played in all its fragility, carried by a dozen classical musicians. Between live sequences and stolen moments, the river becomes a mirror, and the landscapes, visual echoes of a music deeply rooted in its territory. A sober immersion in a work that slows down time.

An all-male tango set against the backdrop of patriarchal civic geography.

Can’t Close Your Eyes is a video series that Ethan Hib has created to show off both local and international punk/hardcore acts. Each episode features performance clips, interviews with bands, artists, and/or other people involved in the scene.

"ZAIA: Crossroads in Macau" is a documentary that demonstrates the concepts from which the first Cirque du Soleil show in Asia was created and how they were layered onto the real life challenges of its artists and creators.

Colourful puppets illustrate the old French song about Cadet Rousselle, who falls down a ladder, who trips on battlements, and whose dogs will not obey him. The animated figures carry our hero through his predicaments with colour and verve.

Join this peculiar hero as he sings his way through a mundane office building, achieving profound results along the way.

"The latest iteration of his porno provocations, Haddad distorts still pornographic images of a young, gay duo, suggesting a tale of love ending in tragedy. The images capture a certain tenderness, hard core shots brought to life by romantic soundscapes." (Wilde Davis, Los Angeles Filmforum)

After an intruder infiltrates her apartment, Allie must deal with the remnants of painful memories that she refuses to accept.

In a world where a disease has caused people to communicate solely by singing, two dudes embark on a quest for the cure.

A documentary that shows and talks about the struggles of being a musician nowadays with the rise of streaming services.

Three composers, three universes, one same exploration. Daphné, Preston and Ofer draw a path in the world of contemporary music, each in their own way. An immersive visual experience, Intersounds is an ode to musical creation and a plea for listening, eyes wide open.

In this queer Asian spoof of karaoke, a new boy in town discovers the dark side of the big city. The story follows his adventures to an underground club where sex and murder are in store.

Best known for his long running television series "Fred Penner's Place" and hit song "The Cat Came Back," for decades musical icon Fred Penner has been using his engaging personality and public speaking skills to excite audiences like no other. He is a constant inspiration for his fans of all ages, but what is it that Fred really does for people? Why is Fred's message and music more important than ever? How did Fred go from a struggling musician to the North American sensation dubbed the "Canadian Minister of Positivity"? How did difficult moments from Fred's youth shape his life as a performer? Take this highly engaging journey to discover how Fred Penner connects with audiences and makes sense of the world.