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Set in the near future, a collective of queer-feminist superhero*ines make use of their different identities, backgrounds and experiences to fight back against sexual and gender-based violence – a fusion of science, technology, magic, and ritual. Clashes and conflicts arise as they negotiate and try to come to a consensus on their aim of disrupting toxic hierarchies. The project is currently in post-production.
"Plugin" is the story of a mechanical city in which every citizen is a part of the city itself, responsible for generating lights by connecting the male and female parts of the mechanism. Everyone seems to fit into this perfect puzzle except the main character, G-O, a man who does not match the rest of his world. G-O finally finds his perfect match – another man – but the City Authority try to stop this uncommon union. It is up to G-O and Ico to show their city that every connection is after all part of the same energy - love.
When Ryan and his imaginary friend JO embark on their ultimate adventure together, Ryan is forced to confront his worst fear.
Liam is searching for his sister and nothing will get in his way. A tale of violence, redemption and magnets.
A young scavenger living in a small, crime-ridden town finds a cosmic ring that gives him superpowers.
infinite mutation cycles radiated pastures image infection ritual feedings soil rot cursed texture mysterious illness
An unfulfilled high school senior becomes obsessed with an ominous radio broadcast containing steps to a cryptic puzzle.
In a chamaleonic and confined space lives the perfectionist Eva, however an anomaly progressively humanizes her by showing her fears and doubts. Suddenly her instinct is all she has in her boxed nightmare.
On another world, the evil General Torn is controlling the society under the domed city. Unholy soul eating monsters are in the vast alien forests outside, robots, magicians, a darkness that is coming to the planet that can't be stopped, and some people who just want freedom and to know who they are...
In a futuristic 1999, a highly trained Vietnam veteran, now evangelical minister, goes on a mission of holy vengeance after his wife and child are brutally murdered.
Created by Nick Clarridge, a grade-six student from Toronto, Sam Digital is a 21st century computer virus detective in the year 2050. When a giant virus monster tries to destroy Internet World, everyone in the future can't do their daily activities, and Sam must go into the digital world to stop the virus once and for all.
When an ambitious young artist hits a wall, he resorts to an artificial intelligence program to help him creatively. As he tumbles down a cyber rabbit hole, the integrity of AI is questioned.
Four friends find themselves with varying gifts in extra-sensory perception. They face the struggles of being young adults with very secret and powerful abilities that they cannot tell anyone.
An experimental exploration of media manipulation within Western society.
A mother isn’t sure she can accept her daughter’s new paramour in this animated short originally created for last year’s Nickel Sci-Fi Challenge. St. John’s comedian Veronica Dymond made this one, so you know it’s funny and a little bit weird.
Our protagonist races against time and space to deliver a cure to their partner. Created in under 48hrs for the Calgary Underground Film Festival 2023.
Part 2 of an upcoming cyclical sci-fi satire trilogy written and directed by Daniel Duffy. Plot TBA.
A mechanized colossus created in a military laboratory is set free by a mysterious organization looking to start a civil war.
Rolf moves into a new house, in hopes to mislead Bo-Bo's evil pursuit of him. He calls up Lissa, who is out of the hospital now, and makes plans to see her later in the day. Meanwhile Bo-Bo has reappeared in his home, the abandoned house. Furious about his defeat he smashes up the places, and heads back towards Calgary to seek revenge Rolf, Cheenkaw, and Beefart.
Biliminal immerses the audience in a universe of constant tension – between meditative lullabies and chaotic explosions. The work explores the metamorphosis of sound and visual materials inspired by reality, using algorithmic transformation systems to create new audiovisual landscapes whose various elements, at the limit of the perceptible, evoke an ethereal form of their original state.
Part 1 of an upcoming cyclical sci-fi satire trilogy written and directed by Daniel Duffy. Plot TBA.
After a recent break up, Bug’s ex-girlfriend June calls to come pick up the rest of her stuff from their apartment. This triggers Bug to spiral, as we follow their desperate attempt at keeping their past alive by creating a massive dungball of the items June left behind.
150 years from now, two warrior siblings document their community who survived climate change and become the focus of an event that will change them forever.
In a world where every thought has already been thought, Blue a determined think entrepreneur defies the odds and discovers an original idea that has the power to revolutionize humanity's understanding of the universe but as powerful forces conspire to suppress this groundbreaking thought, Blue must embark on a dangerous journey to protect his discovery and bring it to light.
Beefart is still at home running his private detective agency and dreams that Bo-Bo attacks him. What he doesn't know is that Bo-Bo's soul has come out of hell and returned to his body on Earth, escaping from the institute where he was confined and killing everyone who crosses his path.
Five years after the carnage that took place in the woods.... Rolf is still dead, and Bo-Bo is gone...
What do you do when your family turns out not to be what it seems? When a strange food supplement determines your perception of reality?
Billy explains how he sacrificed his life and learned to cope with the lack of acceptance he gains from his soulmate's family. Billy suffers from the lack of love he receives when meeting Lilly's family but will do anything just so that he's not known as the odd one out.
A brief moment of two women kissing, reclaimed from the lesbian subtext of a popular science fiction television program, is transformed into an epic of queer desire.
Marlene and Re:Tired traverse a febrile, digital landscape in the search of their voices. The gender-less duo thrive quite well off their diet of mayonnaise and discount window cleaner. Accompanied by one sentient—and very much exasperated—HedCam, hijinks ensue.
Through the creative and philosophical journey of three steamers, this film offers a fascinating incursion into the heart of an international artistic community, inspired by science fiction and the Industrial Revolution. More than just a portrait, it invites us to reflect on our own modern life and relationship to technology.
In the future human beings are abandoning planet earth. This animated short story captures the final journey of three animals who are left behind.
All the land has been sold and the wealthy live in mobile luxury homes, suspended from a network of cables covering the earth. With this super-sophisticated technology, the slightest malfunction can be catastrophic.
A contemplative short capturing the present and a predictive vision of the future-world.
Expelled 87 is sent to earth with the mission of saving his species from immanent extinction. As he gets accustomed to a new world he is haunted by his old home.
A bounty hunter drifts through Wolf-359 looking for his target.
A selection of AI Bots dictate the purpose of existence in a world that is relying on technology at a concerning rate.
The heartbroken Martin only wants one thing; a way to get out of the time loop he finds himself trapped in. He believes that the only solution, however, is to find a way to make his estranged ex-girlfriend Klara fall back in love with him- before time runs out. A touching tale of true love!
Larry goes door-to-door, convinced he's selling happiness through the images broadcast by a revolutionary retro portable TV.
Beefart and Cheenkaw, the world's greatest crime-fighting team, face their greatest foe of all time. Who is this mysterious villain? And what has caused Cheenkaw, Beefart and Laura McKnees to be separated?
After an accident, a young woman has muddled memories of her past, and when she tries to access them via a chip to recover her memories, she discovers someone has tried to delete them. Who would do this to her most precious moments?
A man tries to escape in a virtual reality of his own creation. Engineer meets his own Creation.
Using found footage, several members of royalty inform the citizens of an impending doom from space coming toward Earth.
Focusing on developing relationships with the computer as a nonhuman entity, Listener is an iterative, site-specific performance artwork which speculates a future through Lakota ontology, narratively and physically manifesting a relationship with metals in electronics, performed via an electronic interface woven into hair (hair is sacred to the Lakota). The sonic landscape includes live police scanners, synthesizers played by the hair, and algorithmically re-arranging poetry with a voice speaking of a future landscape, prophecies, dreams, and the possibilities in listening.
In this sci-fi tale of conquest and empowerment, sex-toys become beacons for a new species of colonizers.
In a desolate wasteland, an elderly woman and her caretaker robot survive by scavenging. She decorates their home with discarded treasures, while the robot faithfully tends to her. After her death, a fire consumes the house and her remains. In the flames, the robot sees a shadow ascend from her resting place, its arms extending toward it in silence...
An epic psychedelic odyssey of war, society and humanity told through the lens of Biff: a schizophrenic mind-pirate.
A meeting on the moon will brighten up Luna's life and make her discover herself more deeply in a breathtaking world.
Mashup/homage to 50s/60s sci-fi films about alien invasions.
Ice Spider is a collaboration between Saimaiyu Akesuk (Cape Dorset, Nunavut) and Cheryl Rondeau (Toronto, Canada). Inspired by Akesuk’s iconic drawing entitled Red Spider (2014), this experimental short employs the technique of stop-motion animation while making reference to the actual behaviour of the Arctic Wolf Spider, a genus of arachnid common across the North. Climate change has resulted in larger populations and increased predatory tendencies of this carnivorous and cannibalistic spider. This sci-fi influenced short animates the growing discourse around the ecological, political and cultural future of Canada’s Arctic. Background imagery was shot on location in Cape Dorset, Nunavut.
Wander is a film primarily experimenting with the effects of superimpositions to play with surreal sensations, as a poetic dialogue floats along the way. No incarnation of the subjects exists inside, only the two's voices hovering over the dynamics like extraterrestrial creatures drifting away from the Earth. The atmosphere is dangerous. And the fluid exhibition of sceneries spans from Asia to North America with chaotic velocity, which may relive a spiritual diaspora after fragmentary experiences here and there. In this visual space, the past is unrelentingly flooded away in the fading memory.
A short film portraying clips of different artificial items being constructed, while the scene gradually becomes more and more grim and insane.
A pair of parallel realities meet when the previous two victims are investigated by the police. However the Movster isn't far behind.