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Featuring over 30 interviews with members from bands such as Nomeansno, Dayglo Abortions, Neos, Show Business Giants, Red Tide, Infamous Scientists and many more, Somewhere to Go is a gritty and raw documentary film that does not simply focus on the past phenomenon of punk in Victoria BC but aims to explore the timeless themes of rebellion, ‘art for art’s sake’ and the integral role of music to culture, community and identity.
Buried in his denial and running from authorities, Bobby Angel produces online videos proclaiming his innocence. The audience is exposed to his perspective as he battles himself, the demon of his nightmares, finds refuge in his delusion and ultimately is lost within it. What he sees and the world he creates reveals to us the complex and very terrifying reality he experiences.
Paul, on a trip to Havana, is experiencing difficulty keeping a smile on his troubled face. He meets Agnela, a young local working girl, whose job it is to please with a practiced smile of her own. No matter, how close they get or how hard they try to soothe their broken souls, their attempts remains vain. They are too busy disconnecting themselves from hidden, unwanted emotions to achieve a true much needed human contact.
Three women live together in a closed and quiet apartment. Aude, Emma and Anne have an ambiguous relationship. Aude's breasts start to produce milk, for no reason. Her two roommates become aware of this, and it disturbs slightly their microcosm.
‘Special Works School’ was the codename used by the British War Office between 1917-1919 for a group of artists tasked with the job of ‘camoufleur’ - painters, textile artists, scenographers, designers, sculptors and scenic painters who were employed by the military to work specifically on developing camouflage technology. The artist, armed with the skill of rendering their surroundings with utmost acuity, was appointed to remove things from the realm of perception. Bambitchell’s ’Special Works School’ takes its name from this military unit to investigate the connections between artistic practice and surveillant technologies. With this video, the duo ask what an overtly aesthetic approach to surveillance can render visible, or invisible. By framing surveillance as an aesthetic practice, ‘Special Works School’ hones in on the psychic, embodied and material dimensions of surveillance - both from the position of the surveillor and the surveilled.
A maverick artist is rediscovered in Paris when his taboo-busting 1967 film resurfaces in the art world. Robert Cordier’s movie about medicine and the body made 20,000 faint at the Montreal world’s fair. Ghost Artist unmasks it as an avant-garde work for the masses inspired by collaborations with legendary artists like James Baldwin, Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, Jean Genet and Salvador Dalí. Ghost Artist is in the same documentary family as Searching for Sugarman and Finding Vivien Maier.
Blurred lines of friendship and an easy intimacy make Sasha think best friend Charlie is the one.
Toronto-based documentary filmmaker and cinematographer Nicholas de Pencier (Four Wings and a Prayer, Watermark) examines the complex global impact that the internet has had on matters of free speech, privacy and activism.
Leela's mother tries to coerce her into a gender stereotype, while Leela thinks only of leaving home to study in Toronto with her lover. Taking up the codes of Bollywood, Becoming Leela is above all a quest for freedom.
This short film chronicles filmmaker Nyla Innuksuk's emotional journey to Nunavut to connect with the land of her ancestors and with her Inuk father, whom she has not seen in over 20 years. Nyla's return to her Igloolik birthplace culminates with a lesson on lighting a qulliq, the traditional Inuit oil lamp.
Heroes brings to life the harrowing exploits of a Canadian platoon who fought to hold their vulnerable outpost in the face of repeated attacks during the Korean War.
A short film that weaves together original and archival material to create an ethereal narrative texture, Black Saltwater Elegy intimately links the discordant threads of a popular history of dispossession (Africville) with the solitude of its protagonist's graveyard-shift fantasies. After opening with disquieting archival footage of the demolition of Africville, the film shifts to an austere observational portrait. A palatable sense of the duration of midnight work slowly shifts into subtle gestures that hint towards choreographed events. Eventually, a breech occurs as the protagonist fuses with an emergent dreamscape, where ruined landscapes and a resurrection of an extinct community intertwine. Using the protagonist's disembodied point-of-view, the audience floats above a reconstructed Africville, one forever present, nesting in a bed of saltwater fog.
What happens when a rabbinical matchmaker, a Hasidic couple and a single, explore the precise meaning of humanity's most powerful word? Using downright silliness, Kosher Love reveals that we're all the same in our search for love.
An explorer adventures into an unknown world, yet it seems that he has been there before.
An interactive film for computers.
Mined, extracted, and woven, asbestos was the magic mineral. Towns became cities under its patronage, Persian kings entertained guests with its fireproof nature, and centuries of industry raked in the profits of its global application. We now live in the remains of this toxic dream, a dream that with the invention of electron microscopes revealed our material history as a disaster in the waiting.
30 GHOSTS chronicles rural Ontario horse farmer and paranormal-investigator-on-the-side, Kim Hadfield, over a year of intense struggle as she pursues her dream of proving to mankind that ghosts exist.
A documentary about the history of the French Shore embroidered into a 216-foot-long piece of storytelling cloth.
A boy’s choice of an ugly pumpkin results in an unusual Jack-O-Lantern.
Big Oil takes its toil on the Peace River region.
Two pairs of sisters humorously share their point of view on prejudices against First Nations.
"Screening from Within" juxtaposes the historical trajectories of the Chinese adoption of the Soviet “cinefication” movement and the contemporary transformations of itinerant film projection in China. Migrant workers of Beijing and Chengdu, rural inhabitants of Anhui, Sichuan and the Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, as well as projectionists from today and yesterday, share their thoughts, memory and experience about government and NGO-sponsored film screenings. Many of them remember the times when itinerant screening attracted huge crowds of viewers. Others—the younger ones—take video cameras in their own hands to film “from within.”
The story of a family whose mother disappeared 30 years ago, without leaving a trace. Her husband and two sons have reconstructed a life as they could, haunted by this ghost and tortured by questioning. When an unknown young Romanian arrives to bring them what seems to be the pieces that are missing from their story, they now have to face their demons.
At 18,000 feet above sea level and over the course of 40 days last Spring, documentary filmmaker Dianne Whelan immersed herself in the challenging and captivating world of base camp at Mt. Everest. With spectacular footage of the mountains’ landscape as a backdrop, 40 DAYS AT BASE CAMP is an intriguing and intimate portrayal of three climbing teams and their journey to the peak.
The capital of Lebanon burns through photo-chemical manipulation, specifically variations on Mordançage and Chromaflex film processing techniques. Still, the images from one of the oldest cities in the world remain recognizable... The footage is almost entirely edited in camera. The sound design includes field recordings, modular synthesizers, and Buzuk samples by Bob Lachapelle.
Remake of the eponymous film by Pierrick Sorin released in 1993. Comedy about a peeping tom. A parody of the male pornographic gaze.
This work was commissioned for the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and made possible by support from the 2016 Champion and Patron Members of Reel Asian. Chinese Zodiac is 60-years cycle by 10 heavenly elements and 12 earthly animals, 20th anniversary is just one third. In this movie appearing and changing into 20 elements from 1997 that was started the festival to 2016.
2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com queers and indigenizes traditional dating site advertisements. Using a Butch NDN 'lavalife" lady (performed by director Thirza Cuthand), 2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com seduces the viewer into 2 Spirit "snagging and shacking up" with suggestions of nearby pipeline protests to take your date to, and helpful elders who will matchmake you and tell off disrespectful suitors. It's the culturally appropriate website all single 2 Spirit people wish existed.
Stalked by his abusive white father, a rebellious Mi'kmaw runaway meets a two-spirit teenager drawn to his journey. As he learns Mi'kmaw language and culture from his new companion a deeper bond begins to grow between them.
Never get between a man and the one thing he loves.
Living with Giants delves into the imaginative world of Paulusie Kasudluak, a young Inuk facing responsibilities as he transitions into adulthood. The film portrays his thoughts, his dreams, and his beliefs, and allows for an intimate immersion into his life. Paulusie is a caring son to his ailing father and a good boyfriend. But what begins as the story of an innocent teenager quickly becomes the struggle of a young man coping with the guilt of having made a huge mistake. Tragically, Paulusie takes the most dramatic decision and takes his own life. Living with Giants remains a poetic journey of resilience that echoes issues that are far greater than Paulusie's personal story.
Glimpses of distant places, bodies and moments inspire nostalgia; nostalgia, in its turn, shapes those images. Shot between 2013 and 2015, in France and Spain, edited in the cold Canadian winter of 2017-2018. Super 8 b&w / color - Super 8 n&b / color
Imago (an incomplete work) (2010) by Jon Rafman
A tale of love, loss and addiction from the minds of Nicholas Janzen & Jade Robertson. THE MAN WHO BECAME COFFEE explores the darkest side of the human experience and answers the question: how much is too much?
In the spring of 1998, Christ Church - Saint James, an historic black church in Toronto's Little Italy, was destroyed by arson. All that remained were walls and a pit, and over subsequent years, the site was overtaken with graffiti. This film has taken on the layered form of the site itself: the space and its surfaces becoming tangled and multiple, the grid of a stone-filled window giving geometric form to simultaneously occurring images of concrete, nature, waste, paint, and sky.
A project based on a spoken word poem written by Shane Koyczan to further explore the profound and lasting impact that bullying can have on an individual.
Eva Marie Rodbro’s embedded ethnographic maestro short, originally shot in Brownwood, Texas in 2009, is given a fan remake. Night vision animal life and teen hangouts conjure a temporary and fragile collective, while conversation fragments, alternately performed and raw, shouted and whispered, collide.
Based on the poem 'Arriving' by Gillian Sze, the film delves into her family’s history and studies the relationship between her father, grandfather and herself. Through the examining of an inherited stamp collection, the cultivating of plants and the preparing of wonton soup, the piece investigates the mechanics of capture and the interwoven resonances between film and poetry.
Disillusioned by economic precarity, a young woman travels to do temporary farm work on a Gulf Island in British Columbia.
A documentary essay that reveals the symbolics of human actions through mundane gestures.
The Solar Hero documentary follows Team Alberta as they compete in the Solar Decathlon. All the way from the inception of the project, back in 2007, through to Washington, DC in October 2009. A summary is given relating the general progress of the team, their next few steps, and any possible foreseeable obstacles along the way. Interviews have been conducted with team members to capture personal opinions of the project, its current status, and feelings about one's own team and the other competitors. Animated footage would provide information on the general status of each team in relation to the others, as well as provide practical environmental information for around the house and the workplace. Solar Hero is a window on the best young minds in Alberta working brilliantly to create new avenues in solar living.
"The Waste Land" is a claustrophobic character study following a group of survivors struggling with morality and hope in an apocalyptic wasteland.
A guild-ridden mother makes a grisly confession following the unexpected return of her missing son.
Behind the scenes of the production of The Subliminal Rabbit Presents!
Dans ce nouveau tour de piste, Larocque aborde des sujets qui ne sortent pas nécessairement de l’ordinaire mais, en revanche, l’angle qu’il utilise est intéressant. Courts, efficaces et toujours aussi punchés, tous ses numéros font mouche, et ce, sans exception. Dans Vu d’même, Sylvain Larocque est drôle, intelligent et surtout très pertinent. De tous les spectacles de l’artiste, celui-ci est sans aucun doute le plus achevé. Bref, c’est évident, l’humoriste est au sommet de son art. D’entrée de jeu, l’humoriste a tenu à remercier son public d’avoir osé venir le voir, et ce, malgré son apparence. «Je sais, je n’ai pas l’air d’un gars qui, après le spectacle, va aller gambader nu dans un champ de marguerites. Pas que je n’aime pas ça mais, quand ça fait deux fois que tu te fais arrêter par la police, tu comprends le message…» .
This hybrid project uses a cell-phone to document a series of colour plate advertisements from The 1957 Photographer's Almanac. The footage is then transferred to 16mm film, presenting the advertised technologies of 1957 (coincidentally, the first year a digital image was ever generated) through simultaneous analog and digital lenses. History is collapsed in a comment on the changing terminologies of lens-based practice. (The film's title is taken from the title of an essay appearing in the Almanac, authored by its collected editors).
On one summer day, four children face themselves, and become a little older.
This short film profiles contemporary dancer Louise Lecavalier as she performs in her studio. With searching steps, she crosses a space defined by her past.
For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples have governed their territories according to their own laws – safeguarding land, air, water and communities to sustain their cultures and economies. Drawing on the lessons learned over two decades of work with Indigenous peoples on Indigenous law-based approaches to land use planning, impact assessment and other aspects of environmental governance, in 2016 West Coast launched the RELAW program (Revitalizing Indigenous Law for Land, Air and Water).
80-year-old community activist, Winston LaRose, affectionately known as Mr. Jane and Finch supports the residents of a troubled Toronto community with his quiet brand of activism. With gentrification high up on the political agenda, he decides to run for municipal office for the seat of Ward 7 and challenge the entrenched powers.
As you travel, the satellite that monitors your pulse mistakes a telephone book for an ocean. It's late, they'll be gone by the time you arrive, but the voice on the radio keeps your mind occupied with a story about cities and sand.
Indian Summer. Canned food, cigarettes, a canoe and the river carrying Max and Ariane away. Escaped from the city, they really know nothing about each other, but share a project. It may be a good time to embark on something new.
This production lifts the veil on a little-known disease caused by the bite of infected black-legged ticks: Lyme disease. Discussing its transmission methods, its spread, its devastating effects on victims, the prognostic and the treatments, this documentary reveals an infectious disease growing in Quebec and round the world.
This is the story of the architect, Carlo Mollino, animated within the desk space of failed architect, Rhayne Vermette.