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Images of the Almalfi Coast have been transformed by video feedback. The rigid transitions, inspired by early computer art, contrast with the aleatory movements of the electronic light.

An encounter in dark places, movements in chiaroscuro and the breath of a rising wind for the daylight to be revealed in all its amplitude.

This is not a pipe, it is adolescence in the feminine with its ambiguities, its whims, its desires, its impulses and above all, its very very expensive (and enormous) libido.

A study of light and shadows on a late summer afternoon.

For more than two decades Mike Hoolboom has been one of our foremost artistic witnesses of the plague of the twentieth century, HIV. A personal voice documenting and piercing the clichéd spectrum of Living With AIDS from carnal abjection to incandescent spirituality, no surviving moving image visionary surpasses him. Buffalo Death Mask is a three-part meditation — visual, oral and haptic, both campy and ecstatic — on survival, mourning, memory, love and community. A conversation between Hoolboom and visual artist Stephen Andrews, both long time survivors of the retrovirus, floats over what seems to be a dream of Toronto and some of its ghosts. No one savours the intimations of immortality inherent in recycled footage like Mike, no one else understands how processed Super 8 can answer the question “Why are we still here when so many are gone?"

Wind burial, influenced by Shamanism, is an old Mongolian tradition. When someone dies, the corpse is carried on a cart until a bump causes the body to fall. The place where the body lands becomes a simple tomb.

A documentary about Captain Dale Black, a pilot who died in a famous airplane crash in Burbank, California which was covered by the LA Times. After coming back to life, Black shares his near death experience as the sole survivor of a non-survivable plane wreck.

The story of a man on a mission to save the planet and its oceans. The film follows professional radical ecologist, Captain Paul Watson, as he repeatedly flouts the law so that he may apprehend what he sees as the more serious lawbreakers: the illegal poachers of the world.

While checking in on a neighbors cottage, a man finds there's an unexpected visitor already living there who is claiming to be a distant relative.

This is the story of the Devil as told through his dark manifestations in art, music and popular culture throughout history. Where does the familiar image of the Devil come from? What does it mean? And why are we both attracted and repulsed by it? From the Bible to Rock and Roll to the World Wide Web, the Devil We Know sheds new light on the Prince of Darkness through his manifestations in the arts and popular culture.

A man battling loneliness grapples with a potentially life-altering decision.

A series of wordless actions performed in a Delta hotel room. With a handmade sweater inspired by a dream, a light-up motorized winter scene, a replica Princess Diana engagement ring, a replica Titanic necklace, a replica Blue Boy cross stitch, the CN Tower, and a coffee table biography of the founder of the popular Sandals luxury resort chain.

“Background actors” silently inhabit the roles of pedestrians or passersby. Like an exercise in walking meditation, the pedestrians trace a path that is unstable, full of distractions, thoughts, and emotions, crises of identity, anxiety, and restlessness. —Julia Feyrer

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.

An in-depth conversation with Ellen Bialystok, Professor of Psychology at York University, who is a world-leading expert on the effects of bilingualism on cognitive processes across our lifespan.

Follows the story of Bradley Collins, Canadian Baptist minister and a hockey coach as he struggle to promote a game of hockey in a post war country of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).

Actor Françoise Faucher has embodied some of the greatest roles in French literature during her more than 60 years on stage. In this short documentary, she recalls the moments that led her to the theatre.

A glimpse into how young lives are destroyed by war.

Hannah and Antonio are lovers and performers. He is a veteran Drag Queen, she is a performance artist. Blush is the portrait of their gender-blending relationship.

Jason was in Grade 5 when he started having feelings for other boys. Because of those feelings he was called names, beaten up, and even sexually assaulted. Now Jason is using art to open up – and he is asking his audience to question what we actually mean when we talk about 'bullying.'

A mother returns home to find her babysitter murdered and baby daughter missing. As she struggles to find her baby, she fights a battle with supernatural forces.

Exploring the capacity of the medium to express various notions of time, the film begins with a woman looking out from the shoreline.

A room and a man, standing in front of a mirror, facing his wounds and his loneliness.

Indigenous rights and title to the land remains a taboo topic for many across Canada, but in the small town of Laird, Saskatchewan, an old injustice is providing new opportunities for dialogue, friendship and a fierce determination to right the wrongs of the past.

A comedic short film.

Retake follows the journey of co-directors Gwaai Edenshaw (Haida) and Helen Haig-Brown (Tsilhqot'in) as they work to produce The Edge of the Knife, a feature-length film told entirely in the critically-endangered Haida language. The film tells the story of a traditional Haida legend, showcasing the Haida culture in many ways that have never been seen by a broad audience.

12 year old Jason lives alone with his mother Marie. When he tells her that he has been accepted into a sports education program, the boy does not expect his life to change forever.

I Met a Man is a piece of whimsy inspired by the ever present whistling wind on the Irish coast of County Cork where the filmmaker was living when she made the film. The film is scratched in 35mm film stock with color added in video postproduction.

OF BLOOD AND PISS is a contemplative meditation on death in a scrap yard, where humans are cold as iron and cars breathe out the wind of death.

The Wind Sleeps Standing Up parallels the degradation of memory, to the degradation of the digital image. Using autobiography and various narrative devices this video is part of a series of explorations into absurdism.

Based on the book, "Clearing the Way", by Major Mark Gasparotto, Tells the collective stories of the Canadian Combat Engineers in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan during deployment from August 06 to February 07.

This short film pays tribute to beloved Canadian country rock band Blue Rodeo. They've been traveling the highways and back roads of Canada for almost 30 years, bringing their music to audiences far and wide, and building a passionate and dedicated fan base.

Following the story of a young girl who believes she is from another planet as well as her foster parents' decision of whether or not to adopt her.

Diana Lawson is planning for the party of a lifetime. Unfortunately, time is running out.

"a woman with a past" is a raw, candid glimpse into the lived experience, self-preserving humour and written words of trans*, intersex poet Antonette Rea. In her affable nature, Antonette recounts her years working the streets, her struggles with stigma, violence & addiction, and how ultimately her humour and poetry have been essential to creating a new chapter of healing and self-expression.

The history of the eau of Cologne goes back to almost four centuries, a history formed by extraordinary myths, family feuds and treacherous acts of commercial plagiarism. Its gradual use is a reflection of the evolution of society and its morality, in relation to body and hygiene, a gesture of intimacy. First perfume of kings, then the most popular fragrance, within reach of all the pockets.

An unconventional activist epic, filmed in Greece over several years among the many refugees and amidst some of the mass demonstrations that have rocked the country. The film is at once an essay, guerrilla journalism and poetic portrait. It tackles the socio-political upheavals of a country that stands alone in bringing down the western neoliberal model.

Alanis Obomsawin’s documentary The People of the Kattawapiskak River exposes the housing crisis faced by 1,700 Cree in Northern Ontario, a situation that led Attawapiskat’s band chief, Theresa Spence, to ask the Canadian Red Cross for help. With the Idle No More movement making front page headlines, this film provides background and context for one aspect of the growing crisis.

Over one million Afghans live as refugees in neighbouring Iran. For Ismael, Golagha, Kashmir and Nader, the flawed Iranian asylum laws leave them in legal limbo and under constant threat of deportation. To eke out a living, they work as ball boys in Tehran’s upper-class tennis clubs. With observational skill and heartfelt sensitivity, the film shares the reality of their struggles. Golagha and his friends dream of winning a tennis tournament for the substantial prize money. Ismael, the charismatic Bruce Lee look-alike, has the talent to do it but legal barriers and unkind officials pose impossible obstacles. As another way out, the friends seriously ponder the life-threatening journey to an unknown fate in the West. Given the contemporary flood of images of refugees arriving on the shores of Europe, Overruled deals with an important and often overlooked part of the bigger picture, examining refugee struggles in Asia.

Filmmaker Moïa Jobin-Paré immerses viewers in a sensory exploration of the nature of the gesture in an experimental work that brings together photography, scratching, and a soundtrack composed from original recordings.

Amidst preposterous recollections of his past, a grown man relives his singular memory of what it felt like to be a little boy.

Sayisi Dene people use the same word for stars as they do for the sparks seen among caribou. When they move in the night, the friction of their fur creates static, sparks, and stars. HIDE is an impromptu act of art making, the result of chance meetings and big dreaming. The original composition by renowned Quebecois pianist, Jean-Philippe Sylvestre, highlights the delicate crackles of deep space and the ruckus cacophony of intercultural collaboration.

Germain has come to the hospital to diagnosticate a depression...

For college student Josie Kane, it starts as a simple internship: to shadow a group of high-tech land surveyors as they make their first foray into an ancient wilderness. Assisted by grizzled security guard Dale Philip, the crew knows how to handle protesters and saboteurs -- but there's something much, much worse in the woods this time. The local natives say the land is cursed -- haunted by a demonic entity older than time. Now people are going missing, turning up dead or worse, and Josie and the crew are about to discover the truth behind the legend. The most alarming horror is the one you never see coming!

An aging actor is grateful to be cast in a theatrical production, but he feels lost and unwanted among his college-aged castmates.

A stop-motion short tells the story of a male owl, driven by hunger, as he goes in search of food in a late-spring snowstorm - but in his pursuit he may have met his match.

One sleepless night as Sadie is surfing the web her suspicions that she and her bestie since the 7th grade are growing apart are confirmed, when she discovers that he has unfollowed her on Instagram. On her 17th birthday, her mother gifts her a 3 zone one-year transit pass telling her to “go out and explore, discover new things and have adventures close to home.” Downtown Sadie is randomly befriended by Miami, a self-identified teeny-bopper who is the first out trans girl to attend North Shore Private Girls College. Miami introduces Sadie to her token straight, musical theatre-loving BFF Cynthia, her angsty emo boyfriend Zeke, and the rest of her clique: Ellen, an astrology-loving lesbian and Jersey, a twinky bisexual high school dropout. Sadie quickly starts to hang out with them all on the regular, but has she really found a place where she belongs? Or will old insecurities, crushes and drama get in the way?

He is a magician. She is a firefighter. Isolating themselves from the chaos of a world in turmoil, the two lovers live in a crane basket high in the sky, where they go about their daily business. Their challenge is to keep their heads, here up above it all, while everything is falling apart down below. But when reality calls – when fires need quenching and people need entertaining – how can they best make themselves useful in a world gone off the rails?

One sip from the fountain of youth and old age disappears as you gain a new youthful vigor. This film animation weaves a story of two of our aging population as, in their delirium, they search for their lost youth.

Orange Witness documents the marginalized voices of people who have been exposed to, and affected by Agent Orange. The film paints a bleak picture of the damage caused by the use of herbicides 2,4-D, 2,4,5-T and TCCD internationally. Historically, Agent Orange has been associated with war, but the industrial and domestic of use of the chemical is a story that has yet to reach the masses, until now.

As the most politicized of the three marches during Pride week in San Francisco, trans*march, which had been running for ten years at the time this film was made, has a tradition of raising visibility of a marginalised group within queer culture. This documentary records queer voices during the 2013 march and reflects political discussions concerning trans* and LGBT movements.

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