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Introducing a generation of young Africans determined to be the first free of AIDS.

A film by Zahid Jiwa.

A police forensic photographer known as the exhibit man discovers the murders in his town are linked to an alien creature.

A small-time drug dealer tries to escape the business unscathed after his police officer brother overdoses on his product. Set in real-time, one apartment, with a revolving door of characters, our hero’s life spirals out of control one fateful afternoon.

DBtH! is a silent looping video intended for screening on public surfaces in gay neighbourhoods across Canada. It beckons viewers with sensuous displays of queer public affection paired with scrolling text that both provokes and informs. This site-specific work claims public space for queer intimacy and political imagining at a time when Canadians are being encouraged by both the federal government and LGBT civil society organizations to celebrate the so-called 50th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality.

Gnarcore. Where Snowboarding rules and the whole is greater. Rebelliousness. Spontaneity. Artistic impression. Adventure. Community. All these things drew us to the shred and these things shall keep it alive. Like any fun loving human They lust for those things in life they find real and pure. Ideally it’s a feeling they’re in search of, something that makes us feel bold and alive and promises that we can conquer anything. Maybe they find it on a Mountain, on the street or behind a camera. Maybe its at a show, on the dance floor or at the end of a brush, either way, they find it. It’s our quest, and like charged mercenaries were here to conquer, capture and document. The wild Canadians take it to the streets, the pow, then the bar. Check their latest movie called “Piece”. Really gnarly!!!

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

"Digging Up the Last Spike" is a video from Kamala Todd's installation piece at the exhibition Hexsa'a̱m: To Be Here Always, shown at the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery in 2019. It documents Todd's journey to the Kingcome Inlet fish farms via boat, the only access to the remote area.

Created by Matt Butterworth and Eric Marciniak of Virtu Media, this will be their first full length film release. Featuring up and coming riders in British Columbia; we follow them throughout the province and down into the United States. Shot on location in Kelowna, Vernon, Vancouver's North Shore, Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton, Vancouver Island, Oyama, and Green River, Utah.

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.

Jorge tries to find a way to make his one-year anniversary special and unique amongst existing cliched ideas.

Django Unchained teaches "Optimism"

When his parents split up and he moves with his father to a new city, an introverted high school student (Nick Piovesan) has trouble adjusting to his new surroundings until he is befriended by three outsiders (Noah Brown, Katie Graham, Briony Merritt) who lure him into a dangerous game in the debut feature by Halifax-based filmmaker Chelsea Comeau.

When a little girl finds solace in between her mother's legs. Biggest fears become reality.

In their small country home in New Brunswick, Jean-Paul and Anne, who suffer respectively from physical and intellectual impairments, share an unwavering love for each other. Declarations of love, little gifts, jokes and affectionate nicknames highlight their deeply moving relationship, a relationship that transcends difference. Together, they look after Jean-Paul’s ailing parents. With great respect for those who confide in him, Daniel Léger presents love through the eyes of two people with disabilities, and in so doing, creates an inspiring lesson in happiness.

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.

The history of Edward Cornwallis, the founder of Halifax, and the modern day controversy surrounding his statue.

A child is given a mysterious suit, unknowing that his life is about to change forever. A student project.

An advertising startup uses birds to spread its message. Documentary.

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?"

Should the United States eliminate the penny? "Heads-Up: Will We Stop Making Cents?" is a documentary that explores the different sides of the debate, touching on the role of the penny in today's economy, predictive economic models of a penny-less future, and the cultural importance of the coin. Radio DJ and Actor Laurie Gallardo narrates the penny odyssey as we travel from Texas to Canada, stopping to speak with former Mint Directors, lawmakers, economists, and more than a few unique penny characters, including a coin-hunter, a former President*, and one very memorable penny prankster. * "Abraham Lincoln" appears in the film.

An altruistic vlogger, feeling under-appreciated by the person whose life she helped save, decides to take her blood donation back.

A soul divided in two. Asher, a visual artist meets Matt. Asher and Matt are attracted to each other, even though they just met. Asher soon begins to feel that there is more between him and Matt, as if their paths and energies are intertwined.

Videoed off projected super 8 footage, this short film in four parts (titles from Artaud: “ the earth in the sea, the air in the earth, the fire in the water, the water in the air”) is suggestive of, on some level, the interrelatedness of everything. Porous, fleshy, granular atoms of existence, mutable unending energy, pulsing, beating, burning, blurring, clarifying, obscuring, revealing - fleeting.

Scratched directly onto 35mm film stock, this abstract film is a visual interpretation of a piece for solo violin based on a Bosnian popular song from Bosnia-Herzegovina. The composer, Malcolm Goldstein, describes it as a gesture of hope for peace in that land ravaged by war during the 1990s.

Don, a Canadian air gunner in World War II, lives through distant dreams, homesick memories and visceral fears. Based a collection of letters written to his love overseas from 1943 to 1944, this young man's inner turmoil manifests around him in dreamlike reminiscence and isolation, fighting to stay hopeful for a future.

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

A Werewolf meets a Gargoyle.

A young girl's world is flipped upside-down when she steals a pie from her parents.

Beerocracy is a feature documentary about the craft brewing industry in New Brunswick, Canada - a small province vying to be a national beer destination. It tells the stories of brewers both big and small, drinkers, and the regulations that shape, help and hinder the popular craft alcohol industry.

At the University Hospital of Lyon, a team of doctors led by a surgeon, Dr. Morel-Journel, takes care of patients who ask to change their sex. Pier, Léo, Valérie, each in their own way reveal this necessary transition and the upheavals it has caused in their lives. At the same time, the doctors question the specificity of this identity disorder and their legitimacy to act.

Short documentary featuring the small Montreal based surf-punk band No Waves.

Two separate, yet poetically connected films that act as a threnody on nature. Mikel Guillen's film is dedicated to the artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto. Scott Barley's film is dedicated to the artist, Vija Celmins.

Mixed thoughts and images.

This video was taken from a patreon live stream broadcast where I refuted every single one of the not so vegan cheetah's lies. I was debating on whether or not to make a separate video but I decided to just upload this entire stream because it would be virtually impossible to respond to him using my normal format. So just grab some popcorn, sit back and enjoy the train wreck.

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.

One of the world’s leading pianists and foremost interpreters of Bach’s music, Angela Hewitt appears in recital and with major orchestras throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia.

An air travel romance.

Family members, entertainers and organizer of the Walk 4 Justice discuss the issue of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls.

One person wakes up in the morning with the ability to choose which gender they would like to be for the day. challenging notions and norms around gender and sexuality, our hero explores an array of ways of sharing fun and intimacy.

A group of guys get trapped in a house together due to a winter storm after the fall of civilization.

Sinclaire embarks on a killing spree to collect sin in the form of candy under the command of her dead mother from Hell.

A recreational virtual reality user falls victim to the malevolent nature of her personal AI system.

In the folklore of most cultures around the world there are stories of magical little folk. And the Arctic is no exception. Inuit traditional knowledge is filled with references to many different races and tribes of little folk. These beings always try to avoid human encounters, but over the years Inuit hunters and shaman have gathered stories and experiences to help us understand these small inhabitants. This short introduces viewers to the little folk of the Arctic.

Inscape is a single channel video mixing 3D animation and video synthesis. By an interplay between points of views, depth of fields and textures, new details are revealed, transforming the space into abstract compositions. Inspired by the paintings of Kay Sage, Inscape depicts a psychological landscape, where perspectives are constantly shifting.

Short film by Pascal Grandmaison for a song by Ariane Moffatt.

A man comes home to find a mysterious box on his living room floor.

No End was inspired by a poem I wrote over the course of six months. During this process, abstract images surfaced, subsided, and settled: eventually forming the foundation of a film. The result is a lyrical journey that explores the intersection of interconnectivity and the lived experience. The film includes an original soundtrack by Graham Stewart of Viosac.

Four characters from Moncton go shopping for the necessities of life, and find that expensive.

A documentary goes inside the out-of-time world of modern Hasidic women.

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

In a world where balloons are filled with the light of film, a father must find the time to pop one with his son before it loses its light forever.

A chilling experimental meditation on the lies in which we tell ourselves expressed through the starkly minimalist dioramic presentation of a seemingly empty home.

In 2015, Jaene turned 40. This lead them to become introspective about their unusual life history. From a childhood of severe abuse, neglect, psychiatric institutionalization and being in care, they grew to become a street involved sex worker by 20. They met Elder Isaac Day from Serpent River First Nations in the early 2000's. Through his teachings and ceremonies at Thunder Mountain, Jaene was able to turn their life around. This film is a narrative driven experimental self portrait of that journey.

The film focuses on Tommy Zeigler, a man convicted of killing his wife, her mother and father, and another male in his Winter Garden, Florida furniture store on Christmas eve in 1975. But did he actually do it?

Murray McLauchlan says his battered second-hand guitar is haunted by all the musicians who ever played it.