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A reflection on colour in fifteen camera tests.

An intelligent, devout young woman announces to her family that she's going to abandon academics and become a nun, but in so doing, she finds herself in opposition to her family's wishes and questioning her own spiritual convictions.

Pieck finds Barnaby's Magic Carnival of Marvels, a place where imagination and fun come hand in hand.

Immeuble-Villas is an ongoing series of abstract interior spaces where electronic textures and architectural elements are subtly animated. The series references Le Corbusier’s standardization of apartment buildings. Each video loop is meant to be displayed as tableaux on individual screens.

A women emigrates for her the sake of her daughter's future.

As the Earth rotates slowly, various forces of nature, mechanical movements, and human trajectories occur simultaneously.

Fringe Party is a documentary film exploring the struggles of small parties in Canadian politics during the lead-up to the 2015 federal election. As the candidates prepare for the political fight of their lives, they discuss and debate issues such as the role of government, the legalization of marijuana, religion in politics, electoral and systematic reform, and why they have the best plan for the future of Canada.

On the run from the cops, a gangstress hides herself in a convent. Soon, their peace is broken and the bodies begin to pile.

3D animation by Sabrina Ratté

Growing up in Trinidad, Richard Fung loved dal puri roti. In this epic culinary quest he sets out to discover where this spicy flat bread was born. His journey takes him from the central plains of Trinidad to the Bhojpur region of India, and finally to the snowy streets of Toronto, Canada.

Recorded in Vancouver, Round Trip takes you on a car ride that starts on Main Street, goes through downtown, the west end, Stanley Park, and then retraces its route back to Main Street. Composed as a visual journey, Round Trip makes use of video mixing mimicking the visual qualities of the club-sound experience.

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

The first of a five-part series of short documentaries: This story begins over a century ago, when the City of Winnipeg decides that the water surrounding the traditional Anishinaabe territory of what is now Shoal Lake 40 First Nation will be diverted and used as Winnipeg’s primary water source. The community, their ancient burial grounds, environment, and ways of life are forever disrupted, and access to opportunities and essential services are severed. Enforced residential schooling and a tainted water supply compound the devastating impact. Community leader and former combat engineer Daryl Redsky sheds light on how generations of complex planning, cultural preservation and mobilization have led us to the current moment—and to the construction of Freedom Road.

Bonnie Sherr-Klein recalls the early days of Studio D, the women's studio, and the birth of the seminal film Not a Love Story which she co-directed.

A flock of nymphs herald the arrival of spring.

Adult men share their stories of how their fathers explained sex to them as kids in an animated compilation.

After living in Canada for over 15 years, Ana realizes that "being Russian" narrowed down for her to "being able to have serious relationships only with Russians". She decided explore what does "being Russian" mean for other Canadians of Russian origin.

"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.

Gifted animator Leslie Supnet collaborates with Winnipeg storyteller Glen Johnson for this contemplative comic fantasy about a time-obsessed squirrel.

Part of the Life's Work series. Rust is a portrait of master iron artist Gordon Kennedy.

Mixed thoughts and images.

Two loops taken from a French film promoting early shopping mall culture are bipacked and heavily manipulated beyond the lens to create a dreamlike dimensional space whose shadowed figure is forever travelling across the frame to find their way out of the delusion of capital. Performed with a single 16mm projector. Commissioned by the Sawdust Collector (a curatorial collective based in Vancouver) and performed with live audio by Clare Kenny.

Uranium mining, the first link in the chain of nuclear development, has managed again and again to keep itself out of the public eye. A web of propaganda, disinformation and lies covers its sixty-five-year history.

Four dancers perform in a violent, wild and organic landscape. A metaphor for what unites human with the biosphere.

I documented the First Story's walking tour with Elder Carolyn King with a manual time-lapse on Super-8. Reconciling myself as a mixed-race indigenous Colombian settler 'walking the red road' while being a person with physical disabilities. Learning to live mino-bimaadiziwin as a settler to Turtle Island and Tkaronto. (Jaene F. Castrillon)

Tobin, a transgender teen living in Squamish, BC, prepares for his acting debut where he’ll be playing a male leading character in the youth play. While rehearsals are in progress, his friends and chosen family band together to help remove him from a difficult living situation and connect him the support he needs.

Inspired by the mass exodus and economic debt of Puerto Rico, footage of Puerto Ricans attending a Fania All-Stars performance is dubbed to VHS. That VHS is dubbed to another VHS, and is done so until the image and sound deteriorates and hedge funds bleed the island dry.

A little girl running a lemonade stand has run in with death

A hyper-cinematic thrill ride into the lives of the worlds most fearless downhill skateboarders!

A dark comedy in which we follow a patient on his journey through the hospital in the hope of finding a cure for his aching leg.

Fragment d'Absence #3 In the dark room, the red light swings and in the tubs where Daguerre once experimented with a world he did not understand, your portrait dips a chaste love, eyelid liquids, wet lashes of yesterday.

"Created as a silent, large-scale installation for public spaces, National Tapestry draws our focus to the weft and the warp of the woven image. The materiality of a distressed patriotic symbol echoes the struggles and ambitions of a culture, land and history that are both loved and despised by many. This is Steven Woloshen’s first film exploring ethnology and politics in film."

In this joyful portrait, filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming animates the formative days and musical career of Calgary-born identical twins Tegan and Sara Quin. Their remarkable journey over the past 20 years has often intersected with notions of identity—as artists, as individuals, as sisters, as queer women, and as leading activists in the LGBTQ community. Their musical progression parallels and amplifies their commitment to bringing the marginal to the mainstream.

Birthday is the debut short film from Aidan Wagland, Jake Zidel, Joseph Boivin, and Chance Delorme. Created on a limited budget, Birthday is the story of a man preparing to celebrate his daughter's birthday but during his preparation, the unexpected happens.

After serving twelve years for murder, Mark Reed is a free man. But can he stay on the right path or will forces beyond his control cause him to fall back into a life of crime? His freedom will come at cost.

Exploration of the internet and our current era through YouTube videos. Dominic Gagnon reconstructs the south as seen through vlogs, found footage, video games, raging storms and burning palm trees.

Royal Canadian Air Cadets at the top of their class undergo seven weeks of training to get their pilot’s license in an intense program that normally takes six to eight months.

Vi.sion is the product of an encounter between an expanding ballet troupe and an abandoned school with a marvelous theater, which was to be demolished to make way for a parking lot. It is the home of a place, imbued with memories of a rich and proud past, by the footsteps of a young troop. The time is getting confused. The present and the past blend together and it is the old school that dances with the passion and passion of young dancers. Ghosts, shadows, specters ... They bewitch.

This quirky and dynamic documentary features interviews with corporate and indie developers, as well as hardcore and casual gamers. We'll also lead you behind the scenes of major events to uncover some of the mysteries surrounding the hardcore fan scene.

Rachel is fed up. It's time for a change.

Peter Mansbridge travels the country to talk to Canadians about what's on their minds on the eve of an election.

Lensed in Ohio’s Broadview Developmental Center in 1967 by secret camera genius and audio visual healer Jeffrey Paull, Scrapbook tells the story of audacious autistic Donna Washington in her own words, as she encounters pictures of one of her former selves fifty years later.

Ocean III is part of a series of films loosely connected by a similar process of cinematography that sees the operation of the camera as a kind of intuitive performance; specifically the way lenses, filters, and camera are manoeuvred in a single long take to create an impression of a space, while also frequently abstracting it.

"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.

The film explores the way traditional hunting in Nunavut has evolved so that it can continue to play a vital role in contemporary Inuit culture.

A middle-aged university professor has a very serious date with a Female Air Marshall who may or may not share his family values and may or may not understand his family values-based pain. The Director's Cut is 20 minutes longer than the other two cuts and is presented as a bonus feature, but it is also the only cut that provides the necessary information to truly appreciate the story.

Young actress Lee Seon-hwa visits her relatives living in Vancouver, Canada, over the course of the summer and has numerous brief encounters.

Apis the bull of Memphis, earthly representation of the god Ptah. At the temple, Apis the oracle, his movements interpreted as prophecies, his breath as medicine. He had a window in the temple through which he could be seen and out which he saw. On holidays Apis was led through the streets of Memphis, adorned in jewelry and flowers. His sacrifice signaled the rebirth of a king as a god.

A dialogue is born in a prison between Spoon, an African American poet imprisoned for life, and me. After eight years of conversation, Spoon’s words console me, while my ear is a channel for him to the outside world. The film takes as a starting point the desire to measure the power of language, both his poetry and his activist prose, and to share notions of time.

Not every revolution is loud and strident. In this almost silent short we follow a genderqueer person who stays true to herself in her own quiet way.

This essaistic journal explores radiation in relation to illness, impairment and death – of both man and film. This collage of abstract scenes and images related to travel and memory, shot at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant and in nearby places on a trip to Ukraine, forms the central part of the series Lion, which explores the subject of radiation.

"He wrote that Leonard and Robert La Tourneaux actually had a relationship... I didn't know that." A super 8mm film about hustling. Words by Will Brown; for Will Brown.

A local patch of woods holds some undead terrors for hikers.

After a ruinous engagement, the unnamed narrator alights for Palermo in order to take up with his dead Italian friend, Antonio Gramsci. He was the primal scene of Italy’s Communist party, and for his tireless reporting and befriending the working class he was jailed for over a decade. The state would ruin his body but not his analysis of power, which he poured into 20 notebooks. This philosophical travelogue, a nomadology of resistance and digression, searches citizen faces in order to find the origins of culture.

A detourned love poem by Ocean Vuong remixed for Palestine. The root of it all is a calling, a voice, which is followed through Gaza markets and tunnels until the cause of liberation can be seen clearly and embraced. Why do birds suddenly appear?