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The Woman Who Came Back is based on an oral narrative shared by elders from the Tlicho region of the Northwest Territories. The story follows the historic journey of the first Tlicho to make contact with Europeans in the 18th Century. After being subjugated and forced to travel with a neighbouring tribe, the protagonist escapes to a trading post where she learns of new knowledge that she brings back to her region.
James Carr is a hotshot movie producer. His girlfriend Shandi is a hot commodity. A romantic getaway, with plans of making her a star, goes awry when Shandi is kidnapped and forced into an underground adult film company called HIGHSPEED FLAMINGO, run by the eccentric Purple Hat Tom and his bumbling partner Bobby Lagoon. Now with the assistance of a lazy bartender and sexy secret agent and rock star Genevieve Anastasio, it's life or death for James to save the day and get the girl in this lightning-paced action comedy!
The sale of a successful businessman's company brings moochers and relatives into his life.
Set in the breathtaking landscapes of the Apuan Alps in Tuscany, near the Gothic Line where German forces massacred hundreds of civilians before their retreat at the end of WWII. Pacifico Pieruccioni, a shepherd born just following the war, is now one of its last freedom fighters. He is being forced to abandon this life, as his very existence, suspended between the phantoms of a bloody past and the harbingers of an obscure future, must bow to the gestation of the new Europe to come (VIFF synopsis).
Stadaconé is the native name of Québec City (meaning "where the river narrows") and much of this 2010 release from ESK Media is shot in that region. Tight editing, a fresh soundtrack and ridiculously creative park and urban jibbing highlight this East Coast based movie. Quebec skiers know how to shred! Shot in High Definition and directed by Nicolas Brassard-Asselin.
I was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and arrived in Montreal (Canada) at the age of one with my parents. In August 2010, I went to Cambodia for the first time, the country my father hadn't returned in 30 years. Everybody told me that it would change my life, that I was finally going to find the answers to all my questions. Things didn't happened the way we expected them.
Vous êtes ici (You Are Here) is an exploration into the experiences of tourism, in the number one tourist destination on earth: Paris.
A student in medical school in 1888 must find myself a cadaver for his final exams. What lengths does he have to go to to get one?
Nico and Alberto are Italian-American computer hackers who get caught up in a world of stolen credit cards, high-class women and techno pop. Their family ties are tested when Nico and Alberto start fighting over the same magisterial club girl named Angelina.
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.
I have not spoken to my father in over fifteen years. Still, the memories of him seem to survive in me, like a badly healed tumor. I have to eliminate that cancer, my father.
Two Longform Lesbian Census takers poll their community to find out important statistics on tops, bottoms, and switches, butches and femmes, cats and dogs, how couples are planning to conceive their children, and more crucial lesbian data! Or they are just trying to get girlfriends!
Jean and Kelly are two young lovers who are living through difficult times in their relationship. The trouble begins when, against her wishes, an old friend of Kelly's named Lawson joins them in house-sitting for Jean's mother. The adventure ends in death as the ghost of Jean's father intervenes in the couple's life, murder ensues in the little town of Rock Island, Canada.
In 2007, the Nishnawbe Aski Nation Women's Council received funding to undertake the Major NAN Women's Development Project over a three year period. One of the main goals of the project was to empower and inspire women to take on their traditional role as community builders and leaders. KANIKANITCHIK EQUAYWUK is a Cree term that literally translates into "a group of women leaders who lead the way." This film shows the project's immediate and long-term impacts on women and their remote communities in Northern Ontario.
Short experimental film by Alexandre Larose
A young woman dances in a devastated forest. Then a miracle occurs.
Springhammer is about Japanese blacksmiths who dedicate their lives to making culinary knives [it's also the actual mechanical tool used by the blacksmiths]. At the end of WWII, Japan was faced with a burdensome repurposing of many industries, and with military swords no longer in demand despite a tradition carried on since the samurai, the industry turned to the kitchen. Craftsmen, now applying ancient trade skills of the blade making to cookery, go largely unnoticed by their countrymen and have to find a new place in the world for their craft. Thankfully, the world seems to be starting to listen.
A found footage collection of 26 AIDS adverts. Freud uncovered the mysterious connection between language and bodies at the same moment that moving pictures provided new behavior modellings. How do pictures change desire, or the behaviours of desire? This question carried extra weight after the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic, as movie makers struggled to find combinations of pictures that might help create the conditions for safer sex.
Mimi and her chainsaw accidentally slice through a really cute girl bunny's tree. With the help of a hockey stick, two hockey girls and a rather big deer, Mimi figures out her heart.
A film that explores the unspoken issue of LGBT domestic violence. It distills the tensions between classes in society, the plight of immigrants in Canada, the double-edge of charity, and the transference of violence from people’s fetish and fear.
Mike and Alanna drove a motorbike and sidecar from Alaska to Argentina and interviewed 120 couples about how to stay together for life. They also subjected themselves to scientific tests, to see if their marriage would last. They found out the results at the end of the road...
Excerpts from the director's dream diary, 2015 to 2017.
Dancing escalates through simple rotoscoped sequences through increasingly abstract variations, non-narrative progression.
This is the first part of a four part experimental animated documentary about criminalization in Canada. Many women find creative ways to survive, their stories illuminate the strength and courage these women show as well as the oppressive conditions that define them.
James C. Kirby is a Black Magician, Artist and Magister Templi in the Temple of Set, a left hand path occult religion. A gemstone cutter, carver and fine jewellery maker, James crafts unique works in stone, bone and metal.
A visual poem on the theme of depression. Poetry superimposed with hand processed 16mm film collected on the Film for Artists and Film Farm Residency. Footage includes found footage, and non-camera hand techniques including but not limited to tinting, toning, varnish, bleach and painting.
In an age of collective anxiety around issues of safety – be it global, national, or personal –we are interested in the ways in which different practices of resilience change environments, create subjects, unlink temporalities, and redefine relations of security and insecurity. As populist political rhetoric across Europe and North America expresses this in increasingly reactionary ways, often articulated in relation to threats created by other people, what is the relationship to earlier, more fundamental issues of safety that are managed more quietly and bureaucratically?
A neglected pet dog finds companionship in the form of a murderous demon.
In a city hung between two endless walls, a boy with only pigeons for company, tries to seduce his remote neighbor with wacky inventions.
Jason and Vanessa are two theatre school students who want to be famous actors. When they learn that only one of them will be awarded a prestigious acting apprenticeship, a competition for their professor's approval begins that will force them to reject their own moral values and realize that dignity has no place in art.
A stop-motion animated film depicting a cotton blower at work.
A boy gets a fish for his birthday.
Shor experimental animation by Arash Akhgari
"Chaos is a Dancer II" is about relationships and about seeing the Planet Earth as one single organism. Nothing is destroyed, everything is transformed.
40 Years in the Making. 3 Generations of Film Makers. A Cosmic Time Capsule.
An allegory in a long take.
Into Unknown Parts visually and sonically captures the Inuit experience of being forced to leave their home communities and live for an undetermined period of time in a southern sanatorium. Without minimizing the humanitarian crisis the TB epidemic posed for the Canadian State, this film explores the experience of rupture and dislocation caused by these policies.
Maisie (14) and Kohe (6) talk about the work of their dad, Chad Baba, an artist, junk repurposer, local Edmonton treasure and awesome dad.
Explores the relationship between identity, culture, and food, locating fruit from Venezuela as a grounding point for memory and connection.
A teenager lives under the shadow of his controlling mother in peripheral Israel. The story takes place in the limited space of the house, where the sensitive and introvert son takes care of his mother and her needs. Beneath their day to day survival, the film explores questions of marginality and poverty in a society searching for its identity.
In the port of Matane, there is a ferry, a shrimp factory, a shipyard, dredges, barges and a train that moves forward and backward all the time. Between the modern machines and the very old gestures, there are fishermen, passers-by, travellers. There is this film. Almost without words, almost without music. In balance between the devastating daily life and the sometimes wonderful effects of the salt water.
The day of three bakers and their speechless friend told through a succession of short, disparate scenes.
A young man becomes transfixed with his own image and begins to flirt with himself leading up to a tentative kiss. Here we witness this young trans man discovering himself in his new identity. Self reflection becomes self love.
Inspired by Japanese experimental cinema, Ghostly is an audiovisual composition that uses traditional techniques, such as long exposure photography and stop-motion animation, and pushes them to their limits through digital media. Using the frame rate as a way to create rhythmic interconnections between sound and image, the stop-motion animation oscillates between 6 and 48 frames per seconds. The sounds of this work were created and edited in direct relation to the flow of the image.
Cinema Palestine features interviews with a wide range of film and media makers as well as excerpts from award-winning films to outline the emergence of the Palestinian narrative through film. Cinema Palestine also explores the implications of this important cinema on Palestinian national identity and the relationship between art, personal experience, and politics.
CHICK FLICK (2017) is a site-specific installation by collaborating artists: Lisa g Nielsen, Cheryl Hamilton & Rose Casella. The three artists created the work while in residence at the Falaise Fieldhouse over the entire month of July 2017 - and then share their finished installation on Saturday July 29th from 9:00pm-1am at 3434 Falaise Avenue, Vancouver BC Canada. This is part of the Iris Film Collective IN HOUSE series. Using found 16mm footage that has women as subject (unsurprisingly limited on ebay) this collaborative team transformed the footage (and fieldhouse) into something that speaks more authentically to the female experience. Titles such as: Jobs for Women - 1942, Volleyball Technique for Girls - 1957 & Correctol Women's Laxative Commercial - 1960's will experience a mash-up as the artists explore the woman’s place.
Connolly shows Ashoona at work in the Kinngait Studios, where she has been working for over 15 years, and in the surrounding streets and landscapes of Cape Dorset, a small hamlet in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. We discover what it means to the mischievous Ashoona to be an artist and how the source of her art in traditional Inuit culture is shot through with Western modernity.
Making use of a dizzying array of anti-gay protest footage captured and posted on the internet, Mead’s protagonist bears witness to the fractures, shifts and resistances that have brought us to this time in LGBTQ history.
Begins with a celestial introduction, leading into an otherworldly, sensuous, glamorous journey through the glimmering bodily landscapes of two drag queen lovers. As Mead slows down their gestures, the physical tension between them heightens: red-lips gently caress, nail-polished hands sweep across flesh, fake eyelashes bat, all with a sense of longing and a hint of laughter. The entire performance a profession: I'm not in love, I'm not in love. This playful, kitschy-cool video will inspire on to pick up a microphone, put on their own form of drag and get their 10cc on.
Clinker is a single channel experimental video that joins two notions. The first embraces one of the few definitions of the word clinker, which is to play a wrong musical note. Consequently, the audio composition is intentionally fractured and generated with mistakes. Secondly, the video loosely borrows visual inspiration from the Italian poet Lucretius’ poem The Nature of Things. More specifically, book two entitled The Dance of Atoms. As a result, the joined notions explore a relationship through a lyrical yet abstract synthesis.
On the day of her engagement, Caterina must come to terms with how she really wants to live her life.
Simon's weekend alone quickly turns into a nightmarish spiral into madness and horror with the arrival of a mysterious teddy bear, whose dark origins are more sinister than they seem.
While filming and sound recording in Scotland (Ailsa Craig, Bass Rock, Isle of May, Outer Hebrides, Troup Head) during a residency at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, and in Eastern Quebec (Parc national de l’Île-Bonaventure-et-du-Rocher-Percé, Parc national Forillon), I became interested in the North Sea and North Atlantic Seabirds. The video Leading Edge / Trailing Edge loosely evokes, through seascapes, portraits of birds and recent scientific data, the actual situation of boreal seabird species, in the era of climate change.
