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This film is an in-camera portrait of the place Ville Marie Royal Bank Building in Montréal.

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.

Video Painting Series

The film explores the utopian visions that inspired the Brutalist movement and the material and aesthetic connection between concrete and celluloid.

Follow three young Canadian gamers, traveling the world and competing in gaming world championships.

"Flag as inapproriate". This unconspicuous button with a flag icon appears underneath every single YouTube video we watch marking the limits of our freedom in the Internet. Once flagged by anonymous users, after being checked by the also anonymous YouTube team, a video quickly disappears forever. In exactly this process, Dominic Gagnon intervenes. He 'saves' the flagged videos before they are deleted and adds them to a dark and mythological collage of American survivalism. People have their say, who deeply mistrust the government, who warn their fellow citizens, and who arm themselves visibly. An unclear image emerges. While the protagonists are scared of the almighty American government, the viewer is irritated what to find the most threatening in this "hell": the United States of America, the critics armed to the teeth with conspiracy theories, or the anonymous censorship power of the companies which control the web.

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.

For years, artist Cory Trepanier has explored and painted some of the most wild places in Canada. Few have walked into these landscapes. Even fewer have captured them on canvas. Now, he's going further. Into a breathtaking Arctic wilderness to experience and paint a land that might never be the same again. Into The Arctic. Three months of filming. A dozen arctic locations, many which have never painted or filmed before. Join Cory as he brings his fresh perspective to the hidden treasures at the top of the world. Experience the majesty of the north through stunning cinematography and the dramatic experiences of a passionate artist. Take a journey of adventure and discovery… deep Into The Arctic. —CT

The title says it all. Divine! We were able to see Ginette in full passionate mode, along with her personality shining through. Recommended to any Ginette Reno fan and music lover. See her full spectrum is a treasure and enjoy over and over.

Just a stone’s throw from downtown Montreal is the largest social housing complex in Quebec. Built in 1959 where the red-light district used to be, Les Habitations Jeanne-Mance have retained something of the area’s seedy reputation for poverty, prostitution, drugs and violence. But who really knows the projects and the people who live there? Delving beneath the prejudices and stereotypes, director Isabelle Longtin ventured inside the buildings and met the residents.

In 1929, St. Michael's Residential School opened its doors in Alert Bay. It was the largest school operated by the Anglican Church. First Nations children from the northwest coast of British Columbia were taken from their homes...

A tribute to German choreographer and dancer Pina Bausch and a nod to Chantal Akerman’s film, One Day Pina Asked, the short Still Pina evokes in its own way a well-known scene from a Pina Bausch choreography, incorporating sign language, and reveals the extent to which the body is a carrier of images and sounds. A film produced as part of a commission for works by IFCO.

The youngest of 17 children, the filmmaker presents us with an intimate family portrait in 17 rolls of Super 8. Through original films and carefully constructed archives, the members of one family recount the events surrounding the death of the oldest brother and share their beliefs on life after death, into which is woven a parallel experience just as haunting to the director.

Two musicians perform in a courtyard in Bamako, Mali. A quest for harmony; knowing glances and comforting presences; time marches on.

Views from the sea.

An exploration of what happens when a small group in the remote Arctic community of Nunavut decides to hold an LGBT2Q+ pride celebration.

While on tour in Canada, a Belgian band stop for gas in a quiet village but find more than they bargained for.

A man living in a state of unknown , being tormented by dreams and not knowing what is real or a delusion.

A group of friends travel to the supposedly haunted “Forest of Shadows”, where legends say a young girl went missing after meeting a man dressed all in black.

A personal account of my short visit to Athens, Greece. My initial intent was to do a report on the anarchist neighbourhood assemblies. Truth be told this task was more challenging than I expected. Few within the neighbourhood assembly scene agreed to be video taped or photographed for fear of retaliation by the police, their employers and fascists. I was also made aware of the troubling hardships undocumented immigrants and their supporters face, the rise of the neo-nazi party Golden Dawn, and the role of the police in suppressing social struggles. This piece is only a snapshot of the complex situation of a country in a state of “civil war.” and how anarchists are reacting to it.

In this sneak peak of the upcoming sequel to the acclaimed "The 8:37 News," a former Hell's Angels Gang member is interviewed by a less-than-competent weatherman.

The Mersey Townsite was used to house workers (and their families) who were employed at the dam's to operate the power development on the Mersey River, when the power dams were first built in the 1920s.

A young girl finds an outlet for her violent childhood, taking her on an unimaginable journey fighting for a world championship.

Juskatla weaves together perspectives of the people who live on the islands of Haida Gwaii-an archipelago on Canada's Northwest coast, and the ancestral territories of the Haida Nation. From industrial loggers who harvest trees from ancient forests, to Sphenia Jones, a Haida matriarch who bears an intimate knowledge of her People's territories, Juskatla meditates on the divergent ways of being that shape the islands and its people.

Nicki and Ellen are friends. They work on school projects and organize parties together. But how will things change if Nicki has a crush on Ellen?

How to say good-bye to friends? How to keep from becoming a ghost in the old streets of the Czech Republic, at once too strange and familiar? Let’s step inside the old scenes of love (which are also the prelude to love’s betrayal) before animal rescue can offer consolations. Shot on the closing night of the Jihlava Festival in 2016, in the Dukla Theatre, on the festival’s twentieth anniversary, where the namesake of its experimental offerings was being offered another airing, and the three of us were gathered there to bear witness, each hello already a prelude to departure.

Brief moments of being, fleeting bits of the surrounding chaos.

The impossible childhood home, it cannot be reached and it is not the same.

A young man escapes his bullies by following a rabbit into a fantasy world as his drawings come to life.

Short video inspired by "The Zone" from Tarkovsky's film "Stalker" and from the Strugatsky's Brothers book "Roadside Picnic". This video is part of the project "Special effects"commissioned by Cartune Xprez.

Reports on the fight with ISIS.

Sytratigraphies is a hyper kinetic masterpiece of a travelogue offering glimpses of scenes shot in your native Columbia, New York, Toronto and beyond. A female fantastic (Alexandra Gelis) knitting on the fly (subways, bankomats, beaches) and making audio recordings provides a throughline of sorts, as queer marriages give way to videogame palm trees, warm gatherings of friends are interwoven with public noticings, workers mostly, street hawkers and construction zones of the self. These lyrical interludes (in this movie the in-between is at the heart of the matter) are punctuated by rescanned YouTube interviews with authors/philosophers/scientists Jorge Luis Borges, Francisco Varela, Julio Cortazar, Beatriz Preciado and Gilles Deleuze. They muse briefly on creativity, exile, the biopolitics of the birth control pill, and the necessity of making mistakes in philosophy.

In a little house all for herself, an elderly woman moves through her day. While she tends to every chore on the docket, we learn some things about her. She has a green thumb, she speaks Polish while on the phone, she likes to nap. A prayer sounds. They are words from her mother-in-law, Polish poet Zofia Bohdanowiczowa, who was also displaced from her native Poland. Three generations meet, one by writing, one by living, and the third by the very making of this film, a composition of her ancestors through sound and image.

Returning to her hometown of Jerusalem with her young family after several years abroad, documentarian Danae Elon offers an intimate, ground’s-eye view of one of the most fiercely contested cities in the world.

Volunteering at organic farms in the Mediterranean, film-maker Raul Alvarez embarks on a journey that will bring him to a life transformation. Triggered by his encounters with unique people living sustainable lives close to Nature he finds unexpected answers. Savvy and experienced characters offer solutions to universal questions about the Land...and about each of us. His personal journey on food and agriculture turns into a spiritual realization about our relationship to the Land.

Simple, generic, unconstrained disintegration.

A soft-spoken teenage boy gets a job at the local drive-in theatre to rekindle his relationship with his childhood friend when suspicion surrounding what truly happened at the staff party starts getting in the way.

This ten-minute video lecture was commissioned by Haema Svanesan and Marina DeMaio who are putting together a Buddhism and Art confab called In the Present Moment: Buddhism, Contemporary Art, and Social Practice at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in October, 2019. I was supposed to be on a panel but fear of flying led to further video steals. The text came out of sessions with Emotion Focused Therapy maestro Bill Gaynor. Anne Carson and Karl Ove Knaussgard make appearances, along with a bevy of writers and meditators. What if the pause before speaking was equal to the speaking itself? How to grant attention, to celebrate even, the moments of pause?

Fear meets gay desire against an audio background of sitcom homophobia and jarring personal testimonies. Textured layers of figures, rotoscoped and real, move in and out of difficult scenarios, resolving into knowing acceptance.

When Andrew was four years old his father learned he had ALS, a fatal and incurable illness. Seventeen years later and now a filmmaker, Andrew documents the experience of Brad, a father with three young boys who also has ALS. What emerges is a portrait of two families documenting the struggles and hopes that they share.

A woman falls in love with a perverse, manipulative man who nurtures the deviance in her, until she is jilted and seeks revenge. But on who?

Bad Habits chronicles the rise, fall and rise of the queer charitable group that was launched on an Easter weekend in 1979.

Synopsis “I have no regrets,” says Vivianne Gauthier, sitting on her bed in the room where she has slept for over eighty years. A singular woman—strong, disciplined, and energetic—this choreographer and dance teacher lived life on her own terms, leaving her mark on the cultural history of her country, Haiti. This film offers a glimpse into her life through a visit to her home, a “Gingerbread House” where every corner is filled with memories. Here is the portrait of an endearing woman, revealing a side of Haiti that is too often overlooked.

A frustrated detective desperate for a little downtime drives into the wilderness for an impromptu fishing trip.

A Stoney Nakoda father searches his upbringing for wisdom on parenting in a colonial world.

A young newlywed religious couple are faced with separation after one of their past's comes back to haunt them!

An unfulfilled high school senior becomes obsessed with an ominous radio broadcast containing steps to a cryptic puzzle.

Group of precarious houses on hill side. Black and white image.

say my names is a video that answers a frequently asked question...'but what is your name... really?' or 'but how do you want me to call you... which name?' So, after a few years of thinking, here is my answer in 100 words/100 second video.

Sol and Jed are an uninspiring pair from an uninspiring town. But when their usual day turns into a strange predicament involving drugs, embezzlement, pineapples, jalopies, and a masked psychopath, they face the great question within: Ever wanna go someplace? And anything's better than running circles in life... right?

In search of a way out..To the other side of daily routines of modern life..Is there any message left for us to listen to? Are we gonna succeed or remain out of touch?..

The son of a humble Italian immigrant, E. Noël Spinelli has dedicated most of his life to making music accessible to his blue-collar community of Lachine, Québec.

Thousands of girls who were in the first wave of Chinese children to be adopted in Québec in the 1990s have reached adolescence. The filmmaker focused her lens on five of them and accompanied them throughout their emotionally charged transition to adulthood. In their quest for identity, how do these young Quebecers experience their difference? An intimate and touching journey into the world of Alice, Léa, Julia, Anne and Flavie.

The relationship between a daughter and her father is drowning along with the lack of communication between them. The water begins to invade the house until it seems impossible to keep it from entering.

An existential tale about the mysterious character depicted in painter David Blackwood's piece 'Survivor Wandering'.