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Between the 1970s and the 1990s, we saw the birth of a movement, believing that extraterrestrials used Mount Saint-Hilaire as a base. Between mystery and science, you'll discover what gave birth to this fascination that people of the region.
Two filmmakes create a vehicle for isolated people to find connections in the world, by encouraging them to talk about their passions
A young woman in Toronto waits outside of a subway station to meet her blind date. Despite sending some messages back and forth, he fails to show up. After he finally sends a message saying that he can't make it, she returns home on the subway, considering the loneliness in her life.
Experimental film with cherries on top.
Eight-year-old Landon Moise shows us around his favorite forested spots in his home community, Clearwater River Dene Nation. He explains why the environment is important.
Short horror film.
An attempt to transcribe the flight of indigenous women.
A once nuclear family, the parents now separated with new partners, one being same-sex, and their transgender daughter shares their journey building a new "modern family".
Views from the sea.
Views from the sea.
This documentary follows Huang Yuechuang, a 77 year-old cormorant fisherman who is the last of his generation to carry on the traditional type of fishing in rural China. Yuechuang has recently become a well known personality online since a photo of him won a Sony Award in 2012 and he is determined to show the world why it is important to keep his family tradition alive.
Made in residence at the Experimental TV Center, December 2010. Cut-out animation processed with a Paik-Abe Raster Scan Device, Jones Six Channel Colorizer/Mixer, and Ross Video Switcher.
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans gender students explore issues they face at their small town high school. Together with their allies they work towards a policy in support of the LGBTQ youth at their school.
A short film by TSU that documents Bradley 'Caribou Legs' Firth and his cross-country run to raise awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.
During a bizarre series of events a vampire discovers that harmless forest creatures, and even his own body, have turned against him.
A filmmaker explores the difficulty of being a woman, provoked by the porn films found among the belongings her father left behind. ‘Is pornography love?’ she asks herself. Watching these 8mm porn films becomes her way of creating a connection with ‘the FATHER,’ as she passes progressively from her memories of her father to her own gaze. A film that considers the male gaze.
A biography of a prominent world-class concert pianist who is a member of the LGBT community, the woman who cost her her career, and the story of how she got it back. Through it all, the same two hands tickle the ivories.
Continuum is an animated shot exploring what happens when society's rejects reject society.
An abstract account of the 1946 fire at the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, where even the frame itself threatens to collapse. Archival footage broken down digitally and reconstructed via laser printer onto recycled 35mm film, in 2011.
A scene is shown from multiple perspectives at once.
Exploring the conflicts that inhabit individuals who experience immigration, Nana is a film about origins.
A short animation piece about sex, consumption, body image, objectification and desperation. In the sex meat market, there is no face and no compassion.
A modern fairy tale of sorts. Presented as intriguing puppet animation with a sweeping sound scape, it conveys the universal story of how easy it is to become a prisoner of one’s own illusion.
A quiet woman arrives at a house to focus on writing. Instead, she is confronted with a series of vivid hallucinations. To get through the night, she must learn to restrain her imagination, which more or less, is an extension of who she is.
The story of how one of Toronto's first lesbian bars became an integral part of Toronto's early Chinatown community.
Ghosts haunt an abandoned ward.
And Everyone was There is an investigation into the surreality of dreams and the capricious nature of memory.
ADAM, a young boy, comes from a difficult home environment but escapes to the barn and farm fields to create a beautiful and fun world for himself. There is a mysterious and foreboding dirt berm that is a source of concern for him.
beach is a recreation of a live performance originally presented at Mercer Union in Toronto in June 2018. An expanded prologue for the film Chooka, the performance used a live feed from an iPhone to project images taken while making the film, as well as material from Jacques Madvo’s archive, the original spark for the creation of the work. Paired with writing that was swapped back and forth between the artists, the work meditates on the politics of an archive, the shifting agency of different bodies in a landscape, and the challenge of asking what a complete image could be.
A stunning virtuoso turn from these two partners in life and art. A home movie where the library musings and theory shuffles are re-rooted in domestic space, in relationship. The tape insists that artmaking, and even the utopias it conjures, cannot be separated from the way we love, eat, or wash the dishes. It celebrates the hand-made, the make-shift, the provisional (no more monuments! unless they’re made of cardboard and felt and wool), and everywhere there is ingenious invention and a generous good humour, particularly when the artists don flesh suits and hoist a giant-sized sharpie to underline their fave utopia reading bits from the oversized texts that surround them.
This film seals under perforated 16mm splicing tape all of the fruit flies that drowned in the vinegar trap on my kitchen counter last summer.
Experimental animation remembering a trans hawker from Lim’s childhood in Singapore.
A recruitment mockumentary by Toronto's gay rugby team -- inspired by the players' true stories -- about one man's quest to find himself.
Super 8 footage layered with Sharpie marked lines and circles obscuring the image illustrates the story of the filmmaker’s experience with temporary episodes of migraine related blindness and her cousin’s self induced blindness later in life. Paralleling the experience of Blindness with Mental Illness, Cuthand deftly elucidates that any of us could lose any of our abilities at any time.
The artist merges an audio recording of when he “came out” to his parents with a self-recorded sexually explicit video clip.
How was matter able to organize itself into life? From the tiniest elementary particles to the most complex ecosystems, discover the fascinating organization of matter.
Torn from her family at the age of 4, Eugenea, a Métis girl living in foster care, fights to reconnect.
Using as a starting point Barthes’ notion of the Punctum, this installation investigates the relationship between the body-live, the body-object (as cinematographic body) and the lack of body.
A young man takes a break from work by skateboarding along to see his favorite Winnipeg murals.
A film by Zahid Jiwa.
A film by Zahid Jiwa.
In a windswept grasslands grave yard, elementary students of the Strathcona Tweedsmuir school gather to honor First Nations children that between 1885 and 1922 died while attending the Dunbow Indian Industrial School near Calgary. Subjected to neglect, malnutrition, disease and abuse, many were buried in unmarked graves on the school grounds and largely forgotten. Struggling to come to terms with the dark history of the residential schools in Canada, the students embark on an emotional journey to give voice and an identity to those First Nations children that were buried and forgotten there long ago.
A high school boy tries to face his own sexual orientation, against the values of his traditional Chinese immigrant family.
Li'l bunny moves past her fear of losing her home and into action and recruitment.
Focusing on developing relationships with the computer as a nonhuman entity, Listener is an iterative, site-specific performance artwork which speculates a future through Lakota ontology, narratively and physically manifesting a relationship with metals in electronics, performed via an electronic interface woven into hair (hair is sacred to the Lakota). The sonic landscape includes live police scanners, synthesizers played by the hair, and algorithmically re-arranging poetry with a voice speaking of a future landscape, prophecies, dreams, and the possibilities in listening.
The Heist is a dance film about a robbery wrong. In this high-heeled caper, four glamorous voguing cat burglars attempt to break into a prestigious gallery to attain their final score—a diamond studded shoe.
Journeys in Banff and Jasper National Parks, Alberta, along roads that cut paths through mountains into the sky.
Director Kamala Todd reflects on the land she is occupying and notions of livability.
When Philippe Séranne lands in Riga, Latvia in 1991, on the heels of its declaration of independence from the USSR, he finds a city on edge. This short film depicts what he saw in those unnerving days, and remembered ever since.
Olivier, 29 years-old, wonders where his past ambitions have gone. Today, a very special announcement gives him a chance to reset his life in a new direction: he's a father.
For many years a long photograph featuring 60 women in western style costumes has hung in the hallway at the entrance of Sara Angelucci’s house. The picture was given to her husband by his Aunt Dagmar. They knew little about it, other than Dagmar had cut the costumes the women were wearing when she worked at Malabar, Toronto’s renowned costume house. Angelucci often wondered who the women were, how the photograph was taken, and what it meant to Dagmar (who died in 2011). "Cirkut/Canadettes" unpacks the many layers of this photograph, personal, local/social, and technological history. Through archival research Angelucci not only discovers who the women are, but opens up a window into the time the image was taken, Toronto in 1956. Interwoven with her own reflections, her voiceover narrative draws from articles and quotes of the time, giving voice to attitudes of the period, and the desire and mysteries that photographs hold.
This short experimental documentary follows two men in Varanasi, India, a woodcutter and a ceremonial haircutter as they go about their duties, preparing for a daily 3000-year-old Hindu cremation ceremony. Their lives exist in the shadows of processions of those passed on, cyclically making their way through the streets of Varanasi to the site where they are to be cremated. Through poetic editing and using minimal dialogue, this film offers a unique observational perspective on the Hindu experience of life and death.
A dimwitted pigeon unknowingly incites the wrath of the Pope after pooping on his head.