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An audio-visual installation which investigates the psychogeography of Ontario's northern wilderness. It is primarily focused on the use of infrasound, provided by specially-constructed tactile transducers, and is supported with a single-channel video component.

A closeted gay student navigates the social aspects of campus life. His choice of book for an English project may help guide how he fits in.

A historical tour of three downtown Winnipeg surface parking lots. Through clever overlapping of archival photos of downtown Winnipeg buildings with surface parking lots, Lorne Bailey offers a deadpan commentary on how we have lost many historic landmarks.

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.

This Docu Poem narrates a game played by time, time itself being a card played, that makes human existence both a tragedy and a comedy.

I am a lesbian, so ? Twenty-two Montrealers (young, old, butch, feminine, English speaking, French speaking, from all different kinds of places…) are affirming it loud and clear, exposing view points and experiences. A dive into lesbianism based on self-expression : personal and sensitive, lucid and proud, often engaged. An opportunity to hear voices which still remain too unfamiliar often ignored and rarely acknowledged. The strength of words through testimonies, self-affirmation and empowerment ! Yes !

"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."

'play god' is a meditation on the movements of the shadows in Plato's cave or the TTC, take your pick. It was commissioned for TUFF (Toronto Underground Film Festival) to puzzle commuters on their way to and from work.

A week in the life of a 4 year old boy

Sammy Gadbois uses candid moments to question his purpose on earth.

In a story about memory, visual movement and transformations a girl learns to draw. She struggles with her fear of letting go of control while exploring different representations of trees and rainbows in multiple dimensions.

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.

When a state phantomizes a population, another reality. When history distorts the truth. When my (her)story meets another (her)story. When women disappear without a trace. When, white and privileged, I attend a rehearsal of stories. When violence done to women’s bodies equals the violence done by words. The bodies of those we don’t want to see or hear. From my studio window, I look out and my life intersects with theirs. In Winnipeg there are those who Win, generally the whites. There are the nips, the name given to Asian immigrants (the Latinos included in the insult) And everyone walks on EGG shells.

A film by Zahid Jiwa.

In a suite of interviews for his “second first feature” Godard submitted to the slings and arrows of North American media interrogators with polite hostility and a bristling intelligence. Here, the briefest chitchat is rendered in eight parts, which sees the maestro declaim on spectacle, memory, interpretation and being. While the impossibility of a talk show becomes a laughing matter, frozen moments occur in the aftermath in eight brief haikus.

A sweater, lovingly and arduously knit by a mother, incrementally unravels as her daughter treks her way across Canada by foot.

"Interstices is an ongoing series of 'exquisite corpse' films with the potential to continue indefinitely. The films are all in-camera double exposures each made on a 15 metre reel of Super 8 film in collaboration with another artist or filmmaker; the second exposure is made with no prior knowledge of the first, resulting in vignettes that are aleatoric collisions of two discrete perspectives. Unstable and intransitive by nature, these resonant and dissonant image-sentences continuously ebb and flow in and around each other, vying for presence on screen and in the minds-eye." (the8fest)

A high school boy tries to face his own sexual orientation, against the values of his traditional Chinese immigrant family.

Troublemaker on the Frequency is a short experimental video that explores mis-communication through found sound recordings, amateur radio, and glitch.

Using found footage, several members of royalty inform the citizens of an impending doom from space coming toward Earth.

Three men, whose jobs require them to work nude, talk about life, bodies and how nudity can make a difference.

Is crisis pushing us toward a leap in consciousness? Can we live from an inner truth? Can we participate in the evolution of our own consciousness? Inspired by the work of Sri Aurobindo, Conscious: Fulfilling Our Higher Evolutionary Potential asks about our potential to achieve a transformation in consciousness, which might be both inevitable and essential at this juncture in our development if we are going to continue the human journey within the cosmic advance.

To everyone's surprise, Suzie Lapointe, the queen of the school, turns down her boyfriend's invitation to a ball in the middle of a physical education class. Maxime, Léo and Clovis see the opportunity and therefore decide to run to try their luck with it. Who will she choose?

Bikini is an atomic beach party film - a reaction to dating apps, body issues, and a fear of the sun.

Journeys in Banff and Jasper National Parks, Alberta, along roads that cut paths through mountains into the sky.

It’s 1982 and a group of boy scouts go on a month long back packing trip deep into the Canadian wilderness and bears are the least of the their worries. Zombies are out in the woods today, and they don’t want to play.

Getting ready is a simple, sometimes daily act. This 16mm pink coloured black and white film is a portrait of a beautiful woman putting on things and taking off. Of glamour, of resignation of the self to the world for the day or evening; of objects strewn about, of stuff full of sparkles, gold, jewels and powder.

Short by Mitch Doll and Kendall Latimer.

Sometimes I need to make room for something more

A collection of strangers’ dating site testimonies rekindles memories of love using computer-generated images.

A short film on the subject of Indigenous Love. What is (romantic) love? And what does it mean to you? Eight couples share their thoughts.

A documentary looking at the impact of humor and the stage on Jimmy and Gregory, two disabled friends.

A retired couple follows their childhood dream of producing maple syrup on Cape Breton Island.

In the evening, the murmur of appliances and the buzz of a fly are the sounds filling the room.

Magnetic Energy and Micro Waves create havoc at a game of horsheshoes. Captured in 3DIY.

A black and white, handprocessed 16mm film mixed with direct animation. The film plays with paradoxes of motion and anxieties in contemplating the commuter life.

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.

Maybe there was an opening, and they wandered through…

My moving image work experiments with text, image and sound to create an experiential space—a kind of ontology—within which subjectivities and bodies as totalities don’t exist and connections and hierarchies are continuously undone and remade. Subjective experience exists as a dialogical and rhetorical relationship, as something scattered in time and space, emerging and disappearing, resisting language and definition. These works describe the complex, fluctuating, and interdependent relationships between living and non-living entities—relationships that defy linearity and boundaries. My practice is grounded in refusal and resistance to closed definitions and categories such as self/other, human/animal, interior/exterior, living/non-living and in a commitment to an inherent failure to gain knowledge of ourselves and others as the place from which ethics emerge and evolve.

Depicts the final meditative moments of a Buddhist Monk. In his vision his body begin to lose cohesion and form, he envisions reaching into a dark primordial ooze which makes his flesh wither and die, before final birthing new life in the form of a single plant seed.

This documentary explores the world of online video game streaming on Twitch. What is it about Twitch streaming that compels fans to tune in for hours every day, and pay monthly subscription fees and big donations to do so?

Featuring intimate, charming interviews with queer Canadians ranging in age 17 to 88, Take Me To Prom invites audiences to revisit this iconic adolescent milestone.

Keewaydah explores the reclamation of Indigenous storytelling, identity, culture and history through stop motion animation. Produced with the assistance of the NFB's FAP program.

Temps de glace (Ice Time) is a poetic hand-drawn reflexion about a little girl daydreaming on the sidelines of a hockey rink.

A couple of astronauts make a stop on a moon during their journey to use the bathroom.

Part of a series of short commissioned works by Visions du Réel to celebrate the festival's twentieth anniversary that explore views of the future.

Felipo and Hernan, two Spanish American brothers come into conflict over the honourable way to make a living in the harsh times of the Great Depression. Their bedridden mother, who is sick with yellow fever and oblivious to Felipo's unlawful lifestyle, convinces Hernan to join Felipo for an electrical job. What was supposed to be an overnight arrangement at a run-down factory, has Hernan backed up into a moral corner.

May-Ling, a background extra, finds herself in an unexpected situation in order to protect her troubled son.