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Through a mixture of animation and video assemblage, Part Three explores a dreamscape world, parallel to our own. A human enters this world through a portal. In this stage of their journey, they navigate grief, memory and healing. This new media work includes poetic story-telling told through the narrator that speaks about gender, describing their own relationship to land, medicine and the beings which inhabit these spaces.
The second film to feature a cast of assisted readymade clock sculptures (after Irregular Time Signatures). Starring “Sublimation Clock”, “Litmus Clock”, “Writer’s Block”, “Atomizer”, and “The Crypt.” Prior to shooting Dailies, the film and these clock sculptures were exhibited together in a 2011 exhibition in Malmö.
A young woman returns to Tunisia and must come to terms with her grandfather's illness and the country's dark past under dictatorship.
Static winter forms melt in sunlight.
The Hammerstone is an atmospheric documentary about memory, artefacts, and the generations of stories that have travelled through a single farm in rural Canada.
In Mulch, a young man named Lance (Joel Corriveau) is suffering from repressed memories relating to the violent death of his parents and then the traumatic murders of his friends. Dr. Darnell (Darren Toderick), his doctor and the world's most irresponsible psychiatrist, decides to force Lance to confront his fears by returning to the rural scene of his friends' deaths. Along for the ride on this ill-advised field trip are two other of the doctor's patients, a whimpering agoraphobic (Justin Peeler) and a busty paranoid narcissist (Lindsey Queen). But waiting for them, in the woods, are a trio of backwoods psychopaths with a gruesome passion for gardening. And these twisted green thumbs traffic in a fertilizer that's decidedly more red. Part gross-out comedy, part exploitation gore-fest, Mulch is chockablock with disgustingly over the top blood, guts, boobs, and dark comedy.
Untitled II is a hand-processed black and white film shot over the course of a few hot summer days. It tries to combine the ideology behind small-format film (quick, hand-held) and a very fast pace to reflect on the speed of perception.
An intimate view of bodies interacting in a busy, urban setting, incorporating sound layered from the surrounding environment. Originally created as a site-specific work for the historic train turntable at the Roundhouse Community Centre in Vancouver, Canada, the work was then reimagined for this film.
This moving-image work was shot on Super-8 film and transferred to digital video and then projected in a continuous loop onto a curtain to give the illusion of a window.
A short animated experiment in the typeface of the alphabet. This expression was made in 2016
Every four years, the residents of Campo Maior, in Portugal’s arid Alentejo region, reinvent their village: each street is lavishly decorated with paper flowers, painstakingly handmade in the months before being put on display. Rui Silveira films this tradition in his birthplace, taking us on a trip out of time. Capturing the smallest details, he conveys the patience and skill that go into a beautiful ephemeral art that brings the community’s spirit to life; meanwhile, questions related to rurality and exile keep cropping up in the conversations. The fragility of the paper flowers, threatened as much by the weather as by souvenir-hungry tourists, is a window on an ages-old world struggling to protect its integrity.
Phil and Gavin have moved on with their lives after their breakup three years ago. But when they run into each other at a bar one night, they are forced to confront their unresolved emotions.
An historical, retrospective film about the 1969 legislation to ‘decriminalize’ homosexuality.
A nude model finds peace in a classical pose.
Clowns are only scary when you find one at night.
A trans activist's journey challenging social media censorship policies.
Bogart & Ivan is a film Written and Directed by Charlie Steele - an independent Canadian filmmaker from Summerside, Prince Edward Island. Shot entirely in Summerside, Bogart & Ivan follows best friends Bogart and Ivan on Ivan’s last day on the Island. The pair get separated early on, and are forced to try and figure out how exactly they are meant to go on without the other.
A space between spaces. Super 8 / Sound / 3:45
A conversation between two women about the desires and banalities of life. Both women share the same homeland, one stayed there while the other emigrated, but the distance hasn't severed their friendship nor the similarities in their perspectives.
An unconventional, tone-shifting travelogue that stitches together nations of the former Yugoslavia through chance encounters, 1970s rock music, architecture, and inventive editing, Ryan Ferko’s Hrvoji, Look at You From the Tower locates traces of the past in an increasingly fractured present.
Deep down in the dark ocean not all the fish like bright lights but there’s a friend for everyone in this world, you just have to find them.
It’s a quack attack! You better stand back.
Through the creative and philosophical journey of three steamers, this film offers a fascinating incursion into the heart of an international artistic community, inspired by science fiction and the Industrial Revolution. More than just a portrait, it invites us to reflect on our own modern life and relationship to technology.
Biomorphic shapes at play in this film reiterate and expose the persistence of vision, frame flickering and illusions. The random cycling images question who is the projector and who is the projectionist, while light forms the sound frequencies.
Situated at the geographic centre of Canada, Baker Lake, Nunavut is the only inland settlement in the Canadian Arctic. Fixing its gaze on this stark landscape, McIntyre's haunting and sparse film uses hand-wrought black-and-white 16mm film in a meditation on place and personal histories.
A young carpet seller is blackmailed over his sex tapes.
When hiding for your life becomes a frightening game, an elementary school teacher and children cope with the fear and guilt created by lockdown.
Short film told from the perspective of the devil.
Through an intimate and touching lens of looking at the relationship between a mother and her queer daughter, “Carla & Hayfa” investigates the impact of historical trauma on communities of refugees and their queer family members.
A black-and-white reversal film shot on 35mm.
In Barthes' essay, "The Grain of the Voice", the concept of the "genosong" was evoked to separate the sound of the voice from its language. Visual Music for Ten Voices distinguishes the physicality of the optical vocal track as having a unique identity from its actual resonance in sound films. Designed as a 10-foot black box projection loop, this film focuses on the rhythm and materiality of ten 35mm optical soundtracks. Each musical passage maintains its original length and linear harmony with the other tracks, collectively creating a new sense of motion and repetition.
Based on dreams (waking and non-waking) by pals and acquaintances of noted American writer Lucy Corin, the night after the epochal US election of 2016. A bevy of speakers weigh in on the new world.
A reflection on colour in fifteen camera tests.
Dr. Konrad Steffan, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, has witnessed firsthand the steady march of climate change — he’s been monitoring the melting of Greenland’s Ice Sheet for over 25 years. His story, told in this short film, serves as a powerful message for change.
Three sisters have spent years bracing themselves for the pivotal moment that opens this film: the final verdict in their trial against their cousin, their childhood sexual abuser. From there, the story returns to their memories of growing up in a large and insular Punjabi-Canadian family in the small mill town of Williams Lake, British Columbia. With unflinching candour, the sisters discuss their family's dark secrets and expose a toxic family culture that relied on female subservience and obedience. These roles, they acknowledge, have deeper roots and have in part been reinforced by the Bollywood films that have structured their fantasies of romantic relationships. While the film tells a difficult and confrontational story of abuse, it is also a celebration of the loving sisterhood that allows these women to demand justice for the wrongs of their childhood years.
While two estranged friends are reunited for a night in Montreal, their friendship and past relationships are rediscovered, as dreams blend into reality.
From one of anthropocene's most charismatic megafauna - Ailuropoda melanoleuca : " - and if I hear anyone else say 'isn't he cute'..."
For more than a decade, Mirvish Productions operated La Cage Theatre in downtown Toronto. The theatre's resident performers, The Impostors, have earned rave reviews over the years but it's the show's final number that gives them a major standing ovation. In An Evening with The Impostors, the group prepares to bring their high-glam drag spectacle to the small town of Port Hope, Ontario. The Impostors are ready, but is Port Hope ready for The Impostors?
With breathtaking cinematography, The Radicals is a documentary film that follows four snowboarders and surfers driven to become social and environmental stewards through their connection with the environments in which they play. By enjoying and appreciating their natural surroundings, these awakened athletes introduce us to some of the worlds most dedicated activists and game-changing wilderness initiatives that can actually change the world.
animation by Sabrina Ratté
animation by Sabrina Ratté
How would you see the world if life was a game with no rules and no risk? Step inside the explosive imagination of cartoonist and animator Paloma Dawkins in this absurdist romp through the highest clouds, to the depths of the ocean and through patterns of pure harmony in between.
A poet suffers feuding psychiatrists and shifting reality while committeed to a mental institution.
Ôtênaw is a film documenting the oral storytelling of Dwayne Donald, an educator from Treaty 6, Edmonton Canada. Drawing from nêhiyawak philosophies, he speaks about the multilayered histories of Indigenous peoples' presence both within and around amiskwacîwâskahikan, or what has come to be known as the city of Edmonton.
Tinne Zenner's 'Translations' (in Greenlandic: 'Nutsigassat') reflects on the power of language as a colonizer of foreign landscapes. A critical and graceful 16mm film in which the vistas of Greenland create a space for free thinking.
A camel films his spring break trip to Latuna Beach.
A L G I A is a visual and kinetic representation of memory. Artist Francesca Chudnoff has sewn personal history into the suit she wears in this video with multiple layers of material that add weight and anomalous forms meant to conceal her body while also amplifying her size. The piece poses several questions: What does it mean to be seen? What do we choose to withhold? And what realities do we fabricate in order to hide?
Short by Ella Cooper
A family from Afghanistan moves to a foreign country to live a better and happier life, but they desire to have it all.
Remember Tim Burton’s homage to Vincent Price, "Vincent"? 30 years later, Canadian animator Ken Turner returns the favor in this cute stop motion tribute...
Short film by Marie-Claire Blais.
The lack of material evidence left behind by Expo 67 is staggering. So remarkable, in fact, that we felt impelled to explore the site of the world’s fair in detail, searching for clues that throw light on its past – a kind of material archaeology à la Walter Benjamin, who sought in materiality the remnants and rejects, the traces of an ancient history that might reverberate down to the present.
A teen girl finds true love with the boy who delivers her pizza, and her best friend has something to say about it.
A meditative visualization of Tibetan Buddhist Monks chanting.