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Are gay men born gay? In this fascinating documentary, filmmaker Bryce Michael Sage explores how same-sex attraction (a trait that prevents reproduction) can be compatible with evolution and how it could have survived through generations of history. A winner of multiple awards across international film festivals, Survival of Fabulous seeks to find out how you stayed on the right track if you're born this way!
A young woman moves into a house and soon realizes it is already occupied by a malevolent spirit.
God Hates Himself finds the ardently atheist Kibbins recording the testimony of a witness and victim of Congolese civil-war atrocities who still declares a faith in God. Kibbins lets this declaration of belief stand, but juxtaposes it with a more solipsistic story of the unfolding of a typical North American life — yet again undercutting the tools which we use to try and make sense of our place in the world.
A training exercise in nihilism. The basic actions of picking up and putting down are stripped of meaning. They are detached from the material world. They resemble nothing other than themselves. They have no identity, no goal; they communicate nothing. They have nothing to say. Because they have no value, their value is infinite. Because they cannot speak, they say everything.
The Colour of Beauty is a shocking short documentary that examines racism in the fashion industry. Is a black model less attractive to designers, casting directors and consumers? What is the colour of beauty?
Seven master guitar-makers create instruments inspired by Canada's art legends.
Unseen Memories unravels a compilation of thoughts through the eyes of a young girl. The wonderful world portrayed by her father contradicts the harsh reality.
Soy un ser cuyas raíces // I am a being whose roots reworks Jacques Madvo’s Countries & People: Venezuela to explore labour and migration. Taking the final words of the film’s voice-over as a starting point, Soy un ser cuyas raíces // I am a being whose roots pairs Madvo’s film footage with a text-based conversation with young Venezuelan literature scholar and language teacher Angel Said Dominguez Pinto. Dominguez Pinto relocated to Panama in 2014 to make a living teaching English, Spanish and German in Panama City after Venezuela’s economic collapse. Over e-mail, we co-authored a conversational text, exploring migration, labour, exile, and hemispheric relationships.
Video Painting Series
Immeuble-Villas is an ongoing series of abstract interior spaces where electronic textures and architectural elements are subtly animated. The series references Le Corbusier’s standardization of apartment buildings. Each video loop is meant to be displayed as tableaux on individual screens.
Immeuble-Villas is an ongoing series of abstract interior spaces where electronic textures and architectural elements are subtly animated. The series references Le Corbusier’s standardization of apartment buildings. Each video loop is meant to be displayed as tableaux on individual screens.
AURAE was part of Phillips + Tumblr present Paddles ON! The First Digital Art Auction at Phillips, curated by Lindsay Howard.
This video essay is a response to the artist’s experience working as a stripper. What began as a beautiful and exciting adventure quickly turned dark as the artist was criticized and ultimately red for not having an augmented body. Object explores what happens to our relationship to our own bodies when performing professionally for the male gaze.
Documentation of a work at Performance Berlin investigating social contract theory. Part of a series of performances/empirical investigations into contracts formed between the artist and his audiences in Singapore, Quebec and Chicago.
Genevieve has a small hole in the leg. A trace of her past. She shares all the story in this short animated documentary.
Liminals draws parallels between the experimental spiritual gatherings of the ’70s and the effect-laden release of contemporary hedonistic subcultures. It follows a group of 8 dancers as they enact ecstatic rituals in an attempt to access a new realm of consciousness with the potential to save humanity.
2005, at the corner of St. George and Robinson Streets; the gray observatory at the corner of temptation, my new apartment, where I am about to live an intense and poetic urban experience in the district of the red light fish & chip. Between the horizontal blades of my venetian blinds, the freaky-deaky city comes alive for me, image by image.
Filmmakers let loose on celluloid, with just two seconds each.
A local psychiatrist is urgently needed by authorities to help break through to a catatonic unidentified hiker, who may have just had a sinister encounter with something not from this world.
Up close, mold is an intricate mass of branching filaments and delicate fruiting bodies creating a colourful connected web. When viewed from a distance, mold loses its complexities and a more destructive nature is realized…much like the world we live in.
Paraiso, an all-seeing drone spirit, is summoned every Sunday into the heart of Hong Kong where Filipina migrant workers gather to socialise. As the women claim the public space, Stephanie Comilang’s sci-fi documentary considers social connections in today’s age of economic migration and modern technology.
Five composers have their careers cut short by the rise of the Third Reich.
A film made by a group of students for Y3 of Sheridan College's Animation program. A bunny and his little brother have an adventure in the sky.
The Bloorcourt village is one of Toronto's most diverse neighbourhoods. Walk through its streets and gain fascinating insights into the challenges and achievements of the immigrant experience.
Made in collaboration with the Cree community of Waswanipi, this is an extraordinary documentary that is equal parts observational and poetic. Shot over a year, co-directors Nicolas Lachapelle and Ariel St-Louis Lamoureux follow a group of children through their daily life. A generous and human meditation on identity and place that's unfettered by an issue-driven hook or an imposed narrative, this is the rare sort of film that transcends categorization, becoming a beautiful work of art to behold.
This short animated documentary tells the story of 2 Chinese Canadian women making their theatrical debut playing “comfort women” in Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues. Jia Tsu Thompson and Mary Mohammed spend long hours rehearsing at Mu Lan Teahouse in Halifax, where they read their lines over and over, sip tea, and recount buried stories of war. As they diligently practise together and at home, they come to have their own personal catharses. Fusing activism and performance, the film honours the thousands of girls and women from Korea, China, Japan and the Philippines who were forced into sexual slavery—into providing “comfort” to soldiers in the Imperial Japanese military during the 1930s and ’40s.
Evincing formal echoes of Bruce Baillie, Madi Piller’s Untitled, 1925 is a personal, experimental travelogue that traces the voyage of Piller’s grandfather through the highlands of Peru.
The push and pull of life continuous and unceasing.
Dissatisfied with her options in the world of striving, a young deaf woman, Iris (Sophie MacLean), decides to give up on yearning to connect. Instead she floats along, working at a greenhouse, embracing her silent solitude and learning to be happy with less. Everything is going just fine until she meets a precocious musician named Celeste (Bryde MacLean). Beautifully shot on Prince Edward lsland, Singing to Myself is an intimate gaze into the complexity and ease of female friendship.
Made in a bastard genre of "musdocal", where cinema verite "unnaturally" breeds with music videos, the film follows Grant, a Cree "Indian" who grew up in foster homes and in his adult years embraced drifting as a lifestyle. He has the zeal to grab life by the horns but all the odds are against him. Music seems to be the solution, music by "Annoying".
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.
Emphasizes a relation between the Glitch phenomenon - which is a technical failure - with the dysfunction of our emotional states. The imperfection becomes an aesthetic representation of our emotional failures and it creates an atmosphere of strangeness.
An innocent and curious dog encounters a mysterious noise outside. After investigating it, his life changes forever.
Short film by Kyle Mowat
A mink walks into a fur store. Fantastic Mr. Fox meets The Shining in this stop-motion cautionary tale of what happens when we don’t think enough about what we buy. Inspired by found sound of two dogs growling, proudly animal-friendly, and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.
In this mixed-media animation, Michi journeys into a brightly-coloured world filled with adventure and mysterious creatures and leaves with a renewed self-awareness.
Two people in their early teens escape from a party. They end up lost in the woods and decide to live there indefinitely, before they are confronted with the inevitable fate that is being a suburban teenager. Teen Getaway is a fantasy for the average kid who might not be so lucky at getting away.
Willful Entrapment explores the paradox between psychotic addiction and the perception of innocent fun. Alan Gerd has a flippant brush with online pornographic content via social media, and soon finds himself progressively haunted by an invisible force that seeks to destroy him and those he cares about.
In the wild Sonoran desert, the greatest criminal of the Far-West suffers the wrath of a four years old child after stealing her ice cream cone.
Black Mirror at The National Gallery is a single uninterrupted shot of a black circular mirror (designed by Martin Szekely) as it travels through the Dutch Landscape and Genre Scenes painting rooms at London’s National Gallery.
Documentary on Janusz Dukszta, Canadian politician and psychiatrist, who has been a patron of the arts for decades, including commissioning dozens of portraits of himself.
In the south-eastern portion of Area 23 - a deserted and derelict region once known in the late age of human civilization as the Americas - a tiny population of Quantum Humans have been gathering, meeting together under a common bond. Their aesthetic appearance is not unlike that of any Quantum Human; their biological and technological make-up the same, and their direct neural link to The Hive concurrent with our unified Quantum Human Society. They are immortal Quantum Humans, like you and I. But there is one thing currently separating them from our social order: The Quantum Humans of Area 23 are afflicted with an extremely rare disorder known as Human Atavism Syndrome - or H.A.S.
My daughter's expression for beautiful sunset.
1 in 3 children is impacted by this environmental illness- 22,000,000 U.S. children today, but chances are they've never even tested your child. It conservatively costs the U.S. $100 billion annually, however a carefully crafted political campaign has made you think it's not your problem. Think again.
In his search for happiness in North America, a European man discovers the pleasures of Fantasy Baseball. Using his new appreciation for sports as a metaphor to re-imagine his life choices, he begins to find new meaning in the world around him. Numbers & Friends is a playful and amorphous cine-essay about sports fandom and cultural identity.
The story of Canadian Hip Hop.
THE LIFE OF A GRIZZLY IN A CANADIAN NATIONAL PARK FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF DATA POINTS AND SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS PRESENTS A FASCINATING LOOK AT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE WILD IN THIS INTERACTIVE FILM FROM THE NFB.
A man makes a career change into the fashion industry.
A young woman with an intellectual disability, Hélène relies on her close friendship with a co-worker at a pastry factory. When her friend leaves to take another job, the impact is all too clear in this sometimes heartbreaking but deeply humane story about our need for connection regardless of ability.
In music, the return to the original movement. Reflections on the rhythm of childhood and parenthood from birth.
Using the backdrop of traditional Shuswap territory in British Columbia’s interior as both physical and symbolic landscape, Kéwku weaves the tumultuous life experiences of Shuswap elder Ralph Phillips to his relationship with the healing medicine sage.
Acadians face a dilemma: Adopt normative French in order to be better understood, or proudly continue to use their own colourful and authentic language? This short documentary links family memories to the evolution of Acadian French.
13 elves over 3 days in a shop!
A short film inspired by the H.P. Lovecraft story "The Dunwich Horror", created by students for the Vancouver Film School's The Interactive Lovecraft (aka "Project Space Squid").
A short film inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Call of Cthulhu", created by students for the Vancouver Film School's The Interactive Lovecraft (AKA "Project Space Squid").
Ceci n'est pas un Spectacle is a knitted animation inspired by downtown Montreal, whilst hinting at the absurdity of ‘representation’ in arts and the critical limits of public realm projection.