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From the beginnings of time, in times of crisis and when nothing else is on offer, there has always been ChickenFish to depend on.

Two young farmers and an old timer fight to protect farmland from illegal dumping while next door in Vancouver; hip urban farming threatens to steal the show.

A documentary film about a DIY show in Toronto, and a film intended to capture the feeling of freedom and fun associated with that.

The true story of an Iranian survivor from Stalin's death camps.

A man received an unexpected package at his house and it's only after opening this box that he will know his faith.

"The Quoddy Fold" is an intimate interaction between a woman and a derelict coastal house. In this one-hour film Phillips dismantles and studies the movement from wood to dust, damp paper to mold, and ponders the house folding back into the land and sea. Phillips' performance constantly seeks evidence of dissolving boundaries, thingness, history and intersubjectivity of space, place and species. Through the poetics of the ruin "The Quoddy Fold" is an interrogation of dwelling and landscape giving space to entertain the ecological, cultural and societal anxieties surrounding impermanence.

Gaia is a non narrative film documentary exploring our relationship with earth, religion our habitats around the world and the environment. It took 3 years to make the movie and the producers traveled to Greenland, Jerusalem, Jordan, Canada, NYC, Peru, Argentina, Brazil and many other places to capture our societies and nature. —Jennifer Athena Gaatis

"In another virtuoso turn, the artist brings her exemplary camera eye to Moldova, home of her grandparents, before they were driven out along with their Jewish comrades, thousands of them killed. Fragments of survivor testimonials mix with archival photographs and objects, along with present-day city celebrations (what is being forgotten in these civic rites of memory?). Haunted natural scapes grow over the dead, the abandoned graveyards and stones mark the places where culture and community used to be performed. This is a synoptic act of grieving, but also: a summoning of the present, a conjuring of the thousand ways that the betrayals of neighbours and friends marked out the Jews who had lived peaceably amongst them for generations, newly caught now in a terror of state oppression and greed."- Mike Hoolboom

The 589,399th best Dad in the world reaches his breaking point in a one-sided feud with his neighbour, Dad #3.

A dog and his owner are strolling in the park when the latter whips out his phone and begins texting. Desperate for attention, the quick-thinking pup uses all means available to steer his beloved owner’s mind back out of the digital world.

Patkau Architects is a design research studio based in Vancouver, Canada. The practice was founded in 1978 by Patricia and John Patkau. They deliver a wide variety of project types, ranging in scale from art installations, to custom homes and major urban buildings. Over the years, the office has been recognized with numerous awards for excellence in design.

When you think of ice climbing, the sunny Okanagan Valley in the Canadian British Columbia is probably one of the last places you would consider. Ice climbs have a dichotomous strength and delicacy, and the people that attempt to ascend them are resilient and determined. Though the ice climbing is unreliable, scarce, and fleeting due to the mild winters in the Okanagan, it does exist… it all depends on how badly you want to find it.

Blackfoot and Dene artist Lauren Crazybull describes her personal story of resilience and empowerment through her illustrations and painted murals.

In the wake of the final report on missing and murdered Indigenous women, Ulivia recounts witnessing her mother’s death as a child. More than just a statistic, these lives, disappearances and murders of women have a real impact on family members and friends who loved them dearly.

A miniature wrecking ball and accompanying mini brick wall to be destroyed; an incomplete puzzle of the Parthenon; homemade fake latex vomit containing plastic novelties, pieces of candy, knick knacks, and detritus from the artist’s studio; pennants made from packets and designer ziplock bags; and a mesh veil adorned with chewing gums. —Western Front

Children are like sponges. They are influenced by what surrounds them. Across Québec, children express themselves with candor and lucidity on universal themes such as friendship, love, death or their future. This documentary paints a social and philosophical portrait of young people today.

My Favorite Food is Indian Tacos, my Favorite Drink is Iced Tea and my Favorite Thing is Drumming is about the passion for drumming and traditionnal singing that Derius share with his friends. This film is the affirmation of Derius' courage.

"Same shot of my house, Double 8mm film variously hand-processed, over months of thinking about moving. Sound on a cassette pulled from a box I was going to purge; tape from 1986 (the year I moved here), now chance overdubbing my thoughts on to a radio program about the power of women." —Sandy McLennan

As they exit youth and apprehend adulthood, two girls in wanders find themselves trying to resonate an inexcusable act they're about to commit.

This short ecological fable is a tribute to the Arctic ecosystem and its people who are seriously injured by global warming.

Yen-Chao Lin travelled along the east coast of Taiwan – an area characterized by its wild nature, colonization and population exodus. The Amis is the largest of many ethnic minorities in Taiwan officially recognised as indigenous peoples. In search of different spiritual practices belonging to the indigenous people of Makuta’ay, Yen-Chao Lin places the memories of the old Amis spirit keepers on an equal footing with the practices of Daoist rituals and Presbyterian burials, allowing personal prayers to resound and collective resistance to emerge. The Spirit Keepers of Makuta’ay was shot on Super 8 film and developed by the director by hand. The effects created during the development process add an additional layer of spiritual interpretation. A miniature, an essay, an impressionistic painting.

Study on one of the stages of film production. Most of the animals at the Warren Livestock Auction will be sold for industrial meat production. The bodies will be quartered and processed and bones prepared to make gelatin which may one day have silver halide suspended in an acetate strip.

This exhibition is a brilliant and slightly comedic rendition of the “performative act of memory-making” (Kuhn). Narrating the past re-activates and catapults memories into the present.

A wanderer discovers a stone structure deep in the woods.

An anxiety inducing exploration of juicy colors and crunchy textures driven by chaotic electronic music.

A subtle-spherical text-image composition about South Georgia, an island group of the Antarctic—a stretch of coast into which humanity’s devastating overexploitation has been inscribed.

Absences and translations motivate this experimental animation in an exploration of the methods and materials of reproduction and inscription. The inquiry is set within a framework of practical and critical human relationships with other-than-human-species elucidated by the theorist Donna Haraway.

A colour reversal film shot on 35mm.

Mutus Floris (mute or silent flowers) is composed of over 5000 individual photographs of wild flowers taken over three seasons, at Phenzhopehaugh in Scotland.

Unceded Territories is a provocative VR experience created from indigenous artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun’s iconic work, engaging viewers in an interactive landscape grappling with colonialism, climate change and indigenous civil rights.

A funny and poignant exploration of what happens when a mother and daughter show up at the queer bathhouse on the same night.

In this two-part tour through the streets of Lebanon, a colorful Palestinian cab driver offers offhand insight into the region’s fraught political and social climate through boisterous serenades and excitable outbursts.

In a Red Cross hospital in Vietnam, the young white nurse tends his wounds. Drawn from the archives of the Red Cross in Geneva.

Marées is a singular ode to the spirits of the Gaspesian Sea as experienced by its inhabitants.

We reach impasses and lock ourselves in. And fear has a way of manufacturing people who recoil when brought together.

A drop of water meets a drop of oil unleashing the kind of morphing choreography that only animation can bring to life.

Short film by Pascal Grandmaison.

In 1936 an Inuk woman departs her homeland in the North forever. But why?

An adaptation of the classic "killer in the window" urban legend.

A short experimental film from Canadian filmmaker Gary Kibbins.

Microscopic landscapes of Vancouver, Canada.

Obsession, fascination and confusion in a world of objects that refuse to disappear.

Kingsway’s design dates to the golden age of the automobile when the route was once the only highway into Vancouver, but now its monumental scale contrasts with the human scale of family neighbourhoods and storefronts. The film portrays the interaction between the past and the present, layering images and sounds, creating a collaged experience of Kingsway. Architectural signs and symbols overpower the foreground evoking the automotive scale, but present-day buildings and spaces re ect a changing vernacular as portrayed by the street’s soundscape and the road’s new sense of place.

Using the texture and colours of the urban landscape, Supnet offers a hyperkinetic wandering through Toronto. Everyday imagery of the city speeds by, and the familiar is transformed into a new discovery through the camera lens. Made for Pleasure Dome’s Art Spin 2015.

Everyone wants to be a winner.

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Clear Blue tells the haunting story of Simon, A young lifeguard working his first few days at a community pool. The mundane quickly becomes mysterious, when Simon notices Flova, an older woman with an exceptional capacity to stay submerged under water. As Simon follows Flova into the pool he makes a startling discovery. What follows is a story of temptation and pursuit. Clear Blue is a tale of impossible love and ultimately, its harrowing consequences.

A man travels to Ireland to discover its history but finds himself reflecting on the life of his sick father.

When I was a child, I was told my grandfather Pepe had died. Later I found out that after the Spanish Civil War he had emigrated to Argentina. My grandmother never knew anything else about him. This autobiographical film is a trip against time and oblivion to uncover family secrets.

Trying desperately to forget his roots, Henry is drawn back into the fray with his father when finances get the better of him. Returning with him to sell the family farm, his fiance soon discovers disturbing secrets about his past. A childhood sweetheart, a subborn father thick with Swiss traditions, and a desperate lawyer who’ll do anything for money force Henry to decide between protecting his father or turning his back on him.

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?

A man's life is recollected in images.

This is a study from the "scènes de menage" series, starring Jacques Larose and Marie Claude Ferland, the filmmaker’s parents. We see domestic activities that take on a new dimension thanks to the way Larose deals with successive layers. The repetitive, automatic movements that are repeated in places such as the kitchen and the hallway, the succession of actions of getting into the car and leaving the house, are all captured by the camera in multiple overlays, which on being slightly out of sync give rise to a split, multidimensional reality.

Another spectacular output from Montreal’s DJ Frigid.

Documentary on the lives of loggers in the logging camps of the 1950s and 1960s, featuring testimonials from men who worked in this profession, archival footage, and animations by Nicolas Brault.

An Experimental exploration of menstrual cycles. A collaboration with Naomi Dawn Mansfield and Lisa Bounouh.