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When Mavis Staines took the helm of Canada’s National Ballet School in 1989, the pedagogy of ballet was due for an evolution.

A woman wraps herself up in a large green mountain.

Shot in a house in Montreal, the images capture different light situations in real time and time lapse using in-camera editing. The filmstrip of the Super8 cassette was handprocessed and remains unedited. The title refers not just to the captured light movement, but to the moving light on the screen through the projector’s bulb and to the journey the original, unprinted light media made – from the house in Montreal into this screening room.

You shouldn't swear lightly.

Exploration on the tortuous relation between a photographer and her model.

From the depths of a forgotten VHS tape recorded in 1996 comes ǝɹnʇuǝʌp∀ uǝǝʍollɐH s,plǝᴉɟɹɐפ, a live and improvised reimagining of the classic Halloween television special warped and mutated through video synthesis and analog video glitch techniques by Montreal artist Rob Feulner. Garfield and his best frenemy Odie are mangled through a series of VCRs and circuit bent machinery, leaving a traumatic stain on the otherwise joyous ritual of dressing up, begging for candy, and being chased around by pirate ghosts. The audio is broken down and reassembled by Montreal experimental-electronic artist Event Cloak, leaving no soundwave untouched. Bonus: broadcast commercials included.

Views from the sea.

A psychedelic Phantom Ride, accompanied by the tranquility of a soundtrack composed of natural noises – river, rain, birds.

Karla Homolka is one of Canada’s most famous criminals. After serving only 12 years in prison she was released and is now living in Quebec, Canada. But is she really free?

A film by Zahid Jiwa.

‘Berta Boys is a short film and exhibition that contemplates the teetering instability of Alberta’s hyper masculine identity. For Terrence, this exaggerated posturing has fused Alberta’s aesthetic and economic identities into a petrol-philic culture that is put on display via hyper-masculine regionalisms; roof-racks, lift-kits, oil-slogans and truck nuts, these are the accessories of the twenty-first century petrol cowboy. Driving forward with a self-assured camp, Berta Boys looks to open up this imagery by creating an isolated world where men turn their violent gaze on each other. Terrence is joined in the film by fellow Albertan artists Aaron Brown and Gabriel Esteban Molina as co-writers and co-performers. In an effort to explore the masculine archetypes found within themselves, the trio meditate on the unrestricted behaviours that blend tragedy with absurdity.

Party with friends!

Andy is a young Métis woman living in a big city. When a friend invites Andy to accompany her to a large city park where she introduces Andy to sweet grass, it sparks a night of interpersonal exploration and self-discovery, ultimately reconnecting Andy with her Indigenous roots.

In a world where gender dictates fashion, sixteen-year-old Vanessa Saccone finds her own unique expression of identity through style and photography.

Psychiatric labelling imparts new meanings to found footage of 1980s TV and home movies from Saskatoon's punk scene.

Holding on to reflections and surfaces. Love for Film farm, Mount Forest.

Like two molecules unknowingly affecting one another in space and briefly crossing paths, conceptual hip-hop dancers collide and share fleeting moments of intimate synchronicity on the streets of Montreal. Sucked into a choreographic time warp, viewers slowly realize things are not as they seem.

With changes in society leading to a fall in marriage and rise in divorce, is it possible that the institution has outlived its function? We investigate the marriage industry and costs of divorce against a backdrop of government incentives, the arrival of gay marriage, rise in sanctioned infidelity and alternate relationships.

Video loop created for The Wrong, Digital Biennale.

A rotoscope and found footage film exploring queer upbringing and unintentional homoeroticism.

A hard hitting mixed media animated short that depicts the journey of Nadia and Lupe, two immigrants who risked their lives to cross the Arizona desert in search for a better life.

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.

A video mixtape experience

American mixtape horror film

The film explores an intersection of species; insect flight patterns and modes of industrial travel merge as collective rituals in a fever dream.

Artists who use their bodies as their medium or canvas while existing in their natural environments. Are they performing? Do their performances end after the makeup is removed? Can a performance continue in an empty apartment instead of in front of an audience?

A response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, "sea series #10" was shot at Beachfront Park near the Pickering nuclear generating station in Ontario, Canada and processed in part with water derived from the lake.

A short film looking at two guys that are in it for the long haul and what can happen when the subject of conversation turns to the longest haul, marriage.

Lyle Reimer is about to put the finishing touch on his latest art piece, taking recycled trash and glueing it all to his face, revealing Lyle XOX. While in Vancouver, he's preparing for a big shoot in Tokyo, that will set in motion the launch of his book and window display at Bergdorf-Goodman in New York City. Throughout this journey to fame, Lyle is reminded of the past, and needs to connect with it, his family, his friends, and his childhood in rural Saskatchewan in order to make peace and move on.

Another example of Detheux’s enchanting work, this year deepened by some outstanding live performance experiences.

The central image of in the nature of things is the Forest- sometimes fearful, sometimes a refuge, always mysterious, and the multiple associations and myths embedded in it- myths within which we live and which live within us- our collective history. But, unexpected moments, intensified fragments, catch us unawares- the present confronts us.

Mom and Me is a personal and intimate documentary about a young filmmaker coming of age in extraordinary circumstances. It follows the complicated relationship between director Lena Macdonald and her mother, who was once a filmmaker herself, but ended up homeless, crack-addicted and on the streets. For ten years Lena filmed in the cold, hard streets of Toronto’s inner city and her story is raw, honest and unforgettable. Mom and Me is about addiction, prostitution and despair but it is also a story about family, the power of hope and the tenacity of love.

Short film by Pascal Grandmaison serving as a music video for a Philippe B song.

A mini flamenco short.

Embracing the stunning music of Xavier Díaz-Latorre, Detheux delivers in a densely packed vertical forest of pure textural imagery.

A Jewish textile worker in Montreal rediscovers the past of her community and the struggles of the Jewish working class.

In response to the debates on the lack of “diversity” in Quebec culture, Re[présent]ations offers a frank and thoughtful discussion on the context of representation and film production in Quebec.

An homage to the pessimistic intuitions of Sigmund Freud, as he speculates on the science of feelings, and the denial of the ‘oceanic.’

Beth, jealous of Alex and Allie's relationship, decides to kill her friends with a poison that causes fingers to fall off.

‘Geography of the Universe’ by San Base presents a unique and spectacular 3D experience which gives you some of the most enchanted 3D parallel worlds you will ever experience, plus psychedelic coral reefs, crystal caves, and breath-taking landscapes. Canadian Artist San Base developed something totally unique that has not been produced by anyone else and is also like no other fantastic 3D produced imagery by anyone else. San Base is constantly evolving 3D worlds with stunning “Pop Out” 3D effects that has an unprecedented spatial depth and perception. With its “Real 3D” awesome effects, it takes you on a SAN BASE journey to a parallel universe of the Third Kind, which is totally optimised only for 3D Blu-ray home entertainment. The combination of art and music is carefully crafted to create one of the best examples of “Real 3D,” and an event that will draw you into a stimulating journey for the senses that is unlike anything you've seen before.

An enthralling montage of moments of cinema-going extracted from movie history exploring the entire film-going experience: underage boys attempting to get in to a cinema to see some bare flesh; pretentious debates in the queues; loading choc ices into trays, and of course the trailers and the main feature. Films from every genre play as lovers meet, criminals hide in the dark and rapt audiences watch on.

"To Wrestle" is a short film meditating on professional wrestling and local promoter/wrestler 'Kowboy' Mike Hughes. The film observes the regional promotion 'Red Rock Wrestling' during the day of a show, presenting a fascinating look into the life of a wrestling event. Mike Hughes, a wrestling veteran of nearly 15 years, voices his musings throughout the film offering insight into the psychology of a wrestling performer. As a whole, the film aims to deliver an intimate look into the misunderstood art-form known as Professional Wrestling.

Independent Toronto musicians attempt to carve out a space for themselves in Canada's music industry.