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Scratched directly onto 35mm film stock, this abstract film is a visual interpretation of a piece for solo violin based on a Bosnian popular song from Bosnia-Herzegovina. The composer, Malcolm Goldstein, describes it as a gesture of hope for peace in that land ravaged by war during the 1990s.
Seated in the middle of a square room, choreographer Ginette Laurin looks back at revealing key aspects of her artistic process.
Prescribed to more than three million people in France to replace the hormones that the thyroid no longer produces, Levothyrox has so far been an uneventful drug. But, following a change of formula in March 2017, it is at the heart of a vast health crisis. Dizziness, fatigue, memory loss, palpitations, muscle or joint pain, some patients experience a nightmare. The controversy grows. More than 17,000 reports of adverse effects have been recorded by the National Medicines Safety Agency. Why did she ask the Merck laboratory, now sued, to change the formulation? For several years, specialists have also been sounding the alarm bells against the excessive screening and overdiagnosis of certain thyroid cancers,
Fanfare examines links between national identity, celebration, and state power by working with images of ceremonies and sites filmed by Jacques Madvo in the 1970s. Madvo’s films document a moment when traditional military celebrations began to appear against the backdrop of modernizing Canadian cities. The incongruity between modern cityscapes and military marches reveals the coexistence of two vastly different expressions of statecraft. The residue of this unresolved juxtaposition continues to this day, and is taken up in new footage which builds upon the themes identified in Madvo’s images.
A touching portrait of the only woman who participates in the auto racing competitions of Kitigan Zibi, Anishinabe nation. Chalene McConini combines her role as a mother with her passion for speed.
Ross Lipman's new film frames an act of self-archiving within a larger, essayistic mediation on the relationship between experimental practice and independent arthouse cinema.
Dancer and fashion designer Tyler Jacobs asks us to tag along on his journey to reclaiming his two-spirit heritage and knowledge.
A short character portrait of Freddie, a vibrant, aspiring filmmaker who meets a charismatic yet abusive director.
An allegory recycling images from the past, still relevant to the present moment. “Horses are lucky, they’re stuck with the war same as us, but nobody expects them to be in favor of it, to pretend to believe in it.” — Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night, 1932
Amidst a bustling cityscape, a child pays a visit to a woman in a high-rise apartment. Inside, their interactions with each other, and with the outside world, becomes increasingly phantasmagorical.
To honor the memory of her late husband and get closure, Gisèle travels back to Canada. Joined by her daughter Candy, the two women embarck for an artistic trip upon the roads of Alberta. Along the way they meet Jacques, a native american actor who agrees to accompany them in their journey.
A documentary with students from two schools, two cultures, sharing the same territory. At an age when they are still well entrenched in the present moment, children begin learning history and already serve us a lesson.
There's something lurking in the shadows..
When a little girl finds solace in between her mother's legs. Biggest fears become reality.
A soul divided in two. Asher, a visual artist meets Matt. Asher and Matt are attracted to each other, even though they just met. Asher soon begins to feel that there is more between him and Matt, as if their paths and energies are intertwined.
In 2009, veteran documentarian and filmmaker Brigitte Berman released Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel, a film about the life and legacy of Hugh Hefner. Expanding on Hefner's influence not only as a celebrity figure but as a catalyst for social awareness, discussion and change, Berman continues to break new ground in Playboy: After Dark, Speaking Out in America. In this doc, Berman details the run and lasting influence of Hefner's two short-lived television shows Playboy: After Dark (1969-1970) and Playboy's Penthouse (1959-1960). Part entertainment segments, part talkshows, the programs featured numerous celebrity guests and covered a diverse range of subjects during their respective runs, including race, integration, environmental changes and free speech. With the story told through interviews and a collection of archived footage, this documentary makes it clear how and why both programs deserve their spots in television history.
Resource-rich Africa has been a feeding hand for many successful countries and businesses that have never really benefited the continent itself nor the majority of its people. First of a 3-film series, Congo: A Political Tragedy is a feature-length documentary chronicling the political history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from the arrival of the first European settlers to the nation’s struggle for independence. It offers the unique perspective of Congolese co-writers Patrick Kabeya and Mina Malu, as they document the history of a country that has so far mostly been told through the eyes of foreigners.
Eli must leave to find the wild woman who lives inside her.
Never get between a man and the one thing he loves.
Short film by Pascal Grandmaison for a song by Ariane Moffatt.
How bootleg video kept the Pakistani film industry alive under censorship in the 1980s and 90s.
CIRCLE is a haunting portrait of a rape survivor, caught in the devious ploys of her family.
Young actress Lee Seon-hwa visits her relatives living in Vancouver, Canada, over the course of the summer and has numerous brief encounters.
A father's addiction to gambling on Pachinko machines has led to the neglect of his young daughter. Looking through the father's mind, the fighting between addiction and guilt, and the fight of love and compassion are visible.
An anxiety-free day. Trees, flowers, bridges, the ocean, and people reading (the same book).
In an age of collective anxiety around issues of safety – be it global, national, or personal –we are interested in the ways in which different practices of resilience change environments, create subjects, unlink temporalities, and redefine relations of security and insecurity. As populist political rhetoric across Europe and North America expresses this in increasingly reactionary ways, often articulated in relation to threats created by other people, what is the relationship to earlier, more fundamental issues of safety that are managed more quietly and bureaucratically?
A teenage girl fights for equal treatment and care for Indigenous kids who go missing.
Oscillating between reality and mise-en-scène, documentary and fiction, Eric & Me explores the interrogations of a young married gay man about paternity and, by extension, on what the concept of family really means.
Two families, similar identities. Fleeing violence, they sought refuge in Canada and began a new life. This is the experience of thousands of people in our great country and yet these stories go mostly untold. Arrival Archives is an artful exploration of newcomer arrival stories, told through a multi-generational viewpoint. The stories intertwine as one, illustrating that Canada’s cultural landscape is a communal experience shared by many different faces.
Inspired by the performative tradition that combines electronic sound and video art, Le Révélateur's live performance is the result of an intermedial dialogue between video artist Sabrina Ratté and electronic music composer Roger Tellier-Craig. Through the creation of abstract architectural structures and electronic landscapes, Ratté’s video images are in constant dialogue with the ethereal sounds and futuristic pulses generated by Tellier-Craig. Together, they aim to create an immersive audio-visual experience where sound and image are inseparable.
In August 2016, Brette Harrington and Marc-Andre Leclerc established two new routes up Great Sail Peak on Baffin Island. This is the story of their trip. Tragically, Marc-Andre Leclerc disappeared while descending from a new route on Alaska's Mendenhall Towers in March of this year, and this video is in loving memory of him.
Witnessing my daughters passage though childhood with a 35mm Russian movie camera.
Pure Difference asks us "What is a number?" It deals with the inclination to rely on data as truth and neutrality. Using the visual tropes of a tech-conference presentation, trashy YouTube video and film essay, Peters sifts the languages of science and maths, to disclose how these can buttress power and galvanise authority.
Undream depicts an imagined future where utopia and dystopia collapse, inspired by the photomontages of Superstudio – a major force in the Radical architecture and design movement of the late 1960s. Undream leads the viewer through an isolated landscape, overhung by a monumental structure. The architecture morphs between impossible surfaces and underlying order, interfering with the landscape as it undulates in and out of existence. Swept up in this movement, we are suspended in an impossible abandoned territory between the built environment and the natural world.
In 1973, the Shah of Iran commissioned the construction of a paper factory in the lush northern province of Gilan. The arrival of heavy industry in a predominately agricultural region brought with it a series of interventions into this landscape, including the construction of modernist apartment blocks and purpose-built villas to house foreign engineers from Canada and the United States and their families. Their stay, however, came to a sudden halt in 1979 with the Iranian revolution forcing them to flee the site overnight. Chooka unfolds around the site of this factory, returning to the location 40 years after it mysteriously appeared in Jacques Madvo’s 1978 footage. Treating his archival material as a guide, the film moves through a landscape altered by industry, technology and revolution, bringing silent images from the past forward to a location caught within a perpetually uncertain present.
Two nervous young lawyers meet on a 'first date'. A few beers and many laughs later, the bill arrives with two fortune cookies. Their chemistry is crackling, the night seems destined to go a long way, but what did their fortune say?
A comedy short film.
Passages retrieved from the lublin genizah, a ruinous non-archive where the sacred is slowly being released from it's corporal form.
A freelance graphic designer encounters a rare type of crickets.
How does design activate a space? What motivates people to make it their own? The rejuvenation of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa preserves yet transforms a Brutalist performing arts complex from insular fortress for the arts to an engaging, connected centre.
A four-part bio-pic that narrates moments from the lives of Fats Waller, Jackson Pollock, Janieta Eyre and Frida Khalo. This quartet of hauntologies reframes the cruel reductions of biography to focus on death and doubles. Repurposing archival texts (the diaries of Khalo, the testimonies of Waller’s kin and familiars) as audiovisual graffiti, old voices are cropped and replayed as intertitles or voice-over fragments, lending a historic charge to images that dream across the present.
A man awakens in a white room and is given a watch before being pushed out a door. He ends up on a parking structure where a young woman stands at the edge.
This collaborative project brings together some of the biggest names in the Québec contemporary dance scene.
Bruno bumps into his friend Sébas by chance, two weeks after abandoning him in the middle of a home theft contract. Back with his ex-girlfriend, new responsibilities weigh on Bruno. Everything suggests that he will have to stop his work as a thug to restructure his life, but nothing has been done yet.
Django Unchained teaches "Optimism"
Gia, our planet’s organics-engineer, must decide if we are a species worth salvaging or if eradicating all life on Earth is the answer.
A gentle warning from the post-human, non-transcendent sentinel of the threshold.
Le Dauphin is a popular bar. Within its walls, regulars come to soak up the lively atmosphere, defying stereotypes.
Don, a Canadian air gunner in World War II, lives through distant dreams, homesick memories and visceral fears. Based a collection of letters written to his love overseas from 1943 to 1944, this young man's inner turmoil manifests around him in dreamlike reminiscence and isolation, fighting to stay hopeful for a future.
After 48 years of emotional longing, a mother meets her son who she relinquished at birth. In the months after the reunion, Dorothy and Joe must overcome nearly five decades of separation in order to reconnect.
Bareback bronc riding is not for the faint of heart. The risk of serious and possibly fatal injury looms with each buck and kick. For Liam Marshall, it’s a thrill he’s always known growing up in the Big Muddy Valley, in rural Saskatchewan. Training to compete and become a bareback champion requires his complete focus. It’s clear that it fills his every waking moment (when he’s not checking his cellphone). Surrounded by family and providing inspiration to his three younger brothers, this brave teenager holds on tight to a tradition that’s been passed down through generations.
A loving meditation on the ugliest truck stop diner in 1960 industrial Saint-Boniface, run by Joe and Roma DeGagné and their eight children.
3D animation by Sabrina Ratté
A gender-swapped version of the song 'Why Is A Good Girl So Hard To Find?' by Jimmy Davis.
One of the world’s leading pianists and foremost interpreters of Bach’s music, Angela Hewitt appears in recital and with major orchestras throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia.
A group of guys get trapped in a house together due to a winter storm after the fall of civilization.
“We’re beautiful, the whole gang. We’re special,” says Jean of the 15-odd employees at The Artisan—a workshop employing people with intellectual disabilities. Jean is the self-described “handyman and best-looking” member of the group. A moving celebration of difference, The Artisans captures daily life at an organization where the workers are as courageous as they are colourful.