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"Proposition 1: Hands" aims to transform a banal children’s game into a futuristic therapeutic exercise that meanwhile studies relational flows between anxiety and the uncertainty of the future in order to overcome the anxious-self. The children's game utilized in this project is called "Make Electricity on Hands", which is frequently played among children in South Korea. This project converts the game’s underlying conception and arisen sensation into a form of massage therapy. During each participation, participants will be asked to transfer the warmth to each other and to remain bonded at least during this massage session.

"The Coldest Day of the Year" takes place in a future where a cataclysmic event has made tracing a coherent meaning of the past and recounting a narrative of the present impossible. The narrator believes she has seen another being in this destroyed landscape. She attempts to find this figure and recounts a journey that traces the shadows of her presence. Using temporary sets, props and collaged images, "The Coldest Day of the Year" recounts an attempt to understand an ever shifting horizon and possibility of dwelling.

Alone and in his own home, a man awakes to a strange sound coming from the next room.

A short experimental film that explores the loss of identity that can occur when one submits oneself completely to technology. Made as a contribution to "Greetings from Isolation", a collection of short films made during lock-down with limited resources, curated by Canadian Programmer Stacey Donen.

A little girl observes her father's strange transformation.

A killer disposing of her victim is caught off guard when a drone witnesses the burial. She must chase down the drone, and its pilot, to prevent her secret ever leaving the scene of the crime.

A civil servant keeps a journal while struggling to isolate alone through the COVID-19 outbreak.

When he won his Giller Award, Saint Lucia poet/playwright Derek Walcott couldn’t make it, so Michael Ondaatje stood in his place and read Love After Love, the most beautiful poem I had ever heard. It remains a haunting and a promise. I learned it “by heart,” as the saying goes, and finally made this movie, which is only a way of keeping it with me as memento and keepsake. Using subtle repeats and rest stops for reflection, the poem’s fifteen lines are a narration of self-care, an invitation to do the deep dig of meeting that most unwanted of all visitors. The film is framed by a writer/stand-in who is in search, waiting in the pause between faces. Her writing brings her to a temporary oasis where she can reboot and refresh, invite her many personalities to arrive, and allow old encounters with friends and familiars to flow through her, to become again a living memory.

Young Mery-Rose takes us into her world, where we meet her grand-father and watch her learn about life.

Natasha hosts a movie night at her home, and she invites her friends: Jack, Lucas, Ted, and May. However, things are not as they seemed to be when their friend May doesn’t show up; this prompts the group of friends to find out what happened to May.

A miracle happened: summer came prematurely. Being in love with an image was worse than being in love with a ghost. (I feel like my eardrum is breaking). Almost everything, in fact, has an explanation. (The atmospheric pressure is increasing ...). The remaining chapters will have no surprises (... and I feel like my eardrum is breaking). Being on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most excruciating nightmare. (12.30 sharp, breathing is extraordinarily difficult.) I have given you a pleasant eternity! Only me for you and you only for me. (I am intoxicated with gasoline.) It will be an act of pity.

Starving for companionship, Quinn pursues an unorthodox approach to resolving her intense loneliness.

A story of the Donowits brothers in their mafia ridden life

Inspired by the writings of Donna J. Haraway, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Greg Egan, the work plunges us into a speculative future, where samples of then extinct plant species are preserved and displayed in a virtual archive room. Through editing and visual strategies, this archive room is sporadically transformed under the effect of interference caused by the memory emanating from the listed plants, revealing traces of a past that continues to haunt the place. Floralia is a simulation of ecosystems born from the fusion of technology and organic matter, where past and future coexist in a perpetual tension of the present.

Violence affects Black women on multiple levels. This photo and short film series explores the sadistic assault on our bodies and our ancestors, and the trauma passed on through the generations. The words accompanying these images are meant to invoke the stories present in our DNA and through our own lives. This was a significant process of working through transgenerational distress, and the toll it still takes upon us.

A short film that follows the life of Leni, a resilient queer woman living abroad in 1990. As Leni attempts to establish her new life in Toronto, she is stirred by a transformative relationship that challenges her innermost insecurities and emotions. Leni discovers that through moving her physical body she is able to unleash and uncover the emotional trauma she left behind in Ireland. Ultimately revealing that in order to let go of the past she must find acceptance and forgiveness within herself.

A portrait of The Dishrags—Western Canada’s first all-girl punk band.

A one-minute animation treat that celebrates the art of sound poetry as Christian Bök recites words from Hugo Ball, one of the leading pioneers of phonetic poetry.

Rick feels hunted, Lilo feels vulnerable. Yet blood ties are stronger than anything. An afternoon spent together, playing, eating and a night spent under the stars: everything seems perfect. Lilo wakes up the next morning, uncertain whether she is living a dream or if it's reality.

Two people attempt to reclaim their lives after years of struggling with mental illness, while a group of leading professionals in the field rethinks the current drug-based model of psychiatric care.

A rivalry between two actors who seek the same role.

Rolland P. Sioui is an elder in the filmmaker's family. Craftsman and hunter, he shares a flow of memories, from sleeping with bears to travelling for a rare red stone. The story of a man's life echoes a collective history of the Huron-Wendat people: childhood in the bush, loss of territory, cultural loss and revival...

A tenuous friendship between two cousins is pushed to its breaking point.

Out of boredom, two siblings decide to steal a fish from a zoo’s artificial lake. Wandering about, they gradually realize that their surroundings are a mysterious echo of another place.

In the post-apocalyptic world of Operation Gingham, two young people venture out into the world for a forbidden meeting, carving out space for spontaneity and connection even through Hazmat suits.

At the end of summer vacation, Rosie decides to undertake a metamorphosis to hide the after-effects of her illness. While her mother tries to take control of the situation, the young teenager buries herself in the ground to be reborn transformed.

Our Bodies Back presents a powerful rendering of Black women’s voices; speaking out against the realities of anti-Black racism, misogynoir and sexual violence, while uplifting and honouring in full the Black lives and memories lost, in a stunning ceremony of dance, spoken word and visual art.

A hilarious film about a crazy uncle who drives his nephew insane!

"Done on cels almost entirely. I rotoscoped werewolves and cops and babies and animals and maidens-in-distress and put on a dub reggae track by my son Mossman so it bubbles along in a kind of nonsensical way…very colourful and frantic but not seizure-inducing as some of my earlier work was." –R.R.

In a separate reality than Movster: Chapter 1, the Man's doppelgänger is tormented by the same beast, the same Movster, all that is known is that dressing for Christmas is bad luck come Halloween.

A young transgender Indigenous musician and his rock band bring mumble punk to the Interstellar Rodeo. A rock ‘n’ roll survival story of a different stripe.

A man brings home a child's lunchbox ominously filled with what appears to be human ashes.

Discovery of the Strahov stadium, the largest stadium in the world, where thousands of gymnasts gathered during the communist era. A wordless film that connects the past and the present of a grandiose location.

Through song and dance, traditional dancers tell stories with rhythmic movement and chants, body language perpetuating our culture and stories, I,v chosen to animate a recurring traditional song from my powwow, known as sneak up.

Glaciers are not simply isolated in the mountains, they are at the heart of British Columbia. They provide us drinking water, electricity, and they are vital to the ecosystems that have lived here for thousands of years. With climate change expected to destroy up to 80% of our glaciers by 2100, this issue cannot be ignored. This groundbreaking film deals with climate change on a personal level. Three just-graduated boys take the road to learn first-hand what we can do to save our glaciers. Working closely with glaciologists and community members across BC, Melt is truly a film powered by the people of this province. Re-discover the beauty of BC through an inspiring story about hope, community, and being a young person in this world.

"A partially pixelated, hand-processed document of trying to learn the ankle switch. Step, shuffle out, shuffle in (across), hop, tap, step with a band, step, shuffle out, shuffle in, hop, step (out), switch, repeat. Mo thogair!" (the8fest)

A woman who just recently found out she’s bisexual invites her girlfriend to spend Thanksgiving with her family and decides it’s finally time to come out.

Wandering around the cold, quiet landscape of Vancouver past midnight, the film is a recollection of personal thoughts on immigration, intergenerational trauma, gentrification, and what it means to seek refuge on stolen land. Locating itself amidst dissonances of language and translation, between what is (not) seen and what is (not) heard, the film is a self-reflexive act of resistance, a quiet morn for the perpetuating dreams of generations of Vietnamese immigrants who lived and left their lives in between the mist of nights. Made in response and dedicated to 39 Vietnamese immigrants who passed away in the container on their way coming into England in November 2019.

How wedge politics on key divisive issues is giving rise to a new kind of populist leaders: disruptors with a new playbook who are loved by some and challenged by others, dividing the electorate. Are they also expressing the will of the people?

Members of an elite community respond with varying degrees of acceptance and hostility toward their new neighbor, a promiscuous AI named Johnny.

Economist Armine Yalnizyan offers a radically honest and deliciously sweet review of our absurdly dysfunctional economic system and what we must do in order to survive and thrive in the 21st century.

A series of video game reviews hosted by a ginger that loves to yap!

Xam is a sci-fi exploration on the future of surveillance and body hacking.

Walking home alone, Ben encounters a handsome stranger, Josh, who reminds him they had a fling years ago in Montreal. As they reminisce, they dare to relive an exciting escapade, but something's not quite right.

A counter monument for five unmarked mass graves in the forests of eastern Poland. Phytograms gleaned and generated from flora on site - exposed and processed in situ. Research completed in partnership with the Zapomniane Foundation.

Seamus remembers his old friend from grade three stole his priceless Pokémon card that could get the two enough money to become YouTube famous. Only problem is... he lives in Berlin. Episode 3 is the action packed adventure you have been waiting for in Finger Lickin the SHOW.

Mathilde is an extraordinary woman. Armed with a long cigarette, perched on her high heels, she spares no effort to support the homeless in Brussels. This tireless social nurse with multiple projects will she be able to convince Valérie and Mohammed to find some privacy in her Love Room?

In a modern society, consumed by technology, a man sees the world only through the screen of his cellphone. Drastically, the situation changes when he finds himself literally absorbed by his device. Now he is inside his cell.

"Unarchive" juxtaposes the filmmaker's father's life with the political history of Chile – his birthplace – over the past century. It reflects on how we remember and how we forget, and the role of the camera in transcending the complex space in between.

"Activate NDN Consciousness" combines found footage of harmful Indigenous portrayals with contemporary NDN protest and revolt.

Kajanaqtuq (2020) is a short experimental film that features the voice of Inuk elder Naulaq LeDrew. She speaks about her home in Nunavut, Canada and how Inuit lifestyles have changed since her youth. Altered Super 8mm film footage of the region illustrates her account of historical events and Inuit mythology.

A woman seeks the help of an energy healer to rid herself of a cursed necklace that strangles her every time she doesn't text back her bad Tinder date.

Raphaël and Gaétan park their car in an abandoned parking lot. When Raphaël opens the rear trunk of the car, he realizes that Gaétan has not kidnapped the right person...