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A man comes home to find a mysterious box on his living room floor.

A surrealist comedy about sisters living in isolation on their farmland, who harvest and smoke glitter that gives them super strength.

Glimpses of distant places, bodies and moments inspire nostalgia; nostalgia, in its turn, shapes those images. Shot between 2013 and 2015, in France and Spain, edited in the cold Canadian winter of 2017-2018. Super 8 b&w / color - Super 8 n&b / color

A man living in a state of unknown , being tormented by dreams and not knowing what is real or a delusion.

So you crossed / And from out of nothing came / If you did / Why not / A line drawn on forever / Endless arm extended / [My Grandfather / My Lover / My Brother] / Voice your song across a void / If you could / Where is it that you landed / If you would /

Machine for Living is a project elaborated in the context of a 9 month residency at Château Ephémère (Carrière-sous-Poissy, France). The video series investigates the architecture of the new towns (Villes nouvelles) and brutalist habitation buildings in the surroundings of Paris. Cities such as Noisy-le-Grand, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, Créteil, Grigny, Cergy-Pontoise, Nanterre and Ivry-sur-Seine were at the center of this research. Created using photographs, 3D animation and video synthesizer, Machine for living combines documentation and abstraction and straddles the line between utopia and dystopia.

In the harsh winters of Northern Alberta, a young man struggles to protect his childhood dream of living on the trapline against his changing world.

3D animation by Sabrina Ratté

In this joyful portrait, filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming animates the formative days and musical career of Calgary-born identical twins Tegan and Sara Quin. Their remarkable journey over the past 20 years has often intersected with notions of identity—as artists, as individuals, as sisters, as queer women, and as leading activists in the LGBTQ community. Their musical progression parallels and amplifies their commitment to bringing the marginal to the mainstream.

“On the most basic of levels, Drive with Persephone recasts the ancient myth of Persephone's abduction in the language of YouTube 'drive with me' vlogs. On closer inspection, the work is so much more, perhaps above all in its compassionate register of the perils and exultations of adolescence, and the wisdom and cruelty of old age. A timely, potent rumination on the enduring, immutable cycle of life and death, MilleFeuille's video confronts—with a mixture of stoicism and defiant hope—the unmooring of social life in our apparently hyper-connected world.” description written by Greg Cohen, Festival of (In)Appropriation

Before the Plate follows each ingredient from a single plate of food backwards to the farms they came from, revealing modern farming practices and the challenges the industry faces as it does so.

Two drag queens move through the city on a night of debauchery, insight, and revenge.

3D animation by Sabrina Ratté

A suite in four movements performed with two 16mm projectors. Created with a series of film loops rendered individually with sprayed paint, scraped and abraded softened black emulsion, pin and hole punctures, india ink craquelure and meticulous frame by frame application. By manipulating the image, introducing carefully orchestrated lens interference with colour gels, frame-edge masking, vignetting and glass objects, Phosphene Induces a variation on closed-eye vision and non-light hallucination: a subtly immersive and sublime sculpting of light.

Hand processed tinted and toned 16mm film uses the subject of the work, tulips, to guide reflection and interpretation of both artist and viewer. Sound by Apollo.

Made at the international film school in Cuba (EICTV) at the start of the rainy season. A tender re-examination of bodies from the first generation of Artificial Intelligence robots programmed with a full range of emotions. Electronic revolt and resistance. Secret messages encoded within robot diary fragments offer possible futures for post-human societies.

Hand-painted film on 16mm by Karl Lemieux. Music by Visions.

One day, an alien crashes in the yard of Amanda, a teenage loner who loves sci-fi and aliens. The two make friends, but the alien leaves in anger when he sees how aliens are portrayed in movies. He eventually returns when earth faces a great threat.

Tribute artists make a living from the one-time fame of artists like Elvis, Jackie Wilson and Jerry Lee Lewis. Documentary.

Experience Madagascar like never before with this beautiful and enthralling documentary that takes you through the cultures and traditions of the Malagasies.

A neglected pet dog finds companionship in the form of a murderous demon.

The 20th century was the roughest in history for the Carpatho-Rusyns of Central Europe. After World War II, when they were declared Ukrainians by the new Communist regimes in every country where they live, Carpatho-Rusyns in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere became extinct overnight -- and this was their existence for more than 50 years. But with the 1989 Velvet Revolution, led by the playwright and former dissident Václav Havel, Carpatho-Rusyn ethnicity revived in every country - including the United States. This is the story of that revival.

Music Video for the artist Bleu (multi-platinum Spider-Man soundtrack, writer/producer for Jonas Brothers, Meatloaf, Demi Lovato, and more. This one is a slasher movie...only completely backward!

Focusing on developing relationships with the computer as a nonhuman entity, Listener is an iterative, site-specific performance artwork which speculates a future through Lakota ontology, narratively and physically manifesting a relationship with metals in electronics, performed via an electronic interface woven into hair (hair is sacred to the Lakota). The sonic landscape includes live police scanners, synthesizers played by the hair, and algorithmically re-arranging poetry with a voice speaking of a future landscape, prophecies, dreams, and the possibilities in listening.

Affinity is exactly this: a reciprocal knowledge between comrades, shared analysis that lead to prospectives of action. Affinity is therefore directed on one hand towards theoretical deepening and on the other towards intervention in social conflictuality.

"Missing Teeth" visualizes the introspective self-loathing one experiences while standing in the shower.

A birthday boy's obsessive adherence to a zombie apocalypse survival code lands him in trouble that forces him to face a darker reality.

Reclamation is a documentary futurism short about three Indigenous survivors left behind on Earth after white people leave a destroyed planet behind for Mars. While seemingly dystopic, this film is filled with hope and humor and looks at potential solutions for current crises.

RGBebop / Anthropology is an animated visual music improvisation in color and sound, made by hand with laser-cut stencils, pen, brush, ink, and paper.

A design expression of the alphabet. An experimental animation by Barth Coelho. This edition was done in 2018

Accented by collaged radio audio fog of alien invasion paranoia, oneiric images from Serbia fuse with the Canadian Shield of northern Quebec. Dreamland is a conjuring of spectres through hypnotic frequencies; a journey through alien landscapes and brutalist dreams.

Birthday is the debut short film from Aidan Wagland, Jake Zidel, Joseph Boivin, and Chance Delorme. Created on a limited budget, Birthday is the story of a man preparing to celebrate his daughter's birthday but during his preparation, the unexpected happens.

On the day of her engagement, Caterina must come to terms with how she really wants to live her life.

Simon's weekend alone quickly turns into a nightmarish spiral into madness and horror with the arrival of a mysterious teddy bear, whose dark origins are more sinister than they seem.

While filming and sound recording in Scotland (Ailsa Craig, Bass Rock, Isle of May, Outer Hebrides, Troup Head) during a residency at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, and in Eastern Quebec (Parc national de l’Île-Bonaventure-et-du-Rocher-Percé, Parc national Forillon), I became interested in the North Sea and North Atlantic Seabirds. The video Leading Edge / Trailing Edge loosely evokes, through seascapes, portraits of birds and recent scientific data, the actual situation of boreal seabird species, in the era of climate change.

An array of beguiling images—from insect wings to coin slots, carnival lights, and beyond—comprise the latest experimental short from Indie Grits alum Anna Kipervaser, a silent response to her 2017 short And By the Night.

Snow, steam, streetlights, J.S. Bach.

A woman seeks to make the outdoors more accessible for fat people – just as they are and without shame. Armed with her slogan “Trails Not Scales”, she soon finds herself hosting events all over North America.

'The Coasters" is a character driven feature documentary that explores the lives of the people living on the Lower-North-Shore of Quebec namely: the Coasters. Anglophone, francophone and first nations innu communities share the isolation of this barren land where there are no roads to the outside world. Every season brings a different challenge for these hardened canadians who live of the land and the sea. They all wait for winter, for when the frozen water and the snow offers the proper conditions for snowmobile travel. Then, the world is theirs. For almost a century, hockey tournaments, carnivals and dancing nights take place every weekend all up "The Coast" in a different village. People that left the region for lack of work comes back for this moment frozen in time, knowing that everytime they come back home, might be the last.

A tribute to German choreographer and dancer Pina Bausch and a nod to Chantal Akerman’s film, One Day Pina Asked, the short Still Pina evokes in its own way a well-known scene from a Pina Bausch choreography, incorporating sign language, and reveals the extent to which the body is a carrier of images and sounds. A film produced as part of a commission for works by IFCO.

A closeted gay college student conspires with his boyfriend to fool his conservative religious parents to send him to Palm Springs instead of a ‘pray the gay away’ retreat.

MURDER BY SHARK - solving the bloodiest murder mystery, ever.

Ocean III is part of a series of films loosely connected by a similar process of cinematography that sees the operation of the camera as a kind of intuitive performance; specifically the way lenses, filters, and camera are manoeuvred in a single long take to create an impression of a space, while also frequently abstracting it.

Traje de Luces | Suit of Lights is an expressive documentary composed with footage of a Spanish bullfight, that iconic imagery of highly decorated masculinity and violence masked as nationalism. The footage was drawn from Jacques Madvo Collection material filmed in Spain between 1976-1978.

In search of a way out..To the other side of daily routines of modern life..Is there any message left for us to listen to? Are we gonna succeed or remain out of touch?..

Exploring the conflicts that inhabit individuals who experience immigration, Nana is a film about origins.

Fed up with her 'lame duck' status, The Upstart decides to face The Patriarch in a 1940's feminist throw-down.

beach is a recreation of a live performance originally presented at Mercer Union in Toronto in June 2018. An expanded prologue for the film Chooka, the performance used a live feed from an iPhone to project images taken while making the film, as well as material from Jacques Madvo’s archive, the original spark for the creation of the work. Paired with writing that was swapped back and forth between the artists, the work meditates on the politics of an archive, the shifting agency of different bodies in a landscape, and the challenge of asking what a complete image could be.

When Philippe Séranne lands in Riga, Latvia in 1991, on the heels of its declaration of independence from the USSR, he finds a city on edge. This short film depicts what he saw in those unnerving days, and remembered ever since.

When the pizza isn't delivered on time, this rookie has to take matters into his own hands. Winner for best editing at Zoomfest 2018 | Official selection for LIFF 2019

A young researcher tries desperately to find meaning in the work of author Marianne Fritz and discovers the boundaries of language and fiction.

Ice, stones, brooms and good friends – a gently hewn look into the sport of social curling.