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Igor Kenk was known as the world's most prolific bicycle thief. His shop in Toronto notoriously sold stolen bikes back to their original owners. In 2008 he was arrested and jailed, after which he sold his shop and disappeared. Ten years later in Switzerland, Igor reflects on his past and his new life.
SKIDS is a documentary film that follows a unique school and a group of students on their journey to overcome the effects of trauma, judgement, and the labels cast upon them.
Tracking the exotic pet trade of otters across the globe, is a story of gangsters and guns, mammals and middlemen.
The story of a young woman’s daily life and her relationship to clothing throughout the seasons. A touching ode to the microscopic beauty that surrounds us, where the clothing we wear becomes the protagonist of our memories and mementos.
Should the United States eliminate the penny? "Heads-Up: Will We Stop Making Cents?" is a documentary that explores the different sides of the debate, touching on the role of the penny in today's economy, predictive economic models of a penny-less future, and the cultural importance of the coin. Radio DJ and Actor Laurie Gallardo narrates the penny odyssey as we travel from Texas to Canada, stopping to speak with former Mint Directors, lawmakers, economists, and more than a few unique penny characters, including a coin-hunter, a former President*, and one very memorable penny prankster. * "Abraham Lincoln" appears in the film.
A dark clothed man sitting on a chair silently waiting for the family who owns the house that he just invaded to come home.
Exterior. Day. Montreal / On the outskirts of the metropolitan highway, there is a Mediterranean fig tree / Named Ficus carica, this tree is the work of a 60-year-old Montrealer of Argentine origin / The miracle of a backyard where three regions of the world meet / The story of an observation.
After uncovering a strange stain on his bedsheets, a mild-mannered man struggles to return to his routine.
Jack adheres strictly to his routine, as dictated by his phone. When a friend at work tries to free him, his phone fights back.
"Digging Up the Last Spike" is a video from Kamala Todd's installation piece at the exhibition Hexsa'a̱m: To Be Here Always, shown at the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery in 2019. It documents Todd's journey to the Kingcome Inlet fish farms via boat, the only access to the remote area.
Constant is a movement composition of the perpetual, endless, and persuasive bond between a dancer and a drummer.
After returning to his hometown to report on an environmental protest, a journalist discovers that a series of recent murders may have links to a satanic cult.
Returning from a party, as the day dawns, two young men cross a rich neighborhood, discussing its architecture with its facades without imperfections and their own desires.
Inspired by a flashback about his birthmark, filmmaker Lester Alfonso is convinced that making a film will help confront a distant trauma rooted in cultural superstition. A follow-up to his award-winning film Twelve (2009), BIRTHMARK is a wry, sensitive, and candidly confessional exercise in creative anthropology. Soliciting fellow mark-bearers to add their testimonies to his own, Lester documents his journey to find peace and forgiveness, and to quiet the voice in his head. “It’s not only about the marks we are born with but the marks we imagine for ourselves.”
After having a farewell party in her house with her friends, Amanda would never expect to also face her worst enemy: herself, herself from another reality.
Inclinations began as a moment of “crip” play. The ramp becomes a source of creative movement. Dancers can move in ways that they cannot move on flat surfaces and the ramp itself becomes an artistic object, transformed albeit temporarily into an environment that reveals connection, trust, beauty, and desire. Choreographed, directed, and shot from disability perspectives, this dance-on-video delves into the playful connection enabled where disability, community, and ramp meet.
In this documentary by Asia Youngman, Indigenous artists throughout Canada strive to reclaim their cultures and identities through a reawakening of tattoo practices, both traditional and contemporary.
Vancouver's esports scene is on the cusp to unstoppable growth. The local fighting games community tells all on what it took to get this far.
In 1990 Barry J. Gillis began shooting wicked world on 16mm film. Eddie Platt, took his video camera along to many of the locations, capturing footage of the insane Movie Shoot.
A police forensic photographer known as the exhibit man discovers the murders in his town are linked to an alien creature.
An unedited film documenting a rooftop sculpture garden cultivated over a summer in Vancouver. The sculptures come alive but the vegetables are apathetic.
In the process of cooking, a man cuts himself. A lot.
A documentary about the difficulties of immigration, culture shock and the loss of social references that destabilize new arrivals. Arriving in a new country is the beginning of a difficult journey, full of trials and tribulations. An unprecedented incursion into the DPJ helps us to understand how these many pitfalls are experienced within families themselves.
A university professor is actually an intergalactic traveler and needs your help to re-shape the future. Will you lend a helping hand?
A young girl who is fascinated by unicorns comes into conflict with her parents and her catholic school when she demands that her confirmation sponsor be her aunt, who is a transgender woman.
Cool Black North explores the unique and vibrant Canadian Black Community and its role in our country’s contemporary identity. Through a series of intimate profiles, we are witness to a wide spectrum of life experiences, including the arts, entertainment, law, business, science and social activism. Though each person’s pathway to success is unique, they all share a common purpose and strength in overcoming often racially-based obstacles to succeed at the highest levels in their respective fields.
80-year-old community activist, Winston LaRose, affectionately known as Mr. Jane and Finch supports the residents of a troubled Toronto community with his quiet brand of activism. With gentrification high up on the political agenda, he decides to run for municipal office for the seat of Ward 7 and challenge the entrenched powers.
In a number of interlocking episodes, five women weigh in on growing up in capitalism. Poetries of survival are interwoven with an adaptation of Mary Oliver’s iconic poem Wild Geese.
Pictures of blooming cherry blossoms, radiant colour fields, and domestic miscellany are re-photographed off the screen of an obsolete televisual device. Images rise upward, the left greets the right, and a new season arrives, telling an impressionistic story of transition, unity, and companionship.
you’re a plant whisperer and for me, it’s enough studies the materiality of the analog image and the relationship between the musicality of the image and sound, in an attempt to create an introspective atmosphere. The video consists of two monochromatic shots generated using a VHS video mixer, each combining with a figurative image shot on Super 8 film. Treating colour as a conductor of emotions, all the images evoke inaccessibility, perfection and dream, in parallel with a meditative and transcendent soundtrack.
In a futuristic 1999, a highly trained Vietnam veteran, now evangelical minister, goes on a mission of holy vengeance after his wife and child are brutally murdered.
We dream of going to the beach; Nelson dreams of escaping it. We want to go on vacation; Nelson wants only to work. While we sleep, he is awake. By day, he walks among us. Yet, Nelson goes unnoticed…
Peter Mansbridge travels the country to talk to Canadians about what's on their minds on the eve of an election.
The film follows Sam, a falconer and naturalist living on the North Mountain of the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia. Through performance and documentary, Tetrault conducted interviews with Sam on the relationship a falconer has with a bird of prey, and the possibility for over-identification and projection onto the bird.
Sing along to “Here Comes The Fire Truck”, an original Super Simple Song for kids who love fire trucks!
"Unless You're Living It" is an edgy, unsettling portrait of place and power in rural white Ontario that challenges the correlation between seeing and knowing, and the ravages of late-stage capitalism. Hand processing, contact printing, tinting and toning engages the film as a body that, like the residents of Mt. Forest, sustains injuries, wounds and burdens, but also has the capacity for delight, revelatory pleasure, and transformation.
A young boy carries around with him a pair of red high-heeled woman's shoes. Much to the dismay of his father.
Teenaged Nicole experiences mixed emotions as she spins the bottle for the first time.
Five of YouTube's top ASMRtists discover the ultimate way to eat REESE Peanut Butter Cups in this weird and wonderful feature film. A sensory experience presented in ASMR audio to give you the chills.
Follows stories of people who are creating new relationships with landscapes that have been disrupted by human activity in vastly different parts of the world
"Stay" tells the story of Sohail Fascio (Yousef Al-Waeli) as he remembers all the good times he had with his girlfriend Natalia Post (Sarah Khaleel)
OF BLOOD AND PISS is a contemplative meditation on death in a scrap yard, where humans are cold as iron and cars breathe out the wind of death.
A visual and sound study of different landscapes within the islands of the Azores, an archipelago located in the Atlantic Ocean. Structured through a series of static compositions, these places exude traces of familiar but illusory cultural memory and a family history marked by the diaspora. Through contemplative observation, the elements of the landscapes oscillate gradually, the notions of homeland and origin are combined in an impressionist memory, going back over time until the moment of its volcanic birth.
Lián and her family are stowaways on a ship, hiding in one of the containers. One day, Lián heads out secretly and discovers that the vessel has docked ahead of schedule. She now has to overcome language barriers and deceit to save her family.
Is finding the perfect matt red lipstick something women should aspire to? Red Film reveals and critiques the persuasive capitalist machinations directed at women to conform and consume. A flurry of quotations from the world’s foremost thinkers address the color-coding of mass-produced consumer goods such as cosmetics, shoes and the red muscle car. All the while, Cwynar hangs upside down turning blue in the face from telling the story over and over again.
A year ago, Julie’s parents died in a car crash. She moves and meets new people, argues, plays sports, goes to an amusement park… As she wanders through the sunny summer of 1996, she grows, changes and blossoms.
After a job goes wrong, a woman flees to her hometown in southern Colombia. Along the way she encounters a mysterious figure, which might be the embodied spirit of an ancient plant. A non-linear video installation uses experimental animation to tell a story about psychotropic plants, crime and Colombian society.
Short documentary featuring the small Montreal based surf-punk band No Waves.
It's 1982 and four boys make it their task to debunk the local ghost story.
A retired superhero gives an interview.
Surrealist experimental & silent short film made by film students.
Sven is just a simple, small town kid who is always left behind... even when his entire family is abducted by aliens. But, as his family explains, you have to be "special" to take a ride on in UFO.
Through the eyes of Eytan, a man who only exists in the dreams and unconscious minds of others, we question what is “real”, what isn't, and how we each perceive time differently.