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In the surreal dystopian present, two queer feminist crews cohabit the shells of an abandoned malt factory. As a troubling pattern begins to emerge from their mouths in the form of shattered glass, all are shaken, but some are hit harder than others. Through dance, visual work, and anti-work, they merge forces to try to care for one another and combat the insidious violent process which seems to increasingly come from within.
An index of the thoughts of a single day, at home in Scotland, in the cold and dark of February.
Upon traveling to Budapest to meet her extended family for the first time, filmmaker Sophy Romvari attempts to document her late grandmother’s apartment through images of the past and present.
A mini flamenco short.
Video Painting
A crisis in the Catholic Church is revealed; attempts to suppress its existence are tied to prophecy.
Jacques Madvo’s street photography of Paris in 1961 is a launching point for a reflection on water forms and their distortion of optics.
A slow, meditative, artistic film about a healing journey confronting, embracing and releasing illness with love.
Everyone needs to reach Carrot, but he doesn't seem to carrot all.
A serenade to life and virtue with the luscious tune of the alto saxophone. They said he couldn't do it, they said he wouldn't... He did. They didn't know what to say.
A Thousand Cuts is an in-progress found-footage video compilation of cisgender actors playing transgender roles in film and television.
Inspired by early forms of visual music, Steve and Dan Shoot Each Other engages in the un-rational, unsystematic, and randomness as a form of poetry. The material used in this motion picture stem from a blend of direct animation and computer generated techniques. The final result is a non-representational film that celebrates dissonant colour arrangements of movement and sound.
Take a journey into VHS madness. Watch as the Violent Homicidal Serial Killer Tape commits an orgy of killing. No one is safe from his atrocities as he brutally murders over 50 people in 23 chaotic skits of depravity.
A group of friends travel to the supposedly haunted “Forest of Shadows”, where legends say a young girl went missing after meeting a man dressed all in black.
A work about collaboration and process, "The Shouting Flower" approaches political resistance from multiple subject positions--plant, child, filmmaker--in an attempt to model what Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing calls "work across difference." Using images processed in plant material that was gathered at key locations throughout the city, as well as direct animation and audio recorded on a child's toy, the film documents its own creation within a landscape of hostility and neglect.
Winter in the Klondike will change you - but now the winters are changing.
A crime-themed short film.
An installation comprised of a selection of the artist's late grandfather's things.
By using simple pictographs, François Mercier (a regular at DJ XL5?s Zappin? parties) evokes, with both humour and intelligence, a series of cinema classics entrenched in popular culture.
A delirious, although terrifying, evocation of an America where everyone wears a gun.
150 years from now, two warrior siblings document their community who survived climate change and become the focus of an event that will change them forever.
Deep in the Great Bear Rainforest, against the backdrop of British Columbia’s breathtaking wilderness, a former hunter comes to terms with his past and looks with hope towards the future. Exploring one man’s evolving relationship with the natural world, Way of the Hunter tells the compelling story of Robert Moberg, a hunter who ultimately traded his gun for a camera.
A dark and outlandish no-budget comedy, about a gawky teenager's inheritance of $100 million from a near-complete stranger.
In the early 1970’s, 23 year old Amanda Feilding, Countess of Wemyss and March, drilled a hole in her head — that is she trepanned herself. Now 74, Amanda is a leader of the renaissance in scientific psychedelic research.
When a student's bag is swiped out from under his nose, he has no other choice than to chase down the thief.
In this festive one-hour holiday special, Spencer Watts serves up some of his favourite holiday meals, treats, and drinks.
This Docu Poem narrates a game played by time, time itself being a card played, that makes human existence both a tragedy and a comedy.
Sammy Gadbois uses candid moments to question his purpose on earth.
A high school boy tries to face his own sexual orientation, against the values of his traditional Chinese immigrant family.
To everyone's surprise, Suzie Lapointe, the queen of the school, turns down her boyfriend's invitation to a ball in the middle of a physical education class. Maxime, Léo and Clovis see the opportunity and therefore decide to run to try their luck with it. Who will she choose?
A retired couple follows their childhood dream of producing maple syrup on Cape Breton Island.
Maybe there was an opening, and they wandered through…
It’s a quack attack! You better stand back.
When hiding for your life becomes a frightening game, an elementary school teacher and children cope with the fear and guilt created by lockdown.
Based on dreams (waking and non-waking) by pals and acquaintances of noted American writer Lucy Corin, the night after the epochal US election of 2016. A bevy of speakers weigh in on the new world.
From one of anthropocene's most charismatic megafauna - Ailuropoda melanoleuca : " - and if I hear anyone else say 'isn't he cute'..."
With breathtaking cinematography, The Radicals is a documentary film that follows four snowboarders and surfers driven to become social and environmental stewards through their connection with the environments in which they play. By enjoying and appreciating their natural surroundings, these awakened athletes introduce us to some of the worlds most dedicated activists and game-changing wilderness initiatives that can actually change the world.
How would you see the world if life was a game with no rules and no risk? Step inside the explosive imagination of cartoonist and animator Paloma Dawkins in this absurdist romp through the highest clouds, to the depths of the ocean and through patterns of pure harmony in between.
A poet suffers feuding psychiatrists and shifting reality while committeed to a mental institution.
Tinne Zenner's 'Translations' (in Greenlandic: 'Nutsigassat') reflects on the power of language as a colonizer of foreign landscapes. A critical and graceful 16mm film in which the vistas of Greenland create a space for free thinking.
A L G I A is a visual and kinetic representation of memory. Artist Francesca Chudnoff has sewn personal history into the suit she wears in this video with multiple layers of material that add weight and anomalous forms meant to conceal her body while also amplifying her size. The piece poses several questions: What does it mean to be seen? What do we choose to withhold? And what realities do we fabricate in order to hide?
Soy un ser cuyas raíces // I am a being whose roots reworks Jacques Madvo’s Countries & People: Venezuela to explore labour and migration. Taking the final words of the film’s voice-over as a starting point, Soy un ser cuyas raíces // I am a being whose roots pairs Madvo’s film footage with a text-based conversation with young Venezuelan literature scholar and language teacher Angel Said Dominguez Pinto. Dominguez Pinto relocated to Panama in 2014 to make a living teaching English, Spanish and German in Panama City after Venezuela’s economic collapse. Over e-mail, we co-authored a conversational text, exploring migration, labour, exile, and hemispheric relationships.
Paraiso, an all-seeing drone spirit, is summoned every Sunday into the heart of Hong Kong where Filipina migrant workers gather to socialise. As the women claim the public space, Stephanie Comilang’s sci-fi documentary considers social connections in today’s age of economic migration and modern technology.
1 in 3 children is impacted by this environmental illness- 22,000,000 U.S. children today, but chances are they've never even tested your child. It conservatively costs the U.S. $100 billion annually, however a carefully crafted political campaign has made you think it's not your problem. Think again.
A young woman with an intellectual disability, Hélène relies on her close friendship with a co-worker at a pastry factory. When her friend leaves to take another job, the impact is all too clear in this sometimes heartbreaking but deeply humane story about our need for connection regardless of ability.
In music, the return to the original movement. Reflections on the rhythm of childhood and parenthood from birth.
Four epic gamers fight to the death while playing the hit card game "Uno", who will die first, who will get fucked over, and who will go home with 40'000...
She's the original cat lady and a master of fast-talking comedy. Canadian superstar Debra DiGiovanni explains her love of otters, male models, and TV shows about murder in this one-hour special from Just For Laughs.
In this fusion of fiction and documentary film, a Special Investigator catches a break when Peter A. Herrndorf volunteers to come in for questioning on an ongoing case.
This intimate documentary invites us to set aside our prejudices and discover Noah, an eloquent and courageous transgender teen.
Water flow. White noise. The first true copy. An optical souvenir. A holiday. A honeymoon. Nostalgia falls.
Eight female storytellers, authors and poets performing at the Atalukan Storytelling and Legends Festival in Mashtueiatsh (Pointe-Bleue), Quebec.
Time's arrow reaches terminal velocity in Lennoxville, QC.
Both sonically and visually, The Moons of Palaver celebrates the rhythms, patterns, resonance, and lyrical elusiveness that can be found or sought out on any particular evening. The original material is a result of an intervalometer test of soft focus automotive headlights shot in the early 2000’s. In 2017, the footage was rediscovered and reworked into a composite of various arrangements engaging in the filmmakers preoccupation with abstraction. The audio arrangement is a collage of various found material which was originally recorded in the late 1960’s. As a whole, the work creates a spectrum of proximities.
What if your best friend was just a figment of your imagination? Alex and Mel have been friends for years, and do practically everything together. When Mel begins coming to Alex's classes, though, something seems off. Rumors fly, and Alex begins to question if her best friend is even real.
If it had happened in America, MIDIAN FARM would be a Hollywood script. Instead, its legacy is memorialized through a compelling point-of-view historical Canadian documentary. From 1971 - 1977, MIDIAN FARM was a back-to-the-land social experiment created by a community of urban baby boomers from Toronto. Part of the youth counterculture movement during a period of social and political re-imagining, its utopian vision eventually collapsed. More than four decades later, filmmaker Liz Marshall unearths a transformative piece of family and Canadian history.