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Fragment d'Absence #1 A sick child talks about her illness while watching strange images of a life she feels she has never lived.

When an awkward teen boy and his girl crush switch bodies after taking mushrooms, he discovers that attraction is more complicated than he thought. Magic Mushrooms is an unexpected, wry reflection on gender identity and coming-of-age sexuality.

A week in the life of a 4 year old boy

A sweater, lovingly and arduously knit by a mother, incrementally unravels as her daughter treks her way across Canada by foot.

Is crisis pushing us toward a leap in consciousness? Can we live from an inner truth? Can we participate in the evolution of our own consciousness? Inspired by the work of Sri Aurobindo, Conscious: Fulfilling Our Higher Evolutionary Potential asks about our potential to achieve a transformation in consciousness, which might be both inevitable and essential at this juncture in our development if we are going to continue the human journey within the cosmic advance.

In the evening, the murmur of appliances and the buzz of a fly are the sounds filling the room.

My moving image work experiments with text, image and sound to create an experiential space—a kind of ontology—within which subjectivities and bodies as totalities don’t exist and connections and hierarchies are continuously undone and remade. Subjective experience exists as a dialogical and rhetorical relationship, as something scattered in time and space, emerging and disappearing, resisting language and definition. These works describe the complex, fluctuating, and interdependent relationships between living and non-living entities—relationships that defy linearity and boundaries. My practice is grounded in refusal and resistance to closed definitions and categories such as self/other, human/animal, interior/exterior, living/non-living and in a commitment to an inherent failure to gain knowledge of ourselves and others as the place from which ethics emerge and evolve.

Keewaydah explores the reclamation of Indigenous storytelling, identity, culture and history through stop motion animation. Produced with the assistance of the NFB's FAP program.

Static winter forms melt in sunlight.

A trans activist's journey challenging social media censorship policies.

A space between spaces. Super 8 / Sound / 3:45

Short film told from the perspective of the devil.

A reflection on colour in fifteen camera tests.

Dr. Konrad Steffan, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, has witnessed firsthand the steady march of climate change — he’s been monitoring the melting of Greenland’s Ice Sheet for over 25 years. His story, told in this short film, serves as a powerful message for change.

Ôtênaw is a film documenting the oral storytelling of Dwayne Donald, an educator from Treaty 6, Edmonton Canada. Drawing from nêhiyawak philosophies, he speaks about the multilayered histories of Indigenous peoples' presence both within and around amiskwacîwâskahikan, or what has come to be known as the city of Edmonton.

A camel films his spring break trip to Latuna Beach.

Short film by Marie-Claire Blais.

The lack of material evidence left behind by Expo 67 is staggering. So remarkable, in fact, that we felt impelled to explore the site of the world’s fair in detail, searching for clues that throw light on its past – a kind of material archaeology à la Walter Benjamin, who sought in materiality the remnants and rejects, the traces of an ancient history that might reverberate down to the present.

A teen girl finds true love with the boy who delivers her pizza, and her best friend has something to say about it.

A training exercise in nihilism. The basic actions of picking up and putting down are stripped of meaning. They are detached from the material world. They resemble nothing other than themselves. They have no identity, no goal; they communicate nothing. They have nothing to say. Because they have no value, their value is infinite. Because they cannot speak, they say everything.

Seven master guitar-makers create instruments inspired by Canada's art legends.

Unseen Memories unravels a compilation of thoughts through the eyes of a young girl. The wonderful world portrayed by her father contradicts the harsh reality.

Video Painting Series

This video essay is a response to the artist’s experience working as a stripper. What began as a beautiful and exciting adventure quickly turned dark as the artist was criticized and ultimately red for not having an augmented body. Object explores what happens to our relationship to our own bodies when performing professionally for the male gaze.

Documentation of a work at Performance Berlin investigating social contract theory. Part of a series of performances/empirical investigations into contracts formed between the artist and his audiences in Singapore, Quebec and Chicago.

Genevieve has a small hole in the leg. A trace of her past. She shares all the story in this short animated documentary.

Liminals draws parallels between the experimental spiritual gatherings of the ’70s and the effect-laden release of contemporary hedonistic subcultures. It follows a group of 8 dancers as they enact ecstatic rituals in an attempt to access a new realm of consciousness with the potential to save humanity.

2005, at the corner of St. George and Robinson Streets; the gray observatory at the corner of temptation, my new apartment, where I am about to live an intense and poetic urban experience in the district of the red light fish & chip. Between the horizontal blades of my venetian blinds, the freaky-deaky city comes alive for me, image by image.

Filmmakers let loose on celluloid, with just two seconds each.

Five composers have their careers cut short by the rise of the Third Reich.

13 elves over 3 days in a shop!

In poetic images, Plant Dreaming Deep exposes the exhausting transitional phases of loneliness, insecurity and isolation. By means of analogue video synthesis, fine-pored textures and washed out veils of colour were created, which find a suitable complement in the pulsating soundscape of Emilie Payeur. Like misunderstood or unprocessed experiences, the traces of old video recordings flash through this retro-futuristic collage and the main protagonist, the flora structured by human hands, appears simultaneously connected with freedom and suffocation.

Worry lines, laugh lines, queer lines, years gone by.

Krista and Tatiana are the only known conjoined twins who share their senses of touch, taste and motor control. The twin's landmark 10th birthday and the year leading up to it show the strength of their emotional bond to each other and their family.

A documentary film about a DIY show in Toronto, and a film intended to capture the feeling of freedom and fun associated with that.

Children are like sponges. They are influenced by what surrounds them. Across Québec, children express themselves with candor and lucidity on universal themes such as friendship, love, death or their future. This documentary paints a social and philosophical portrait of young people today.

In a Red Cross hospital in Vietnam, the young white nurse tends his wounds. Drawn from the archives of the Red Cross in Geneva.

We reach impasses and lock ourselves in. And fear has a way of manufacturing people who recoil when brought together.

A drop of water meets a drop of oil unleashing the kind of morphing choreography that only animation can bring to life.

Microscopic landscapes of Vancouver, Canada.

Kingsway’s design dates to the golden age of the automobile when the route was once the only highway into Vancouver, but now its monumental scale contrasts with the human scale of family neighbourhoods and storefronts. The film portrays the interaction between the past and the present, layering images and sounds, creating a collaged experience of Kingsway. Architectural signs and symbols overpower the foreground evoking the automotive scale, but present-day buildings and spaces re ect a changing vernacular as portrayed by the street’s soundscape and the road’s new sense of place.

Using the texture and colours of the urban landscape, Supnet offers a hyperkinetic wandering through Toronto. Everyday imagery of the city speeds by, and the familiar is transformed into a new discovery through the camera lens. Made for Pleasure Dome’s Art Spin 2015.

Attend Both Movies: ALL ABOUT ASADO - THE DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN

A rotoscope and found footage film exploring queer upbringing and unintentional homoeroticism.

My moving image work experiments with text, image and sound to create an experiential space—a kind of ontology—within which subjectivities and bodies as totalities don’t exist and connections and hierarchies are continuously undone and remade. Subjective experience exists as a dialogical and rhetorical relationship, as something scattered in time and space, emerging and disappearing, resisting language and definition. These works describe the complex, fluctuating, and interdependent relationships between living and non-living entities—relationships that defy linearity and boundaries. My practice is grounded in refusal and resistance to closed definitions and categories such as self/other, human/animal, interior/exterior, living/non-living and in a commitment to an inherent failure to gain knowledge of ourselves and others as the place from which ethics emerge and evolve.

The film explores an intersection of species; insect flight patterns and modes of industrial travel merge as collective rituals in a fever dream.

Embracing the stunning music of Xavier Díaz-Latorre, Detheux delivers in a densely packed vertical forest of pure textural imagery.