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Amidst a quest to reach an unlikely destination, a man charts his journey through a strange and wild continent with a bizarre map.

A fragile minor hockey player is pushed to his physical and psychological limits by the primitive older team he's been called up to play for.

This moving-image work was shot on Super-8 film and transferred to digital video and then projected in a continuous loop onto a curtain to give the illusion of a window.

Growing up, the filmmaker, Sara Wylie, did not know her father or his family well. She recently discovered the poetry of Joe Wallace, her long lost great paternal uncle, a Canadian Communist poet and activist who was imprisoned as a political radical in World War II. Despite criticism he received from the Canadian literary community, he went on to become the most famous Canadian poet in Russia and China during the Cold War. Her journey into the archive reveals Wallace’s fascinating life and some surprising commonalities with the filmmaker.

Filmed over 10 years in 30 cities, the film shows the interactive works on a large scale by the artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. The work of the Mexican creator has been exposed, among other places, in Trafalgar Square in London, the Park Avenue tunnel in New York and the border between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez.

"In memoriam. Man in pieces. You have the lovers, remade by funhouse mirrors; you have the symmetries, undone, bent and curved; and you have the model, the bag on her head filling with carbon dioxide. Who owns your life? Testimonial and demonstration, a most ominous trade show. An experiment in therapeutic cinema. A speculative sequel and conclusion to John Hofsess's Palace of Pleasure (1967)." — S.B.

A group of Syrian women, refugees recently resettled in Canada, are negotiating life in their new home. They have some questions.

A west coast rainforest seen through a drone-mounted camera. Moving rapidly as if it were a hummingbird, it hovers, zigzags horizontally, then vertically. Four white embossed stills of a forest landscape extend the possibility of inner spaces encouraging us to step back into ourselves, to contemplate, and to engage with memory and the recording process.

Referencing a popular fairy tale and a new source of protein, the first IMAX cinema in Indonesia—the Keong Emas Theatre—was built to resemble a golden apple snail. Moving between tiny and monumental, soft and solid, mythical and invasive, this graceful animal is making its slow-paced way through the topography of IMAX cinema itself.

Someone recounts a dream they had about another person to said person, and tries to figure out what it means.

Five young friends. Eight old friends. All trapped in one house, being hunted by a crazed group of people. People who provide rotting flesh as food, and infected secretions as drink, in order to weaken the masses.

An examination of the natural textures of the world and their changes over the course of one year.

A high school student gets into a lot of trouble when he pranks a classmate he has a crush on.

For over a month, the hearts and minds of Chileans have been ablaze. Too long have people suffered from extreme inequalities instituted by the Pinochet dictatorship 30 years ago. Now, under the Piñera’s government, people young and old have taken to the streets. Enough is enough. It’s been bad for too long.

A very lucky extraterrestrial is given the opportunity to observe a real life human being!

This is a film about my father’s time spent in the Native Residential School system and the courage it took to reclaim his heritage. He tells the story through a poem, Picking Up The Pieces, written by myself Sharon Isaac. The film chronicles the journey through a series of black and white pictures taped on 16 mm film. The viewer then is taken to present day and comes full circle and showing a brighter future with the reclaiming of our culture, pride in our hair through braids, dancers, grandmother’s love, and language revitalization.

Group of precarious houses on hill side. Black and white image.

A quest to recreate childhood memories of cotton blowing, a disappearing craft.

Performances of two contemporary dancers are juxtaposed and reassembled in a frame by frame investigation, probing the self-perception of attraction and repulsion.

The son of a humble Italian immigrant, E. Noël Spinelli has dedicated most of his life to making music accessible to his blue-collar community of Lachine, Québec.

Animation of 53 references of films in cubism graphics.

Space and time become meshed together to form the fragments we create our stories from. In those pieces of images, memories arise and stories retell themselves. Through mutual time, words, explorations and spaces Yaffa realizes a grandfather’s gift: a home.

« We thought it was Tanderrum, » they are reported to have said.

The infamous Billy Mays has arisen once again to sell and take names but he is not the only one who is back not so famous detective Jills Hallway is back as well and doesn't know why. Will Jills be able to put a stop to The Billy Mays Killer once and for all?

In a suite of interviews for his “second first feature” Godard submitted to the slings and arrows of North American media interrogators with polite hostility and a bristling intelligence. Here, the briefest chitchat is rendered in eight parts, which sees the maestro declaim on spectacle, memory, interpretation and being. While the impossibility of a talk show becomes a laughing matter, frozen moments occur in the aftermath in eight brief haikus.

"Interstices is an ongoing series of 'exquisite corpse' films with the potential to continue indefinitely. The films are all in-camera double exposures each made on a 15 metre reel of Super 8 film in collaboration with another artist or filmmaker; the second exposure is made with no prior knowledge of the first, resulting in vignettes that are aleatoric collisions of two discrete perspectives. Unstable and intransitive by nature, these resonant and dissonant image-sentences continuously ebb and flow in and around each other, vying for presence on screen and in the minds-eye." (the8fest)

It’s 1982 and a group of boy scouts go on a month long back packing trip deep into the Canadian wilderness and bears are the least of the their worries. Zombies are out in the woods today, and they don’t want to play.

Short by Mitch Doll and Kendall Latimer.

Sometimes I need to make room for something more

A collection of strangers’ dating site testimonies rekindles memories of love using computer-generated images.

A short film on the subject of Indigenous Love. What is (romantic) love? And what does it mean to you? Eight couples share their thoughts.

A documentary looking at the impact of humor and the stage on Jimmy and Gregory, two disabled friends.

A black and white, handprocessed 16mm film mixed with direct animation. The film plays with paradoxes of motion and anxieties in contemplating the commuter life.

For many years a long photograph featuring 60 women in western style costumes has hung in the hallway at the entrance of Sara Angelucci’s house. The picture was given to her husband by his Aunt Dagmar. They knew little about it, other than Dagmar had cut the costumes the women were wearing when she worked at Malabar, Toronto’s renowned costume house. Angelucci often wondered who the women were, how the photograph was taken, and what it meant to Dagmar (who died in 2011). "Cirkut/Canadettes" unpacks the many layers of this photograph, personal, local/social, and technological history. Through archival research Angelucci not only discovers who the women are, but opens up a window into the time the image was taken, Toronto in 1956. Interwoven with her own reflections, her voiceover narrative draws from articles and quotes of the time, giving voice to attitudes of the period, and the desire and mysteries that photographs hold.

This documentary explores the world of online video game streaming on Twitch. What is it about Twitch streaming that compels fans to tune in for hours every day, and pay monthly subscription fees and big donations to do so?

Featuring intimate, charming interviews with queer Canadians ranging in age 17 to 88, Take Me To Prom invites audiences to revisit this iconic adolescent milestone.

Temps de glace (Ice Time) is a poetic hand-drawn reflexion about a little girl daydreaming on the sidelines of a hockey rink.

A couple of astronauts make a stop on a moon during their journey to use the bathroom.

Through a mixture of animation and video assemblage, Part Three explores a dreamscape world, parallel to our own. A human enters this world through a portal. In this stage of their journey, they navigate grief, memory and healing. This new media work includes poetic story-telling told through the narrator that speaks about gender, describing their own relationship to land, medicine and the beings which inhabit these spaces.

The second film to feature a cast of assisted readymade clock sculptures (after Irregular Time Signatures). Starring “Sublimation Clock”, “Litmus Clock”, “Writer’s Block”, “Atomizer”, and “The Crypt.” Prior to shooting Dailies, the film and these clock sculptures were exhibited together in a 2011 exhibition in Malmö.

The Hammerstone is an atmospheric documentary about memory, artefacts, and the generations of stories that have travelled through a single farm in rural Canada.

Untitled II is a hand-processed black and white film shot over the course of a few hot summer days. It tries to combine the ideology behind small-format film (quick, hand-held) and a very fast pace to reflect on the speed of perception.

An intimate view of bodies interacting in a busy, urban setting, incorporating sound layered from the surrounding environment. Originally created as a site-specific work for the historic train turntable at the Roundhouse Community Centre in Vancouver, Canada, the work was then reimagined for this film.

This moving-image work was shot on Super-8 film and transferred to digital video and then projected in a continuous loop onto a curtain to give the illusion of a window.

Every four years, the residents of Campo Maior, in Portugal’s arid Alentejo region, reinvent their village: each street is lavishly decorated with paper flowers, painstakingly handmade in the months before being put on display. Rui Silveira films this tradition in his birthplace, taking us on a trip out of time. Capturing the smallest details, he conveys the patience and skill that go into a beautiful ephemeral art that brings the community’s spirit to life; meanwhile, questions related to rurality and exile keep cropping up in the conversations. The fragility of the paper flowers, threatened as much by the weather as by souvenir-hungry tourists, is a window on an ages-old world struggling to protect its integrity.

An historical, retrospective film about the 1969 legislation to ‘decriminalize’ homosexuality.

A nude model finds peace in a classical pose.