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A product of the pandemic, Grenier's new film brings the outdoors in, with curious results.

A young child’s retelling of growing up in foster care, through the colourful animation of paper cut-out memories.

The quarantine brings difficulties in sexual satisfaction in and some confusing feelings around vegetables.

Lilith the Vampire is going on a date with a girl she likes and wants to impress but runs into a monster hunter that is ruining her night. Lilith risks being revealed as a monster and ruining the night she planned out, can she save the date?

Adding or removing an animal or an entire species was never easier. Virtual reality permeates the real problems of the present thanks to a cyborg whose nostalgia seemingly reflects a belated environmental grief.

Maggie's life is in shambles; upon hitting rock bottom, a manipulative and cunning former lover re-enters her life with the promise of salvation.

Ray used to be a sailor, but now he lives on the streets of Toronto. He dreams of getting back on the water and - in the ultimate achievement of the oblivion he craves - sailing away from it all.

Using anonymous home movie footage of Expo '67 in Montreal, the artist sets out to recreate a memory that perhaps never existed. Celluloid manipulation and sound decay techniques coalesce to transform a mythic landscape into a sublime expanse of disintegrated memory

A film presenting the evolution of a child who likes to eat and the way family and friends speak to her over the years. Mancacioasa is a very personal found footage student film that explores the psychological effects of "Fat Shaming".

A man finds himself stuck in a boring and very monotonous routine during confinement.

Pro Skier Danger Dave and pal Sven Wolfeshlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff travel to the hill for the fun day of hitting the slopes, and some big jumps!

MEAN HAKEEM tells the story of Calgary-born Hakeem Dawodu, following his journey to overcome abuse, poverty, and drug addiction to become a UFC fighter.

Fun with filters results in more than just a good time.

Join us down deep within the basement of ToonMan as a not so colorful cast of characters join together only once in a half moon to play poker for one night. Who will win, and who will lash in anger?

The exhibit provides an opportunity for community members to know these young Indigenous women who were tragically taken through personal artifacts from their lives, stories and memories shared by loved ones, photos, short video and audio pieces and three documentary films. Audiences are transported into the grief, laughter and love of these families; challenging Canadians to realize the injustice of this national tragedy.

Ryan is sitting at home, when things start to get a little weird..

After being chased by the giant rabbit for some time, Alma finds out a magic trick to domesticate him. A bond of friendship is established between them. Then they embark on a magical adventure in the flying teapot among the clouds, and they discover the hidden city, inhabited by a moody yarn. As soon as the situation gets out of hands, they don't have any other way but to be awakened!

This hybrid piece is a collage created assembling both analog and digital material. Several layers of 8mm films merge to create a camera-less self-portrait of the filmmaker. The first layer is an 8mm orphan film (found footage) from the 1970s of a woman dancing. The second layer is an 8mm found footage film that has been buried in earth for some months. While being covered in earth, the film emulsion has been eaten by the bacterias in the ground, plus some bacterias from yeast and sugar. This technique was originally used by the Schmelzdahin group in Germany. After several weeks in soil, the film gets extracted, rinsed, and scanned via a 4K digital scanner. The third layer is an 8mm home movie that has been first decayed in soil, using the aforementioned technique, then hand-painted with ink.

⁣The mostly true story of Charles Darwin’s historic voyage to the Galapagos Islands, and the culinary delights that followed aboard the HMS Beagle.

Following her coronation in 1838, Britain's Queen Victoria was being relentlessly pursued by a strange teenager, Edward "the Boy" Jones, who had an uncanny ability to sneak into Buckingham Palace without being detected. "If he had come into my bedroom, how frightened I would have been," the Queen wrote in her journal. As a result of his multiple intrusions into Buckingham Palace, the Boy Jones became a media celebrity. Fearful that he might injure or even assassinate the Queen, or kidnap the Princess Royal, the government of Prime Minister Lord Melbourne wanted to get rid of the Boy Jones at all costs.

Short by Mike Hoolboom.

Shot at Bate Island in Ottawa, "landing" is made from hand-processed B&W 16mm film hand-coloured with organic and photochemical tones, video and found sound. "landing" examines moments of respite in between flight and movement, where landing becomes refuge.

The story of a family of endurance athletes living in Northern Ontario.

In the safety of his bedroom sanctuary, a divine light liberates a man’s inner joy, in this celebration of a Black man’s vulnerability and freedom.

People share experiences from O:se Kenhionhata:tie, aka Land Back Camp, a long-term Indigenous gathering on the shared land of the Chonnonton, Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Huron nations.

A Calgary man finds a unique musical instrument and wants to return it to the rightful owner.

A documentary essay on coming of age and the power of the unconscious. In the same vein as Sweatlodge Song, this is a message of courage and hope.

“Ha! That tickles! Well… uh, welcome… to my brain.” In 2028, Health Canada launches an anonymous online platform where anyone can stream their brain activity to get a brain massage. In this short animation film, you are one of the masseurs, evoking a stream of emotions and memories in a stranger.

A documentary that is the journey of adopted identical Vietnamese twins. At a tender age, one of the twins begins to navigate their gender identity and the family pulls together to support Levi's transition.

The epic story of how people around the world lived through the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, from lockdowns to funerals to protests. Filming across the globe and using extensive personal video and local footage, FRONTLINE documented how people and countries responded to COVID-19 across cultures, races, faiths and privilege.

Syrian sisters Juli and Maryam and their mother have been living for nine years in a cramped room inside Aleppo's biggest hospital.

On June 10th, 1800, a bitter dispute between rival factions within the Mohawk Village on the Bay of Quinte escalated into violence and the murder of a father and his son. The film is based on the actual transcript of the nine-day Mohawk Council, highlighting the traditional ways of restorative justice and conflict resolution within the community. Six Strings is a short film produced by Tsi Tyónnheht Onkwawén:na (TTO) and directed by Bawaadan Collective, shot over two weeks in the late summer of 2021 entirely in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory with actors from the community. The film is only available in the Mohawk language, purposefully with no English subtitles as TTO’s mission is to revitalize the language. Bringing the film to life meant lots of time spent consulting with various museums and people who hold knowledge about wampum and traditions.

A visual decent into madness, all captured through the lens of a camera. Presented in repugnant vignettes that will shock and disturb.

Long-Distance explores themes of homesickness and hope for the future. The events of this film were inspired by my mother's experience immigrating. Before the ability to video call, the only correspondence was through letters or quick long-distance phone calls. The film jumps back and forth between the past and the present as the main character adjusts and settles into her new life.

Weekday Night (Soir de semaine) in an animated slumber party made up of drawn observations evoking feelings of exaltation, humor and intimacy inherent to those nights.

The story goes that girls fleeing abuse and despair can find refuge in the Maidenswood at the edge of town, where they transform into the forest. Reeling from the return of her abusive father, Diana begins to hear the Maidenswood's call.

In "Self-Portrait", Federica Foglia (re)constructs her dislocated immigrant identity through the home movies of others, enacting a search for the self and creating a work of striking filmic autopoiesis.

Discover the magic of finding that patch of gold in the distance within Newfoundland's Forests. Join myself and avid forager, Mark Fleming as we immerse ourselves in the beauty of chanterelle harvesting.

Conversation With My Husband belongs to an ongoing series of one-to-one performance videos that attempts to gage the scale, force and weight of intimate interactions. Begun in 2018, this video project measures familial connections against a variety of landscapes. Each non-verbal conversation requires endurance and patience to shape a portrait of the relationship.

After working as a clear cut logger in what is now known as the Clayoquot Sound, master carver Joe Martin reconciles his past by revitalizing the ancestral knowledge and artistic practice of the traditional Tla-o-qui-aht dugout canoe. At the end of the road at a carving shed at Nachaks (which means "look out over the ocean") master carver Joe Martin carves through the layers of a 500 year old red cedar tree.

Comedic activists pose as an indigenous energy company, hold news conferences and share plans to reroute the Enbridge pipeline through wealthy white suburbs in order to distribute the associated risks more fairly. The end result is hilarious yet shocking for the townsmen.

A documentary short.

Scarlett Bobo, self-starting Toronto drag queen, leads a behind-the-curtain tour of Toronto’s drag scene, showing the impetus and determination for her creation of Absolut Empire’s Ball, Toronto’s most inclusive drag competition, and why it is needed in the community. This is a story of the resilience that went into creating a more inclusive and accepting environment, where all types of drag artists are welcome, in a community that is often stigmatized and marginalized. Visionaries like Scarlett BoBo dare to make the change they want to see in the world, building tomorrow’s Toronto.

TJ Cuthand and his mother Ruth Cuthand have a candid conversation about TJ’s last hospitalization for Bipolar Disorder in 2007. While TJ only knew his manic episode from the inside, Ruth had to deal with caregiving decisions and trying to find help. While they reminisce they also have to reckon with the feelings of animosity that arose between them during these events.

An experimental autobiographical film that converges two queer people of colour’s perspectives from the Philippines and Canada into one narrative body. Body parts (mouths, chests, arms, eyes) filter in evanescent motion between frames, referencing early cinema while eerily anticipating an uncertain future. As a cross-continental virtual production, “In Our Being/Sa Aming Pagkatao ” explores themes of alienation, queerness, Afro-futurism, and the flux of self-concept through collage-making and performance art.

"Distance." is a short film that follows the daily routines of two Iranian women, Dorsa and Sadaf, in a long-distance friendship. Shot during the pandemic, it captures what it feels like to have an attachment to someone whose presence takes place in another space as well as a different time.

After appearing in a remake of the Macklemore & Ryan Lewis hit single "Same Love", Dayon Monson is forced to flee her home in Tanzania. Facing extreme persecution for identifying as trans and promoting LGBTQ human rights, Dayon connects with Rainbow Railroad in hopes of seeking asylum in Canada. This is her story.

Join Mark McMorris and friends as they push themselves and their sport in preparation for the biggest contest season of their careers at an idyllic training camp in Switzerland.

Marco finds himself in a maze between reality and virtual reality as he seeks to meet the girl he met on social media.

In Search of Harmony is a hand-drawn animation that follows the different elements of a song as they come together in unison. I created the song one sound at a time and then animated each sound as I imagined it in my mind, focusing on the energy and character of the individual tune.

A movie about finding something to do while stuck inside.

"Gaawiin Gego" is based on a rhyme in Ojibwe that my great aunt taught me, the lyrics reference the blues and a Nina Simone song. The audio track is layered over top of found video footage from Lac Des Mille Lacs, which is the lake beside our Reserve. The editing uses compositing and other techniques to muck around with the footage and build a visual narrative that has themes of Ojibwe cosmology, water and land, the afterlife, the underworld/and skyworld, connection and disconnection to home/homelands/territory and displacement.

Check this. We're in a house / deep in the woods. I’m trying / to talk a committee-sized group— / maybe five—into having sex. / Nobody's going for it, / despite wild times before. / Maybe desire is dead?

"T I M E Q U A K E (2.0)" explores the relationship between our bodies, our devices and time; the lag and labour of our efforts to stay connected and keep hitting "refresh." Have we acquired a new sense of time, or does time make any sense at all? We are literally left to our own devices.