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Same shot of my house, thinking about moving. Moving out/moving in, emptying boxes one at a time.

"An Event So Fast" is an experimental documentary about a family's failed invention. In Ralston, Alberta, a town for families of the military, a father works for the Defense Research Board as an explosives researcher stationed at Suffield Experimental Station. His work leads him to pursue a life as a professor researching shock waves. Soon he devises a new kind of bulletproof material and employs his grown children to assist in experiments and promotions in order to get his invention to market. Through home movies and archival film, the family recounts how a belief in ideas becomes the greatest obstacle to success.

Father Laurent and Father William, two exorcist priests that everything seems to oppose, are called to save a girl possessed by a tough demon who knows too much about them. That movie is a pretext to blast some good Christian Rock!

From his shabby apartment in Montreal’s Centre-Sud borough, a writer finds inspiration in observing his neighbour Piton, who navigates poverty with some incredible ingenuity. Through this wildly funny pseudo-scientific allegory, graphic novelist turned filmmaker Richard Suicide draws us into the surreal, chaotic world of his book Chroniques du Centre-Sud, delivering a powerful portrait of a neighbourhood in the midst of a full-blown transformation. Produced by the NFB, this film is part of the Comic Strip Chronicles collection.

An intimate look at the joys and challenges of being queer in a small town. Filmed in Alberta, Nova Scotia, and the Northwest Territories, the film follows LGBTQ2S+ people and allies as they prepare for their local Pride celebrations. Organizing in church basements, classrooms and around kitchen tables, the various collectives take on conservative town councils that won’t fly a rainbow flag, and bend rules to create a safe space for youth to come out.

In a fatphobic image-conscious world, educator, activist and eccentric cat-lady-turned-politician Dr. Jill Andrew takes her fight for body justice, human rights, representation, access and equity to the legislature as the first queer Black person elected as a member of provincial parliament. Here's a glimpse into a 40 year story of becoming told through the eyes of her filmmaking partner...Don't blink!

A bunny witch attempts to get her vegetable-themed broomstick to fly.

Shadowboxing builds on Abdi Osman’s ongoing research surrounding the gaps between experiences and representations of queer cruising, space-making, and place-making in the city of Toronto. A projection of lush green park environments documented by Osman from sites across the city appears. Osman’s holdings and records of queer, locational fortitude speak to the countless compounded sites around us where bodies have forged connections in time and space in spite of the continued realities of homophobia, racism, and white supremacy that exist in Toronto, and beyond. The projection is augmented by an online audio work that features oral histories about cruising from the perspectives and experiences of Black, queer, and trans community members, as recorded by the artist in the city.

Struggling with anxious thoughts, six individuals wander alone through the city in the late hours of the night. "Freak Folks" is an introspective and therapeutic experience that celebrates the human resilience and emotional connections between apparent strangers.

A stop-motion film exploring the mechanisms and materiality of consumerism and recycling culture.

"Anguish" In a shabby alley, the discovery of a simple thing, yet harmless has first glance, will quickly lead a young man into a very bad position.

East Indian musical prodigy, Hasheel, is revered by his community. But as a queer man who has brought his husband to India to be ordained by a prominent guru, Hasheel digs deeper into his ancestry to a time when being queer was sanctioned.

it has been 20 years since an alien virus wiped out all of humanity. He was leaving Paul a young man the last man on earth, Its up to Paul to survive in this unknown world and find any survivors. When Paul finds an old radio broadcast from Professor Winstead, Paul starts questioning everything he thought he knew.

家禧,你在家 / Kendrick, you’re home explores being a new father and how I will carry on the tradition of using photo and video to capture and share family memories. As our Chinatown decays, remembering it now feels urgent and I want 家禧 to be able to connect with this cultural space to understand me better, how it has nurtured my sense of belonging, and that he will have his own rights and responsibilities to shape his home and future.

Vulnerability, anxiety and lack of confidence are always present, it's the protector inside that allows the functionality to progress. Shield is a hand-processed, hand manipulated and painted film. The use of phytogram is also very present.

Rainy Town is a tribute to my Vancouver neighbourhood in all its seedy glory; to better days, and to seeing beauty, even when the weather is at its worst.

What can a filmmaker do when they are locked in during a pandemic? They make a film using a computer. With the participation of game scholars and academics from the Technoculture, Art and Games Research Centre, a town was built in Minecraft following the principles of Bauhaus.

A family displaced by greed searches for a new home in a foreign place. As they explore they discover pieces of themselves; old and new. "Shea" celebrates what has always remained in Black/African peoples, an innate sense of home, luxury and interconnectedness.

A broken history that has torn Anishinaabe families from their sacred objects is healed through the repatriation of sacred objects and the determination of the indigenous people to return to their traditional knowledge to carry it into the future.

"Deepest Darkness, Flaming Sun" is a short experimental film about the Svalbard Archipelago in the Norwegian Arctic. Narrated by wilderness guide Marte Agneberg Dahl, the film features altered Super 8mm film footage of the region. Dahl speaks about her travels in the Arctic, climate change, walruses and the region’s history.

A man is kidnapped and held hostage because of his weed

Agent Big Bones and McNally work together to find out who killed their son, Jason Bones, in this gripping thriller.

Ten individual short stories, each centered around a different BC building - from the starkly simple to the grandiose.

A poetic journey through the breathtaking and culturally-significant landscapes of the Dasiqox watershed, with reflections and stories shared by Tsilhqot'in in Nenqayni Ch'ih.

Kent Merriman Jr.'s paintings have a startlingly real presence. They inhabit our space exuding confidence that they are more than mere illusions.

Two geographic places, Quebec (Canada) and New Caledonia (France, Pacific), are put in relation to each other with the help of an audiovisual installation which modifies the congruence and the synchronicity of sounds and images. This work explores the depth of two contrasting territories which have both undergone a colonial history. Working out the contrasts and resonances of these two contexts, this work investigates the identity and memory of places but also the strange sensation of reality given by a hybrid and fictional landscape which combines elements that do not belong together.

Shaping a memoir of my personal return, in the jasmine vines is an assertion that the amalgam that makes my complex identity belong, gifted by my grandfather and his story and honoured by the generations following his. Forming an imagery of complex memory, archive, story and imagination, this film is a learnt way to place my existence within a narrative. And so, I look for the scents they carry in the jasmine vines.

Charles-André Coderre (paper montage and photographic prints, tape and silver salt, film manipulation and 16mm projection)

In a true collaboration of image and sound, the viewer experiences a visceral symbiosis of technology, organisms, and skin.

A character from a 1970s album cover is brought to colourful, psychedelic, life.

A young musician lives in an apartment where noise is duly prohibited by her neighbors and she is thus forced to live in silence. One day, a new tenant moves into the apartment above. Also a musician, he does not intend to live by the neighbors’ complaints.

An exhausted man struggles to push a shopping cart across difficult terrain

Çås¢a∂ing €®r0r Win∂0ws is an exploration of artificial intelligence, human consciousness, and embodiment that troubles deeply held convictions about what it means to be alive, to be a person, and to be in conversation with another. Taking up threads from early A.I. research, transhumanism and cognitive science, Çås¢a∂ing €®r0r Win∂0ws explores human being as a reflection in someone else’s computer screen.

A gentle story about love and loss told through the perspective of a grief stricken laborer. As the first snow descends on the province, she spends her day harvesting oysters along the river bank, and contemplating the nature of her grief. Waist high in the water, she pushes through the meandering currents, when she suddenly encounters a familiar creature rising from the shallows. Her muses awash, she finds herself elsewhere, succumbing to another shell.

This sand animation reflects on people’s judgements of others and how this affects our own life and helps us to become stronger humans. Gusty winds, sharp raindrops and tree branches in a dark and dense forest are metaphorically representations of harmful obstacles in life.

Created using a 35mm film tin modified into an outward-looking 59-pinhole camera that registers images on a single film loop mounted in the tin. Each loop is exposed in one moment with 59 pinhole "lenses" to create as many distinct images that, when presented in series, create a panning of the landscape in various directions. The work was exposed on outdated black & white 35mm print stock acquired from Archives Canada discards, and processed by hand in Caffenol chemistry, a less environmentally impactful developer made with coffee, vitamin C and washing soda.

VCR’s Choice combines digital, post-internet video aesthetics with their analog predecessor, the VCR, and playfully investigates (sub)histories of media and technology through the lens of queerness and underground culture:

The cougar once roamed the woodlands of Eastern North America, but today, industrial forestry practice has nearly destroyed any remaining viable cougar habitat. Now, the cougar exists only in our collective memory, except for the occasional, much debated, sighting. Like the unicorn, the creature is mythical, rare and elusive.

a flower boy without anyone to give his flowers to.

Best friends in their youth, two women meet again to share a now meaningless tradition

A classic Spaghetti Western-style cutout animation with a not-so-classic twist.

Bored during a global pandemic, 10-year-old Pat struggles to entertain himself when suddenly an ad pops up on his tablet, offering him the "cure" to his problems: a free quarantine friend.

As part of an experiment on climate change, NASA dropped 90 yellow rubber ducks into holes in Greenland’s glaciers. More than a decade later, scientists are still trying to locate the ducks, which they hoped to find scattered across the globe. Stray Ducks is the surreal and epic tale of these cute yellow toys and their mysterious disappearance. Anonymous, bobbing across the oceans, they observe human behaviour the world over. With a keen sense of irony and absurdist humour, this film takes an artistic as well as a critical perspective on social injustice and the climate crisis. (Programming Collective)

"The Complete Book of Roses"—pages 1–114. A brief glimpse of the disconnect between digital devices and recording the "natural." Made during Video Pool’s Media Arts Residency (2019–2021) using the Apollo monitor and microscope camera.

An experimental documentary that creates an impressionistic and artistic experience cataloging the journey of a Japanese woman, Tomomi, who finds herself on a Saskatchewan elk farm during the COVID-19 pandemic.

After injuring his finger in gym class, an estranged high school student has his potential and personal validation tested to extremely dangerous degrees and severe self reflection.

A short story about the process of mending what you break. Inspired by classical sword-and-sorcery tales, and set in a lush fantasy world, Prologue tells the tale of a lone hero's journey to repair a splintered sword, and to right a wrong.

In the Galapagos Islands, a group of scientists works to understand the movements of the world's largest fish - the whale shark. Without understanding their breeding and migrations, we cannot hope to protect them. The scientists of the Galapagos Whale Shark Project head north to Darwin Island to uncover the secrets of these ocean giants.

Take a mesmerizing bird's-eye view through southern Ontario's beautiful Niagara region. TRIPPING The Niagara starts high above Lake Ontario, flying through the charming streets of Niagara-on-the-Lake, soaring above Fort George, overabundant fruit orchards and vineyards, before dipping deep into the gorge to follow the churning emerald waters of the Niagara River to the world-famous Niagara Falls.

Mechanical and organic loops morph into each other in an experimental exploration of saturation and breath as a never-ending quest of presence.

Small Town playfully explores a queer, mixed race person’s relationship to their identity and surroundings through delightful Claymation.

An intimate portrayal of grief after the loss of a friend.