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Essay film responding to the work of Lee Miller

Incomprehensible meta-film

Another morning, another routine.

In the tradition of direct cinema, What Will I Show You is an intimate documentary in which a grandfather and his grandson discuss the past and future of Innu culture. An important, first-person film telling the stories of Innu and their culture, their work, and the immediate impacts of environmental degradation on their lands.

At night, a woman’s mind wanders as she chops firewood.

It'll all end...

The Furry community brings together people who bring to life animal characters with human characteristics, through drawing and costumes. FURSONA is an incursion into the universe of Aly, a member of this community.

Dampened by office life during a wet Vancouver winter, a genderqueer Trinidadian woman, Marlinn, misses out on the chance to celebrate Carnival season back home. Until, one night, they discover that the power of masquerade is within them no matter where they are.

Microsoft Hanna, an artist, emigrated to Canada a few years ago. He soon found himself in a struggle against depression and to find his place as an artist in this new context. In his quest to rediscover, Hanna makes the inspiring lives and works of other artists the best motivation to create art and combat depression. This film tells the story of how art came to save an artist, to save Hanna.

Documentary examining the fentanyl and overdose crisis in Vancouver's lower mainland, of British Columbia Canada.

The three Hughes brothers, teen hockey phenoms, all have dreams of making it in the big leagues. When their love of competition and their love of family are put to the test, a decision must be made.

This dance short film brings three sensual and brutal duets to the screen. Three stories overlap to tell the memory; what remains of the nostalgic feelings of their union. The choreographies sublimate the cracks that human experience generates and which settle in us like so many emotional vestiges.

Nature and body at work over the course of a still yet disorderly year on a foreign land.

Two strangers have an introspective conversation on the top of a lookout.

Quebec’s citizens are divided by different histories, sources of pride and grievances. Young people experience Quebec differently than seniors, who lived through decades of religious and linguistic conflict. Québécois living in the regions often see Montreal as a foreign metropolis. Quebec is increasingly the story of immigrants, the distinctly labelled Allophones, who think it is time for old-stock Francos and Anglos to get over their long-lost wars of conquest to deal with the urgent problems of the 21st century. What We Choose to Remember explores the things that make Quebec so fascinating, frustrating and different.

A jazz musician struggles to win back the affections of a former band-mate who's life and career have moved on.

A young, closeted ballerina jeopardizes her relationship with her girlfriend when she refuses to be open about her sexuality for the sake of her own ballet career.

Walking In These Shoes is a documentary short that offers a glimpse into experiences of poz BIPOC people living with HIV in contemporary times. It is also an homage and tribute to the late Toronto-based BIPOC HIV/ AIDS activist Derek Yee.

Eris was on a journey across the stars when she crashed. What will she find in this new place? The voids?

A couple tries to mend old wounds, but realize it’s not about fixing things – it’s about true empathy.

Every spring for the last 13 years, Delroy has left his partner Sophia and their kids behind in the small hamlet of Top Hill, Jamaica, to do seasonal work on a farm in Canada. Sophia plays the lottery daily in hopes of changing their economic future, but above all, she dreams of escape. This year, after cutting his contract short, Delroy returns to his family with an engagement ring for Sophia—and an unexpected diagnosis of terminal cancer. Through a composed, empathetic lens, Andrew Moir chronicles the last days of Sophia and Delroy's relationship as she cares for her new spouse. The film quietly observes Sophia rise to the many challenges presented by her unknown future, in a rural society where women traditionally have little independence. Beautifully observed, Don't Come Searching presents a moving portrait of a resilient, contemporary Jamaican woman, determined to find her own way in life.

The traditional camping weekend of four friends takes a dark turn when Nic learns some disturbing news about one of them.

Vertiginous masses of carved limestone give way to an ecstasy of light and living color through an alchemical spell of elemental transformation. Hierarchies dissolve as the transient quotidian inspires the monumental. Dans les Cieux et Sur la Terre was shot and hand-processed entirely on 16mm reversal films, with all of the composite images created in-camera.

Venice along a canal at sunset. Mesmerizing water, the play of dense seaweed undulating below. Repetition, overlay, variations in opacity and speed invoke a purely visual meditative experience. – Michele Goulette

“In home movies, the gesture of waving provides the future viewer with the acknowledgment of a constant ‘goodbye.’ Yet when the film is projected, it is as if the people waving are saying ‘hello’ from the past in the now, the moment of the projection. This film is an homage to the man behind the camera, mmy father the person who captured these fleeting moments." —Louise Bourque

DSLR footage recorded by a teenager over the span of several months brings his immediate surroundings and sensitivities to light. Alberta, Canada.

A young journalist must fight off a group of fanatics to rescue his colleague and uncover the truth about the sectarian group.

Lidiia, a Ukrainian mother, and her young daughter, Solomiia, are on the road, in search for a ray of hope to send back to their home country, which they fled just 6 months ago, leaving behind Kiyv, the war, their husband and father Sasha, and most importantly Solomiia's toys.

Marie is a young woman who sees black strings coming out of people's heads. She is the only one who sees them and she can guess people's inner emotions by looking at their string. Everyone has a string, except her.

An old VHS tape offers up a titillating tapestry of balloon-oriented entertainment. Remember, it's just balloons and nothing else!

A surreal portrait of the desire for possession that characterizes relationships.

A rag-tag documentary team seeks to debunk the rumors of what lies in the Cold-War era tunnels beneath their high school.

A young man looks back at his childhood and innocence reflecting on his changes in perspective.

A party becomes a murder scene as 3 guests explain their innocence to a skeptical Detective. Is a murderer among them or are the legends true?

An unflinching documentary that explores the surge in violent crime, homelessness and drug addiction in the heart of one of Canada's wealthiest cities.

This experimental short film gives the floor to Robert Dole, who shares his story and exposes his vision of schizophrenia. The theme of mental illness echoes in a cinematographic treatment that explores the materiality of film and magnetic tapes to find points of meeting and detachment, spaces resonating with the fall and redemption of Robert Dole.

A husband and father learn from mysterious neighbors the secrets of his true nature!

A Tiger follows his dreams of becoming a pilot with past encouragement from his Mum- only she is not there anymore to see him fulfill his dreams.

Les Terrains Vagues offers a window onto a time-stretched space, from which emanate the voices of five individuals. Revolving around their internal dialogues, the film takes the form of a broad conversation about the models and preconceived ideas that impact the way they experience their sexuality.

The search for unity and connection. A place where all are one.

Monkey Man is visited by a mysterious spirit, who offers to grant his special Christmas wish. The catch? He has to get married!

What happens when an A.I. writes a pop song? Turns out Skynet is still a bad idea, but not for the reasons you'd think...

Alone in her bathroom, a crocheted woman ponders her life in comparison to the hairs that live on the floor.

Santa remembers

Avant-garde, refrigeration PSA masterpiece

Thanks Jem is living their last days in their Vancouver home; it has been sold, and they have been asked to leave. The pandemic had already made it difficult for the drag queen performer to stay afloat. The only way they know to cope is to channel it into their art, prompting one final shindig.

Even before our ancestors banged on a tree trunk with a stick or hollowed out a bone to blow into it, they were already singing. The human voice was the very first musical instrument—and judging by Partita for 8 Voices, it’s also the most versatile.

A surrealist, experimental stop-motion animation celebrating the solstice as witches summon UFOs to exchange natural gifts from the earth, featuring a rearranged 13th century polyphonic round in Middle English.

Between the Blur is a 6 minute art video that utilizes publicly listed data of coordinates of 3405 orphaned oil and gas wells within the province of Alberta, Canada. Through a fast, generative process the data is illustrated geographically and translated to other locations in an attempt to view what is generally not viewable. Translations include the city of Calgary, its downtown core, the Athabasca oilsands, the revolving coordinates around a wellhead, and to the actual locations of orphan wellsites. Patterns of movement bridge in similarity across these locations according to the original layout of orphaned wells that traverse approximately 70% of the land area in Alberta. A meditative cascading rhythm of locations occurs through an operation of scale and frequency. The video is a poetic geographic journey visually calling into question the notion of the oil and gas industry, pondering this relation to land and cityscape to which it is irrevocably tied.

A landscape film of topography, contours, nature in abstraction. Using a modified 35mm handcranked 1920-era projector in concert with a variety of lens interference techniques, pulsing and dimensional imagery are manifest live. Filmed with a 35mm handcranked camera and numerous non-camera techniques from the top of a mountain on an island off the west coast of Canada. All processing and printing done by hand.

A visual reinterpretation of dance and animated found footage.

A documentary that unpacks and addresses inequities in the music industry through intimate first-person accounts from Queer, Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, women+ artists. Their intersectional identities inform the creative process, from the first lyric to the polished track. In an industry where authenticity is rare, these artists unapologetically sing their truths. But the industry is cutthroat – our characters are dissuaded from following their passions even before they pick up an instrument. Their identities, the very thing they most value and prioritize, presents as their biggest obstacle.

Immaculate Virtual is a film essay contemplating the nature of reality, the body, and intimacy in the complicated space where technology and humanity blend.

In a noir world of dive bars and mad scientists, a desperate hit-man will take almost any job for a sweet taste of Orchid. But can an assassin afford a conscience? And can Orchid really mend a broken heart?

A retiring clown finds himself confined to his apartment. Ravaged by hunger and boredom, he tries to satisfy his various appetites. After hitting his nose on an empty fridge, a predictable fall on a slippery banana peel pushes him towards his last visceral urges. The overwhelmed clown will seek a way out, among a relentless cycle of forced jokes. Monsieur Sachet is a wicked escalation of tragicomic anecdotes happening in a colorful, crazy and completely absurd atmosphere.