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A hunter seeking to kill a warrior is revealed to have committed the most taboo of all rituals to claim unspeakable power.

Beware takes sound bites from the 1961 anti-homosexual propaganda film Boys Beware and flips it on its head. The hacked-up narration serves as the voice-over to a barrage of glitched intimacies, making the homosexual monster more fun than frightening.

A video-book chronicling a degenerate group of dudes and their skiing/gambling trip during winter break.

Documentary on BC labor activist Ginger Goodwin, his career as a striker, anti-war efforts, and assassination. Explores locations around Cumberland and the West Kootenays in present day.

Film puts forward a personal cosmology that considers perception, drawing, and agnosticism. The animation is created with a combination of drawn and stop motion methods and accompanied by a text written in a personal voice. This text, which functions as its own kind of artist statement, wrestles with the feeling of uncertainty and hesitation, while recognizing the limited possibility of leaving these states

A scarecrow who tries to defend his garden from a crow.

In a black-and-white world, lonely lumberjack Bill chases a stealing crow to a giant tree. When he strikes the tree, color fills the landscape. Bill, overcome by euphoria, hallucinates. When he wakes up, the raven flies away, leaving Bill behind to face his creation.

Created in the spring term of 2024 alongside SFU Film's class of 2027. Premiered April 5th, 2024 @ SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.

In this feminist exploitation film a young woman obsessed with her weight visits a redneck gyno to learn about a new IUD and its side effects. When she starts to gain weight after the visit she suspects the IUD, but little does she know that her doctor is to blame.

An exploration of light in everyday life.

After his wife kicks him out, a self-centered computer analyst moves into the retirement home of the only person he hasn't pissed off, his wife's grandma. As he starts learning how to play well with others, he uncovers a sinister enterprise, forcing him to try and save his marriage and his new friends without getting himself killed.

A visually striking short experimental fiction film, following Miranda as she bursts from her beige cocoon and embraces her queer identity for the first time. In a hyper-sexual world, there are very few movies exploring what it feels like to be on the asexual spectrum. Director Gina Hara sets out to create refreshingly unique asexual representation on the silver screen, while taking inspiration from movies by Maya Deren and Roy Andersson.

A rework of the new iPhone 15 commercial featuring a singing wall socket. In place of the machine loneliness of the original, a different song from the early Vito Acconci playbook. A direct address to the viewer/listener from a virtual assistant. The new ambient intelligence promises security, rapid response, predictive analysis, microgeneration, efficiency. Here it delivers funwashing messages from the cloud for users in a performative essay on domotics. Talk back from the data harvest and Orwell’s “never sleeping ear.” To challenge them is to “fight the future.”

Once a week, for the past 35 years, a group of ardent leftists has congregated in the same Chinese restaurant in Vancouver to discuss the important topics of the moment. Among these political conversationalists is the father of filmmaker Rachel Epstein, who now documents the group as they engage with issues inside and out of their familiar eatery. With most members now aged 70 years and older, they represent a contingent of activists who for decades have supported anti-war and anti-nuclear movements and advocated for climate justice, union organizing, Palestinian liberation, and a host of other important issues.

When the owner of a handmade hat store and his apprentice learn that the store is on the verge of bankruptcy, they decide to take inspiration from the neighboring hat business in order to make some changes to the store.

Everyone wants to wish Florent a happy birthday

A large, lizard-like monster emerges from Moira Lake and attacks the town of Madoc. The citizens of Madoc work together to end its tyranny.

It is August and the days are getting shorter. As autumn approaches, a woman reflects on her new face. A videopoem inspired by a poem of the same name by Major Jackson.

Drawn to unorthodox materials and themes, Mochi Lin works with diaphanous stockings and acetate to depict courtship in the insect world. Her musical composition provides the soundtrack for a startling pas de deux. Stop-motion haiku on the themes of coupledom, confinement and decapitation!

An animated interpretation of “this was meant to be for Nora” by Junie Desil, based on a dream about Jimi Hendrix and his grandmother, Nora Hendrix, who was a community leader in Hogan’s Alley in the Strathcona neighbourhood of Vancouver.

Dickinsonia, a 550-million-year-old oceanic species, has left very few fossils. Its soft, skeleton-free body has left almost no trace of its existence, leaving scientific thought in doubt. Like the dissolution of this ancestral life form, our oldest memories, blurred and embedded in the depths of our consciousness, seem to leave only vague traces. Unexplained ripples that run through our tissues, shaking us at times. The film is intended to be a place of intimate listening which, by allowing us to see and hear subtle presences and vibrations, invites us to pay particular attention to the fragments of history that constitute us, especially those we have wished to forget.

Canada Women's goalkeeper, Stephanie Labbé, has conquered the world of soccer. Known for her triumphant saves and advocating for equality in her sport, Steph's name sits alongside legends of the women's game. But behind the stadium lights is her reality. Shut Out is an intimate journey about how mental health can affect even those we deem untouchable - and how a girl from Alberta competed her way to the top, to change the game for generations of female players to come.

A filmmaker and former dancer goes home to make a dance film staring her parents.

What if artificial intelligence… wasn’t that smart?

Mountain writer and historian Meghan J. Ward recruits a team of creative women to revisit Mary Schäffer Warren’s 1908 expedition to Maligne Lake, in Alberta’s Jasper National Park. Blending backcountry adventures with historical research, Wildflowers demonstrates that sometimes we must look back to blaze a better trail forward.

In search of the perfect tattoo machine, a young tattoo artist finds himself with a possessed device that seems to kill all his customers.

Seeking to look better in the eyes of his employer, a young man is boosted when he gets his hands on a strange and unusual video game console.

It was the Studio 54 of the Prairies, a club that owner John Reid vowed would be a safe place for ‘gay people and their friends.’ Flashback is the story of a defiant disco dance culture of sweat and sex and drugs and fashion. Located in a conservative northern Canadian city often hostile to queer people, Flashback became a sensation on the international club circuit despite police raids, threats of violence and the scourge of AIDS. Flashback is a ghost. But it comes alive again in the memories of the people who were there and the legends they left behind.

A look into the life of a couple and the house they raised their family in.

A room of professionals come undone at a simple misunderstanding.

An AI TV zapping party in a 70s atmosphere.

Lisa Cardinal is trapped in a dead end job and supporting her family, she is part of the working poor. More than anything, Lisa wants to dance, but a hunger for money and a way out, takes her into danger. Throughout her journey, Lisa’s spirit animal offers potentially conflicting information about decisions leading down the red or black path. A gritty, supernatural thriller about struggling to escape the inner city and living out one’s dreams.

A one-hour documentary on the daily life of beloved St. John's personality and bottle-collector Wayne Skinner - otherwise known as The Governor of Georgetown. Skinner passed away in March of 2023 at the age of 66, but was known by many for his sweet, loveable and gentle soul. In this sensitive tribute, director Kenneth J Harvey accompanies Skinner over five days as he ventures around the city of St. John's, collecting bottles and visiting with regular customers and friends in their homes and in the streets.

Memories of a loved one: The camera explores the dark confines of a flat. Light is still burning in the kitchen; objects are scattered haphazardly on the living room tables. The eyes follow into the labyrinthine self, now turned into space, of a once familiar and now absent person. The narrator’s voice begins by asserting that everything in this place is true. It “shows” the places where the remembered person learned to crochet and where she shelled peas.

Two roommates: Glen and Ricky discuss the Spirit of Halloween during one of the most terrifying nights of the year.

In part of an ongoing autobiographical-fictional collection entitled Why is water so heavy? (2022–present), interlocking the fluidity and borderless nature of water in relation to diaspora and landmarking. I dwell on self-ambiguity as time continues to spatialize fragments of my ancestral histories and cultural practices lost in water.

A man goes through a rapid breakdown upon realizing the harsh truth about the universe.

Jen Zhao is a Canadian film school grad in LA with a visa that’s about to expire. She has just lost her brother (back home in Canada) to suicide, and her family urges her to come back to Calgary so they can grieve together. Instead, she does everything she can to avoid the circumstances by latching onto an obsessive belief: if she can find her idol, Canadian comedian Nathan Fielder, he will help her renew her visa and guide her through the pearly gates of Hollywood.

Have you had the pleasure of meeting Canada’s gayest family? Unusually Normal (Our Gay Family) follows three generations of women in one family who, get this, are all gay. Set against the backdrop of their loving and wholly authentic household, this family, with over 165,000 devoted TikTok followers, invites you into their world – a world where normal takes on a whole new meaning. As we traverse through three distinct eras alongside these extraordinary women, we witness their unwavering resilience in the face of adversity. From navigating the tumultuous waters of homophobia to grappling with profound family loss and navigating the complexities of clandestine love, theirs is a story of triumph against all odds.

A devoted homage to the butt, fleshy and jiggly, funny and lovable, as diverse in appearance as the face itself. The film documents, in mesmerizing slow motion, impromptu private performances by amateur activators who pinch, poke, stroke, slap, or shake butts. The artist filmed many scenes at Fire Island Pines and received plenty of additional footage contributed by collaborators worldwide.

One Day is an experimental video created from a single image. The photograph used is the first ever taken by artist Rojin Shafiei with her film camera in Toronto. The film was developed six years later, after the artist had decided to make Toronto her permanent home following periods of living in Iran, Montreal and Europe. Moving to Toronto with her family in 2009 and accepting it as a second home presented a significant challenge. Rojin continues to be reminded of her immigrant status whenever she thinks of Toronto.

Produced to mark the 70th anniversary of Korean adoption, From Ibyang-a to Ibyang-In (from adoptee child to adoptee person) offers a profound reflection on the phenomenon of adoption. The film skilfully weaves together an activist and artistic timeline of the history of adoption in Korea. In addition to showing how Korean adoptees have helped shape Korea, this short film offers a fresh perspective on the future of Korean adoption, as it highlights the challenges, demands and dreams of the people who inhabit the reality from the inside.

Hormones pulsate to the rhythm of fourth-period marching band practice. Cheer for the boys! Stay upbeat! Feel the rush of desire! Breathe the rage in deep. Make sure you aren't late for the bell or he might make you stay after school, alone together. These are the lurking aggressions in Teen Girl Fantasy. But whose fantasy was it anyway?

Two young cousins, Louis and Felix, see their friendship turn into an unhealthy rivalry when they are confronted with the toxic behavior of complete strangers.

A young woman’s troubling memories manifest first as physical irritation, then as phantasmic monsters.

Inspired by Charlotte Cranston's short story of the same name, "Apocalypse Book Club" is a raw yet lighthearted romantic comedy that follows the unlikely friendship between Raymond, an unemployed accountant, and Evelyn, a socialite recovering from a broken leg. Each week they meet at a diner to discuss, among other things, their predictions for how the world might end. This time, though, as the conversation unfolds, they must bear their souls and face each other's most difficult truths. The film explores the humour and depth of human connection in the face of life's uncertainty.

Serena gets brought to a strange yearly masquerade party by her friend Kendra, but after taking a tab of acid, comes across something she shouldn’t have.

A Prague resident wanders through his city, questioning the freedom it provides. This documentary essay depicts the polyphony of urban life, exploring its contrasts through a poetic narration.

An exploration of the erotic archive of Canadian photographer and entrepreneur John Phillips who worked in the 1990s for gay male magazines in the USA. The film chronicles the impact of the AIDS pandemic on the photographer’s life at the dawn of the digital revolution. An intimate portrait of an artist and an industry at the edge of transformation during a tumultuous time in history.

In the land of the happy, people have everything. They receive everything they need, in abundance, except… cockroaches.

Giant shrimp. Forks gone wrong. A fastball you'll never forget. Time to press play on sibling rivalry and this Japanese-inspired pop culture romp.

One hundred children were dying every day in Gaza when I made this hopeless poem of hope. How to step into a new kind of Jerusalem without becoming what we feared? How to leave behind every notion of the chosen few, and embrace the ones along the way, finding a promised land in each other. Based on an excerpt from the poem "Red Sea: April 2002" by Aurora Levins Morales, a disabled Puerto Rican Jewish writer and activist.

A young man losses the love of his life. Filled with depression and feeling dead inside will he make it? Can he move on?