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What does data look like? Made using found paper cut outs and overlapped sound, inspired by Hito Steyerl’s Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War, DATA Dreaming attempts to track and visualize human ideas of energy and data sets. The soundscape is an overlapping collection of low frequency radio waves, amplifier buzz, radio static, light and sound waves, a tape deck, record player, sonar recordings, sound bites, electric currents, appropriated music, sounds of the sun and space (NASA) and local radio waves.

An exploration of the language and emotion of contact dance. A compelling storyline to be interpreted by the viewer surfacing around love and loss, life and death, war and peace.

A boy skating through the night filming whatever catches the human eye in an urban neighborhood.

In this mystery crime thriller, the biggest criminal organization in the city finds their key members displaced and cut off from one another. The resulting fallout from a simple job gone awry pushes each of them to their limits while revealing secrets of the organization.

Pearl Tears is an experimental autobiographical short by Noriko Ohsada. The film uses archival material to share Ohsada's experience as a young Japanese immigrant to Canada who learns her daughter will be born with Down Syndrome. This film was shot on Super 8 film at the National accessArts Centre.

A fantasy short film.

After a day at work Jack and Rafa just want to relax. But you always have to be careful about those bad frequencies.

As the cherished local event space The Warehouse is demolished and its successor The Birdhouse is born, personal interviews reveal the untold labour and love poured into creating a haven beyond physical walls.

A visit to the National Archives brings up a family history of internment and dispossession, traced through photographs and records.

After their friend and roommate abruptly moves out, microbiology student Darcy becomes mesmerized by a telescope left behind. Moving between details too small to see and a cosmos too large to understand, an absence still remains.

Each person in this film holds a piece of the puzzle that is Essance. As Essance brings together these threads, we witness a tapestry that is beautiful, contradictory, and complex. The very seeds of an identity in flux and motion...

In a vast castle, a baby girl cheerfully plays with her toys as lunchtime approaches.

Chase between two creatures on a distant planet which create a series of unlucky actions.

In the jungle, a monstrous bird tries to seduce a female bird with an odd dance. Her initial disgust quickly turns into interest.

The long-awaited brawl between the two billionaires and businessmen is finally happening. Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are engaging in a merciless battle, delivering blow after blow, gadgets, and weapons of mass destruction, annihilating everything in their path. Who will have the power to stop these two tech and jujitsu behemoths before they obliterate our world?

A teenager attempts to complete a musical solo, but supernatural events manifest themselves as he goes along.

Joe has matched with Sophie on Tinder. This is the story of their first date.

A physicist's head drifts through space. It explains the fundamental concepts of quantum physics, or not.

Mashup/homage to 50s/60s sci-fi films about alien invasions.

A road trip in a dream recorded on VHS.

Robert is left in the woods given two days to escape. But surviving the woods isn't the biggest threat to his life as someone else has a very different sinister goal.

Examines the lives of two doctors in the mid-20th century: Henry Shibata, a Japanese Canadian born in Vancouver, and Stuart Cooper Robinson, a Canadian born in Nagoya, Japan. Their worlds are upended by WWII, with Shibata facing internment in the Rockies, while Robinson is pushed from his lifelong home in Japan amidst growing intolerance. Charting their transformative journeys, the documentary captures their resilience and the indelible marks left by displacement. Through their stories, it reflects on the Japanese Canadian struggle from a new perspective and redefines what it means to find home against a backdrop of war and loss.

A rumination on the personal and colonial histories embedded within landscapes. Let Us Try Again (Ao Phir Koshish Kariye) is a curious attempt to begin tracing family histories in relation to railway work, offering a window into personal and collective grief, loss, and memory.

Brandon Lorimer’s DWELLING conjures a dystopian world where alienation meets an all-time high, and isolation builds to a breaking point.

A group of musicians embark on a collaborative journey of healing over the course of a year, pulling apart and collaging fragments from Bach’s Chaconne while meditating on ghostly layering of story.

A journey into Aly’s world and their personal growth through the eyes of their new furry, Eden.

An experimental animated film that metaphorically and conceptually reveals an erotic and exhilarating dimension of touching. The haptic relationship with the pinscreen reveals forms and a primitive language that evoke a sensual relationship with the device.

To heal their wounds, women from the same family reveal their connection with the sea.

A multi-layered artistic journey of artist, Alek Bélanger as he creates his upcoming series. The film captures the raw essence of creativity and revealing a unique use of gay conversion therapy books as canvases for powerful poetry.

Technology fails while cryptic-nostalgia prevails.

The past is haunted by futures that will never exist.

Sabrina struggles to finish an assignment due at midnight.

A short experimental film inspired by the paintings of biblical women from German Renaissance painter, Lucas Cranach. The film reimagines Cranach’s paintings through a modern, critical lens, exploring female sensuality as a potential site of power. The film explores female sensuality and their ability to use it as their own personal weapons.

Sylvie Laliberté shares this. ​“I produce my auteur films at home: I talk a lot, so it’s also an action movie. I sing a song by the great Quebec star La Bolduc, which makes it a bit of a musical. A few family memories follow, because in the end, it’s mostly a spy movie, since I’m a double agent: half-Italian, half-Quebecer. All in the perspective of someone who knows they’re right: because I too, like

Claude Gosselin, founder and executive director of Les Cent jours d’art contemporain de Montréal (Montreal’s 100 Days of Contemporary Art) and La Biennale de Montréal (Montreal Biennial), passionately recounts the origins of these events, which are held in unusual and unconventional venues. He explains how these events have enabled more than a hundred curators to imagine exhibitions that are prestigious both in terms of museology and the artistic issues of the day. An essential journey through our national history of contemporary art.

A trial-and-error attempt to reconcile presence and absence.

An entity fruitlessly attempts to contemplate its present.

Billions of dollars are at stake as film returns. But greedy suits face a dilemma after releasing all of the film specialists. As their digital world comes crashing down, they must call the best in the world to save them one more time.

PomBe, the lonely pumpkin kid, yearns to join the fun and treats of Halloween festivities and befriend three children in the neighborhood. He imitates their actions in hopes of being included, unaware that genuine friendship awaits him elsewhere.

When Amber asks Trask to wrap a Christmas present for her sister, Trask has to call in backup. Then the backup has to call in backup.

A kid builds.

Film explores identity in relation to time, beauty in relationship to effort, and death as the inevitable ending to all of it.

A woman explores the remote spaces of her inner world in order to overcome a painful grieving process.

Two strangers pass by each other randomly and have a dance

Window on the fleeing memory. Super 8 in-camera sketch of events filmed in chronological order.

A meditation on crip time as resistance on Super 8 film by a chronically ill filmmaker. The Super 8 film was non-toxically eco-processed with plant materials by hand.

A teenager has a religious experience while tripping acid at the dentist.

Two friends, Jules and Julien, decide to rob a pawnshop to become rich, but their plans go awry because of the health measures in place, due to a COVID-19 pandemic. Despite Jules' threats to cut off the son of his beloved telephone and Julien's rifle, they are unable to get Marie-Soleil, the pawnbroker's cashier, to deviate from the health rules.

VOMINUS films are experimental, absurd and playful short films.

Just a normal day at English Bay.

A film about human interaction and attachment, The People explores the mark people leave on each other and the space they occupy. The watercolor’s fluidity and transparency are the tools used to communicate the emotional tone of the film.

In 2012, Mohamed had witnessed his best friend gunned down by an armed militia on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria; the blood spilled into the lake contaminated his memory. Ten years later, the reflections on the Laurentian waters brings back Mohamed's traume. I asked him if he'd like to dig out the memories, to repair the pain by retreating for a few days into the most distressing calm possible for him. He tells us about death, immigration and anger. We wonder how and why we should tell this story.

Animals on the Verge combines Google’s ready-made 3D animals, considered a “perfect quarantine activity,” juxtaposed with drawings of holes on white paper, via Augmented Reality on a mobile phone. Animals stand tentatively at the edge of giant holes in the earth, sometimes treading water in or down in the holes. Some of these holes are gas emission craters, where melting permafrost releases enormous volumes of trapped gas in an explosive crater-forming event, or the infamous Gates of Hell in Turkmenistan—a fiery crater left burning since a 1971 Soviet drilling accident. The animals appear trapped in a glitch and unable to cross, but unharmed and waiting in limbo.

Filmed across Canada in university labs and field research sites, stories from Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors and colleagues point us toward a path for which natural resource studies can be accomplished.