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Dave Nichol shows how easy it is to quickly prepare fantastic barbecued foods using world famous President's Choice™ products.

Four women settle down to a game of poker. Throughout the evening in a heady atmosphere of alcohol, cards, bluffing and cheating, they each reveal more than the cards they hold.

Loss, fear, repulsion, obsession, waxy build-up.

An experimental portrait of a place, Scotland. You are looking for something. What you find is something else. "Stravaig / Errance" (Gaelic for wandering) is techno tourism of a personal nature. Forrest visits a Scotland that only she may show us. The artist is an informed tourist with a curious eye. The viewer is lead, but there is no sense that the artist holds to a definitive way to see/record. Travelogues are referenced in "Stravaig," but their form is never embraced. This is not tourism, but memory and sense. Forrest looks beyond the architecture and must see sights of the place(s) to unearth an ethereal essence of space/time.

A rather liberal and pictorial interpretation of a number of Western musical forms with a considerable homosexual bias. Playing largely off the mood of different musical genres, it is a humorous commentary on musical association, and a celebration and critique of "gay identity."

Bi? Lesbian? Gay? Why limit yourself?

Shot and edited in a Super 8 camera, this bittersweet tale of breakup is told through the lyrics of Karen Carpenter's unforgettable tune.

A mockumentary about a satirical campaign to combat homophobia.

A video dealing with the experience of a despised body, focusing specifically on the queer male subject grappling with societal attitudes towards the homosexual in the context of the AIDS crisis. The phrase, "We do not go instinct," is lifted from a Lynda Barry cartoon, and is indicative of the way the video shifts between humour, rage, despair and resistance. In its appropriation and critique of popularized AIDS images, the video points to the lack of oppositional queer subject positions within the mainstream media AIDS discourse.

What Does a Lesbian Look Like? was a video created for Much Music, Canada's music video station. A fast-paced spoken word piece, it exposes all the common myths and stereotypes about lesbians, and revels in them!

Nursing sisters were the first women to be fully accepted into the military during the First and Second World Wars. In this moving and emotional, Gemini winning documentary we tell the story of these brave women, and pay homage to their selfless actions as they paved the way for women's equality.

Desire disorients and bodily swellings result. A lovely concoction of hand-tinted and scratched film evoking a woman's flight from concrete to nature, spurred on by a kiss.

Documentary profile of people with unique odd collections

Seven days in the life of Lloyd and his self-mutilating misadventures.

A concept video intended for the purpose of ending a house party or quickly clearing a room.

When a young girl plays with her father's experimental telescope she ends up in space, where she meets the young Mozart and a tap-dancing star named Twinkle. This wonderful story features the voices of Martin Short as Mozart and Vanna White as Twinkle.

Interlocutions literally means "a conversation" and "dialogue". This video however presents ten short statements that are juxtaposed onto the bodies that are in slow motion. Thus the image and the fragmented conversations are disrupted and removed from the body. The only interlocutor, an old armchair, remains at the center of the black videotaped background. Its ambiguous presence seems to psychologically question the minimal movements performed by the subjects.

Canadabis Hemp Rap is the portrayal of Western Canadian and American Hemp activists, voicing anti-prohibition and pro-legalization positions in contemporary society. Activists, through dialogue, represent the political, sociological and economic interests that have been developing in the twentieth century. This documentary raises questions concerning the positive aspects of Cannabis Hemp plant (Dope, Reefer, Bud, Marijuana...) often not represented in the media.

Jazz Slave Ships was a site-specific performance collaboration between Vancouver artist Jan Wade and London-based performer Vanessa Richards that involved the creation of an ancestral altar. It took place in two U.K. ports in October 1996: on the West Coast in Whitehaven, Cumbria (the last English slaving port), in an 18th century bonded warehouse used to store liquor and guns used in the slave trade; and on the East Coast in Hull, Yorkshire in Wilberforce House, the birthplace of the anti-slavery pioneer William Wilberforce and now a museum of anti-slavery. The production took place over a 3-week period that began Sept. 30, 1996.

Anishnawbe Health produced this documentary as part of Toronto Living With AIDS. It addresses the issue of AIDS in the Native community. Ojibway Elder, Verna Johnston presents basic information about the disease while her comments are illustrated with archival and family photographs, videotape of special gatherings and community activities. The intention of the tape is to promote awareness of Aids within the historical and cultural context of Native health.

Handy Man examines the window as a site of voyeurism and surveillance. With his Hi-8 camera, Henricks documents two workers in his interior courtyard. The camerawork has a secretive and furtive feel, treating the male body as an erotic object. This footage forms the basis of a video which attempts to implicate the viewer in processes of exhibitionism and image fetishization. Handy Man is part of a trilogy of works exploring one of the principle metaphors of video: the window.

Nice is a cheeky exploration of lesbian chic, otherwise known as the commodification of lesbian identity. A Kraft Dinner eating punker dyke gets tired of living in the margins and decides to get a lifestyle with a vengeance. Her journey to niceness features a hellish shopping spree and convincing makeover.

In a 1993 art exhibit at the University of Saskatchewan, Christopher Lefler allegedly outed the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan, Sylvia Fedoruk. Lefler's show was closed down, his art seized, his scholarship revoked, and he was expelled from the University of Saskatchewan. Mainstream media and the queer community framed this issue as one of outing, when it was also used to attack the funding of the arts. This film attempts to chart some of the reactions to Lefler's controversial and much maligned work.

Two young Africans from different social backgrounds want to defy tradition and be free to love each other.

A Gay Men’s Health Crisis sex education PSA in which an interracial gay male couple hooks up at a bath house, having steamy sex safely.

In The Passerby, poems, home movies, interviews, photographs, and footage filmed all over the world combine to form a kind of necromancy: impression, imprint, appearance of many lives that were not lived without a trace. What can be read out of pictures and movement, facial expressions and gestures? Donald McWilliams' compelling contrast montage, visual effects, and use of music provide a meditation on the mysteries of existence.

"Filmed in 16mm and hand processed in a week at Phil Hoffman's Film Farm in Canada, this film was a treasure map to lead my husband to his gift, a little pet pig." ⁠— Helen Hill

Bamako, Mali (Africa), March 1991. Military dictatorship collapses, and with it, the law of silence.

Working Like Crazy is a fresh look at the struggles and victories of some former mental health patients who work in businesses owned and run by other psychiatric survivors.

It explores the tension between age-old China and energy of the student demonstration in the spring of 1989.

Documentary about the 1993 "Whore Culture: A Festival of Sex Work" event in Toronto.

This film brings a Yiddish folk song to life, as the animated journey of a young bride and groom from Eastern Europe to North America is set to rollicking klezmer music. Fleeing the threat of war, the couple arrive in Canada, establish a new life together and hand down their traditions to the generations that follow. Produced, directed and animated by Arnie Lipsey.

Men, seen from afar, driven by the dynamics of work. The machine is no longer an extension of the bodies, of their strength. Man is now driven by the machine. The alienation of humanity is accomplished.

Four channel video taped in the summer of 1995 along British Columbia's Fraser River.

Shot entirely in Warsaw, Poland, a polish post-communist love story set in the urban chaos of a farmers market in the city's centre.

Mixed Messages is a work that addresses the issues of race and sexuality. This mixed media installation consists of three life size photographs of Gina Gonzalez, who is subject of two 20 minute videotapes. Gina is a transsexual claiming to have undergone a sex change between the first taped interview, in 1990, and the second, in 1994. In the initial session Gina allows us to glimpse into her life as a prostitute; in the next she reacts to the first taping. We not only look at her or listen to her, but she is also present in the form of a life-size photo cutout. The artist explores the boundaries between the public and private, and between appearance and reality. Conventional behaviour patterns, attitudes, and stereotypes are challenged in a work that brings out a variety of voyeuristic reactions in the subject, the artist, and the viewer.

On her immigration flight to Canada, Lailey, a young Iranian woman, encounters Snailfingers, an ancient aboriginal water-spirit. When Lailey and Snailfingers make contact, their stories become intertwined and unfold simultaneously.

Meet the Womyn Warriors, a colourful group of women whose commonalities--ball playing...lesbians...of colour!--bring them together but whose individual personalities sometimes drives them apart.

A conversation with Toronto community activist and female-to-male transsexual Peter Dunnigan. He speaks openly about addiction, recovery, sexuality, and life as a gender outcast. More than an educational tool for a general audience, this video is a call for transsexuals, both female-to-males and male-to-females, to unite, heal, and resist.

In/Visible presents three vignettes dealing with lesbian visibility, topped off by two subverted mainstream commercials.

An Audience Choice winner at Making Scenes '96, this cute short looks at language and naming.

Crush is the story of a man who wants to turn into an animal. He employs a variety of techniques to transform himself. He cuts off parts of his body. He exercises. He wants to return to the water to speed up evolution a little. Has he gone mad, or is he just tired of being human? As the narrator descends into his private obsessions, we begin to perceive the distorted outlines of reason that guide his journey. The trajectory he takes allows us to reflect upon the correlations between the body and identity, our culture’s obsession with the body beautiful and what it means to be human.

The Hundred Videos is a project undertaken by prolific video artist Steve Reinke, including 100 video works made from 1989-1996. Discussing death, sex, the body, philosophy, and contemporary art, The Hundred Videos defines a unique style of video-essay for the end of the 20th Century. This volume contains videos 55-78: Symposium, Jin's Dream, Ghost Production, Minnesota Inventory, Re-enactment of a Performance, Three Examples, Sparky, Black Heart, Box, The End of My Death, Muriel, Attempt to sing, Assplay, Love Among Corpses, Harvey K., Dr. Asselbergs, Corey, My Fear, Dumbo Climax, Apology, How to Build an Igloo, Microscope, Amoeba, and Treehouse.

"Lonely Boy" condenses and combines two films: Wolf Koenig's classic NFB documentary on Paul Anka (also titled Lonely Boy) and a classic gay porn loop from the late 70's The Summer of Kip Noll.

Caught in the Crossfire is an in-depth and moving look at how Canadian soldiers keep peace in wartorn former Yugoslavia. Seen through the soldiers' eyes, it pays tribute to a community of men and women who have earned the respect of all sides in a bloody dispute. Throughout the film, we gain an awareness of the difficult work of our peacekeepers and of the successes that have resulted from our Canadian policy of refusing to take sides in the conflict.

A portrait of the legendary Madame Simone, shot in the early nineties by an undergraduate student.

The 35th video in Steve Reinke's "The Hundred Videos" project.

Following in the footsteps of Goethe, Stendhal and numerous anonymous travellers, the author desires to recreate the famous Roman itinerary. She trades the archaic travel diary for a video camera, and uses the contemporary means that it offers to the traveller. To each his own alibi; places, dates and all details possessing touristic interest are hidden, in the quest of impressions and lasting images, which are inevitably swept away by time.

An independently-produced film that has been described as filling the void of "good entertaining material that relates to lesbian lives." It's about Andra, a writer/filmmaker with an acknowledged passion for women, who has everything in the current project carefully plotted. Except for Claire.

How to grow up and find one’s place in a lesbian body? Get in the ring, riot-grrrrl, and experience everything to avoid being ill-eased in the end. All you have to do is watch and listen. A vivid and refreshing music-clip that mixes found-footage with cut-up animation.

Part one of the nine-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

A man recalls a sexual encounter. The structure of the film is based on a mixture of refilmed scenes, restructured voices, pornographic extracts, erotic tales and whale songs. It is an essay on the representation of the male body in gay pornography which makes reference to the corpuscular theory (also called the wave theory). According to this physical theory, light is created by the discontinuity of matter and energy.