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An animated and subverted version of the celebrated opera, Lakmé, by Delibes, where Lakmé and her devoted servant, Mallika, are lovers.

A woman is preyed upon by her own frenzy to monopolise. An urge to die infiltrates the carousel of her thoughts but she succeeds in harnessing the power of her emotions to achieve her ends.

Zev Asher's fascinating collage documentary "RAT ART: Croatian Independents" focuses on artists working in Croatia, a nation devastated by the war in the former Yugoslavia. Many of these artists, working in the capital city of Zagreb, were relatively distant from the war zone, while others fought at the front lines, but all were equally aware of the war's effects on their nation.

Steele Your Heart is a trilogy of relationships between dogs, technology and the environment. It questions who we are and where we are going, as individuals and as a human race. It touches upon the existence of time and how we measure it. How time and existence go on after death through memories. Memories, reflecting the playback mechanisms in our mind, which reflect how technology has taken over our memories through todays playback systems, photos, video, books, etc...

The first in a four part series titled the Pave Exchange: The Farmer deals with the changes the farmer has seen and The Vacant Farm a run down farm house where no one has stepped inside for many a year, ah, but what memories yet to be told.

Psychogenic Fragments is an experimental portrait revolving around an individual's reality in relation to society's misconception of her. The artist attempts to portray the myth of depression through one example of the kind of scenarios that are played out in the mind of an individual suffering from depression. Four characters interact revealing their views, opinions, pain, suppression and struggles. They appear to be very different from each other. The viewer, however, will be able to judge whether there is as great a gap "behind the scenes".

An aqtuqsi is a dream from which one must wake up, a paralyzing nightmare. “I decided to put my aqtuqsi in video. It’s so interesting because it is not a nightmare or a regular dream: an aqtuqsi is something that can paralyze you when you’re sleeping.”

A woman stares at her reflection in the mirror, drawn like Narcissus to swim in her own perfection. Or did she forget to take her pills?

The Medicine Show utilizes narrative storytelling, mock interviews, and staged theatrical vignettes to create a satirical portrait of a day in the life of an HIV-positive gay man named Gregory navigating his treatment options.

Take a lesson from hilarious "professor" Bernard Fernandes, as he teaches his audience to speak Trinidadian style English. Using typically Trinidadian humour, this work turns a few stereotypes upside down and questions what is "correct".

Cup Cake is chubby eye candy. She takes us on a quest for the perfect dessert. She is proof that eating is sexy. Cupcake talks without shame, about desserts that she loves.

Beginning with an evocative and disturbing look at a young girl’s first communion, Divorcing Jesus gives new meaning to eating the body of Christ.

Borrowing images from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, LeFave revisits one of the most famous murder scenes in film history. In this case however, the search is for the absent female body. Is the female gaze dead?

Stewart requested that a number of men pose nude for his camera. Then he asked them why they posed for him.

A young man in the Alps is confronted with his culture's fears of nature, wolves, sexuality and wildness. Based on the short story Peter and the Wolf by Angela Carter.

A brief moment of two women kissing, reclaimed from the lesbian subtext of a popular science fiction television program, is transformed into an epic of queer desire.

A frustrated jet-setter who can't travel discovers video superimposition. Through the magic of video technology, he is relegated to a box at the bottom of the screen as other people's pictures of faraway lands are shown. The protagonist reflects his generation's acceptance of today's diminished expectations. He is left to film his seemingly blank space coupled with his amusing narrative as others explore the world.

Half-breed Alice attempts to become queen and struggles with the Red Queen and the White Queen's disapproval of her racial transgressions.

Unmapping Desire is an experimental video-poem exploring separation, political borders and social boundaries, which keep women from loving women. Set to evocative images and music, the poem unfolds charting the journey of two South Asian women and their victory of through imagining "borderless countries in a county-less world."

A candid and often humorous monologue creates an offbeat portrait of a young lesbian.

Documentary look at a transgender man and his queer family.

"I can't wait for you to come home..."

Through the use of spoken word, two distinct stories that begin in two different times and places move toward the same event where a sailor is murdered at sea. One story follows another man's quest to win over the affections of a fellow sailor. As a whole, the video tells the story of the sometimes turbulent relationship between masculine and feminine bodies.

A chance meeting between the supercool, worldly wise Belly and the awkward, heart-broken Femur becomes an afternoon roam around the city. Their day culminates into what would seem to be a simple gesture to most but proves pivotal for these two.

Desire, fantasy, and passion meet Bollywood in this series of spicy vignettes.

What do you get when you ask your 92-year old devout Jewish Nana and a 72-year old gay stranger questions you've only dared to dream of?

A Sunday afternoon couch video about the search for the perfect kiss.

Two dolls talk about the trials and tribulations of love and commodification.

A teenage lesbian's attempts to form friendships with older lesbians leads her on a disturbing ride through the ageist terrain of the lesbian community.

An experimental video about a woman who begins to explore the boundaries within her psyche.

Who is responsible? Am I responsible?

A satire on pop culture, gay porn, and not being able to live "if living is without you".

Gender, Lace and Glass concerns examining and challenging the nature of one's fantasies. It looks at how dominant culture's co-authorship of personal imaginings can impose priorities and standards that may be miles away from the lived experience or values of the person fantasizing. The protagonist begins the process of undoing/rewriting a self-image that doesn't fit.

A few of her favourite things: fries-with-gravy, junkyard, junkyard dog...

This video focuses on the experiences of four Asian men. Each person is in a different stage of HIV infection and each has significant experiences with various issues surrounding the disease. The interviews focus on the personal, the therapeutic, the medical and the political with HIV as a constant reference throughout.

A tape about the photo exhibition of the same name created by Kiss & Tell, a group of lesbian artists (Persimmon Blackbridge, Lizard Jones, Susan Stewart). Spectators/participants/voyeurs were invited to write comments on the walls about images depicting a range of sexual practices between women. The soundtrack is equal part girls-making out and the voices of the women who produced and/or experienced the show. Chock full of comments on the most debated aspects of erotica and porn, Drawing the Line steps into the fray as a solid documentation of a pulse-taking art event.

This film revisits many of the subjects of Jennifer Hodge's 1983 documentary "Home Feeling." The film explores how life has changed over the years for residents of the Jane Street and Finch Avenue area in Toronto, Ontario. The film explores issues of racism, police brutality, urban housing, and immigration.

I had been looking for someone's unnerving encounter, that conversation that one just couldn't get out of their head, the kind of event that leaves one still debating out loud while walking in the streets or doing one's tidies in the bathroom. After interviewing a few people, I found Lisa Black who obliged with one of her own and became the film's main character. A situation with many angles; the telling, the filming, the final projection event... YOU is an imaginary fictionalized you in a whimsical space.

Seething grain and swirling textures of Super 8 processed in a pail. Film as memory ... an elaborate reconstruction perpetually shifting through the course of time. And so is this ... a personal recollection of the intensity of what it may have been like to be a child.

A mini-presentation of consciousness dealing with cosmos. The world in a grain of sand. Connections between life, death, and the world are neither static nor symmetrical but flowing and intuitive. The movement of emulsion through which images are seen is like the mind trying to retrieve and put things together. C’est la vie is a positive muscular little thing

Newton was the greatest of all the natural magicians, learned in matters musical, theological and in Apocalyptic literature. He believed bodies were composed of "certain aetheral spirits or vapours"; one ... is the ether, "the succus nutritius of the earth, or primary substance"; the second substance disseminated through the first, is light.

Girl From Moush is a poetic montage of the artist's journey through her subconscious Armenia. It is not an Armenia based in a reality but one, which appears, like the mythical city of Shangri-La, when ones eyes are closed. A mesh of traditional images 'engraved' in film, with haunting voice-over, and rich colors, music and rhythms that continues long after the film is over. The viewers are engaged and forced through unchartered landscapes of uncertainty and fascination.

my I's is a visual journey through time, space, and memories of the filmmaker from her childhood to the present. Not parting with her Super 8 camera for four years, she accumulated a variety of images from different parts of the world and from different times of the year. She then combined these images with home movie footage of herself and her mother.

Canadian aviation history makes for fascinating viewing in this international award winning, nine part documentary. On Canadian Wings begins with Canada's first foray into the world of flight with experiments in aeronautics and acts of pilot bravery that set the stage for Canada's future excellence in military aviation. The video recounts the importance Canadian pilots played in the air battles of the First and Second World Wars, particularly Canada's extraordinary successes in the Battle of Britain. It also takes a look at Canadian air power in the Korean conflict and explores the technological superiority of Canada's world class Avro Arrow supersonic jet. Finally we learn about Canada's involvement, through the UN, in modern conflicts like the Balkans and Central America.

In this domestic store ideas are traded. A collection of improbable moments, games in the kitchen with feet, hands, mouth and radio.

Memories and reminiscences mark the passage of a young woman to the land of her childhood.

A work using the basic dramatic skeleton of a Greek tragedy while hanging rancid bits of contemporary meat on the bones. Fashioned in the school of prairie surrealism, revolving around the theme that "The gods don't know how to cook".

All the land has been sold and the wealthy live in mobile luxury homes, suspended from a network of cables covering the earth. With this super-sophisticated technology, the slightest malfunction can be catastrophic.

A loving portrait of two motorcycle-riding lesbians.

A beat-driven, flesh filled document of the nocturnal paradise that was "Dyke Night" at the Boom Boom Room in Toronto.

Big Jim and Marylin are inflatable plastic puppets and feel this animal urge to do it. They retreat to the intimacy of their Elvis-room checking out the whole range of Kamasutra postures - not one single dirty number that is left out. A video for people with bad taste.

Qatuwas - People Gathering Together powerfully documents this rebirth of the ocean-going canoe and celebrates the healing power of tradition and the resurgence of Northwest Coast indigenous culture.

This video, in a series of poetic scenes, shows men and women upon whom banality has not yet taken hold. Agile as fishers of eels, they capture the fleeting moments of daily life and transform them into extraordinary events. Storytellers in a broad sense, and without the usual pipes or rocking chairs, they sweep us off our feet in a strange waltz. Throughout, we meet a hotel keeper who takes in a sailor in distress, a man pursued by a little cloud of odour, a woman who believes that she possesses a magic ring, etc.

A short look at three women who are sometimes mistaken for men. Discussion of gender identity and ambiguity: one who alternated gender costumes while performing in a rock band, another who is often publicly challenged because she looks masculine and a third who modeled based on her androgynous appearance.