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Trapped nearly 40 years in a male's body, Katherine Elizabeth Cohen finally frees herself through a sex change. She had worn a mask called Bruce Cohen for years, fulfilling the duties of a son, a husband, and a father. But at forty, Katherine cannot help but to put an end to the charade. She is immediately faced with harassment on the job, estrangement from family and friends, and rejection from society. This intimate and sensitive portrait invites us to join Katherine before her operation in a Montreal clinic and then follow her through her recovery and discovery of a new life. Following Katherine's journey, we learn some extraordinary things about her and discover the tremendous obstacles confronting those who embark on a transsexual journey.

In its present discourse Ivory Towers embodies and reflects concepts that contest the dialectics of power games and power structures that permeate narratives of individual development under fascist regimes.

The baddest all-girl bicycle gang spends a day hangin’ out together.

A skillfully animated exploration of how to set personal boundaries.

What's a poor boy to do? At the beach with his best fag hag girlfriend, our hero spies the archetypal male in swimsuit attire.

As a couple of lesbians move from the city to their new home in the country, a pair of love birds follow them to their new home.

In Sailor Half-Breed the narrator flies like a super-heroine through a landscape of difference, investigating the nature of half-and-half-ness.

A light hearted blasphemous comedy.

Disclosure of HIV status to a lover, rejection and disgust from another, and general malaise convince a young man that suicide would be better than reality. In conclusion the angel of death Azrael bids farewell to the disillusioned youth as he slashes himself into oblivion.

Conspiracy of Lies speaks of alienation and minorities, consumer culture, urban isolation, and the fine balance between mental order and chaos. The tape begins with a voice recounting the story of the discovery of a series of diary entries and lists written by an anonymous author. Through the use of twelve different narrators, an attempt is made to destabilize pre-existing assumptions concerning the voice of the author.

Recounting the contradictions of being queer and Asian by actively resisting the predefined notions of gay male desirability.

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.

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 includes videos 1-14: Excuse of the Real, Family Tree, Watermelon Box, Family Planning, Eleven Dreams, Emergence of Democratic Memory, Speculative Anthropology, Why I Stopped Going to Foreign Films, I Am Not Like You, Barely Human, ROOM, Michael & Lacan, Joke (Version One), and Joke (Version Two).

This collaborative video shot at a glacial lake in the Rocky Mountains, features a dialogue between two women friends who explore their relationship to the natural environment as influenced by their different cultural backgrounds. Through the layering of meditative images of canoeing, this video evokes a subtle examination of race, gender and privilege: how do we enter into this landscape, as residents, immigrants, tourists, and adventurers?

ZERO GRAVITY is a borrowing from the English language which simply means weightlessness, absence of gravity. Around an accident which perhaps will happen, a breathless suspense takes shape throughout the film. The original soundtrack reinforces this atmosphere by making the dramatic impact even more paranoid. "I wanted to make a film about the end of the story."

Produced as part of the National Film Board’s Five Feminist Minutes, this collaborative work between Gwendolyn and fellow sex trade workers is an examination of police harassment, safe sex education and sex worker’s rights. Well received by the public and the critics, the film also won the award for Best First Short Film at La Mondiale de films et vidéos réalisés par des femmes in April 1991.

The sound of a heartbeat pumps life into Linear Dreams, a scratch animation film that moves from the simple lines of the unconscious to representational realism.

A PSA showing various children and teenagers' favourite things, such as tap dancing, magic tricks and making sound effects.

An investigation on the memory of an event that occurred on April 3, 1994 ithe midst of the Bosnian War.

The Odd Couple. With intestines.

Are erratic angels fallen angels? When we meet forty-eight-year-old Colin, the main character of the film, he is walking under the flyover of a motorway. He is on foot while those who play the game by society's rules whizz by a few feet above his head at the driving wheels of their Cadillacs. He dropped out long ago and lives alone forgotten by his family. He used to be a junkie and an alcoholic, now he is a marginal and develops analytical and self-justifying arguments which sometimes turn into a flow of jumbled words. Cumming introduces us to the everyday realities of this character with honesty.

The artist spends the afternoon in his tiny apartment listening to music he dislikes and ruminating on what it means to be an artist. All the edits are in-camera and the monologues and songs are largely improvised.

A tired University of Alberta student gets a little help from Mary Shelley to learn about the University of Alberta Library system

A short drama about a woman's awakening to feminist spiritual transformation.

"I capture little chosen moments. I snatch them from the subject and the subject is me. I speak in an off-hand manner. I catch floating moments on a nice body of water. My work has something specific about it : it suits me. I can sing, waddle about, and say things. A woman sitting any place is already something. It's usually elegant if you don't mind crossing your legs. Mine are crossed."

What it is like to be small, brown with a big imagination and growing up on the Canadian prairies.

16mm, coul. Text by Pascale Durand (Revue Liberté)

Introduces us to a Canadian Jewish lesbian who has recently lost a friend to AIDS and cannot sleep because she is obsessed with death.

TV film made in St John's, Newfoundland for the CBC

Short film whereby a man learns to dance.

An animated Raeside cartoon from 1990.

Colorful, musical experimental film, recently restored.

Two of Canada’s most extreme cabaret performers, Tom Comet and Christine Taylor, go on a hallucinatory journey to Burning Man 1997. Amid the raw danger of the event, Juicy Danger Meets Burning Man documents the real-life love story between the two and their personal experiences along the way.

A little girl espies a wondrous pony under her window one charmed moonlit night. Is it all a dream? Flora is spirited back in time to an enchanted forest. Here, she witnesses the machinations of a wicked wizard who casts a spell on the pony. The courageous little girl eventually confronts the wizard and conquers the forces of evil that had been unleashed centuries before! Sure to delight young imaginations, The Long Enchantment is a spellbinding animated fairy tale, where "once upon a time" ends "happily ever after."

From the opening scenes of clothespins "dancing" on a rack, through the images of the family photographs, a wooden chair, an expired student I.D. card and fragmented parts of the body, the video opens up a dialogue of personal identity. In particular, a recorded conversation between Kinga and Delfina posits many questions regarding their identifications as either Polish Canadian and/or Canadian-Polish. Is it or is it no longer possible to identify oneself with a fixed geographic place?

Every summer, thousands of people go to Sainte-Anne de Beaupré to celebrate the feast of the patron saint of the sick and disabled. Notes on the Sacred paints a picture of the event, presenting the tourists, pilgrims, clergy and information media.

Deep South 1990: what changes and what does not. Whites of Their Eyes focuses on four people : Richard, a student at Tulane; Mack, a resident of Selma's projects, and Charlie and Verna May who trap and skin alligators. In the free form dialogue which emerges, each addresses complex issues with candor and humour, forming a mesh that belies standard notions of race, class and consumption.

This tape focuses on the nature of urban development in Chicago, the centre of American architecture. We encounter three people who relate some of the hard realities of life in the city, through a haze of historical and cultural phenomena.

Butterflies, totem poles and satellites. Incisive lines and slashes of colour. Images inspired by West Coast Aboriginal art, by nature and by personal experience. Welcome to the world of Canadian painter Jack Shadbolt, and to Transfigured/Transfiguré, Stephen Arthur's brilliant animated homage to his work. Using computer technology, Transfigured/Transfiguré portrays Shadbolt's shamanistic vision by animating a large number of his paintings into a seamless flow of interacting, transforming figures.

If you've ever been mistaken for a boy, you'll identify with the dry humor and unmistakable style of Can You Say Adnrogynous?

A Cartoon by Dan Collins

Rose Ukkumaluk, an Igloolik elder, relates the tale of Attagutaaluk, a woman who survived a starvation and lived to become an honoured resident of Igloolik.

Considered one of the "cathedrals" of ice hockey, the construction and history of the Maple Leaf Gardens is featured.

A mockumentary of TV business and market reporting. The hype and style of TV business stations belies basic market information and is akin to sports and lifestyle reporting. Numbers are everything and reporters rely on forecasting tools like chicken-entrails and numerology. Stories ignore social consequences of market action.

This was a site-specific work for spectra-board urban screen located at BC Place stadium in Vancouver. This Day Without Art project, curated by Scott Watson, was launched on Dec. 1, 1993 as part of AIDS Awareness Day. I Love You appeared in four languages: English, French, Chinese, and Coast-Salish. The two spectra-boards on the exterior of the stadium is visible to commuters on two bridges and surrounding streets and buildings in downtown Vancouver.

Created by Anishnabe Videographer Joe Beardy and trainee Darlene Naponse, Aboriginal Radio Waves Part II is the second part of a two part series about community radio. In Aboriginal Radio Waves II, Joe Beardy and Darlene Naponse detail the steps involved in obtaining a station, from procedure of applying for grants, the start up of the station, to radio programming are covered within the video, and respond to community concerns related to funding and autonomy.

Created by Anishnabe Videographer Joe Beardy and trainee Darlene Naponse, Aboriginal Radio Waves Part I is the first part of a two part series about community radio. Through interviews and visuals, the video shares with you the voices of station managers, volunteers, DJs, and community members.

A compilation of short videos made by and about Indigenous elders from Moose Factory, Kingston, Guelph, Thunder Bay, Peterborough, Sioux Lookout, Toronto, Rama First Nations, and Ottawa.

What kind of symbolism is encoded in modern sculpture and dance? When Lois Carmen Denominator asks this question, only the camera operator has the guts to stick around and find out the answer.

Invoking smoke, magic tricks, Michael Dunahee and Michael Jackson imagery, Andrew and friends, yet again, ritualistically slaughter that two-face bastard, purging evil, curing the sick, cleansing mankind.

Forbidden Fear portrays a deaf gay man with an obsession with oranges - a metaphor for coming out

Focused on the acute pain of childhood humiliation, this works unsettling visual and audio combinations create a sinister atmosphere of mistrust and embarrassment. Part of Logue's Enlightened Nonsense series.

A brazen brunette finds herself bent on infuriating her lover

Cousin Mike explores what happens when you start fooling around with the conventions of commercial porn. The video was partly a response to a challenge from Toronto's NOW magazine -- take a porn-making course being offered by a women's sex store, make a short porn tape and write about it. The future of porn? Or dead end?

Michael and Jake are two boyfriends trying to jumpstart their failing open relationship.