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Two girls going through a break-up try to avoid bitter drama and embrace the sweetness of why they liked each other in the first place. Through stop-motion animation their hearts burst and candy tears fill the screen to perform a sad crazy dance.
In memory of a friend who died of an AIDS related illness, this tape is a representation of the grieving process and an act of mourning. In examining the whirlwind of emotions felt upon the death of a friend, the artist confronts the fear, guilt and anger which arises from the dominant ideological construction of the AIDS epidemic.
A brazen brunette finds herself bent on infuriating her lover
Visually poetic, this video diary explores the artists reunion with his family and his culture after years of separation.
A helpless maiden is tiring of her consensual S&M relationship with her lover, and "evil" queen. She wants to break up. An impassioned monologue in a dungeon with our heroine in wrist cuffs quickly becomes an emotionally messy ending in flames.
Visually luscious and aurally-fixated, this short narrative tape offers a poetic and funky celebration of the Bisexual Queendom. A sequel to Bristol's title "videobut", it's her first tape that you can dance to.
Two best friends in their early twenties gaze into each other's eyes and recollect their sexcapades with a stupefying succession of boyfriends. The only true love here is their mutual adoration.
An experimental short exploring the absences and buried histories that follow the act of leaving home, filtered through the many routes that leaving home takes for a "Canadien" daughter of Yugoslav immigrants: cultural displacement, assimilation, mother/daughter histories, sexuality and memory. Childhood and recent Super 8 footage is intercut to create a repository for family portraits, cultural memories of the balkans, immigration history, and personal reflection.
After a devastating realization that she was an abuser, Sam Sarra produced this film about mental and physical abuse in lesbian relationships. Using revealing interviews, the film depicts the all too common repetitive patterns of abuse that more often than not go unnoticed or are simply not talked about.
This is the shocking short coming-out film made by Harmsen and Woodbury for the 1999 SPLICE THIS! Super 8 film festival. It involves grown men shuffling up an electrical charge on an acrylic carpet and says more about being a homo than we would normally care to admit.
Looking through a camera obscura during an eclipse of the sun, he said : "How funny...I can make a bigger hole, but it doesn't work as well. It's funny how pale the image can be on a sheet of paper. Isn't it fantastic?"
Based on the homophobic antics of Roseanne Skoke, former MP for Central Nova in NS, this humourous video examines the somewhat unexpected implications of her obsession.
This video presents a number of women telling stories about their body.
Shot at the estate of former Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Nude men adorn the castle-like ruins.
An epic saga of good will towards men. And a woman.
A young gay man deals with the aftermath of a sexual assault.
Juxtaposing wild clips from old science fiction TV shows with narration about an encounter with his 'favourite' brother. The director has created an amazing and surreal video work.
When the daily grind makes you abandon where you would most like to stay.
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.
Leah takes the oral tradition to its extreme in Portrait of a Woman of Colour.
How many generations have waited for freedom and how many more will wait?
The Bearded Lady tells the gay mainstream to shut the fuck up and listen, turn its scrutinizing eyes on their own transphobia, racism and poorbashing, and to think hard about their misuse of the term “community”.
This delightfully twisted film explores the realm of sex with fast food.
Blowing Bubbles does a great job of twisting and magnifying the issues of street life, safer sex and discrimination from the perspective of someone living with HIV/AIDS in somewhat surreal and harsh ways.
A young woman struggles with her own identity in relation to the accepted norms of the lesbian community in this witty piece about personal choice and sexy black boots.
Fleeting Super-8 images of island and family life, her father, Catholic school and family idiosyncrasies.
"Catch the voices, phrases...Experience a confusion that is Jewish in soul, youth at heart."
She cooks! She cleans! She nurtures! It s Lesbo-Mom! Get yours today! The versatile new accessory for today's discerning dyke... An embittered little rant on the fetishizing of lesbian moms and their kids.
Poetic and surreal, Remotely In Touch explores what we perceive as an image; what is 'real'; what is constructed or science fiction; and what are our new codes of signification created by systems of information. Remotely in Touch uses images created by remote digital signals — sent via satellite or robotic camera — and juxtaposes these with analog video images encapsulating a 'visceral moment' or an 'embodied movement'.
"Sounding Queer Space" connects different ideas about what constitutes queer space. Comments on safety, inclusion, architecture and how to create queer space are accompanied by a song by Veda Hille.
Mumsie is a stylish documentary that explores the bitter-sweet relations between mothers and daughters. Illustrated through stories that candidly expose wry truths in a hauntingly beautiful and economical style.
The footage was collected at AIDS fundraisers held at the time in Vancouver East Side, Canada from 1994 to 1996. The Body Remembers chronicles Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco's struggle to make drag into a form of artesania (not art) that heals. Drag allows us to present our damaged selves to others when we are disfigured and ugly by conventional standards. Ibanez-Carrasco struggled with Kaposi's Sarcoma and other AIDS-related opportunistic infections at that time and drag shows were a way to bring his extended family around him and to create awareness about AIDS.
French Kiss, Vancouver's jet-setting glamour girls, are profiled in this documentary short.
A woman loses three friends to AIDS and learns an important lesson about the value of friendship.
A mockumentary about a satirical campaign to combat homophobia.
"Surviving Memory" is a film about the role of loss in the formation of identity. It is a narrative intercut with documentary fragments of political actions, which connect the various characters to event through collective memory. Through autobiographical spoken texts, the narrator relays fragments of a relationship between two Jewish women.
Messy lives. Messy relationship. Messy sock drawers. This short and sweet animation will show you how to tidy it all up in less than one minute.
An inspirational portrait of two Vancouver men living with AIDS.
A dance video with drag queens, surfer music and Scrabble geeks. A parody of gender roles both queer and straight, in a fast paced multi layered mix.
A campy docudrama about what makes some of the kids at Toronto's schools happy and gay.
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 31-54: Lonely Boy, I Love You Too, Charming Mutt, Ice Cream, Instructions for Recovering Forgotten Childhood Memories, Request, Jason, Experiment, Editorial, Understanding Heterosexuality, Pioneer, My Personal Virus, Vision (With Birds), Self Help, My Erotic Double, Sleep, Dream Work, Artifact, Monologue (with Provocation), Child, Windy Morning in April, Love Letter to Doug, Three Plays, and Screen Saver.
In this sci-fi tale of conquest and empowerment, sex-toys become beacons for a new species of colonizers.
Two young gay Asians banter about the West Coast queer Asian experience.
Shot entirely in the Northwest Territories, four women take a road trip to a drive-in, Northern style.
A tongue-in-cheek look at compulsory heterosexuality. The film recounts the story of a girl whose attempts to hide her sexual orientation are put in jeopardy by her excessive perspiration whenever her female friends hug her.
A lyrical eulogy bestowing the possibilities for lesbian motherhood.
A short drag video about becoming a businessman in public for a day.
An intimate portrayal of a young man's pleasure as a drag and leather queen.
"...in the privacy. of your bedroom, you are still confused by guilt, and my desire to rid you of it..."
This is a documentary on the subject of male masturbation. It goes beyond the conventional talking head documentary and explores a new experimental genre where the body instead of the face is used as the communicative mode for the dissemination of information through the expression and demonstration of the act.
A dedication to Lauren Howes' partner.
This videotape provides electronic, metaphorical images which, in part, illustrate theories of the disappearing body as a result of social controls, social silencing and oppression. The tape is a response to the inability to feel, touch and express in a culture that denies desire as well as non-desire. The struggle to escape the restraints of social regulation is explored through layered images, appropriated from stock biology lab films, and layered narrated sequences. Images of contemporary body decoration practices, such as piercing and tattooing depict the ability of the postmodern body to integrate the power that exists in ones own body.
A woman sits in front of her refrigerator and lists the different ways she loves her body. Two women, one fat, one thin, make love in an empty warehouse.
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!
Marilyn Frye says lesbian sex is inarticulate. Maureen Bradley says, "Marilyn Frye should have been at my house on New Year's Eve." Sexy black and white images are mixed with frank talk about sex, love, and girls, capturing that gritty space between what is politically correct and what takes your breath away.
Beating the Streets traces six years in the lives of Marilyn Brighteyes and Lance Marty, two inner-city Aboriginal teenagers struggling to turn their lives around. And it is the story of Joe Cloutier, the teacher -- and former dropout -- determined to help them.
Eric is a secret agent, a liar, and a loser, who is struggling to come out of the closet.
A look into bike couriers' community, their work, and philosophy of life.
Big Fat Slenderella looks at dieting from the fat person's point of view. In this work, excerpts from documentary interviews with fat people are juxtaposed with fat animals in captivity by the inventive use of wipe effects. Commercials for products like The Poodle Diet Recipe Collection satirize the mainstream obsession with dieting and their fear of gaining weight. Despite the conventional wisdom dished out by medical practitioners, studies have shown that dieting simply does not work for 95% of the population. Why are we still encouraged to diet? Could it be profits and the fact that if someone is dieting, that's all they have energy for? The fat experts in Slenderella are all fat themselves, and tell stories of the many diets and medically administered amphetamine "cures" they have tried over the years.
The film uses body movement and gesture to express a woman's struggle with and emergence from the effects of child abuse on her sense of self and sexuality.