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Kool-Aid Man in Second Life- Jon Rafman interview with Nicholas O'Brien (2009)

Courage & Patience & Grit is a DVD/CD set released by the band Great Big Sea on November 14, 2006. It contains video of the live performance from a concert at the Empire Theatre in Belleville, Ontario along with music videos for the songs "Captain Kidd", "When I Am King", "Lukey", and "Shines Right Through Me". The live performance was recorded during their The Hard and the Easy tour.

Biography of Nova Scotia born contralto Portia White, who in the 1940' and 50's was often compared to the American Marian Anderson, covering her singing and teaching careers. Uses archival film and TV footage, excerpts from recordings, and interviews with family, friends, pupils and her accompanist, to portray a talented, dignified woman, her career shortened by mismanagement and ill health, but who left an important heritage that is remembered by those who knew her.

An intimate look at cinematographic creation, this visual essay shares with us secrets of the legendary Canadian animator Norman Mclaren and his personal view of filmmaking.

Meet Emily: she's smart, attractive, talented, and has everything a girl could ever want. The only downside is that she's upside-down.

Since the first days of Great Big Sea, back in the spring of 1993, the Newfoundland based band has wanted to make a live album. Known across the country for their incendiary and powerful performances, their recent tour provided the perfect opportunity to do so. The result is an unusual live document of a band in love with traveling, their music, and the excitement of standing on stage in front of a crowd.

A summer in the life of a mother and her two children. Précis of the Everyday is a tender look at the memory, passing time, imagination and poetry that make every day a unique experience. In her desire to “record every moment”, the mother is humbled by how much escapes her.

Momentum’s team video from 2007, featuring Rick McCrank, Brandon Biebel, Jereme Rogers, Corey Sheppard, Chris Haslam and with Arron Johnson, Mike Barker, Morgan Smith, Ted Degros, Magnus Hanson, Keegan Sauder, Nathan Lacoste and Travis Stenger Artwork by Andrew Pommier

Montreal, 1734. A tragic event forever changes the life of a slave and of the entire city. A mystery where love, secrets and betrayal collide.

Martin finally believes he has sold a sweeper to a retiree who turns out to be a dangerous individual.

Zooming back from an image in close-up a brightly colored and kitschy room is revealed. Digitally manipulated objects and figures appear/disappear, details and colors change in scale, and intensity, sexes change. The Living Room digitally dramatizes and multiplies chosen manifestations and implications of On/Off and/or Absence/Presence. The Living Room is also part of the longer feature Corpus Collosum.

Black Mold Exposure explores the bizarre illnesses associated with exposure to toxic mold and the film participants' difficult task of regaining their health and lives in an atmosphere of political and social intolerance and disbelief. Black Mold Exposure is a first-ever look into the lives of those claiming to be ill from mold and the controversial and volatile climate surrounding it.

What starts out as a push and shove match quickly escalates into an all out battle royale between two very beautiful but deadly rival gangs.

Larry Towell is the only Canadian member of the legendary Magnum Photo agency, known for its humanist and universal approach. Towell belongs to this tradition. This documentary reveals the artist and the man through his photography and his thoughts.

Much is said about farmers, but what about them, truly?

An “epic” adventure and a magical environmental fairy tale. Amy Lockhart uses cutouts, drawings and collage (captured and manipulated as digital multi-plane animation) to conjure up her whimsical world. This film was made as part of the second edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

This short animation is bleak and apparently grim, but it is an assertive statement on self-determination and the fundamental need for both dark and light. This film was made as part of the first edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

A group of actors are rehearsing a supposedly cursed play- When the body count rises the actors must ask themselves, is the curse real or is there a murderer among them?

Plunge into a putrid abyss of gore-garnished gruesomeness and slime-soaked sin as the sinister Doctor Gore turns soft flesh into hideous mutant skin in a venomous vortex of violence and vileness.

According to a popular magazine, the 58th spookiest place in the world is the Ashbrooke Barn in the small town known as Blood Creek. Local legend states that if you perform a specific ritual in the barn and the old house up the road, you'll see visions of Zeke Ashbrooke, a farmer who went mad and hung himself, his wife and children. Rumour has it that Zeke's wife - now known as The Dark Lady - still roams the woods of Blood Creek. This summer five young campers will venture to Blood Creek and accept a dare that could cost them their lives.

On July 20th, 2005, Canada became the fourth country in the world to extend the right to marry to lesbian and gay couples. The End of Second Class traces the story through the voices of three couples from Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia, and key activists and human rights lawyers who were at the forefront of the battle.

At the heart of the Plateau Mont-Royal, Roger Toupin owns a corner grocer that has become an impromptu social club frequented by people who belong to a way of life that is fast disappearing. The film captures the touching and revealing last moments of this unique place.

Two college roommates travel around the city doing day-to-day activities while preparing for an audition for a part they both want.

A young man heads out to the prairies with an unusual itinerary.

This movie takes the viewers along Baba Banda Singh Bahadur's journey from his first meeting with Guru Gobind Singh Ji till he conquered Sirhind and established the first Khalsa rule.

Fleeing their war-torn homeland, forty thousand Algerians come to Montreal, Quebec in the 1990’s. Many are refused refugee status and are not allowed to study or work normally. Years go by, children are born and Canada becomes home. Then comes 911. Deportations begin.

Argentina's turbulent history, culminating in the great crisis of 2001, has seen the emergence of a unique wave of artistic and cultural expression. The documentary "The Art of Resistance" introduces us to creators from various collectives who use artistic expression as a means to spread powerful social messages, explore limitless creativity, and actively participate in the construction of a new reality.

Alice discovers a lump in her breast. Martin, her husband, is trying to conceal the results from a study on the pill and breast cancer, which writes off years of dedicated research that he's done on synthetic hormones. Paul, their oldest son, wants to start his own online business, StripBoxing.com. Jerrett, their younger son, helps Paul with the programming of the site. Sarah, their teenage daughter, tries to be accepted by her peers, which brings a fight with her mother that makes Sarah run away from home. Enter Faith, detached, luminous, irresistible. She changes their lives forever.

Jaime Lo, a shy Chinese-Canadian girl, observes the world around her through her drawings. When Jaime's father is sent to Hong Kong for a year-long work assignment, Jaime must use her creativity to cope with his absence. This story offers us a lighthearted glimpse into a common dilemma that many immigrant families face, where one parent must work overseas in order to provide for the rest of the family back home.

A mockumentary depicting the day to day exploits of Alligator Man and his new sidekick Leaping Lizard.

Annai is looking for the eye he is missing. He goes deep into the sea, on top of the mountains, between the bushes and the trees and in the feathers of birds. But he still can't find his other eye.

A father, a son. A snowy retreat, once appreciated, in deep woods. A tete-a-tete that will change their life forever.

“In 2002, I was invited to curate two video programs of Canadian works for EuroPride in Koln, Germany. Feeling disillusioned by the mainstreaming or “gay-streaming” of queer culture, I slammed together a collection of shorts critiquing our queer culture – an anti-Pride program. The second program was Smash: Reflecting Sex, an assemblage of video clips dealing with sex and sexuality by Paul Wong." - Winston Xin

A young couple attempts to make their way to a rescue station during a worldwide crisis in which the dead return to life seeking living victims for sustenance. When they arrive, the shelter is being overrun by the undead and they seek refuge in a nearby abandoned house, and can only watch in horror as destruction and carnage ensue outside the windows... Low on food, water, and deprived of sleep, their grasp on sanity begins to slip away. But they have one small hope that may allow them to battle their way across the war-zone that was once the Garden City to what they hope is another survivor, and escape the maelstrom together. They fight not only with the reanimated dead, but with their own bodies and minds, as they hallucinate and slip in and out of consciousness, in their desperate final effort.

Wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer and his wife, environmentalist Leanne Allison follow a herd of 120,000 caribou on foot across 1500 km of Arctic tundra, hoping to raise awareness of the threats to the caribou's survival. Along this journey, they brave torrid conditions, dangerous wildlife and treacherous terrain all in the hopes of learning the truth about this epic migration.

The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

Fayette and Roy are an elderly couple in a dysfunctional relationship. Roy is dependent on Fayette for the basics in life, such as cooking and cleaning, yet he is always yelling at her that she can't even do these things right. To add what she considers a little sunshine in her life, Fayette buys a canary, which she initially hides from Roy. The yellow bird will eventually fundamentally change the nature of Fayette and Roy's relationship.

While travelling the roads of the Quebec countryside, one often sees off-beat structures and fabulous installations. These curious constructions are the work of local people who, even with no artistic training, are compelled by an almost-visceral desire to create. This film shows us the work and everyday life of three such artists. Harshly judged by their compatriots, they face the devastating reality of living on the fringe of a society that seeks to ostracize them at all cost.

Two Canadian police officers take on a tour of duty in East Timor.

If you suffer from an overwhelming sense of dread brought on by the realization of your own insignificance in the universe, then you need Elder Sign.

Mirage of El Dorado leads us into the mountains of northern Chile, where the devastating operations of Canadian mining companies threaten a fragile ecosystem in one of the driest parts of the globe. This « political cowboy flick» follows the pitched battle between a farming community in the Huasco valley and Canada’s mining giant Barrick Gold with its sidekick Noranda (now part of the Suisse corporation Xstrata). It’s a battle fought high in the Andes cordillera where farmers and local representatives fear the ravages of open pit mining operations in a place where a fragile system of glaciers feeds the rivers that flow into the farmlands built out of the advancing Atacama desert.

Deep in the Rocky Mountains - in the city of Calgary, Alberta Canada - lies the most famous training facility in the history of professional wrestling: the world-renowned Hart Dungeon. Since the 1950s, aspiring wrestlers from all over the world have come to the home of Stu Hart with the dream of learning the art of professional wrestling. In that time, Stu and his sons Bruce, Keith and Ross have helped shape the careers of some of the most celebrated figures in the sport, including champions such as Chris Jericho, Chris Benoit, "British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith, Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, Brian Pillman, Jushin "Thunder" Liger, Stu's sons Owen and Bret, and so many more. Now, for the very first time, experience the sacrifices Stu and his wife Helen had to make in order to survive in one of the most cutthroat businesses in the world, the talent that made their family into stars, and the courage that made them legends.

A mystical gardener harvests fruits from the earth that defy everyone's expectations.

Over a dozen of the planet's brightest minds are brought together to show how the weird is becoming wired and why a new era of quantum technologies is going to rock your world.

At the age of 5, Hannah Taylor spotted her first homeless person in the back alleys of Winnipeg. This experience not only troubled her, but it drove her to do nothing less than change the world. The Ladybug Foundation, the charity Hannah helped establish, has raised over a million dollars to date. With her huge heart and can-do attitude, she preaches a simple message of "Share a little of what you have and always care about others."

Simon Paquet, rédacteur-concepteur de refrains publicitaires dans une agence, devient obsédé par son travail à un point tel qu’il voit peu à peu le contrôle de sa vie lui échapper. L’arrivée de Magic Dave, un idéateur exceptionnel, à l'agence, provoque une confrontation sans merci où la lucidité de Simon sera mise à rude épreuve.

Refugee Class of 2000 is a series of three TV ads produced as part of the Unite Against Racism campaign mounted by the Canadian Race Relations Foundation. These ads started airing nationally on Jan. 15, 2000. The central subjects are thirty four Grade 12 students from the graduating class of 2000 of Sir Charles Tupper Secondary School. Tupper is in a working class culturally diverse neighbourhood in Vancouver. Many of the students are first generation born Canadians. Grad students were chosen as the demographic group, they straddle two centuries, the violent racist past and representing the hopes and dreams of a better future in the new multicultural world.

This short documentary tells the story of a cheese—the famous Oka—and of the monks who make it. The Trappists in Oka, Quebec, began making the cheese around 1890, when a Trappist monk from France taught them the recipe, which dates back to the 11th century. Today, Brother Albéric continues to make the cheese at an abbey in Manitoba according to traditional methods and a secret recipe written in a mysterious notebook.

This short animation celebrates menopause through the story of Mabel. She’s juggling work, teenagers and an elderly mom. Now she’s got hot flashes and chin hairs! Before you can say "estrogen," purple-haired Mabel finds herself the heroine of her own adventure. Colourful computer animation and a rich musical score offer a reassuring look at one of the most important passages in a woman's life.

Tom finds friendship in the local residents of Elora on a father son camp out at the Elora Gorge Park.

This compilation is a slice of life showing us the dramatic side of shorts and a darker side of the rainbow. These 5 films deal with death in one way or another and illustrate a real perspective of what life deals us sometimes. Includes: Blessing (2003); Our Father (2004); Quintessence (2003); The Invitation (2004); The Last Secret (2001).

A man wakes up not knowing who he is. Little does he know that he is in for the night of his life. While being forced to trust a man, who he knows nothing about, his life suddenly becomes a blur. His vindictive wife has kidnapped all of his current flings and now he must reluctantly watch these people at the mercy of this malicious woman as she plays a kinky bondage game with all of them, however, things are not as they appear.

"A good friend of mine died at 9:10 a.m. Saturday, July 21, 2007... my film piece is called "Quiet Chaos of Desire" it comes out of my experience in a sideward glance at my father in-laws passing and the resulting pain for my wife, then the resulting understanding and strength that has arisen from this between us. The flow of blood which creates the bond that is family was broken, bandaged, then coagulated...Life without suffering is impossible. Scars have the power to remind us that the past is real...and although this event is past the sound of death's rattle never leaves." (C.E.B.)

Madeleine Parent's history

Mouvement de lumière (Motion of light), which is comprised of noise music and lines hand-painted directly onto the film, attempts to break free of a visual and sound-based order through abstraction, thereby initiating a process centred on inner sensation. A radical proposition of power inherent in film. Music by Olivier Borzeix.

On the one hand, there is Murdochville, founded in Gaspésie in 1950 following the discovery of a large copper deposit. In 1970, it had over 5,000 inhabitants. Today, since the mine closed, fewer than 1,000 people live there. On the other hand, there is the ISO, which “brings together experts to share knowledge and develop [...] market- relevant International Standards that support innovation and provide solu- tions to global challenges.” * On the one hand, the needs of people facing unemployment and a loss of identity; on the other, an institution which advocates the efficiency and performance that lead to profit.