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A journey in 2D animation, in which every drawing has been traced onto blank postcards then hand painted, stamped and mailed. Every frame has traveled through the international post prior to appearing in the film.

A large electronics store welcomes vendors and customers. Cameras are there to show that the company’s slogans are not lies. A manipulation transforms the recordings and instils doubt.

Can the infamous time travel paradox be solved?

A rabbit is so content with the day's splendor that he does damage to himself.

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy was the first home video package from Sarah McLachlan, and is being re-issed in DVD format for the first time. This package is the complete uncut 90 minute Pay Per View TV Special that was aired across Canada and now includes a bonus photo gallery (featuring archival shots, some not widely circulated, as well as collected artwork from the Fumbling era (1994.) The DVD consists of live concert footage filmed in Spring'94 at L'Olympic Theatre in Montreal plus live-in-the studio sessions at Wild Sky Studio in Morin Heights, Quebec where Sarah recorded the Fumbling CD

EAT: Mainstreet Dinner for the Homeless is a roving view of the homeless occupying the public sidewalks surrounding the vacant Woodward’s Building in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The tent city becomes both an eyesore and rallying point for the plight of the homeless and disenfranchised in Vancouver’s booming real estate market. Inter-cut with poverty is a chef preparing a gourmet meal and images of the houseboy cleaning. Originally created for the EAT issue #5 of www.horizonzero.ca. -- a virtual dinner party.

In 1948, two detectives who specialize in the paranormal assemble a team of investigators to look into the unexplained occurrences at a large Victoria, British Columbia home built 60 years earlier. In it, the team experiences hallucinations and visions of their own inner fears, and the ghostly forms of the past inhabitants. They discover the top secret work of an Allied scientist from World War II who had vanished in the house months earlier, has contributed to the dimensional rift that begins to consume them one by one...

The fourth film in Alanis Obomsawin's landmark series on the Oka crisis uses a single, shameful incident as a lens through which to examine the region's long history of prejudice and injustice against the Mohawk population.

The tale of the snake retold.

When the Chemical Sisters, Montreal's fabulous club kid duo find an unconscious naked boy on their way out from yet another jetset event, they decide to bring him home and take matters into their own glittery hands. After baptizing their amnesiac boy-toy Chris, the infamous pair takes him on a grand tour of their wild nightlife frolic, their spontaneous media extravaganza and their dazzling diva lifestyle in order to help him find his identity and his way home.

An animator finds a unique way to deal with the fact that yellow sticky notes are taking over his life.

This package is what Rik fans have been waiting for! It’s an official boot leg…let’ say a RIK LEG (way more professional and complete than a bootleg) with stellar up close visuals and never seen before footage This collection is directed and collected by Rick Wharton (www.rickwharton.com) of concert performances, on and off stage footage; with behind the scenes/backstage antics and outakes. Performances on this show Rik Emmett with his band and solo and covers the gamut of musical stylings. From rock to jazz to classical to blues – Emmett fans will be not be disappointed. This is a compilation of various concert video recordings and one or two bootlegs confiscated at Rik Emmett concerts and has been enhanced as much as possible, but is not optimized for High Definition or Plasma televisions. Looks great on regular TV’s and computers. It has different styles of film stock ranging from digital to beta to real film.

To mark the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, CBC presents a two hour documentary based on the findings of the 9/11 Commission and featuring former White House Advisor Richard Clarke.

"Carl Brown makes celluloid dance. [His] new film work will burn colours so deeply into your brain, you'll be watching a light show inside your eyelids for hours. Titled Neige Noir ('Black Snow'), a name that conjures up Toronto winters but actually refers to the trenches of the First World War, the piece is a visual feast. It opens with a calming sequence of manipulated representations of a swimmer and the sea set to a lulling jazz tune, and then crashes into a steady techno and white noise assault with pulsating images. Brown radically alters the celluloid itself, experimenting like a mad scientist to create gorgeous colour patterns. He sometimes refilms an image up to eight times to bring its dance of distortion to a climax. Any single still from this film could bring you to a stop in an art gallery, and Brown gives us some 86,000 of them." (Thomas Hirschmann)

We follow Roach, a 17-year-old ex-junkie and squeegee punk living on the streets of Toronto and Montreal. As part of the filmmaking process, he's been given a camera to document his world. The footage he gets is urgent, because there's a war against squeegee kids. This documentary is from the point of view of the kids themselves, in order to provide alternative voices. Roach's camera is positioned behind "enemy" lines: living in derelict buildings, squeegeeing for money, being hunted by police.

Edgar is living in the shadow of his wife's sudden death. Haunted by vivid hallucinations and a faceless city threatening to swallow him whole, Edgar's world begins to unravel as his nightmares become a reality and Edgar is left with a choice: prison or paradise.

In the 1930s, in the throes of the Great Depression, the government relocated more than 80,000 citizens to found a new settlement in the virgin forests of Quebec's Abitibi region. After enduring backbreaking work to clear the land, however, many left, seeking a better life in the city or as labourers for the large corporations that had come to exploit the North's valuable resources. The Lalancette family, however, have persisted in forging their future on the land from one generation to the next, earning their keep from farming, and defying the constraints of globalization and the mining and forestry companies that control the area. Revisiting the heritage of Quebec filmmakers who documented Abitibi, following in the footsteps of Pierre Perrault, among others, this documentary traces a defining chapter of Quebec history and raises fundamental questions about regional development.

The zombie apocalypse comes to Canada. Sorry.

A child of the Beat Generation, Gérald Leblanc conjoined urban-ness and American-ness, wandering and belonging, far beyond the boundaries of taboo. In so doing, he helped propel Acadia into the modern era.

I, Claudia is an adaptation of the hit one-woman play starring Kristen Thomson. Claudia is an "official" pre-teen, still reeling from her parents' divorce. Her father is getting re-married, she has a science fair project coming due, and she is in the physical and emotional throes of puberty. Claudia speaks to us from inside the boiler room of her school where she stores all the things that are secret and dear to her. Incensed and incredulous at the adult world around her, she is irrepressibly funny about it at the same time. Some important adults in Claudia's life - her grandfather Douglas, her father's new girlfriend Leslie and the school custodian Drachman - shed light on her situation.

Gabino, Luisa and Paco share a small apartment in Mexico City. With no money and nothing to do, they decide to leave the city.

Eyes are on China from all over the world, and this story contains today's most 'in' Chinese elements. It is a unique story that spans across half a century in China and connects the East with the West. It depicts Communist China's transformation as seen through the eyes of a Chinese gay man and people surrounding him. It seeks to explore humanity and morality; cross-cultural interaction in the rapid process of globalization; race; gender; religion and sexuality; interracial and cross-cultural prostitution; the lives and subcultures of marginal people as opposed to the mainstream society.

Kosovo: Can You Imagine? is about the Serbs that live in Kosovo and the lack of human rights that they have today, in the 21st century. Most of the Kosovo Serbs have been ethnically cleansed by the Albanians who make up the majority of Kosovo. Kosovo has been under UN administration since 1999 when NATO bombed Serbia for 76 days to halt a crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatism in its province of Kosovo. In the years following the war, thousands of Serbs were expelled from their homes, kidnapped and killed. Their houses, cultural and religious sites were burned and destroyed. Kosovo for the Serbs is what Jerusalem is for the Jewish people. It is the cradle of their statehood, culture and religion. Most of the important Serbian Christian Orthodox monasteries are in Kosovo. Today, Serbs still have a deep spiritual and traditional connection to Kosovo, a land which is being cleansed of everything Serbian.

Double Take explores the memory of identical twins whom together experienced a traumatic childhood event. Using juxtaposed images and concurrent storylines, the viewer is challenged to examine the similarities and differences of the twin’s tales. As the image of the twins present us with a literal double take, their parallel stories take us even further into the recesses and disparities of human memory.

Workprint for a little prayer (H-E-L-P)

Mr. Turgeon is a lonely bachelor. When his fantasies about a female companion fail to materialize, he tries to fill the void with an overabundance of consumer goods. There is nothing in his life but the raucous music of his neighbours. A digital urban tale with the naïve style of paper cut-outs, Lonesome Monsieur Turgeon is an amusing but sympathetic portrait of a man who feels all alone in the world. If only he could connect with the people around him.

From Panagonia to Nunavut, during four years, Carlos Ferrand visited dear friends, men and women he met wandering the americas. All the while, observing the way of life of the forgotten populations and learning about the fate of some indigenous people.

An unhappy, silent man journeys through a constantly shifting mediascape in search of something we never discover. Transylvanian moonscapes, Baroque parties and fraternity joyrides constitute just a fragment of his dizzying journey. Is this unnamed character searching for a way in, or a way out of the shifting and overwhelming history which whirls about him?

This documentary charts the evolution of the stewardess and explains why "the glamorous bird" is largely extinct. The outrageous history is full of sex and blatant sexism that is shocking by today's standards. Fly With Me mirrors the dramatic social upheaval of the sexual revolution of the 60s and 70s, and the birth of feminism. Former "stews" who flew in the 50s, 60s and 70s bare all to tell the real story of what life was like as one of the most envied women on the planet.

The ever-impenetrable Ken takes his sex-toy-filled closet aboard a mighty ship where he cruises his clone and embarks on a narcissistic romp, never letting his form-fitted mound of plastic spoil his fun.

The enduring romance of the lines. A visual exploration of Dave Brubeck's jazz classic "Take Five".

The cubicle rat-race is envisioned as dance.

An exploration of music in the life, and writing, of James Joyce. Two Newfoundland actors, a Toronto opera singer and a New York Joycean scholar travel to Dublin and join forces with a group of Irish musicians to tell the story of music in the life, and writing, of the great Irish writer James Joyce.

This short documentary follows the daily struggles of two janitors at a North American university. The film takes a critical look at the communication, or lack of communication, that happens between janitors and those that use the facilities they clean. Shot at Capilano University, in North Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Don't miss this compelling one-hour documentary about the vital role women played in putting an end to World War II by working for Canadian spymaster William Stephenson -- a.k.a. "the Man Called Intrepid."

The Cure headline their self curated Curiosa Festival, live in Toronto 9th of August 2004

Science-fiction art is spotlighted in this documentary.

Portrait of gay filmmaker and Parkinson's sufferer Tom Chomont.

Two police officers, Catherine and Patrick, patrol in Longueuil, a suburb of Montreal in Canada. During their shift, they arrest Jose Maria, a Mexican illegal immigrant who just crossed the border. The officers hold him at their station during the night, while waiting for the arrival of the federal police, the RCMP.

The work of mathematician Donald Coxeter, who continued in the study of geometry when it was being put aside in favour of algebra. An inspiration to both M.C. Escher and Buckminster Fuller.

A documentary about direct-cinema from its very beginnings (Nanook of the North) to the fake-direct-cinema of the Blair Witch Project. All the important direct-cinema filmmakers are portrayed and/or interviewed: Leacock, Wiseman, Maysles, Pennebaker, Reisz and others.

Part autobiography, part performance piece and part homage to Madonna. Exploring cultural identity, sexuality and the maternal relationship. Siddiqi chronicles his life thus far: from a teenager in Pakistan channeling Madonna and enraging fundamentalists by posing as a woman in a fashion magazine to a fashion designer in L.A. and finally his contemporary manifestation as a self-styled provocateur in Montréal.

Although the prospect of going on a blind date makes him more anxious than he would care to admit, Oliver, nonetheless, agrees to go along with it. His string of bad luck with women is long and he's ready to try anything to find love.

An avant-garde gay theatre group decide to make a gay porn film based on the Greek classics.

A woman discovers the unexpected in her basement when she investigates why her water has run dry.

While away from home, Creates tried to remember specific objects on her six-acre property. She recalled 243 items. After her return, she proceeded to photograph them all, searching her archives for records of those that had disappeared - a bush eaten by a moose, for example. She compiled the photographs into a video with voiceover, sometimes referring to the subjects in Newfoundland vernacular.

Toybox combines creepiness and playfulness in a series of animations that manipulate the most misused toy of all - the penis. Stripped of eros and emotion, The scenarios of sex-gone-mad play with the absurd qualities of an appendage and a desire that has a mind of its own, and a drive so strong that it leads to self-destruction.

In 16th-century Scotland, young Sawney Beane yearns to itch and scratch and buccaneer. So he bids farewell to his parents and their life of honest toil. Forty years on, Mr. Beane croaks his dying wish to Betty, his wife. "Go and find our lost son." And so Betty strikes off on her quest across the land, with the family savings in a hankie and a secret suspicion in her heart.

B&W and Colour/Super-8/16mm

Moving between a local microcosm and the global oil crisis, H2Oil weaves together a collection of compelling stories of people who are at the front lines of the biggest industrial project in human history: Canada's tar sands. H2Oil is a feature-length documentary that traces the wavering balance between the urgent need to protect and preserve fresh water resources and the mad clamoring to fill the global demand for oil. It is a film that asks: what is more important, water or oil? Will the quest for profit overshadow efforts to protect public health and the environment in Canada's richest province?