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A sugar rush of sex, politics, and rock 'n' roll, as seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy at the fair.

A colourful tripped out animated landscape filled with catchy songs, eyeball kicks, goofball characters, and a great variety of babies. This 16mm film was created using over 1,000 hand painted cut-outs and paper puppets with paper backgrounds.

A non-fiction ghost story, featuring the last generation of Gaelic storytellers on Scotland's Isle of Skye.

John Weldon dissects the nature of personal space, community, and crime and punishment in this macabre whimsy. Employing the simplest of animation styles to enhance a mock Zen spirituality, Weldon and composer Chris Crilly debate the Old Testament notion of "punishment fitting the crime." A film without words.

How do we tell the story of a life? What cruel reduction of an image will stand (in the obituary, the family photo album, the memory of friends) for the years between a grave and a difficult birth? Public Lighting examines the current media obsession with biography, offering up “the six different kinds of personality” (the obsessive, the narcissist) as case studies and miniatures, possible examples.

The film explores familiar landscape imagery Saïto and Goldstein share in their neighbourhood at the foot of Mount-Royal Park in Montréal, Canada. Using the images of maple trees in the park as main visual motif, Saïto creates a film in which the formations of the trees and their subtle interrelation with the space around them act as an agent to transform viewer’s sensorial perception of the space portrayed

Having dedicated nearly four decades to chronicling the lives of Canada's First Nations, Alanis Obomsawin returns to the village where she was raised to tell her own people's history of prosperity, displacement, endurance, and revitalization.

Pustulations” is a short animated film using the painting-on-glass technique. It is about one woman’s compulsion to pick at her skin and the purulent, pustular world beneath it.

A campy combo of live action and animation, “The Amazing Amazons” follows a day in the life of a contemporary female super hero. Aimee is in the midst of a typical Amazon day - fighting censorship, taking out macho attitudes and exposing lies - when her fellow Amazon Amanda rattles her to the very foundation of her Amazon soul.

This featurette stars a young Miss Edmonton Teenburger 1983, who escapes into a world of fantasy, as she deals with the pressures of youth.

The history of Amos, a town in Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Quebec).

Alone in his college dorm room, a young man struggles with his family's reaction when he is pressured into coming out to them over the telephone. Damian sinks into depression as he realizes that both he and his family have an arduous journey ahead if they are to heal old wounds and accept his sexuality. Coming to Terms demonstrates how denial and blame can damage relationships and is an excellent video for youth, counselors and families.

Blowies tells the story of three men who are in training to compete in a synchronized snow blowing competition.

Eyes nose mouth (Short film -10 min) Directed by Noemie Lafrance in collaboration with Patrick Daughters. Original Music by Brooks Williams. Inspired by our physical, emotional and psychological relationships to spaces that are public versus private, 'Eyes nose mouth' follows three characters navigating through a series of changing landscapes that evokes their transforming emotional states.

A little thriller about two guys mixed up in the wrong side of life, and the toll it takes on their character and soul.

While a telephone message plays, a strange intimacy is revealed in the flashing backgrounds of images from online dating profiles.

Set in a decayed urban core, Robota, a homeless robot, wins enough money at the robot cockfighting arena to afford a trip downtown to fulfill her dream.

Ditty Dot Comma is a hand-painted, wide screen 35mm film that honours the relationship between the eye and the ear. The dot and the comma, literary punctuation marks, are also used as symbols and designs.

Teton Gravity Research proudly presents its latest 16mm/HD ski and snowboard offering: UNDER THE INFLUENCE. This film is about the people, places and moments that define our riding. Follow the exploits of today’s top riders as they traverse the globe in search of the unique terrain and conditions that emerged from one of the deepest winters in recorded history. With UNDER THE INFLUENCE, TGR continues to rule the world of action sports cinematography, capturing the mind-blowing efforts of these athletes as never before seen. The Jackson Hole-based film crew scattered the planet as they filmed virgin spines in Alaska, cowboy park jumps at Grand Targhee, pillow popping deep in the Northwest, relentless powder in the Jackson Hole backcountry and so much more. Locations: Jackson Hole, Haines AK, Switzerland, Romania, Eagle Pass Heli-Skiing, Pemberton BC, Utah, Montana, Grand Targhee WY, North Cascade Heli-Skiing

Separates the different colours of the film emulsion of home movies, drawing attention to the layered materiality of the film strip.

This short film introduces us to Sébastien Aubin, a French-speaking member of Manitoba's Opaskwayak Cree Nation. He works as a graphic artist for a living, but he's embarked on a personal spiritual and identity quest on the side. Attempting to transcend the material world, he's apprenticing in traditional Indigenous medicine with healer Mark Thompson. The relationship between the two figures marks the contrast between generations; between modernity and tradition. It makes the 360-degree turn from the values of the past to those of today strikingly apparent.

The impact of consumer video equipment on international political activism efforts.

In the video Satellite, Nelson Henricks combines found footage and techno beats to question western society's ongoing obsession with science, technology and the future. Juxtaposing images derived from old educational films with absurd, aphoristic slogans, Henricks offers up a witty, entertaining and provocative commentary of our need to make sense of everything, at any cost.

Experimental documentary by Lulu Keating

A documentary about Henry Morgentaler.

A teenage boy's epic struggle against an evil necromancer.

Projecting the real on the imaginary. This single channel video installation explores notions of perception and reflection when juxtaposing the self and its empty image. A rhythmic mixture between stop-motion and cubism.

fracas ultimately is the experience of memory on many different levels. It utilizes the still image of children with minimal digital alteration. The photograph itself will always represent the past and therefore the memory of the person it captures. The audio is of the National Spelling Bee where children must exercise their skills and memory to correctly spell a word. Yet the images and sounds of fracas are intentionally not connected. It is only when the camera zooms out from the powerful gaze of smiling children and lets the viewer in, the intention of fracas is revealed

The filmmaker juxtaposes testimonies by Carmen Gloria Quintana, an activist set afire by soldiers of Pinochet's regime, with images of Cecilia Bolocco, first Chilean to win the Miss Universe beauty pageant, being congratulated by the dictator.

In this short abstract-impressionist film the animation and music were made simultaneously in an organic process of symbiotic creativity. Filmmaker Iriz Pääbo tells the highly subjective story of a complete hockey game using a new cinematic vocabulary she calls "animbits." Pääbo readily admits she is not the biggest fan of Canada's national game, so the great, though highly underappreciated NHL stalwart of the '60s and '70s, Eric Nesterenko, was her hockey muse in this artistic journey. A lyrical and wonderfully unorthodox interpretation of hockey.

After a serious head injury in 1997, Rick Simpson sought relief from his medical condition through the use of medicinal hemp oil. When Rick discovered that the hemp oil (with its high concentration of T.H.C.) cured cancers and other illnesses, he tried to share it with as many people as he could free of charge, curing and controlling literally hundreds of people's illnesses... but when the story went public, the long arm of the law snatched the medicine - leaving potentially thousands of people without their cancer treatments - and leaving Rick with unconsitutional charges of possessing and trafficking marijuana! Canada is in the middle of a CANCER EPIDEMIC! Meet the people who were not allowed to testify on Rick's behalf at the Supreme Court of Canada's Infamous Rick Simpson Trial on September 10, 2007... INCLUDING A MAN WHO WAS CURED OF TERMINAL CANCER USING HEMP OIL!

A dark, absurdist comedy about a couple perpetually locked in a battle about whether to end their relationship.

A tiny baroque ode to fleeting darkness and pretty make-believes.

This feature-length documentary lifts the veil on the mystery surrounding rain machines and the legends surrounding them. The making of rain has always fascinated. In Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, these machines fuel daily conversations. Some deny their existence and mock those who believe in them. Others have theories, each more original than the next.

Be it myth or ancient religion the age-old story of Nuliajuk is the key to a mystery; a haunting and gripping tale that opens a window into the soul of the Inuit. Two people set out in search of the elusive and mythical Nuliajuk, a female deity whose presence is seen in countless works of Inuit art. Rarely spoke of, and even then in awe or terror, her presence is nonetheless a central one in traditional Inuit spirituality.

SYNOPSIS Albert Serra’s piece for and audiovisual tribute to Chaplin the filmmaker… What is Chaplin’s legacy in contemporary cinema? It is not about producing films like Chaplin did, nor remembering the icon in a naïve fashion, but about finding traces of his cinema in their own individual looks.

A disillusioned young man finds himself in a fantastic world.

1960s. A test using circles. Silent film.

Dennis and Barb McDonald are empty nesters from the suburbs. On this day they get legal possession of their new house. They have privately purchased the burned out house directly from its owner. John Jeffery grew up in this house. He has been living on the property since the fire destroyed the house a year ago. John is the last of the old families with deep roots still on the street. He is now surrounded by recent neighbours who are more interested in retrofitting character homes than the people who live in them.

Julia Farquaharson campaigns for justice one year after her son, Segun is killed 50 yards from her front door.

Part 5 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

Intruders: Abductees Speak Out! presents an intimate portrait of self-proclaimed alien abductees who are coping with the daily turmoil of being regularly taken by entities not from this world. Are they simply mistaken or disturbed? Or are they - as some experts contend - unwitting participants in an ominous alien agenda?

Imitations of life consist of ten chapters, each one of which has an individual intonation and cinematographic style. The chapters: In the Future, Jack, Last Thoughts, Portrait, Secret, In My Car, The Game, Scaling, Imitation of Life, and Rain.

Ken Leishman: The Flying Bandit tells the remarkable story of the life of Canadian bank robber, prison escape artist and folk hero Ken Leishman. Earning his nickname "The Flying Bandit", by using his plane as a getaway vehicle. Leishman masterminded several stylish yet completely non-violent bank robberies throughout Canada during the 1960's and 1970's including the biggest gold heist in Canadian history.

Anorexia-bulimia, a complex disease that starts from within, is a daily struggle between the desire for absolute control of the body and the desire to live. A sneaky fight that takes place in loneliness and distress ignored by all. Between the voice that screams "don't eat" and the one that begs "love me", Joanny, Catherine and Annick talk to us, in Duel en 2 voix, about this much sought-after balance and the pitfalls that lie in their way. But beyond the voices that respond to each other in a duel every day, it sometimes happens that we begin to become aware of the life that surrounds us. On this day, the disease takes up less space.

This film looks at the efforts to rebuild Afghanistan's infrastructure and culture, as seen through the eyes of women, such as former Deputy Prime Minister Sima Samar, whose fight for education and health-care rights for women and girls put them in danger. Having survived the Taliban, they are putting their lives back together.

An acid-tripping pair of suburban revolutionaries accidentally shoot their war veteran neighbor's dog to fluffy red pieces. What to do? Well, here's what they probably *shouldn't* do...

Based on performances by the notorious lesbian art collective Kiss & Tell, this video captures digitally processed moments hidden for over a decade, recalling historic queer and art-world attitudes towards sexuality and censorship of the 1990’s. The provocative styles of Persimmon Blackbridge, Lizard Jones and Susan Stewart come together in simple lust stories and in letters to their mothers.

Join hosts Casey and Finnegan in this special video collection as they revisit carefree childhood memories of Mr. Dressup, and they romp again through those special days with songs, stories and Mr. Dressup's drawings at his famous drawing board. Watch as Mr. Dressup and Casey help Alligator Al settle into his new Trading Post. soon after we find Casey, Finnegan and Mr. Dressup on an adventure into outer space! Once they come back, Mr. Dressup and his pals have some fun with games and puzzles and welcome a new friend, Wes Zaharuk, who teaches them how to juggle.

Almost twenty years after the release of "La peau et les os", filmmaker and actress Hélène Bélanger-Martin interviews women who have overcome anorexia and bulimia.

When his children left home years ago, renowned storyteller Calum MacLeòid lost not only his family but his most treasured audience. One stormy night, Calum confronts the Baron of the Wind, a mystical being from his stories, and demands his children be returned. The old man promptly falls dead. From distant points the MacLeòids assemble to attend their father’s wake. But the deceased Calum has a surprise ending in store for them yet. “The Wake of Calum MacLeod (Faire Chaluim Mhic Leòid) is the first Gaelic-language short dramatic film made in the New World. Filmed in the Highlands of Cape Breton in May 2006, the film was a galvanizing community effort and a historical milestone.

This short documentary offers a portrait of a group of women who led their community, the largest reserve in Canada, Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve, in an historic blockade to protect their land.

Based on real-life experiences, “camp” recounts the stories of homosexual survivors of the WWII concentration camps. A series of short, expressionistic vignettes weave together these horrific experiences. Part documentary, part drama, “camp” uses a variety of mediums to explore the emotional reality of those marked with the pink triangle.

In this dreamlike journey across the North American landscape, Stalking Love weaves together seemingly dissimilar realities. The human relationship to "love" is explored through the perspectives of the prostitute, the homeless man, the preacher, the business man, and a myriad of others.

Animation based on a video clip from the Iraq war.

An examination of cultural identity presenting three generations of Iranians divided across three continents.