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A short comedic video about biphobia.

After Lance Davis' girlfriend is kidnapped by mutants, he must fight through the bureaucracy to get an expedition to save her. Led by ranger Joan Smith, Davis enters the Badlands to find his girlfriend, encountering a host of strange situations along the way. But, in the Badlands, things are not always what they seem.

Canadian documentary

The story of raw organic milk in Canada and the consumer’s right to choose It is illegal to distribute raw milk in Canada. In November 2006, twenty-five armed officers raided Michael Schmidt’s Glencolton Farms as he drove up the lane in his old Blue Bus on the way to deliver raw milk to his cow-share members in Toronto. Officials confiscated raw milk, cheese-making equipment, computers, and files. This film follows a year in the life of a Canadian activist farmer as he struggles to provide his “farm fresh milk” while battling authorities. Schmidt prepares for his trial and attempts to find a political solution to legally provide raw (unpasteurized) organic milk in Canada.

"Your life is like a candle burning. Whether you are aware of it or not, it is burning." (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar)

Three excavation vehicles move together with impressive grace to a contemporary classical score, gently inviting us to re-examine the way we view dance and technology.

A Skateboard video from up north

Documentary filmmaker Lynch tries to find the origin of a whale bone found buried in Toronto's waterfront.

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...

Year End Show

A short animation directed by Don Filipchuk

This documentary fondly portrays a feisty Jewish woman whose disdain for authoritarianism was best expressed by the phrase, "If I can't dance, its not my revolution." Canadian sociologist and filmmaker Coleman Romalis explores Emma's political life as well as her remarkably liberated private life, including her often stormy relationships with younger men.

Voleurz's first movie, featuring mountain biking, skiing, snowboard, skateboarding and more antics from the Voleurz family.

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.

An idea for backgrounds never used, late 1940s. Silent film.

Animation based on a video clip from the Iraq war.

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

Super 8 gunplay - explosive scratching, amazing stunts and fabulous outfits - experimental artgak at its finest!

As two twits dance their fears away at a roadside farmers market, via costumery and choreography, they bring lesbian glamour where it was not ever.

After six years with the Marines, Max Finister returns to the tough streets of the Bronx, only to find his childhood sweetheart, Lanette, and her little sister, Binita, entangled with New York's most dangerous drug lord. When Max moves the girls upstate and out of harm's way, he ignites the kingpin's fury for revenge. With the mob in hot pursuit, Max begins to suspect Binita is in far deeper than she has led him to believe. Max makes one last, desperate attempt at freedom for them all. What follows is a savage battle between a man desperate to save his family and a mobster holding on to his dark empire.

This abstract film, full of rich colours and textures, was created thanks to an inventive use of digital technology. It grew out of an unusual process of interchange between the painter Jean Detheux and the composer Jean Derome. The result is a rare meeting of images and music. What we get is an intense meditation on a world in constant renewal, where every form that emerges is immediately engulfed by the next one. It constitutes a sort of diptych with the film Rupture, which follows. A film without words.

Home movies and family photographs mixed with drawings and texts tell the story of a family that has lived with disease.

An old recluse helps a depressed woman finding her true self.

A high definition tribute to the ride and the rider. The Ride. the coolest human-powered adrenaline tool ever invented, the mountain bike. The Rider. hell-bent on pushing the limits - they are crazy men who think they are normal. REVOLVE blasts in cinematic glory from the French Alps to the lush coast of British Columbia incorporating DJ, Trail, Freeride, Slopestyle and Downhill segments. Winner of the 2010 Radical Reels People's Choice Award at the Banff Mountain Film Festival.

Key colour and diatonic scales are anthropomorphized as a peacock, hare, kingfisher, or cat, combining J.S. Bach’s landmark of musical pedagogy, Das Wohltemperierte Klavier (The Well-Tempered Clavier) with illustrations by 19th century French artist J.J. Grandville. This piece is from An Anthology of Familiar Tones, which questions what it means to be ‘in tune’.

A woman recalls the abuse suffered at the hands of her man.

Suicide is painless, it brings on many changes, and I can take or leave it if I please.

In 1752, British settlers and the Mi'kmaq people of Sipekne'katik formed a treaty which ensured the Mi'kmaq had the right to make a living off fishing. However, despite the treaty and Supreme Court rulings in their favour, Mi'kmaq commercial fishers still feel they are not able to exercise their full treaty rights.

Coming Attractions is a short film consisting of 4 interlinked fake movie trailers, each done in a different style. The first, 'The Restaurateur' is the story of a restaurant owner forced to return to a life of crime. The second, 'V-Squad' follows a quintet of sexy female assassins recruited by a government agency to battle organized crime. The third, 'La Venganza del Diablo Azul' features the luchador El Diablo Azul revived from the dead to seek revenge against those who murdered his family, and the fourth and final trailer, 'V-Squad Part 2' returns to the V-Squad as they face an army of vicious extra-terrestrial mutants.

An experimental animation with original sound exploring “how identity development is informed (and sometimes controlled) by psychiatry’s relationship with capitalism and its broader political objectives.” The video focuses on three themes: the history of psychiatry and its relationship to capitalism/consumerism in North America, the MKULTRA experiments in Montreal during the Cold War, and how the self-help movement depoliticized leftist movements after 1960s.The video combines MacCormack’s own research inspired by the work of British documentarian Alan Curtis, whose The Century of the Self (2002, 240 minutes) is one of many texts and influences apparent in this sweeping work.

What draws this handsome youth to a peculiar and sizeable stranger? Find out in this startling award-winning short.

Four Sisters is a silent, 77-minute video sequence shot on Toronto's waterfront Gardiner Expressway during a late afternoon rush-hour commute from east to west and back again (and then back again). The video looks inland, towards the city centre before turning to look out, towards and across the lake. A band of text runs through the video, recounting 23 anecdotes in English or French.

Rooftop Song is a part of 3 videos made at the Lenox Hotel in Buffalo, N.Y.

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.

A response to World Catholic Youth Day and the Pope’s 2002 mass in Toronto, "save myself" is a personal meditation on faith and loss. Why does thought require words, and is anybody listening?

Did you ever have a crush on Anne Murray, singing her greatest hits with your dress tucked into your pantyhose? And what about Anne of Green Gables? These questions and oh so much more are autobiographically answered by performance artist Dayna McLeod in this mash-up that mixes Anne Murray's, “You Needed Me” with the made-for-television Canadian classic, Anne of Green Gables. Originally commissioned as a performance piece for Anne Made Me Gay, curated by Moynan King and Rosemary Rowe, Buddies in Bad Times.

Born in Pictou, Nova Scotia in 1892, Christian socialist Kenneth Leslie attended Dalhousie University as a 14-year-old child prodigy, then went on to study philosophy and theology in the States during the late 1930s. That’s when the award-winning poet, disturbed by American pro-fascist and anti-Semitic sentiment, launched the progressive Protestant Digest; his socialist politics during the unforgiving Cold War era eventually landed him in Life magazine’s top 50 Communists, along with Arthur Miller and Albert Einstein.

The Smalls...er Whatever charts the highs and lows of Alberta rock cowboys The Smalls as they cross Canada and tour France and Belgium for the first time. Features European riot footage, backstage antics, studio recording footage from 1998's My Dear Little Angle, van breakdowns and band fights in France.

Drummond takes a humourous look at a single incident from his youth and isolates the jelling of personality in relation to how we form our sexual/love molds.

The language of anti-terrorism takes an unexpected form in this seductive propaganda video, which scores George W. Bush's notorious Patriotic Act of 2001 to Celine Dion's Love Theme to Titanic.

The film documents rural landscapes and vernacular architecture on the cusp of urban sprawl and transformation.

Voleurz's second film, released to DVD features skiing, snowboard, mountain biking and the other antics of the Voleurz family

This video was made to talk about abuse in psychiatry, which I experienced in Montreal. However I chose to let others words explain my feelings on the topic. The visuals are recontextualized shots from The Miracle Worker, starring Patty Duke as Helen Keller. Patty Duke went on to develop bipolar disorder, like me. The main sound used in this video is from the radio emissions captured by the Cassini space probe from Saturn.

Drawing on pre-biblical mythology, "flesh of my flesh" is a queer retelling of the "first" murder. Abel returns from the wars of God our Father to a bombed out and pillaged Canaan. His brother/lover Cain leads him to a barren field where, in an effort to reinstate the garden of paradise, he performs the sacrificial ritual. The consequence (for Cain and all his tribe) is banishment, to the land "east of Normal."

"They had it all wrong. He's not trapped in there with them. They're trapped with HIM!"

A hard-boiled private detective investigates the disappearance of a local cat.

Muffins for Granny is a remarkably layered, emotionally complex story of personal and cultural survival. McLaren tells the story of her own grandmother by combining precious home movie fragments with the stories of seven elders dramatically affected by their experiences in residential school. McLaren uses animation with a painterly visual approach to move the audience between the darkness of memory and the reality that these charismatic survivors live in today.

"In the summer of 2008 my father butted heads with hospital bureaucracy. Using found footage loops, mechanized sounds and photograms, EDITORIAL tells the story of redundancy, repetition and fighting for your life." Steven Woloshen

When Bloody Mary and her crew agreed to rob a shady bootlegging operation, they didn't count on finding themselves surrounded by the undead and fighting for their lives in THE BOOTLEGGER OF THE DAMNED.

A real estate agent encounters a slump late in his career. Exhibiting questionable behaviour, he struggles to find balance between his professional obligations and personal relationships.

A young woman loses her soul as she sleeps, and feels less alive each day. With the help of a young man's ghost and an old curandera, she finds her way back from being in between life and death.

Take flight with the legendary pioneers in aviation, from the Wright Brothers to barnstormers to the breathtaking exploits of the record setters. Re-live the thrilling key events from the early days of aviation.

The film places a universal hero in the shoes of the heartbroken. Céline, Jon, Britney and Stevie couldn’t have said it better!

What will happen to queer in a playmobil world.