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Fishing the treacherous North Atlantic is everything a modern job tries not to be: it's brutal, dangerous and gruelling. Family and friends are left behind for weeks at a time. In The Voyage of the 7 Girls filmmaker John Brett joins skippers Wes and Marty Henneberry on four voyages aboard their 32-metre longliner - the 7 Girls - for an up-close look at the extreme demands of a job that tests body and soul.
A documentary about a Montreal professor who reveals that he witnessed war crimes as a member of the Nazi Waffen SS.
The Wild West heroine Calamity Jane roams through time. Excluded from history, she revels in lore. “I dreamed it better. I dreamed it big.” North American Western mythology is subverted, celebrating an alternative outsider position. Featuring a scratched and mixed score by contemporary audio artist Michelle Irving.
What would it be like if people played life the way kids do? Play tries to answer this question by giving you a glimpse of Frank's strangely organized and somewhat melancholic hand-crafted world.
The video presents a self-portrait of a nomadic identity perfroming in one of the busiest Montreal intersections. The subject speaks four languages while cloning herself into a hybrid, shiva-like creature. The quadruple 'walk' and 'talk' is expressed in Polish, Italian, English, and French.
Sometimes topical treatments aren't enough to cure love's infections.
"ina unt ina" euro-electro-pop divas are back from windy tropical islands to offer you this perfect pop illusion for pleasure. The music is music, You are feeling the feeling.
On a beautiful day, what’s better than corn on the cob?
From father to son, the Poucachiche family goes out hunting beaver, one of the traditional activities that mark the seasons for the Algonquin of Lac Simon.
Temporary Tattoos applied to 35mm for eternity. An energetic conjuring of Manitoban spirits.
A meditative look at a mutable and hypnotic horizon. Grainy Super 8 imagery, optically printed 16mm footage and an atmospheric soundtrack evoke the stillness of mind reached when standing before expansive sky and water. Filmed at Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts (Toronto), Lake Ontario (in my head) was created as part of the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) Film is Dead... Long Live Film! 25th anniversary commissioning project.
Brief moments of being, fleeting bits out of the surrounding chaos. These 4 shorts films can be shown separately or one after the other on the roll.
"The film was made using principles derived from Stephen Wolfram’s work on cellular automata (A New Kind of Science) to determine the content or colour of the shots, their duration, and the time of their appearance: the palette of effects, and their rhythmical development (from the simple alternations with which the film begins to the complex dynamic structures of its later parts),is entirely the result of computational processes that model natural events. John Cage instructed us that art should imitate nature in its manner of operation; I have tried to take the lesson. The music was composed by Colin Clark, using related principles".
Walking in Obedience contains dramatic scenes and incredible scenery depicting the journey of a Danish family traveling with the Willie Handcart Company. It is told through the words of those that lived through the experience with both the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies.
A self-portrait of Pruska-Oldenhof's childhood and native home in three segments of image, song and text. Images of her birth country are shown as she silently mouths a Polish emigrants' song, followed by a recording of her singing the same song as a child, followed by a text translation of the song into English.
Observational glimpse into the under the radar world of boys unfolds over two years through the experiences of Noah and Colin, two friends who attend an elite private boys' school. Documentary follows the boys as they navigate from grade eight to the senior school, playing video games, singing like angels in the choir, and alternately goofing off or napping in class.
Images are shown on a screen split into four, while a voice-over fills these spaces with fantasies, with a mix of encyclopaedic culture and visionary intelligence, made of anecdotes, lucid reflections, paranoid obsessions, urban legends, memories of films... Suddenly, the man appears, in medium shot, baseball cap and fake glasses hiding his eyes. He talks about nature and technology, about Star Trek, the Bible, extraterrestrials, artificial intelligence, humanity controlled by higher powers. Although his discourse follows the logic of conspiracy theories, the truth of his solitude emerges.
A hypnotic dance-off in the Waterhouse community of Kingston, Jamaica that subverts elitist stereotypes of dancehall by invoking its spiritual and defiant force.
Shahram Golchin is a professional film actor from Pre-Revolution Iran who was trapped between worlds in the prime of his career. Debilitated by a range of illnesses and a strong sense of exile, he is our window to the other characters of this film. Faces is an experimental documentary exploring the life and work of diasporic artists as they represent themselves through their art and stories. This multi-layered documentary reflects on politics, pop-culture, history and the power of popular media.
A poetic, performative documentary based on the improvised monologue of veteran actor Shahram Golchin.
This feature documentary pays homage to the special character of an enduring people: the Acadians. Two hundred years after Expulsion of the Acadians by the British (1755–1764), Acadian culture is still very much alive. But why do Acadians—whose ancestors founded the first colony in North America—have to keep making a racket to tell the world they're still here?
François Beaumier, a former member of the Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal boys' choir, returns to the school he attended at age 9-17. Following some of today's boy singers at key moments in their journey, he shares his memories and reflections with us.
Right from his adolescence, William Commanda started making canoes. His masterpieces have been shown all over the world. At 90 years young, he will once again build a birch bark canoe to teach his technique to Todd Labrador, a Mi'kımaq Indian from Nova Scotia. All while being a renowned artisan, he is today a loved canadian elder of the Algonquin nation, spiritual leader known for his inexhaustible drive to sustain indigenous nations all over the world, and his work toward global interracial peace and the protection of Mother Earth. During the 10 days of the canoe's construction, while sharing his daily life, we get to know William, his sense of humour, his personality, and his teachings. All with the simplicity and humility of an ordinary man, he's nevertheless quite extraordinary. Born on the eve of the First World War, he sees the end of his life approaching but nonetheless doesn't low his pace to improve the world in which he was brought to life.
Skywoman in Skyworld is asked by her husband to bring him a cup of water from the tree of life, as he lies on his deathbed. As she goes toward the tree, she falls through a hole in the ground. She falls to earth.
"Rockatiers" documents two friends, Glen McConnell and Stephen Goulet, who share a passion for creating the mind-boggling rock sculptures the seem to defy gravity.
A documentary that goes behind-the-scenes of Paul Gross's Passchendaele (2008).
Lucid dream of a young fisherman.
“Child’s play in the universe of evolution. Another lost-in-a-box piece, a video, portions of which have been uncovered and are being assembled; Forever may soon make an appearance.” — Gary Popovich
Video III of Cartmell's unfinished series Shipwreck Theory. Part of Shipwreck Theory I (The Reading)
Somehow in silence, I traveled home to here asleep, trying to think, to pull what I’d once felt out of the shadows. I had to make a leap into the not-yet- conscious, into the truth and absolution of images and sounds, toward the countenance of something still nameless. The only means of doing so was to find and found this thing. This nameless thing that emerges, as I do, again and for the first time, into the world, and will never leave it. This thing of love’s black sail. This foundered foundling thing. This thing of you. The gusts of wind were very hard and the night very dark, but our little whaleboat glided away like a thing of life.
Video IV of Cartmell's unfinished series Shipwreck Theory. Part of Shipwreck Theory II (The Writing)
Originally, the images of Variations on two photographs by Tina Modotti were engraved directly on 16mm film to be projected as a backdrop for Louis Bédard's choreographic piece entitled Elles, which was inspired by the life and work of the well-known Mexican photographer Tina Modotti. My animations were particularly inspired by two images, first a photography of roses and second a photography of telegraphic wires, suggesting on the one hand an intimate and enclosed universe and, on the other, an infinite opening of space full of potential messages. I have reworked and developed them into an almost abstract meditative drama, caught in a tension between those two photographs.
This film is about a man named Scott Stevens, who just had the worst day of has life. But before the day is over he meets this kind and beautiful woman. They hit off and eventually fall in love and get married. Coincidentally a lot of strange things being to happening in town, the police keep finding many dead bodies. Scott's wife is always out at night and when he wakes up in the morning she's no where to be found. He's beginning to have suspicions about her.
A bunch of Vancouver dykes take hand held hi8 to new heights. In this improvisational short, which offers a wake up call to political complacency. Short on plot, big on subtext. Amidst comic moments these intrepid lesbians go searching for political dykes. What else can you do when the lesbian centre becomes a tattooparlour?
The pages of a brutal manga comic book are are animated to explore issues of identity, masculinity, and misogyny.
A student observes his classmates in the schoolyard.
Shannon Lynn Harris first film using a Bolex camera as a student at Concordia University in 2006. It is all in camera effects with one cut.
Commissioned for The Colin Campbell Sessions by Lisa Steele at Vtape, one of a half dozen shorts made in tribute to one of our video dads. Colin had died suddenly and unexpectedly of colon cancer in 2001, but not before lending grace to more than fourty low-tech wonders of cross-dressing satire. An excerpt from his first movie, Sackville, I’m Yours (made on the Sackville football’s team portable black-and-white video deck) provides a closing note in Hoolboom’s video grieving.
High school is over, summer is ending, and Jake must say goodbye to his best friend Sarah but can’t. Instead, he confesses his true love and his desire to go with her. When Sarah rejects him, Jake seeks out escape by any means necessary: random sex, violence, going crazy, even buying into Charles’ deluded dream of driving to Toronto to become a stand up comic. But Jake’s real escape route leads not along the open road. It leads in the direction of a crazed dancing stranger.
Masculine noun, shortened form of striptease. From "strip", to remove, to take away, and "tease", to entice, to tempt. And then all this in plural.
A compilation of various tests, techniques and experiments compiled from the 1940s - 1950s. Silent film.
The second thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.
Throughout the journey, meanings that symbols once held for us shift and change as black and white blend to form grey. We see ourselves reflected in the world around us and the world around us envelops us. Things that were once threatening become comforting arms of solace while things that were once sanctuaries threaten to drown us. Water has the power to cleanse as well as the power to drown while the forest is both protective and foreboding.
A master drags out his slave and attempts to control him. Things go terribly wrong. Every touch of the slave produces a distortion that encompasses the master. Who exactly is the manipulator? The slave, the master, or the filmmaker?
The stick figure girl on the ladies' room sign is mad and she's not gonna take it anymore.
Daniel and Eli are about to have their five year anniversary but little does Eli know, Daniel has been hiding a dark secret all those years. Meanwhile, a FBI agent has been put into a coma under mysterious circumstances. Evidence leads Agent Mueller and Dina Pendrell to investigate the presence of “Extra Queerestrials,” but are they chasing after the wrong suspect? Will Eli and Daniel get their Happy Anniversary?
America’s favorite blond doll, shows what happens when memories get in the way of self-love and moving on.
A deranged and domineering father threatens the romance between a trapeze artist and the nurse of her disabled twin-sister in this stylish, mysterious film.
"In Deep Skin" is an experimental music video, which travels through narrative and non-narrative scenarios while presenting a lesbian encounter. Rhythmic editing, and musical and visual complexity bring the viewer/listener on a voyage from ice storms to deserted beaches to the lonely body.
Separated from his Kitcisakik community, a little Algonquin prince discovers the good and the bad in the White people's world, until one day his own child brings him back down to earth.
This video is an artistic interpretation of an actual performance that took place in the summer, 2000 on Mount Royal in Montreal. All the scenes of the video are in slow motion. Kinga Araya climbs wooden stairs to get to the top of Mount Royal. Dressed in black, she wears a beautiful, yet cumbersome and dangerous copper hat (adjustable refers to the copper band inside the Headgear to fit almost any human head). When she finally reaches the lookout, she continues to walk in a circle. She finishes her 'Royal Promenade' with a final spin, in the middle of this picturesque public space.
A naked female figure faces the wall and hits it monotonously with towels. Formally the video refers to the photographic series showing prostitutes from the red light district in New Orleans made in 1912 by the American artist E.J. Bellocq. These photographed figures often turned away from the lens and had their faces blurred or veiled. Araya’s use of primary color also refers to her artistic beginnings as a painter.