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In A Hundred examines the experience of time; both as an ongoing linear progression, as well as a circular pattern of remembered fragments. The work puts forward the notion that "real" time encompasses both; one seemingly measured and mathematical, the other incalculable and personal. It is in the fragmented past of memory that the work places its sympathy. As time moves on the mind gathers an ever increasing bank of stored moments. The place of memory can at times be haunting, but it is also the only place where loss can be momentarily appease.

Five hours from Montreal, at the end of an endless road, is a lake, a favorite haunt of northern ospreys. The Lac Villiers Foundation, managed by a small family whose destiny is punctuated by the peace of the immensity of the boreal and by the demands of a life on the fringes of civilization, has set up its quarters there. This film plunges into his world and shares his way of life which, like ospreys, is on the verge of extinction.

This experimental animated short dissects the Earth's surface and soil. Filmmaker Alex Mackenzie uses a specially built film exposure device to study the insect world, with remarkable results. Living insects are rendered as photograms on the surface of film stock, pulsating and teeming with life.

An intimate synthesis of sound and picture is created in Celluloid Sounds, a 16mm hand-processed film instillation. Crackles and pops carved onto hand-processed images float throughout the mysterious pseudo-multiplex, repetitiously mocking the environment and industry that is destined to abandon its beautiful image making creation...

Midnight cowpoke scrounges the streets of Mike Harris' mean megatropolis, looking for a good time or just a bite to eat. "Hard time living, too young to die. Lord, lord, lord: hard times town."

Abbott reflects on her unfortunate experience with childhood love.

What you see, isn’t always what you get in this Barbie and Ken Doll stop motion celebration of sex and surprise. Also starring Marie Osmond, The Bionic Woman, and The Lone Ranger.

Images of a car crash are digitally interpreted using a Nintendo Gameboy Camera. This video is an attempt to demonstrate the inherently dehumanized nature of digital images.

An experimental film made from discarded film footage found in thrift shops and flea markets in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

In the dead of winter, I went to a dance party in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This video is simultaneously about my inability to interact with people as well as my camera’s inability to properly interpret what was going on around me.

Les Panthères Roses (The Pink Panthers) confront Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

A toy bear sings a song of sex.

Ice-skating and gender. A pornographic collage of figure-skating footage.

"Skin for Life" is an experimental video poem that reveals the thoughts and fears of a body that imagines its existence as being foreign. An exploration of the visual and psychic layers of skin.

What's happened to oral history? What was it like being queer in Vancouver in the 50s? The 60s? The 70s? Where did people hang out? What did they fight for? What do they miss? Armed with curiosity and a cameraman, writer/storyteller Ivan E. Coyote and musician Veda Hille set out to talk to the people who were there. Stories of the Vanport, the International Women's Conference, communal life in the West End and the Castle Kiss-In all come together to make a picture of our city in the middle of the last century.

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

Mars-Womb-Man is a companion to Diamond's earlier film. The artist finds answers for some of his old questions as he explodes binary concepts of man, woman, mother, and father.

A long process of experimentation with a variety of different filmmaking techniques while examining an evolving queer identity. The film shows an emergence of the Pink Fairy. Part femme, part tomboy, part fairy, the characters come together to subvert the idea of a fixed identity. Luminescent imagery is imprinted by hand using hand-processed colour footage, optically printing Super 8 to 16mm, 16mm to 16mm, negative to positive, video to film, and repeating motifs, to explore the intricacies of the celluloid medium. Audio emotes through random manipulations in a Brion Gysin-like cut-up technique.

A video information brochure for the British Columbia Persons With AIDS Society's annual retreat for members at Loon Lake. Experience a retreat from a participant's point of view. See and hear the people come together in a supportive, caring, and healing environment. Understand the personal empowerment that each takes away.

Using animation, sounds warping and time shifts this video runs forwards and backwards looking for forgotten details, mimicking the way memories are replayed in the mind

Wake Up Screaming is a one-of-a-kind, behind-the-scenes look at the Vans Warped Tour through the eyes of Texas-farm-boy-turned-punk-rock-road-warrior Jason Bayless. Bayless, along with extreme documentary filmmakers David Bergthold of Blockhead Skateboards and pro skateboarder Laban Pheidias, was granted exclusive access to all aspects of the tour. Follow peta2's Jason and crew as they spend nine weeks traveling through 48 cities, rubbing elbows with the hottest bands of today and hundreds of punk rock all-stars.

A revealing portrait of two young addicts, their life on the street and their despairing parents who find themselves powerless to save their children from the habit that is consuming them. As filmmaker Andrée Cazabon follows Cathy and Laurent for many months, recording their desperate drug-fuelled existence, she remembers her own life on the street. "My parents and I relived that horror," she says of her creative journey. But it was for all parents that she made this film. Cathy's and Laurent's parents live in a permanent state of bewildered anxiety and guilt. How can they avoid being totally destroyed by grief? How do they manage to carry on with their lives, in spite of everything? And how do they deal with a system that views them with suspicion? By grimly showing two children in the grip of a brutal addiction, No Quick Fix hopes to alleviate and identify some of the enormous pain endured by parents coping with an addicted child.

"An abstract exploration of the tension surrounding women and stereotypical representations of their knowledge. The film was created from footage shot at Phil Hoffman's independent imaging retreat in Ontario as well as from footage shot in Vancouver (where I had given myself the challenge of shooting 100 feet of film every month). All of the footage was hand-processed, and some of it was contact printed by hand and treated in baths of potassium ferricyanide. The final film was created through various optical printing techniques." — Amanda Dawn Christie

Our trans/2spirit/intersex hero Alick takes a walk in the birch grove with Kay, the high school siren, the girl of their dreams, things get hot and wet, melting hearts and the cold snow of the Canadian landscape.

Short film by Jon Rafman.

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.

Stop motion experimental film that shows a man watching porn and releasing himself.

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.

A fable about the creation of the stars and moon in the sky.

Death in the Garden of Paradise is an intensely personal meditation on the murder of the filmmaker's father and sister in Lahore by an unknown intruder. The disassociation caused by traumatic loss and the impossibility of knowing the identity of the killer flow seamlessly into the film's aesthetics so that familiar sights become strange, shopkeepers and passing pedestrians become suspects, and sound is fragmented and distorted. Architecture and haunted spaces, deserted gardens, photographs and paintings are both metaphors and physical locations in this elegant elegy to mortality

Canadian Documentary

A rumination on the songwriting abilities of Bob Dylan.

The usual cast of characters set examples of proper young-lady behavior on this 12- song collection culled from the Madeline cartoon series.

After learning of Africa's deadly lack of clean water, Canadian first-grader Ryan Hreljac worked tirelessly to save money to build a well in Uganda. Now, thanks to a neighbor's donation of frequent flyer miles, Ryan will see the fruits of his labor. Join the remarkable boy on an emotional journey as he receives a hero's welcome in Africa and is greeted warmly by his longtime pen pal Jimmy in this inspirational documentary.

Madame Winger wants you to make a film about something you love. She shows you her favorite low budget filmmaking techniques, from cameraless animation to processing your own film in a bathtub. Filmed in 16 mm.

When big business meets big charity, the partnership can be very profitable for both. Philanthropy Inc. tells the story of this new phenomenon using three case studies involving three of the world's largest corporations and three of the world's largest charities. Each story is an example of how the partnership of business and charity can work — and sometimes not work.

Baklava is a fairy tale about a country in the heart of the Peninsula and two brothers, separated by the timelessness of the Transition. Djore is 26, dresses in black, listens to drum & bass and does graffiti. Kotze is 9, wears a silver chain, steals, fights and loves pop folk. Their journey in search of a buried treasure introduce us in an end neighborhood populated with weird characters, dark dreams and child's fantasies.

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

For the first time ever on DVD, a spectacular look at the Cavalia experience and the artists - captured live, up front and center. A close up view of the brilliant demonstration of harmony between horse and man displayed by equestrian directors Magali Delgado and Frédéric Pignon and the magnificent four-legged artists of Cavalia. Renowned composer Michel Cusson provides the music for this unforgettable celebration of the senses. From the fast-based acrobatics to the exquisite movement of artists suspended in mid-air, all of the show elements are included in this package. Plus, an inside look at the soul of Cavalia. A profile of the creative minds behind Cavalia along with a backstage tour to see the artists - and what it takes to make it all happen, day after day.

Work can be murder.

Picnicface's energy drink will blow your mind again.

Françoise Sullivan, signatory of the manifesto Refus global, in 1948, is a painter, sculptor, choreographer and dancer. She is one of the outstanding figures of the art and automatism movement in Quebec (Canada).

Lacuna: 1. an empty space or a missing part; a gap; an absence. 2. a discontinuity in an anatomical structure.
Different textures of grief and acceptance emerge and the camera eye becomes a lens into the interior. Space is inhabited by memory; memory becomes a gesture that seeks the past.
Lacuna is a poetic meditation that navigates a landscape of absence, memory and transformation through image and sound.

The third thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

A game of chess takes a turn for the fantastic.

Scenes of everyday life in the occupied Palestinian territories, with a dream-like feeling, reminiscent of home-movies of the 60s. But instead of a day at the beach, or in the backyard: an olive tree, a wall, a bulldozer, soldiers harassing grandmothers. The wall’s path does not obey the "borderline" (the designated Green Line demarcating Israel from the occupied West Bank). Rather, it snakes its way through kilometers of Palestinian land, barring the passage of Palestinians to their homes, workplaces, universities, schools, mosques, hospitals. On Arab village land, in Arab neighbourhoods, Israeli soldiers brutally repress disarmed civilians. It appears then a natural recourse for a people to rise up against such endless expropriation.

Short film by Lucia Fezzuoglio.

The Bathroom Tapes: My Man is the first in a series of music videos shot entirely in the rooms of my apartment. Interested in domestic containment, nesting, and home-sweet-home comfort, these tapes play with aspects of domesticity through role-playing and denial in a self-constructed fantasy world that isn’t always pleasant.

This collectors TIGER_CATS SPECIAL EDITION DVD, produced from the nationally-televised CFL TRADITIONS series, combines rarely seen action footage with candid interviews of Hamilton greats such as Tommy Joe Coffey, Rocky DiPietro, Tony Gabriel, Garney Henley, Danny McMannus, and Angelo Mosca to create a black and blue portrait of the tough and gritty teams who've made "Steeltown Tough" their trademark.

The second part of a series of attempts to give concrete form to the notion of intersticiality, this videotape addresses issues of nationalism and the nation-state, temporal polarities, alienation, the rejection and construction of political identities, ethnofascism, the body as object and metaphor, agents, monsters and abjection, subjective affinities, and the objectivity of trust. The material was recorded while leaving the family home, arriving in New York and Vienna, and then traveling through the former Yugoslavia (stopping in Ljubljana, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Belgrade, and Skopje) shortly after the NATO bombings.

A structural autotopographical study of lindsay's great-grandmother through what was left behind and what is missing. One of five works in the series Bloodline.

A time based work

In verlan Ithaka is Kathaï. Just think about this for 2 secs. That's all I ask you... just 2 secs, you think about this.

The author shows photographs from the youth of her partner’s body-screen while massaging his back. A loving tussle between images of the past and a present marked by the passage of time.

"An animated absurdist exploration of North American popular culture and fast food. Made for the 5th anniversary of the Bookmobile project." - Cartune Xprez