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In 1817, at age 25, Anthony Flower left London, England on one of his father’s trading ships bound for Canada. He would never return to claim his inheritance. Using Anthony Flower’s art, archival material and interviews with researchers, historians, curators and the people of Queens County, New Brunswick, the mystery of his life is revealed.

The video presents a year long documentation of walking in Jarry's park in Montreal. The toy-like looking extensions for the arms are made of maple wood and leather. These paradoxical prostheses do not facilitate the bodily movements. On the contrary, they present grotesque attachments that communicate the very impossibility of undertaking any unrestrained journey through time and space.

During the 10:00 minutes of this silent video there is a close up image of the eye that most of the time looks straight into the camera lens. The eye occasionally blinks, looks down and is covered with an eyelid for a few seconds. It is a paradoxically peaceful video. There is a certain promise and visual tension that something is about to happen, but nothing ever happens. The image of the eye fades out to black after ten minutes. The question remains: is this videotaped omnipresent eye providential or ominous?

First, she got home, then she did some drugs... The wrong dose led to a bad reaction!

"Which ever word you speak you owe to destruction" Hand-processed sound/picture explores the intimate relationship between

Romance gone wrong sparks this visually poetic meditation on love, promises and destruction, with reference to Mrs. Danvers, that icon of perfectly executed revenge in Alfred Hitchcock's classic Rebecca.

Short animation by Nicolas Brault

From May 2001 to February 2002, transsexual performance artist Mirha-Soleil Ross appeared pregnant every time she was in public. This video features Mirha-Soleil performing pregnancy by the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco and an audio recording of her mother speaking about the ups and downs of having a baby. Created as a part of Mirha-Soleil Ross' performance art cycle: The Pregnancy Project. The Pregnancy Project explores some transsexual women's relationship to the personal and institutional aspects of motherhood and hopes to foster community discussion around controversial reproductive technologies.

Best friends and roommates, Agathe and Alexandre share everything. After a boozy and smoky birthday party, they end up sharing too much, the vivid colors of Agathe's world splashing against the pale tones of Alexander's.

The image of a young Asian man kissing 63 different men is superimposed over vibrantly colored flowers with their official names. The men talk about their first gay Asian kiss.

Water as a symbol of rebirth.

During a ‘we-need-to-talk’ conversation, a daughter learns to deal with what her father has been doing behind the door.

Monika Delmos's documentary captures a year in the life of two teenage refugees, Joyce and Sallieu, who have left their own countries to make a new life in Ontario. Joyce, 17, left the Democratic Republic of Congo to avoid being forced into prostitution by her family. Sallieu, 16, had witnessed the murder of his mother as a young boy in wartorn Sierra Leone.

Concert film of Exit Strategy performing in Calgary, Alberta in 2008.

An homage to the majestic effects of light projected through celluloid. Luminous captures the projected image in its altered form; reflecting back into the projection booth, after passing through the glass and onto the screen, bleeding, breaking and flickering on the surfaces of spinning reels, old posters and the machinery itself.

Every year for the past 26 years, a courageous team of semi-professional wrestlers goes on what has been called the toughest wrestling tour on Earth. Rookies with stars in their eyes join tough-as-nails veterans like Chi-Chi Cruz, Leatherface, Eric the Lumberjack, and Crash Crimson to pack into a van and head for the far northern reaches of Manitoba. Only accessible in winter by frozen lake roads, these remote First Nations communities get a rare show of live wrestling entertainment, complete with stunners and body slams. Wrestling with the North captures all the pain, glory and determination of these die-hard wrestlers and through the wrestlers' eyes we glimpse northern aboriginal communities holding fast to their traditions while embracing a pop-culture circus with zeal.

A women overcomes domestic violence in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.

Over Land is an intimate and personal portrait of a family facing a crisis in agriculture. Between 1996 and 2006, despite warnings of an impending food shortage, prices for farm goods dropped to their lowest point in Canadian history, driving many farmers off the land. With a family history of farming spanning generations, the Sudermans now face a challenge that threatens to pull the family apart. As Steve Suderman films his family, the fight for economic survival becomes a poignant story of hope, determination, and the search for purpose.

Why is this wiggly appendage such a source of tension, confusion and anxiety? Can a search for penis perfection provide the answer? Penis Dementia is an amusing, irreverent and insightful hunt for seminal answers to penetrating questions with help from doctors, sex experts, and actual penis users (male and female).

Explores how Iranians use blogs to express their ideas and feelings despite the restrictions imposed by their government.

A boy runs away from three girls. He starts to feel very tired, the girls eventually get caught up with him and they make the boy feel uncomfortable by kissing him. Featuring the song "Lungo Filaccio" by Roberto Cardinali.

A semi-retired drag queen named Burger is determined to win a contest at Toronto's Bar 501.

We shaped this game, and the the game shapes Canada. No other country in the world is so tied to a game it created because... There is no game like this game.

A building lost in the middle of urban smog, a squatter girl, a curious eye on its floor... This is the beginning of an unusual encounter between Arianne and her mysterious neighbour in this dystopic world hanging by a string.

‘“Road-Watch” television footage of Toronto highways (from the local stock-market information channel) is processed through a series of slow-shutter VHS feedback loops. A cinematic surveillance depicting traffic absent of time/place designations.’ — CLL

Mining the depths of longing and loneliness, Isolating Landscapes expertly combines found footage, hand-processed film, and animation to build a layered archive of emotion and record the tenuousness of connection.

In Kwakwaka’wakw society in British Columbia, masks form part of the symbolic heritage of nobles and chiefs. The mask shown here, a late 19th-century transformation mask carved from cedar and taken from the Musée de l’Homme, expresses duality: closed, it is a crow; open, a human face with a hooked nose. These ancestral objects, manifestations of spirits, accompany myths, dances, and costumes, appearing in ceremonies and potlatches, gatherings where privileges are transmitted. Long suppressed, Amerindian culture was rediscovered by ethnologists E. Curtis and F. Boas, and later by surrealists and Claude Lévi-Strauss in exile in New York during the 1940s. Bill Holm, an expert in Indigenous art, analyses the mask’s form. A sculptor evokes the recurring egg shape, basis of all creation, while a dancer recounts the legend of the crow that brought the tlasala, the dance of peace.

I am near-sighted. When I see a potentially beautiful boy at a distance, I perceive him as perfectly beautiful. Gradually, as he approaches, he begins to accumulate defects which detract from his overall beauty; sometimes to the point where he ceases to be attractive at all.

Ruby Sue Wilson is leaving Moonbeam, Ontario, if she can hitch a ride. But how do you leave home when no one will pick you up, because everybody knows you?

A short film.

They are an Indian people who have suffered for many years. They were forced to live in unimaginable squalor. Houses not much better than cardboard boxes. No running water, no sewage disposal. Human waste tossed into the streets where children played in it and dogs ate it. As their sense of worth disintegrated, they engaged in a process of self-destruction. 90% of the community became alcoholic. Many of their children sniffed gas. Many more suffered from chronic disease. Stripped of culture, meaning, and hope, they killed themselves at a rate among the world's highest. But their tragedies did not occur in a third world country. They happened in a country with a reputation as one of the world's best places to live-Canada. They are the Innu. For thousands of years they roamed strong and free.

Suturing collaged images and ink drawings, this animation is based on a mesmerizing short story by Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar. Awkwardly translated and re-translated into French and English, the words allude to the disjunct vagaries of life in captivity, under water, and looking through the glass.

Thirty-five continious sequences, pixel-like, recur in a time-lag, forming an undulatory horizontal movement. The result is a retinal tapestry.

Seventy-five years ago the nobility of the Kwakwaka'wakw of the Pacific Northwest Coast chose a young man, secluded him from the authorities when his peers were sent to residential school, and trained him in every aspect of the culture and tradition of his people. Today, caught between two worlds, he is needed more than ever by his people to reclaim their teachings. Adam Dick or Kwaxisistala is the Clan Chief of the origin story of his nation and the last orally trained Potlatch Speaker of his people.

With the screen split into four, clips of films and interviews with ordinary people, the film evokes the media story of Aurore Gagnon, the tragic heroine of a cult Quebec film.

Peter Pringle's How to Play the Theremin is a valuable addition to any thereminist's collection. Totalling one hour and forty three minutes, Pringle demonstrates his impressive collection of theremins - Samuel Hoffman's RCA, Julius Goldberg's RCA, the Moog Ethervox Theremin, and the Moog Etherwave Theremin, describes and demonstrates impeccably a variety of theremin techniques, and even goes as far as demonstrating the MIDI capabilities of the Moog Ethervox. Whether you are a beginner, a veteran thereminist, or simply interested in the history of the instrument and the development of the techniques and methods that have been devised to play it, this DVD will have something for you. With a total running time of 1 hour and 43 minutes, the disk features three instruments: the Samuel Hoffman 1929 RCA theremin, the Moog Music Ethervox, and the Moog Music Etherwave. This covers every sort of theremin from the rare vintage models to the modern 'entry level' instrument.

Powerthirst is an extreme advertisement created by the Canadian comedy group Picnicface for a fictional energy drink with the same name. It is best known for comically over-the-top sales pitches including “it gives you menergy.”

26 year-old Madison explores the important spiritual side of transition with help from her grandmother to teach her all things feminine. Generational differences become clear, but are sweetly brought together in familal discussion.

Magie blanche recounts moments in a young girl’s day, on her 13th birthday, a Friday the 13th… This film was produced as part of the 2nd Montreal Super 8 Festival, whose very simple rule was to shoot a single 50’ reel, with no post-editing. Special effects and editing were therefore created in camera, as the film was being shot.

Mike often introduced himself as a “filmmaker whose films nobody ever sees.” So... I didn't see this one. I can't write the movie overview. Sorry 'bout that.

Video V of Cartmell's unfinished series Shipwreck Theory. Part of Shipwreck Theory II (The Writing) A tale of Cartmell’s friendship with Mickus, sung up at the camp, the island getaway, the last mother, the picture divided as they were not, the lines of flight scrolling until Montaigne dies and then returns in order to birth the project of self-portraiture. The filmmaker practices death. Mike’s obsession with chiamatic doubling continues in the picture’s split, even as he heals it by running his touching comrade ode across it. “Even in your dying, and despite my state of wreckage, I was accruing benefits, coming closer than I had ever been to death, your death, watching you sink from the safety of the shore, and soaking up the knowledge to be had, the macabre poetry of it.”

This documentary looks at how children deal with a parent who has died by suicide. Meet 3 people who lost their fathers to suicide at an early age but learned the truth much later, after years of confusion, grief and guilt. In French with English subtitles.

The making of the short film Cirkus (1999).

A Animated Short Film about dancing Hamsters

Old home-movies and astronomy imagery entwine along a common and inescapable course towards their end.

Slides from of my parents wedding reveal another time when they are so young. Using animation, I attempt to save them from a very difficult future.

A student’s assignment causes me to consider the misogyny in art and what my responsibility is as a teacher, an artist, and a man. Images for this video were found using an academic art history image database, with the key word "rape".

On one side of the split screen, I run across a frozen river. One the other side, in stop-motion animation, a baby cast in ice forms from water on my body. The voice-over speaks of family tragedy and science fiction.

Using an audio waveform to illustrate aggression, I recall a difficult memory. The relationship of the artist and the listening audience echoes this memory and becomes a source of frustration.

A remake of a 1977 TV movie-of-the-week starring John Travolta. Shot on super8 with Ken and Barbie dolls, this animated film explores the themes of adolescent love, isolation, plastic bubbles, beach parties and the boy next door.

From Saint-Jean Terre-Neuve, a woman leaves phone messages on the voicemail of a mysterious Sabrina… The Rise and Fall of a Long Distance Relationship was produced as part of the 5th edition of the Montreal Super 8 Festival whose rule main task is to shoot a single 50-foot cartridge, without post-image editing.

Commissioned for the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative's 30th anniversary, the film explores Walton's personal history growing up in Nova Scotia.