Cinematic Era: 1995 Vintage

A short film from the 18th Pia Film Festival.

What kind of symbolism is encoded in modern sculpture and dance? When Lois Carmen Denominator asks this question, only the camera operator has the guts to stick around and find out the answer.

A young man in the Alps is confronted with his culture's fears of nature, wolves, sexuality and wildness. Based on the short story Peter and the Wolf by Angela Carter.

Recounting the contradictions of being queer and Asian by actively resisting the predefined notions of gay male desirability.

A collage of youth voices present their views on sex education, dealing with sexuality, safe sex, and abortion.

A saucy femme tries her hand at baking.

A look at parrots, birds with a playful nature and remarkable mimicry skills that have endeared them to pet owners worldwide. Included: the largest parrot species, the hyacinth macaw; scarlet macaws, white cockatoos and monk parakeets.

A film about Canada's oldest mosque in Edmonton

Traffic crashes are the number one cause of death for youth. 16 to 19 year olds crash four times more than all other ages combined. Over 6500 teenagers die every year as a result of traffic crashes. This video shows interviews with teenagers who have survived traffic crashes. They talk about the consequences of their driving and the need for a new attitude when they drive.

An experimental documentary about disclosed secrets, social prejudices, and the fragile memories of a dysfunctional family.

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Baillie Walsh's Massive Attack Be Thankful For What You've Got

A woman on her way from prison, she decides to go on. The reconnaissance of political resistance until present day.

Christmas in war time is a grim and ugly affair. Join A & E as they interview soldiers from past wars and their incredible experiences on the fields and in their camps at this most joyous time of year.

Explores the parks, sights and fauna of the Black Hills Region, including Wind and Jewel caves, Devil's Tower, and Badlands National Park. Features historical footage from the archives of Mt. Rushmore and Crazy Horse memorials.

Filmed from a choreographed eternal B and D triangle, old found erotic footage, optically printed and rear screen rephotograhped with a Matte Box, and hand painted. According to Stekel, in all of us is the will to power and the will to power and the will to submission; every pleasure is close to pain, and in all love there is some hate. To be able to stretch our boundaries and explore our shadow side, here with a bit of black humor, this is part of our new freedoms.–S. G.

Live At The Cambridge, Newcastle 1995.

The film portrays the cultural history of beer brewing in Cologne from medieval times up until today with particular emphasis on region typical elements like "Köbesse", "Bierhäuser" and "Kölsch-Konvention". The process of brewing, from resources to drinkable "barley-juice", is documented within the traditional brewery Päffgen.

Longplay comedy with the subtitle "The Work of Jára Cimrman in the Hands of a Clever Trinity - A Film Made About You and For You". The four-hour film was made improvised by the method of "dried humor", i.e. an attempt to destroy each newly emerging gag by diluting it, explaining it or just making it wrong. 1995: The young amateur theater director Petr Hobby (P. Marek) places an advertisement for the founding of the Cimrman theater ensemble. The two young men who join him - Jiří Nezájem (J. Nebeský) and Jiří Zájem (J. Nezhyba) - will then experience with him during the effort to start rehearsing the performance of an incredible blow of fate, culminating in a shift in time by thirty years. The dilemma is: to return or stay in 2023?

This video by Morin is one of the 69 short videos from a collective project entitled 1837 Seconds For Independence intitiated by Coop Vidéo de Montréal.

With the act of capturing the strange worlds on film, one's own presence is unveiled as exotic.

Playful course on a goose-body game.

A compelling portrait of parents coming to terms with their children’s sexual orientation. The parents and children director Vickie Seitchik interviews each come from different social and ethnic backgrounds. Some accepted their children’s orientation easily; others had grief to compound their ordeal from the start. Seitchik skillfully interweaves different interviews to bring out particular personalities while highlighting common traits they all share: the shame, anger, hurt and sense of loss, but also and especially the relief, joy and energy coming out can bring.

In a dystopian future Kadath Lander, a descendant of the creator of the Golem, is possessed by the hylic energy lifeforce of the decayed remains of the Golem. The Golem attempts to travel back in time and prevent itself from being destroyed.

1995 film

When Paula discovers that her neighbor/love interest has a boyfriend she plots her revenge.

When the crowd finishes applauding the participants of the AIDS Walk in Central Park, NYC, the crowd disperses across the lawns. Then a friendly celebration begins with picnics and live music. I observe the mood of the different people gathered here in the stifling heat, who, carried away by the music, begin to dance.

Based on Simon Garfield 's book of the same name, this programme examines how British attitudes towards disease and homosexuality were affected by Aids. Originally sold to the public as a pandemic affecting homosexuals and heterosexuals alike, by 1990 it had become apparent that the risk of infection was far higher for gay men. In a sad yet sometimes hilarious story of mutual misunderstanding, politicians, gay rights activists and campaigners describe the attitudes, from moral outrage and homophobia to a desire not to offend, that prevented the formulation of a policy that would protect those most at risk from Aids.

Experimental film collaging found footage mixing nature, media, and computer generated graphics

Seven series of images, twenty-four per second, shot between May and October in Mont Bué, Hockanum, Mount Boreas, Plum Brook, Plainville, at the Saint Bernard quay and on the beach of Palud.

A 16 mm. experimental film.

Animated film (pixilation). Viktor arrives in an autumn forest ablaze with color. Viktor, with his white skin and black clothes, feels out of place. He quickly devours everything in his path: leaves, branches, then trees. He cannot suppress his destructive urges. For Viktor lives with his worst enemy: himself. He is nothing more than a metal bar giving him a vain hope of compassion. Hypothetical dialogue. He then enters a house where everything accelerates...

An optically-printed canvas which explores the interior feel of world moving with inherent fluidity through a medium of wind and water. It presents an impressionistic portrait of unnatural forces that collide.

"In her very first moving image work, Cantor already displays the masterly use of appropriated footage for which she would become known, inserting explicit scenes from the classic porn film Behind the Green Door (1972) into key scenes of lovemaking from Louis Malle's 1959 succès de scandale The Lovers. Taking as its inspiration the (most likely apocryphal) story that actress Jeanne Moreau and her costar were "really making love" on the set of The Lovers, Cantor shows us what director Malle could not, through the addition of hardcore footage from the iconic Marilyn Chambers porn film. At times the edits between one film and the next are remarkably seamless, creating an ingenious illusion, at others Cantor self-consciously foregrounds her redubbing and re-editing of her VHS source material." - Electronic Arts Intermix

Short film shot by Todd Verow and later edited into Frisk.

Testimonies of women and men living with HIV or AIDS on life, love and their illness.