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A group of Vietnamese nationals is making their way to an unknown location in a shipping container to find a better life.
Riverside Queerness reveals hard moments in the Prairies' shadowed queer history. Three storytellers navigate muddy waters that is Manitoba's subconsciousness; where truth is blurred by the power of the currents.
A group of amateur astronomers and eclipse-chasers prepare to view a total eclipse.
I lost my mind from working at a government call centre. This is my story.
Clash of cultures, care of the elderly and four women trying to make sense of their unravelling family, this is Mum Singh.
Short descriptionThe conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan as seen through the eyes of the inhabitants of the Caucasus.
An intimate portrayal of the closed-off Russian city of Norilsk through the eyes of its youth, mine workers and truth seekers.
Çås¢a∂ing €®r0r Win∂0ws is a project about love, death, connection, the future, and the afterlife. It is an exploration of artificial intelligence, human consciousness, and embodiment that troubles deeply held convictions about what it means to be alive, to be a person, and to be in conversation with another.
Night Circled was made by recording video from online surveillance cameras.
An optimistic Filipina woman who has just immigrated to Canada is excited to try an apple for the first time. Similar to her experiences as a new immigrant, the apple isn't what she expected.
Captured over five years in 18 communities, INDIAN TIME paints a personal, up-to-date portrait of 11 of Quebec's Indigenous peoples. With some forty people speaking in turn, INDIAN TIME makes for exceptional encounters and immerses viewers in "Indian time" with their eyes and hearts.
"Those That Will Come, Will Hear" constructs a portrait of the erosion of languages; a global phenomenon that is still largely unexplored. This exploratory film will be a way to discover the essence of First Nations and Inuit languages still spoken in Quebec via the richness of their unique sounds and the rendering of this inherent musicality into visual imagery.
Border mechanisms that act on migrants are many. Moving from shelter to shelter and hopping on trains, they head up north across Mexico to reach the United States and Canada. During the U.S election, migrants are more than aware that it could be their last chance to cross the border. Following their trajectory, Destierros draws a path of reclusion. A path where time remains the longest road between two places.
An examination of how art and truth come into conflict at the trial of a young man accused of rape.
An austere film with touches of offbeat humour
A woman deals with the death of her mother through self-annihilating tendencies.
A woman paints with her vagina to please the art hungry masses that crowd her gallery and her life.
Métis, Métis Not is a video documentation of the filmmaker’s lack of relationship with her cultural background
Did you know that many First Nations schools get less money than provincial schools? Shannen Koostachin, a young leader from Attawapiskat First Nation, knew this was wrong, and so does Spirit Bear.
Abstract Horror is part documentary, part speculation about the new forms of religion and spirituality mediated by new technologies.
Since launching our platform in 2017, we have collaborated with curators and programmers from across the country to present film and video programs available for free streaming for a limited time. Each program includes a critical curatorial essay that explores the overarching themes and selections. After the free viewing period has expired, we encourage the public to read the essays and rent the works individually.
An experimental reinterpretation of Andy Warhol's 1963 silent short film of the same name, “Kiss” recontextualizes his protest against the Hays Code's time restriction of onscreen kissing as an impassioned indictment of laws that prohibit and punish homosexuality in certain countries.
EXPOSURE is an experimental documentary that explores issues of race, sexuality and cultural identity. A dialogue between two lesbians of colour (Japanese-Canadian and Afro-Caribbean women) is intercut with photographs, texts, paintings and voice-over.
There are things in life you never forget. One of them, like it or not, is "The Talk".
Fresh Fruit explores the inner yearnings of a bored hostess, as she tastes a cornucopia of sweet and juicy offerings.
Stay Away is a video poem about the feeling of being apart.
In the near future, a teenage girl attends a virtual reality school.
That formidable force of conservation officials, Lesbian National Parks and Services, presents three portraits of lesbian species in crisis. Not unlike the renowned 1970s Hinterlands Who's-Who series, these public service announcements point to the perils of habitat loss and poaching. The Marxist Feminist, the Lesbian Separatist and the Bull-Dykus Americanus are featured in this parody of nature education.
A street flyer leads to a surprising discovery.
My Father, Francis: a father and daughter collaborate. A comment on kinship, diasporic labour, devotion and the factory as a site of creativity.
The Traveller is driving at night. Unbeknownst to her, she is about to reach a town where only Big Girls dwell! Who will prevail?
GUISE is an adult fairy tale for the 90s. Arising from the earth, a body discovers its nakedness. A suit of armour becomes a metaphor for the trappings of identity. Pixilated to produce the effect of a human marionette, accompanied by a good-natured verse. “guise” is by turns dark and humorous.
99 pictures of men. What do they have in common? Let me give you a hint. These are clippings from some Chinese-American newspapers -- salesmen, insurance agents, real estate brokers. All with glasses, ties and suits. Along with some old Chinese radio music. A joke? A stereotype? a fetish? You tell me. It’s anybody’s game. What you see is what you get.
This work reflects on the state of public identity.
This animation combines fact, memory, self-reflection and fantasy with humour. Using finely wrought drawings, handcrafted textiles and girlish stickers, Moore examines and ultimately celebrates her relationship to her Ukrainian birth heritage through a remembered conversation with her adoptive mother.
Keitai Tokyo is a miniature memento of Tokyo. It was shot entirely on an au brand cell phone, which creates low-res, small video files for sending and viewing on cell phones
An artist explores a tormented emotional landscape hidden deep in his memories.
A young man reflects on a past relationship and wrestles with its outcome.
Shiro Yagi is an experimental animated film, inspired by the last sheet of existing music of the artist’s maternal grandfather.
"Brain Static" takes the viewer into the mind of the filmmaker and his fear that one day he may face the same illness as his own mother.
Entrainment ritual to assemble from missing parts, 2017, documents an installation experiment in my studio. This layered assemblage of domestic and landscape imagery and sound tethers my present environs with some half-fictional, nostalgic place.
Addressing the malleable, unreliable nature of memory, Construction animates the collective memory of four people by use of screen printed paper dolls.
The little-known editor of the epic opus Shoah, Ziva Postec delves into her memories, where personal recollection mingles with the shards of History. For the first time, she tells her story, bringing previously unseen footage to the screen.
Cliff Eyland looks back on his life as a visual artist after a successful double-lung-transplant.
Small cemeteries such as Eigengrund often serve as the only memorial to extinct farming communities and have provided me with a direct link to my ancestors. Despite the physical nature of this link, the past is largely unknowable. In response, I aim to combine personal mythologies with historical traces of the site in an attempt to contribute to the legacy of the land.
Part of the ongoing “Supa” series, Supa Stition is a glimpse into the unseen world of magic and the occult.
« Collage » des images publicitaires du « féminin ». L'enchaînement des images déconstruit le modèle irréel de la femme que la publicité véhicule dans les revues « féminines » et dans les annonces télévisées.
Barbara James is a thirty-something, single, hip and opinionated pregnant Black woman. Her life takes an eventful twist of fate when, one particularly ordinary day, she wakes up and realizes that her unborn baby has stopped moving
Afro hair goes Beyond Curls & Kinks
A short drag video about becoming a businessman in public for a day.
This is a Photograph of Me is a video poem using Margaret Atwood’s poem of the same name as a script. A gentle visual meandering, the landscape, water, and cabin as metaphor for body, and how we are placed, and place ourselves, psychologically in space.
Increasing numbers of so-called honour crimes are being committed against girls and women in Germany, France, Britain, Norway, Switzerland, the United States, Canada and Australia.
Neither dogmatic nor sanctimonious, "The Theory of Everything" offers a convoluted discourse and a slew of perspectives that challenge accepted notions and spark the imagination.
An irreverent commercial for a fictitious diet program.
An eight year old girl experience a series of traumatic events while quarantined in the infirmary of a residential school for Native children in Canada.
Brown Town Muddy Water is a documentary about the Indigenous Musicians that lived, died, prospered and survived Winnipeg's notorious main street strip during the 1960’s.
A reflection on distance, grief and memory, through the landscapes...