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VUCAVU is delighted to launch three new programs in the Educational Guide series from Archive/Counter-Archive (A/CA); a project and research network dedicated to the activation and preservation of audiovisual archives created by Aboriginal peoples (First Nations, Métis, Inuit), Black communities and people of color, women, LGBT2Q+ and immigrant communities.
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Fanny meets her high school friends for the annual Switch & Bitch Party.
A look at the community response to the murder of Nirmal Singh Gill, a caretaker at the Guru Nanak Gurudwara in Surrey BC by 5 white supremacist skinheads in 1998.
Chilean refugee Daniela (Carmen Aguirre) wants to travel back to Chile to learn more about her family as her father is reluctant to talk about his past. But she is about find out much more than she expected.
A presentation for filmmakers and artists with VUCAVU.com’s Digital Programming Intern, Stephanie Poruchnyk-Butler.
Filmed sporadically and intuitively during the summer months of 2020 and 2021, Homunculi is a recontextualization of a personal archive of hand processed 16mm “home movies” and various cinematographic experiments.
While narrating letters written to her ex, a woman attempts to cast away the lingering shadows of the relationship and overcome feelings of rejection and failure.
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.
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"C'est à qui, cette ville?" is a response to the 1984 film, “Ville, Quelle Ville?” This original super 8 film documented various places in Toronto’s east end and reflected upon a young woman’s life in the city.
A young loner struggles to make connection at a haunted summer camp.
VHS video documentation of The images, such as they are, do have an effect on us: PORN Dossier. The envelope and folders are opened and the contents examined.
Digital video documentation of The images, such as they are, do have an effect on us: PORN Dossier. The envelope and folders are opened and the contents examined.
Spirit Bear's friends teach him about residential schools and how he can help with reconciliation!
VHS video documentation of The images, such as they are, do have an effect on us: CENSORSHIP dossier. The envelope and folders are opened and the contents examined.
Two sisters attempt to find common understanding amidst bickering.
As he is making a didgeridoo, Bernard Bosa tells us what vibration is for him, what it has done in his life.
Clash of cultures, care of the elderly and four women trying to make sense of their unravelling family, this is Mum Singh.
A group of Vietnamese nationals is making their way to an unknown location in a shipping container to find a better life.
Artist Talk with Farrah Miranda & Evelyn Encalada Grez (With Audio Description)
Since launching our platform in 2017, VUCAVU has collaborated with several curators and arts organizations from across Canada to present film and media art programs. Each program includes a text exploring the themes addressed, and many also include recordings of roundtable discussions and artist talks for you to discover!
I lost my mind from working at a government call centre. This is my story.
This version of the classic tale is explored through the internal narrative of Red Riding Hood herself. She is consumed with overwhelming anxiety about everything in her personal life and surrounding environment. Instead of being a comfort, Grandma’s house becomes the site of her resignation to events when fatigue eventually sets in. Visually playful, the main character changes from finger puppet to paper cut out, to human actor, while her inner self remains constant.
Who is up there? Who is at the top? This endeavor to move from one place to another was influenced by Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” in which a character travels through an unknown landscape.
3 groups of 3 young women of different ages (sixteen, nineteen and twenty one years old) question their relation towards femininity and the socially constructed notion of gender that stifles them.
Trade is an experimental video short exploring concepts of borders and trade, and their relationship to notions of collective history and national identity in the North American colonial context.
An excerpt from the feature length film "A GOOD MADNESS - The Dance of Rachel Browne" celebrating the life and work of choreographer and founder of Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers, Rachel Browne.
Can’t Help Falling in Love with You follows Laura Ohio documenting Los Angeles through the dual lens of artist and sex worker. The film reveals the production of emotional experiences and the radical intimacy in which “artists and prostitutes are compelled to connect with complete strangers: a public. They share themselves with everyone but no one in particular” (Baudelaire).
Ties that bind beyond the last light.
While posing for caricatures, strangers reveal themselves by sharing their diverse personal stories in rapid succession. This work explores the complexity of intimacy, identity and representation.
Do you like your body?
Tundrunning is part of a larger project titled Erlking of a malevolent figure whose beguiling power pulls us inextricably in; calling the unsuspecting traveler to her fate in the depths of the wilderness.
Part of the ongoing “Supa” series, Supa Stition is a glimpse into the unseen world of magic and the occult.
The 1990 Oka crisis from the perception of a child and performed by the survivors, 25 years later.
Métis Femme Bodies returns the narratives to those who have had their voices muted and cultures stolen from them.
There are many memories of childhood that have slipped through the cracks. Most that I can recollect were of the differences in myself in comparison to the others around. Taken away at one week of age from my Indian community and given to a white foster family, my experience of the authentic Indian and where my placement is, within this dream of authenticity, comes from an infected locale.
With lyrics by Nishnaabeg poet Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, How to Steal a Canoe tells the story of a young Nishnaabeg woman and an old Nishnaabeg man rescuing a canoe from a museum and returning it to the lake where it was meant to be.
Video collage, documenting a week spent in Chicago.
This intricate stop-motion animation interlaces Canada’s colonial past with writer-director Amanda Strong’s personal family history — and illuminates Cree, Métis, and Anishinaabe reclamation of culture, language, and Nationhood. (Danis Goulet, TIFF)
A video collage based on twenty-eight tracking shots of city scenes.
Waking up after thousands of years of being encased in ice, the voice of a creature is heard, emerging to find that the world is a much different place, although some things remain the same, he is hungry, and he is still an Apex predator, at the top of the food chain. The soundtrack is composed of samples of audio from the largest mass calving event in recorded history (when arctic ice melts and collapses into the ocean). There's a new monster in town.
In 2014 Lydia’s son, Colten Pratt, went missing off the streets of Winnipeg.
Grand Chief Sheila North investigates unsolved murder of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
A spoken word poem and minimalist audio track about a sexy highland stream, a love letter to the beauty found in nature, and the mysterious way beauty is suffused in the natural world, written in English and Anishinaabemowin.
A lively look at the lives and musical roots of Aboriginal women from across North America.
The body in the techno craze? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency? Biopiracy and indigeneity? Military Robotics? Trafficking of women over the internet? E-Waste? Autobiographical and contemporary, this interpretation of the delusions and illusions of the technocultural era delivers us Out, Into This World….
On an island off the coast of Washington, a Pentecostal camp counsellor finds two fugitives from El Salvador trying to cross the border into Canada. Over the course of a long day, she must decide whether she can -- or will -- help them. Meanwhile, at her summer cottage, a woman and her son spy on them with a drone, and this conflict ends in calamity.
A video performance which explores gender identity beyond sexual orientation.
Afro hair goes Beyond Curls & Kinks
At times painful and disturbing, Still Sane's overriding theme is ultimately one of defiance and survival: we can maintain our choices, even in the face of literally mind-numbing oppression.
For almost 40 years, Colette Whiten has quietly and powerfully challenged gender dynamics, political power and mass media imagery... This video portrait was commissioned by the Canada Council for the Arts and the IMAA.
Two children experience a lifetime together when they imagine what it would be like to travel through a black hole.
Rob Vilar, the most criminally unknown actor who has walked the planet Earth. Salvaged from a dumpster near the National Screen Institute's offices in Winnipeg, this video is the seminal preface to this man and his evolving craft.
Someone wearing a pink, hand-knit, vaguely larva-like suit tries very hard to complete a simple task, but is restricted by coziness.
Part two of the artist’s trilogy exploring the depiction of sexuality in teen films of the 1980s, in which a scene from “Valley Girl” is re-worked.
Caught in a battle of time, an elderly artist struggles to complete his body of work.
A distinct world – that is often an isolated part of a larger world – is viscerally envisioned in this uniquely hand- processed film.