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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 young loner struggles to make connection at a haunted summer camp.
A presentation for filmmakers and artists with VUCAVU.com’s Digital Programming Intern, Stephanie Poruchnyk-Butler.
As he is making a didgeridoo, Bernard Bosa tells us what vibration is for him, what it has done in his life.
Two sisters attempt to find common understanding amidst bickering.
"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.
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.
Clash of cultures, care of the elderly and four women trying to make sense of their unravelling family, this is Mum Singh.
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.
She Draws a Circle reflects on the work of generations of women to interrupt cycles of violence and oppression, looking to the ways in which our spiritual connections to the land and one another help us to hold space for regenerative healing, bringing the hidden to light drawing on that light to encircle each successive generation.
A group of Vietnamese nationals is making their way to an unknown location in a shipping container to find a better life.
Comprising five hundred images McFadden assembled to investigate the nature of homosocial and queer male relationships, A Separate Peace includes the reading of an eponymous essay the artist wrote in response to this collection and the end of his longterm relationship.
Four videos made during the pandemic in 2021.
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.
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.
Artist Talk with Nelson Wu
A lyrical meditation on moon cycles and the female body
Discover four new teaching guides produced as part of the "Beyond the Narrative: Preserving and Mobilizing Canadian LGBT2Q+ Films from 1970 - 2000 in the CFMDC Collection" Case Study. Featuring 4 programmess curated by Chris Chong Chan Fui, Hazel Meyer and Cait McKinney, Mahlet Cuff and Axelle Demus and Chloë Brushwood Rose.
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.
Invited to speak at an Indigenous Revolutionary Meeting, the narrator describes an intimate encounter with an Evil Colonizing Queen which led to Turtle Island's contraction of an invasive European flora.
"Black Hands, Trial of the Arsonist Slave" is about Marie-Josèphe Angélique, a Black slave accused of burning Montreal in 1734.
In this fiction 2 women talk about their lives and different issues that come with aging...
Growing old together.
Paris1994 is a conceptual dance video about the death of a lover.
The intention is to portray the ritualism and victimization of dating and mate selection. The tape explores the chain of events initiated by the main characters as they unfold.
"Contrary to popular belief, the majority of rapes are not committed in dark alleys by raving lunatics, but rather in familiar surroundings, often by men we know.
When our intrepid heroine Darcy gets her heart broken on her 30th birthday, her friends rally around to help her recover.
PUR LAINE is a story about Ruby, a filipina, married to Roy, a Quebecois man, who dies and leaves her penniless.
“Dear Sis, I am sitting on the subway and all of a sudden, I have this urge to write to you...”, here begins an apology letter written from one sister to another. Starting with the issue of sibling rivalry, the video is a simple and straightforward examination of the connection and the distinction between one person and the next in the world we live in -- talking us further into the greater subject of humanity.
This tape deals with a contemporary heterosexual relationship. Specifically, it is about a male-dominated relationship where the female is seen as a victim. That is to say, not in control of events surrounding her life, suppressed at every turn by the personification of macho mysticism.
Good and evil, sword and sorcery and Adam and Eve, all combine in this visually stimulating animated feast.
Longboy outs himself as a First Nations FAG - who is living with HIV - hoping to sever attached preconception of two spirited peoples. In a contemplative search, the artist recollects how HIV/AIDS has affected him and his surrounding community, revealing a strength through loss.
In this alternate-history fable set in the 1980's AIDS Crisis, a closeted young man is thrust into the midst of an anti-government coup and finds that the animal within is stronger than the monsters that oppress.
"Bloodstorm" considers the paralells between the unpredictability of a storm and the turmoil of living with HIV/AIDS.
This film is available in French only.
"gay shame '98" is a lo-fi document of an event of the same name that took place at dumba, a queer collectively run arts space in Brooklyn.
Cette vidéo relève plusieurs facteurs qui déterminent l'accès à l'information sur le sida au Mali, ainsi que les conditions qui influencent la diffusion de cette information auprès des femmes maliennes.
YOU ME HIV AIDS RESPONSIBILITY REALITY a public service announcement for HIV/AIDS awareness. we will walk the land, breathe the air and drink from the stream. i came across the living tree, branches flowing in the breeze its roots adhering to mother earth YOU ME HIV AIDS RESPONSIBILITY REALITY
Ce documentaire présente l'opinion de différentes femmes (médecins, activistes, écrivaines) sur les problématiques entourant le VIH/SIDA.
Nobody wants to tell Skye, a nine-year-old girl, what is happening in her family. She sees doctors come and go, and she knows something has to be going on...
Commissioned by the Plug In Gallery to do a Performance/ Installation for ART OVER AIDS in November 1990, Alward poured 5 gallons of blood and semen on the floor of the gallery during a private ritual of mourning, and spent the next several hours cleaning it up.
A series of tableaux vivants revisit the paths that have been traced by a diagnosis.
This film offers a snapshot of Little Portugal, a neighbourhood in Toronto using Super8 film.
For Canadian-born women of Chinese origin, the wearing of this dress is fraught with tensions between desire and fear, wonder and contestation.
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.
September 2013. The Court ruling is reached. Almost a quarter million Dominicans of Haitian descent have just become stateless because of the Dominican Constitutional Tribunal’s decision.
Picariello and Lassandro investigates the real-life story of Filumena “Florence” Lassandro and Emilio Picariello, Italian immigrants who were convicted and hanged in 1923 for the murder of an Alberta Provincial Police officer.
Through a visual and narrative collage of personal testimonials, Island & Flight poetically explores the universe of contemporary travel by air.
This documentary of the artist's father is in Cantonese with English subtitles. The visual image is expressed by a technique called stop-motion painting where each stroke is recorded for 2 to 3 seconds. The footage is sped up to create a fluid painting motion. Documentary of My Father is about Lam's father before she knew him personally, before she was born.
Kids In China is a high energy documentary of children in and around Kunming, China, from the unique point of view of the six-year old narrator.
Rachki is an experimental video short looking at memory, migration, translation, and loss.
On a cold fall evening, Leila is left alone to tend the family convenience store. A series of strange clients keep her in a constant state of apprehension. Language and cultural barriers also contribute to the making of a nerve-racking evening.
This video interrogates how subjectivities, political stances, and modes of social engagement formed elsewhere contribute to our positioning within the local, cultural landscape of Vancouver.
An impressionistic portrait which conjures haunted images from the ether of one family’s collective memory.