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Sydnie Baynes is a Toronto-based multimedia artist and animator currently studying at OCAD University. She holds a BFA in Film Animation and creates work that explores Black history, identity, and self-love through storytelling and digital media. Her artistic practice bridges the worlds of education and independent media, with a focus on accessibility, empowerment, and cultural preservation. Welcome to the team Sydnie!
We're delighted to launch A/CA's Educational Guide series; 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.
Fanny meets her high school friends for the annual Switch & Bitch Party.
This is video compilation is part of the educational guide produced as part of Archive/Counter-Archive’s (A/CA) Case Study, Through Feminist Lenses: Video Works at Groupe Intervention Vidéo with Groupe Intervention Vidéo.
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.
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.
A young loner struggles to make connection at a haunted summer camp.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
A presentation for filmmakers and artists with VUCAVU.com’s Digital Programming Intern, Stephanie Poruchnyk-Butler.
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.
Spirit Bear's friends teach him about residential schools and how he can help with reconciliation!
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.
Two sisters attempt to find common understanding amidst bickering.
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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.
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).
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!
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.
Imagine a place smaller in size than Quebec, along the shores of the Mediterranean, where more than 19 religious communities live together. Imagine that some people, in spite of a tormented history, have found the strength and the wisdom not to yield to sectarianism.
A team of beleaguered hockey players and a hybrid prizzly bear interact one bitterly cold night in the depths of winter in a desolate northern settlement.
After my parents died, I found a box of slides from their wedding. Here are images of my parents looking so young. The unknown photographer captured the events with an awkward, honest beauty. Seeing my parents at a time before they faced so many hardships, I just want to protect these innocent kids.
Trying to revisit her pre-baby days by taking a trip to China, the filmmaker realize how much she has changed.
A film about the annual gathering at South Indian Lake, Manitoba.
Hoop Dancers is a silent video featuring four young men in powwow regalia playing pick-up basketball.
In this Maxi-Mexi-Melancolour short, the widow Paramo attempts to prevent further familial tragedy.
A loving portrait of an elderly Russian couple.
The video explores gay Asian men's (GAMs) cruising strategies on American gay sex hookup websites.
Irreverent homage to the city of my birth.
This is a film that touches on my thoughts about growing up. I wanted to use things that I think we're appealing to my eye.
Inspiration for this video came from Winona's dogs Kai and Tojo, their playful attitudes and the joy they bring to her life.
After years of repression, an old woman's common sense goes head-to-head with the fantastic imagination of her inner child, who yearns to be free.
a Tribute to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWGs)
When Land and Body Merge began with the artists and curator meeting online, and over a two month period creating work through video and writing that allowed them to connect and build a relationship from afar. They worked with the idea of a call and response with Lindsay creating work, and Jaime responding to it, and vice versa.
A young man takes break from work, skateboarding along to see his favourite Winnipeg murals.
The artist ponders the possibilities of reconciliation.
milkteeth is an investigation into the imperfection of memory and attempts at preserving the ephemeral.
High Altitude explores what it means to be an Indigenous artist in the modern world.
From the heart of the planet’s slums and squats, individuals have taken over these marginalized worlds and erected cities in their own image.
"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.
A nephew's journey
For over sixty years, loving grandmother Cecile St. Amant has been keeping a deep secret - she is Métis.
There are challenges one faces as a New Canadian.
"Slapleather" is a buffet of bolo ties, loud topaz western wear and a whole lot of Achy Breakin’ Boot Scootin’ Boogyin’.
Victoria, a young actress full of dreams, carefully prepares for an audition. She's to play a character with no name: Whore No. 2. However, the casting director turns her expectations sideways.
Danger is a cautionary tale of the omnipresent Mao-era type of control system still in place in China, in which officials exercise power over every aspect of an individual’s life.
Inkster’s beautiful fiction references the destruction of Africville on the outskirts of Halifax in 1969. Four characters speak directly to the came ra about their lives and sexuality. This use of direct address says docu mentary, but the actors speak Inkster’s bittersweet words.
Created through the use of virtual bodies found online, “Flying Low” is part of the “Keystroke Choreographies” series. Each of the videos in this series is a compositional study utilizing popular contemporary dance principals and techniques as a framework for virtual choreography. Developed by David Zambrano, Flying Low is a movement technique that focuses on the dancers’ relationship with the floor. Simple movement patterns that involve breathing, speed and the release of energy throughout the
A shy Asian female engineering graduate struggles to find and keep a job in the 1970s when sexism was rampant in a traditionally white male dominated profession.
Le document est un témoignage de la 2e rencontre internationale des centres de santé pour femmes tenue à Rome en 1977.
Inspired by the 8mm app, Garland's Quiet Steps is an instrumental music video of the artist's experience of living in Vancouver.
Only by looking back, there is an understanding of finding yourself on a moon-like space.