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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.
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.
As he is making a didgeridoo, Bernard Bosa tells us what vibration is for him, what it has done in his life.
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.
"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.
Clash of cultures, care of the elderly and four women trying to make sense of their unravelling family, this is Mum Singh.
Spirit Bear's friends teach him about residential schools and how he can help with reconciliation!
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.
Two sisters attempt to find common understanding amidst bickering.
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 Farrah Miranda & Evelyn Encalada Grez (With Audio Description)
Interplaying the metaphor of grapes, this father-daughter documentary is characterized by the labour of love it is to make wine, but also the labour of love that is love itself.
The Complete Book of Roses—pages 1–114. A brief glimpse of the disconnect between digital devices and recording the “natural.” Made during Video Pool’s Media Arts Residency (2019-2020) using the Apollo monitor and microscope camera.
"It Took Forever to Fall Asleep" reflects on the opportunity for the potential rebirth a post-COVID world offers, whether this rebirth comes by public policy or public self-determination. Just as the 1950s came to a close, so too will COVID. Eras end, and with them come change.
Cliff Eyland looks back on his life as a visual artist after a successful double-lung-transplant.
A lyrical meditation on moon cycles and the female body
Discover 4 teaching guides produced by A/CA with VUCAVU's content partner CFMDC's film collections that feature 4 programs 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, 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!
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.
No two adoptees are alike. Harold & Peter, Lynne & Lynn, Maureen & Stephen and Dana candidly share their stories and reveal how being adopted shapes an individual’s identity right into adulthood.
"Heartbreak" is a tribute to black mothers. It was written and produced in response to the constant threat of brutality they and their children (particularly boys) live under.
Inspiré d’un fait divers, "La Sarrasine" aborde le phénomène de l’immigration italienne au Québec et les conflits liés au choc de deux cultures.
This video is available in French only. Use the Search or Explore site tools to select non-dialogue or English-language films and videos.
A Filipino new to Canada and a Filipino-Canadian woman fumble helping each other while waiting for their bus.
This performance video captures how the artist feels about their initial identity that was lost and their current identity, which is confusing. The video shows pain, burden, and a strong desire to be free from all the expectations carried.
"A re-creation of my journey to the sweat lodge ceremony through sound image and narration."
A short documentary film that follows four young gay men as they discuss gay life and sexual health in Montreal.
The meeting of the Blue and White Nile in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, is referred to as 'the longest kiss in history'.
In February, 1998, the artist traveled back to Hong Kong to revisit his elementary school, La Salle Primary. Time has changed but there are still the same Chinese Catholic boys in school uniforms.
Visitors to the Carnegie Library Pittsburgh expound on a myriad of thoughts and opinions, while a caricaturist listens on and captures their likeness.
Haunted by visions of serpents and taunted by dark thoughts, a young woman addresses what might be a family curse.
Half-breed Alice attempts to become queen and struggles with the Red Queen and the White Queen's disapproval of her racial transgressions. A funny and quirky take on race, this piece stars Cosmosquaw as the Red Queen, Shawna Dempsey as the White Queen, and Thirza Cuthand as Alice.
A woman reconnects with her grandmother's past through drawings done by Daphne Odjig
Video collage, documenting a week spent in Chicago.
This video is seen how you see it. The things you hear is how you hear it. I'm not going to tell you how to feel when you watch my video. You see what you want to see.
On a hill, a girl re-imagines her journey of survival. Spoken word and layered visuals create an intense urban tale of personal transformation.
Métis Femme Bodies returns the narratives to those who have had their voices muted and cultures stolen from them.
In pursuit of an eclipse, the citizens of Winnipeg flee the city. Meanwhile, stranded in Tudor Village, the caretaker does his best to interrupt their trajectory & entice everyone to return.
Filmmaker Coleen Rajotte returns to Pikangikum First Nation in northwestern Ontario, a community with an unusually high suicide rate.
Treaty X features an audio track and a layering of composited video footage with themes of connection/disconnection to land and waters, treaty rights, and the way capitalism monetizes nature. The Treaty #3 territory comprises 55,000 hectares of land, and annuity payments of $5 have never been adjusted for inflation.
The story of a man lost in the Arctic during a blizzard and his mysterious rescuer
For over sixty years, loving grandmother Cecile St. Amant has been keeping a deep secret - she is Métis.
In October of 1984, the highly acclaimed New York artist, Jack Smith, came to Toronto for a week long performance/Halloween ritual at the Funnel Experimental Film Theatre. This performance, true to Smithesque form, went by three different titles: “Dance of the Sacred Foundation Application,” “Brassieres of Uranus,” and “Impacted Croissants From Outer Space.” Accompanied by the music of Yma Sumac, this short piece remains the last film documentation of this historic event.
During a family party, Myriam, a six years old girl, suffers from her parents bad temper regarding an accident with horrific consequences that she may had cause.
An irreverent commercial for a fictitious diet program.
The camera mounted on a dolly moves through Mater, an installation of mother and child figures by Elvira Finnigan.
An experiment dance piece investigating the concept of surface.
"I placed a medallion on the sidewalk and filmed whoever happened along to pick it up."
“Swing” was rotoscoped from a 16mm print of the filmmaker’s son on a swing. The drawings were then scanned and assembled digitally.
Asmaa Ibnouzahir and Geneviève Lepage, two concerned, free-thinking, well-educated young Quebecers, happen to be veiled women. Geneviève converted to Islam in 2001, after the events of September 11.
Using an experimental approach that combines biographical, documentary, and fictional techniques, this video-film lets us see through the eyes of someone who, after suffering a cerebral aneurysm, becomes a prisoner of his own body within a time and space beyond his control.
Manhattan Project Revisited" is a digital reconstruction of the Manhattan Project, where the first atomic bomb was created during the Second World War. This artwork recreates critical structures from its three main sites: Los Alamos - New Mexico, Oak Ridge - Tennessee, and Hanford - Washington.
An examination of how art and truth come into conflict at the trial of a young man accused of rape.
Venus is born again in the Canadian wilderness, as muse, artist, and catfish