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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.
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.
Two sisters attempt to find common understanding amidst bickering.
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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.
As he is making a didgeridoo, Bernard Bosa tells us what vibration is for him, what it has done in his life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
I lost my mind from working at a government call centre. This is my story.
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!
A woman reconnects with her grandmother's past through drawings done by Daphne Odjig
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.
Montreal based chef with Mauritanian origins is missing the main ingredient of his delicious recipes: the desert salt. He crosses the desert annually...
Inspired by the 8mm app, Garland's Quiet Steps is an instrumental music video of the artist's experience of living in Vancouver.
Meet Montreal's Mambo Drag Kings, a dapper group of lip synching lesbians who entertain in style.
A distinct world – that is often an isolated part of a larger world – is viscerally envisioned in this uniquely hand- processed film.
The performer attempts to apply make-up while wearing electro stimulators on both arms set to maximum power.
The historic establishment of the northernmost mosque in the western hemisphere.
Un feu de paroles, en lectures et en entrevues, de Jean-Claude Labrecque à Michel Garneau en passant par François Charron et Louise Dupré, permettant d’aborder les thèmes de l’oralité, de l’influence du féminisme et de l’engagement dans la poésie actuelle.
A parody of the art film where sentimentality and self-consciousness are brought to an absurd level.
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).
A deathbed tale. A skeptical daughter. A genealogical goose chase to the remote Icelandic highland.
A short film on the subject of Indigenous Love. What is (romantic) love? And what does it mean to you? 8 couples share their thoughts
A portrait of visual artist Rebecca Belmore.
The forbidden love between an Owl and a Fox drives them away from friends and family as they search for happiness together.
Exploring the legacy of the Indian Residential School system by looking at its history, present conditions and hopes for the future.
In the single-channel video "Hybred", artist Christine Kirouac translates a conversation with her mother into an exploration of the stereotypes and subjectivities surrounding her Métis identity (Cree/Irish).
An experimental video meditation exploring the artist’s position and placement in white culture. Continuing his search for identity within a fractured cultural environment, the artist reflects on his history of dislocation and negotiates with the boundaries that include aspects from within both the dominate White society and First Nations history and culture.
The story of a man lost in the Arctic during a blizzard and his mysterious rescuer
A one take super 8 film, that explores the nature of the cowboys and Indian myth perpetuated by wide screen Hollywood movies.
A woman transforms into Louis Riel in an exploration of Métis identity.
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 lively look at the lives and musical roots of Aboriginal women from across North America.
Ahoy, Boy
“Swing” was rotoscoped from a 16mm print of the filmmaker’s son on a swing. The drawings were then scanned and assembled digitally.
The fear of bridges.
This collaborative work was made by Jaylene and Winona along with their mentor Jackie Traverse as an experimentation for their first film.
This video visually explores the microcosm of old rotting wallpaper in abandoned farm houses.
A walk through the city of Maputo becomes a poetic visual essay. Inspired by two Mozambican poems, its central themes are: shoes, time, space, history, humanity, reading the asphalt and the intrusive effect of a camera. Scenes from everyday life and a series of portraits link with radio loops and local ambiance sound.
A moment of reflection, accompanied by an improvised piano sketch.
100 Photoshop retouches to rebuild a skull damaged 40 years ago by a racist ...
There are more ways than one to be trapped.
The 25th Annual Wolodarsky family cribbage tournament brings the family together once again for good times, where no one is really interested in winning.
Zuma explores the social construction of shadow mothers.
Made for camera performance about the tyranny of white sugar