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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 young loner struggles to make connection at a haunted summer camp.
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.
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.
"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.
A presentation for filmmakers and artists with VUCAVU.com’s Digital Programming Intern, Stephanie Poruchnyk-Butler.
Spirit Bear's friends teach him about residential schools and how he can help with reconciliation!
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 phone conversation sets the diasporic table as a disembodied figure prepares Qahwah Arabi / Arabic Coffee.
Degraded by toxic lake water, 16mm film moves through time as an everchanging landscape.
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.
Is Ohio the fish or the phisher? The film’s sexual metaphor extends to artists, who use their own experiences as material for their work, becoming both fish and fisher, harvester and harvested. Ohio’s deeply personal documentary footage and audio recordings serve as the raw material for her exploration of class, art, and the performance of heterosexuality.
Artist talk with Basil AlZeri
The film is set amongst the eroding, forested cliffs of a creek. The images are a direct response to Linsey Wellman’s soundtrack of layered saxophones and electronics, which filmmaker Matthieu Hallé listened to for the first time while exposing each frame.
I lost my mind from working at a government call centre. This is my story.
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!
When Marc Roger, a public reader, sets himself the challenge of walking from Saint-Malo, France, to Bamako, Mali, along with a donkey laden with books to be read aloud, filmmaker Catherine Hébert (The Other Side of the Country) joins him in Morocco, her camera rolling."
"The Magus" is a multi-format, process-based experimental film that explores the root of artistic creation.
An impressionistic portrait which conjures haunted images from the ether of one family’s collective memory.
Three queer Winnipeggers reflect on their erotic relationship with the automobile.
A video that examines the paradigm of misogyny, deeply rooted and internalized in our culture. The biblical story of Lot and a horrifying event that my grandfather experienced, forced me to consider my own responsibility and lack of innocence.
Skin Deep leads us into worlds where people are never what they appear to be.
A spoken word poem about Indigenous issues from the perspective of three different Native women.
A parody of the art film where sentimentality and self-consciousness are brought to an absurd level.
An ode to my daily environment.
A reflection on distance, grief and memory, through the landscapes...
Selling the Flamingo looks at memory and sentiment through the liquidation of one of Winnipeg’s premiere landmarks, the Flamingo Motel.
For Canadian-born women of Chinese origin, the wearing of this dress is fraught with tensions between desire and fear, wonder and contestation.
High Altitude explores what it means to be an Indigenous artist in the modern world.
The story of a man lost in the Arctic during a blizzard and his mysterious rescuer
A touching tribute to a life cut short too early.
A one take super 8 film, that explores the nature of the cowboys and Indian myth perpetuated by wide screen Hollywood movies.
The fear of bridges.
Canadian Time 2 builds upon a 2006 Kirouac performance underwent at the Rijksakademie (Netherlands) where she painted time signatures on the wall in the hours awaiting the results of her program eligibility. In 2011, she translates a similar, yet more pronounced set of circumstances in a performance executed at the Receiver Festival in Charleston, SC. Alluding to the twelve-hour drive from her home in North Carolina to the Canadian border, she marries painting and tragi-comic theatre in a perfor
Dedicated to the artist’s father, this experimental tape begins sorting through identities contaminated by the generalized racism of white society and its degrading commercial exploitation of Native culture, i.e., “Indian” drums and doll souvenirs. Five young natives search for reconnection to their families, their stories, traditions and their role within community.
A place called home, a North End poem.
Alice is in a race against time to get basic human rights for her son Kevin, who has Cerebral Palsy.
Retro children’s TV takes a comical jab when one letter of the alphabet gets a new association.
In a relationship, two women decide that the white partner will carry her partner’s Indigenous child.
This video is available in French only. Use the Search or Explore site tools to select non-dialogue or English-language films and videos.
What do we bring with us from our homeland that remains in our possession? What do we discard? What do we pass on? Language, memories, objects that bear witness to past lives and often, to other cultures...
Beware the forest, beautiful yet treacherous.
Transformed into a salmon, an Indigenous street artist travels through decayed urban landscapes to the forests of long ago, in this sublime mixed animation.
An experimental road movie made up of digital photographs and Quicktime films from a toy camera.
A defensive/offensive statement is written in salt....slowly and definitely.
A story of an elderly woman who puts on her jewelry. Each treasured piece brings a reminder of the life she once had, filled with ballet, love, freedom and joy. Her current reality fades and she is renewed in the world of her past.
A film about the annual gathering at South Indian Lake, Manitoba.
The act of creating work is often seen as magical and sacred. The realities of diving into the process are anything but.
The story of a deteriorating love affair is piggy-backed on a document of police-enforced plant destruction for the benefit of a Hong Kong developer.
In a Montreal high school, 9 young students with atypical paths are brought together around a drama-therapy project which aims at providing a voice to marginalized groups.
Mila, a 10 year old girl, is recording the sounds of her everyday life.