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VUCAVU is delighted to launch three new programs in the Educational Guide series from Archive/Counter-Archive (A/CA); 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.
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.
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.
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: PORN Dossier. The envelope and folders are opened and the contents examined.
As he is making a didgeridoo, Bernard Bosa tells us what vibration is for him, what it has done in his life.
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.
A young loner struggles to make connection at a haunted summer camp.
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.
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"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.
Spirit Bear's friends teach him about residential schools and how he can help with reconciliation!
A presentation for filmmakers and artists with VUCAVU.com’s Digital Programming Intern, Stephanie Poruchnyk-Butler.
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.
Venus is born again in the Canadian wilderness, as muse, artist, and catfish
Riverside Queerness reveals hard moments in the Prairies' shadowed queer history. Three storytellers navigate muddy waters that is Manitoba's subconsciousness; where truth is blurred by the power of the currents.
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!
In three parallel worlds, two lovers meet, lust, disappoint and drink coffee and it's time for the cycle to change.
A reflection on distance, grief and memory, through the landscapes...
Irina, a child of long distances and virtual spaces, tries to understand what it means to lose family.
At times painful and disturbing, Still Sane's overriding theme is ultimately one of defiance and survival: we can maintain our choices, even in the face of literally mind-numbing oppression.
"How to re-awaken the contemplative eye? to falter and be still. When my mother died, my mouth contracted and pressed its seed into my throat. i surrendered and resisted.
In "Grandma Smokes for Jesus’ Love", Erika MacPherson is engaged in a dialogue with the stories of her grandma.
A further examination of self-commodification in the form of a bizarre info-mercial. "What if we invented someone... at a time when resistance and change were becoming paradoxicallyincorpor-related?...
Maiden Indian follows three women on a journey from the mall toward a deeper understanding of self.
After 15 years of living in Montréal, Hind returns to Morocco, her country of origin.
Through a visual and narrative collage of personal testimonials, Island & Flight poetically explores the universe of contemporary travel by air.
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.
As they get ready for the day, three young Black women discuss the public perception of their Blackness in relation to their cultivation of a strong sense of self. Wash Day is an intimate exploration into how private, domestic acts such as washing your hair or putting on makeup become a significant re-acquaintance with the body, before and after navigating the politics of one's outwardly appearance.
NIN E TEPUEIAN - MY CRY is a documentary tracks the journey of Innu poet, actress and activist, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, at a pivotal time in her career as a committed artist.
The artist ponders the possibilities of reconciliation.
Short experimental, found footage film.
In an Algeria divided between tradition and modernity, two young adults named Karim and Hadjer could not love each other free.
Retro children’s TV takes a comical jab when one letter of the alphabet gets a new association.
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
Two ersatz “Indian warriors” chase a beautiful Indian maiden through the streets of Winnipeg but she loves Chief Big Bear. Who is the hunter, and who the hunted in this tableaux?
On a hill, a girl re-imagines her journey of survival. Spoken word and layered visuals create an intense urban tale of personal transformation.
An eight year old girl experience a series of traumatic events while quarantined in the infirmary of a residential school for Native children in Canada.
Haunted by visions of serpents and taunted by dark thoughts, a young woman addresses what might be a family curse.
After his family's untimely demise in 1945, George Bassler bizarrely crafts a perpetual motion machine.
The forbidden love between an Owl and a Fox drives them away from friends and family as they search for happiness together.
The secret language of 26 fruits and vegetables are mesmerizingly revealed through eco-developing and eco-reversal, hand-processing techniques. With colours inspired by natural tints and a delicious sound design, this film is a refreshing way to get the recommended dose of 26 fruits and vegetables without all the harsh chemicals.
My father and I are talking about life while the children play in the rain.
A shirt is unbuttoned revealing a cup filling with drops of water. A closer view presents reflected images that suggest chaos, war, death, sorrow and loss. The shirt is buttoned up, hiding the images. The sound carries on.
"Singing with Teresa Teng" is a Chinese karaoke video that has been re-shot with a camera on a computer screen. This method creates a degraded blinking, in which the singing or pronunciation of words varies according to the singers’ familiarity with the song. A father - daughter duet to the father's favourite singer.
Short, Castle and Nehls carefully craft floating hands in space with their laptop computer creating surprising pleasurable effects with their mere hand movements
The house that bursts; the scene of the crime; the nucleus. A universe collapses on itself: all hell breaks loose.
Shot entirely in 16mm black-and-white film using single-frame photography, "165708" employs in-camera techniques and chemical manipulation of processed film to produce an eidetic study of temporal elasticity. Techniques include flicker, time-lapse, light painting, stop motion, tinting, and toning. Combined with cycles of alternating exposed frames, these methods imbue the work with a rhythmic magnetism, apparent both in the tempo and the aesthetic of the images.
Selling the Flamingo looks at memory and sentiment through the liquidation of one of Winnipeg’s premiere landmarks, the Flamingo Motel.
L’œil du spectateur s’arrête sur l’image d’une femme, entraperçue entre des rideaux noirs translucides.
The artist organizes the tension between video-painting-body, by displacing the traditional pictorial support (the canvas) to the body as the zone of intervention. The body is naked, the body is painted.
This video pays stylistic homage to girl punks and 1960's rock and roll girl groups. Camera moves and mise-en-scene are inspired by the 1963 music film for “He's Got the Power” by the Exciters. The video responds to the song's theme of menstruation by presenting a series of celebratory images of female solidarity.
This film is available in French only. Use the Search or Explore site tools to select non-dialogue or English-language films and videos. L'humour des femmes, celui des «folles d'hier et d'aujourd'hui», bouscule les mentalités et attaque de front les mythes, tabous et idées reçues sur La Femme !