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A group of Vietnamese nationals is making their way to an unknown location in a shipping container to find a better life.
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.
A group of amateur astronomers and eclipse-chasers prepare to view a total eclipse.
I lost my mind from working at a government call centre. This is my story.
Clash of cultures, care of the elderly and four women trying to make sense of their unravelling family, this is Mum Singh.
Short descriptionThe conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan as seen through the eyes of the inhabitants of the Caucasus.
An intimate portrayal of the closed-off Russian city of Norilsk through the eyes of its youth, mine workers and truth seekers.
Night Circled was made by recording video from online surveillance cameras.
Çås¢a∂ing €®r0r Win∂0ws is a project about love, death, connection, the future, and the afterlife. It is an exploration of artificial intelligence, human consciousness, and embodiment that troubles deeply held convictions about what it means to be alive, to be a person, and to be in conversation with another.
An optimistic Filipina woman who has just immigrated to Canada is excited to try an apple for the first time. Similar to her experiences as a new immigrant, the apple isn't what she expected.
Captured over five years in 18 communities, INDIAN TIME paints a personal, up-to-date portrait of 11 of Quebec's Indigenous peoples. With some forty people speaking in turn, INDIAN TIME makes for exceptional encounters and immerses viewers in "Indian time" with their eyes and hearts.
"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.
Border mechanisms that act on migrants are many. Moving from shelter to shelter and hopping on trains, they head up north across Mexico to reach the United States and Canada. During the U.S election, migrants are more than aware that it could be their last chance to cross the border. Following their trajectory, Destierros draws a path of reclusion. A path where time remains the longest road between two places.
An examination of how art and truth come into conflict at the trial of a young man accused of rape.
An austere film with touches of offbeat humour
A woman deals with the death of her mother through self-annihilating tendencies.
A woman paints with her vagina to please the art hungry masses that crowd her gallery and her life.
Métis, Métis Not is a video documentation of the filmmaker’s lack of relationship with her cultural background
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.
Abstract Horror is part documentary, part speculation about the new forms of religion and spirituality mediated by new technologies.
Since launching our platform in 2017, we have collaborated with curators and programmers from across the country to present film and video programs available for free streaming for a limited time. Each program includes a critical curatorial essay that explores the overarching themes and selections. After the free viewing period has expired, we encourage the public to read the essays and rent the works individually.
"Beneath the Earth" marks the first in a series of works investigating the language of dreams and the cycles of life. Following the birth of her daughter, the artist addresses her fears and anxiety as a parent with a new found sense of mortality.
This piece addresses the astonishing rate of transformation in the contemporary Chinese cityscape.
A meneral memory movie, “Blue Venice / Red Hotel” consists of seven loops of B&W film projected at various speeds and re-filmed off the wall; magnified, superimposed, filtered red and blue. The loops were built from “The Red Hotel,” an earlier film and one which was shot at high velocity frame by frame. This new film came out of a desire to explode seconds of Venice that appear in “The Red Hotel.”
Luminous traces obtained through in-camera optical manipulation of nocturnal imagery.
A study of spectral colours during a walk through the streets of Winnipeg for WNDX's 6th annual One Take Super 8 event.
The Cheltenham Badlands are exposed Queenston shale that once lay beneath an ancient lake. The barren, rolling landscape is the result of poor farming practices in the 1930s. Shot in HD and super 8, the film also features celluloid that has been decayed in soil and water.
“Different as Night and Day,” shot in the Port Lands of Toronto, Canada, examines the disconcerting coexistence of technology and nature.
Individual figures are silhouetted against the vastness of the prairie landscape. The camera pans back and forth from one figure to another. The rhythm of the camera’s movement parallels a voice-over of single words related to isolation.
still is part of an ongoing body of work that addresses the persistence of colonial structures in contemporary Canada through a critical white settler lens. These works confront facets of this overarching concern through a practice of performing interventions into the land/scape and tampering with iconic elements of Canadian visual culture. Integrating the residue of an off-camera performance within a quintessentially ‘Canadian’ landscape as a politically, culturally and historically mitigated r
A time capsule of the community of Dartmouth Nova Scotia in 2013.
The house that bursts; the scene of the crime; the nucleus. A universe collapses on itself: all hell breaks loose.
The body in the techno craze? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency? Biopiracy and indigeneity? Military Robotics? Trafficking of women over the internet? E-Waste? Autobiographical and contemporary, this interpretation of the delusions and illusions of the technocultural era delivers us Out, Into This World….
Elsa and The Roost are at the forefront of pushing Winnipeg's nightlife to become a safer, more sparkly place.
Decked out in gaudy shawls and outrageous hats brimming with a cacophony of colours, the « Raging Grannies » defy the invisibility so often experienced by older women.
The Summer of Thought was unleashed upon the citizens of Winnipeg in 2007. For three months, Consideration Liberation Army agitated for unbridled thought and thoughtfulness.
At long last, everything you’ve always wanted to know about down there, but were afraid to ask. A groovy guide to feminine hygiene wherein our heroine, Ms V., struts her stuff about town in the funkiest anatomical tour ever. She raps! She dances! She’s big! "We’re Talking Vulva" is a wear and care manual with kick- it’s a rock video.
In "Grandma Smokes for Jesus’ Love", Erika MacPherson is engaged in a dialogue with the stories of her grandma.
"Territoire" is an essay on identity and perception. It is the interweaving of fascination and slowness. It is the contrast of loneliness and eluding. It is two women evolving through their bodies, through movement and space.
A found footage experiment about gender roles, consumerism and hunger.
In this two channel video, the image of cutting and sewing a pure white cloth underpins a narration about clean laundry, comfortable chairs, moths, dust and death, drawing parallels between repetition in the home, and tradition in the House of God.
Filmed in Cairo, "At Night, They Dance" is one family’s story. The film takes us into the heart of a clan of women, in which the art of dancing has been passed down from mother to daughter since time immemorial.
3 groups of 3 young women of different ages (sixteen, nineteen and twenty one years old) question their relation towards femininity and the socially constructed notion of gender that stifles them.
Cette troisième partie d'une série de cinq relate spécifiquement la lutte pour l'avortement des années 1971 à 1980 au Québec.
A true story of hope, ethnic cleansing and letting go.
The film depicts a society controlled by an autonomous system.
Shot improvisationally in 2010, shortly after the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, this film takes a lyrical approach to examining recent history and the process of reconstruction in the post-war era.
A short film essay analyzing a landscape shaped by religion, capital, and war. The film blurs the line between memory and history, only to reveal their cyclicity.
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.
The little-known editor of the epic opus Shoah, Ziva Postec delves into her memories, where personal recollection mingles with the shards of History. For the first time, she tells her story, bringing previously unseen footage to the screen.
Within a few months, the Kutupalong refugee camp has become the biggest in the world, home to 700 000 Rohingya exiles fighting for their survival.
SURGES is an online ecosystem of seven virtual environments presented by IOTA Institute in partnership with VUCAVU. This project invites artists to design online exhibition spaces with technical support, to create experiences for audiences beyond linear visual aesthetics. Artworks explore vibrational haptics, interactive instruments, 360 video, and augmented reality to create multisensory online experiences and encounters.