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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.
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.
Clash of cultures, care of the elderly and four women trying to make sense of their unravelling family, this is Mum Singh.
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.
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.
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.
A young loner struggles to make connection at a haunted summer camp.
Two sisters attempt to find common understanding amidst bickering.
"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.
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.
Night Circled was made by recording video from online surveillance cameras.
Author and farmer, Jean Bédard fights to see a new, more humane world, rise, with the community of the farm Sageterre.
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.
Degraded by toxic lake water, 16mm film moves through time as an everchanging landscape.
A short film captured within the 'Great Pause' of spring 2020, echoes the ubiquitous character of conversations that unfold when life’s busy-ness falls away.
“Perdere: to lose, to waste, to destroy” explores the rapidly deteriorating landscapes surrounding Tuktoyaktuk, NT along Canada’s northwest coast. Through contemplative drone footage and a soundscape using hydrophone and natural soundscape recordings, this work bears witness to the tragic effects of climate change along the shores of the Beaufort Sea.
Artist Talk with Farrah Miranda & Evelyn Encalada Grez
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!
Ignorant armies of sketchy people clashing by night.
A gender-bending heavy metal carnival ride.
When our intrepid heroine Darcy gets her heart broken on her 30th birthday, her friends rally around to help her recover.
A moment in the lives of two people in a hospital room. One of them, an elderly woman, is dying. The other, a much younger man, is watching over her.
A weakening ganglord regains the grip over his children when he is visited by the ghost of his father. The ghost then collects his "generational fees."
This paint on glass animation tells this dark tale of a soldier who returns home from war to find his girlfriend has left him.
Olivia, a young tap-dancer and her uncle, Amir, an actor, struggle with what it means to be Middle-Eastern-American and artists in today's racially divided world.
Some things are lost, some things are found.
The fall in its simplest manifestation : the movement unfolds ; the words fall with cool indifference. Dream, incantation, rite of passage.» Nicole Gingras
This video traces the steps undertaken by the main character, The Woman, to find love. Playing with the form of an intimate diary, Uncertainties boasts a structure that is like a game of tag between....
Successions of tableaux that offer a metaphoric look at nuptial images.
Follow Jackie through the 1960s Toronto Yonge Street music scene, the tabloid rumours and scandals, to the mysterious disappearance. What ever happened to Jackie Shane? You have to watch to find out.
A series of tableaux vivants revisit the paths that have been traced by a diagnosis.
Cette vidéo relève plusieurs facteurs qui déterminent l'accès à l'information sur le sida au Mali, ainsi que les conditions qui influencent la diffusion de cette information auprès des femmes maliennes.
In this alternate-history fable set in the 1980's AIDS Crisis, a closeted young man is thrust into the midst of an anti-government coup and finds that the animal within is stronger than the monsters that oppress.
This film is available in French only. Enceinte, Chantal apprend qu'elle est séropositive : qu'arrivera-t-il à l'enfant ?
Ce documentaire présente l'opinion de différentes femmes (médecins, activistes, écrivaines) sur les problématiques entourant le VIH/SIDA.
"Bloodstorm" considers the paralells between the unpredictability of a storm and the turmoil of living with HIV/AIDS.
"gay shame '98" is a lo-fi document of an event of the same name that took place at dumba, a queer collectively run arts space in Brooklyn.
Longboy outs himself as a First Nations FAG - who is living with HIV - hoping to sever attached preconception of two spirited peoples. In a contemplative search, the artist recollects how HIV/AIDS has affected him and his surrounding community, revealing a strength through loss.
Commissioned by the Plug In Gallery to do a Performance/ Installation for ART OVER AIDS in November 1990, Alward poured 5 gallons of blood and semen on the floor of the gallery during a private ritual of mourning, and spent the next several hours cleaning it up.
Nobody wants to tell Skye, a nine-year-old girl, what is happening in her family. She sees doctors come and go, and she knows something has to be going on...
YOU ME HIV AIDS RESPONSIBILITY REALITY a public service announcement for HIV/AIDS awareness. we will walk the land, breathe the air and drink from the stream. i came across the living tree, branches flowing in the breeze its roots adhering to mother earth YOU ME HIV AIDS RESPONSIBILITY REALITY
"The Way We Are" shares excerpts of stories from audio interviews with 4 queer Asian women living in Toronto: Katherine Chun, Wenda Li, Tamai Kobayashi, and Nancy Seto. Told in the present-tense, these stories are arranged in a way that explores the past as the present, and in doing so, immersing viewers into the real-lived experiences from a different generation.
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.
A Filipino new to Canada and a Filipino-Canadian woman fumble helping each other while waiting for their bus.
This film offers a snapshot of Little Portugal, a neighbourhood in Toronto using Super8 film.
A true story of hope, ethnic cleansing and letting go.
Through a visual and narrative collage of personal testimonials, Island & Flight poetically explores the universe of contemporary travel by air.
Toronto, July 27, 2013, shortly after midnight.
This film recounts the transmission of an inheritance within a family, my family. It is not the transmission of material riches but the way in which the life of a parent can determine in their children choices which influence the construction of their identity.
An autobiographical, experimental narrative that follows the artist’s return to Israel for the first time following the death and burial of her brother.
Kids In China is a high energy documentary of children in and around Kunming, China, from the unique point of view of the six-year old narrator.
This film looks at Xalko, a kurdish village in Turkey, threatened by exodus. Deserted by its men who have gone to Europe or America, Xalko still survives thanks to those who keep the fort: mothers and children who do what it takes to keep it alive. It looks at migration from those left behind.
‘Video Home System’ traces the convergence of popular culture and politics in Pakistan during the 1980s and 1990s. This video showcases the connections between pop culture and nationalism, and how bootleg economies kept the cinema industry alive during periods of censorship.