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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.
Clash of cultures, care of the elderly and four women trying to make sense of their unravelling family, this is Mum Singh.
A presentation for filmmakers and artists with VUCAVU.com’s Digital Programming Intern, Stephanie Poruchnyk-Butler.
Two sisters attempt to find common understanding amidst bickering.
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 young loner struggles to make connection at a haunted summer camp.
"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.
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.
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.
Spirit Bear's friends teach him about residential schools and how he can help with reconciliation!
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.
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.
A documentary with experimental approaches exploring the experience of a professional artistic swimmer.
"It Took Forever to Fall Asleep" reflects on the opportunity for the potential rebirth a post-COVID world offers, whether this rebirth comes by public policy or public self-determination. Just as the 1950s came to a close, so too will COVID. Eras end, and with them come change.
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.
Roland, 91, walks during the winter in a field as wide as the eye can see where the borders are disappearing and in which he meets and confronts his fear.
The Complete Book of Roses—pages 1–114. A brief glimpse of the disconnect between digital devices and recording the “natural.” Made during Video Pool’s Media Arts Residency (2019-2020) using the Apollo monitor and microscope camera.
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!
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...
"You're just a woman.... smile and relax."
A young trans man notices himself, becomes transfixed with his image and starts flirting leading up to a tentative, yet hot kiss.
This video is available in French only. Use the Search or Explore site tools to select non-dialogue or English-language films and videos.
Haunted by visions of serpents and taunted by dark thoughts, a young woman addresses what might be a family curse.
Meet Montreal's Mambo Drag Kings, a dapper group of lip synching lesbians who entertain in style.
A loving portrait of an elderly Russian couple.
Trying to revisit her pre-baby days by taking a trip to China, the filmmaker realize how much she has changed.
In the late 1950s, a woman named Agnes approached the UCLA Medical Center seeking sex reassignment surgery. Her story was long considered to be exceptional and singular until never-before-seen case files of other patients were found in 2017. Watch as preeminent trans culture-makers of our time breathe new life into those who redefined gender in the midcentury.
The Depth of Scars
On a cold fall evening, Leila is left alone to tend the family convenience store. A series of strange clients keep her in a constant state of apprehension. Language and cultural barriers also contribute to the making of a nerve-racking evening.
"This film is available in French only. Use the Search or Explore site tools to select non-dialogue or English-language films and videos." In 1970, Hungarian-Québécois photographer Gabor Szilasi set out for the Charlevoix region of Québec to photograph the last vestiges of a disappearing rural world.
A spoken word poem and minimalist audio track about a sexy highland stream, a love letter to the beauty found in nature, and the mysterious way beauty is suffused in the natural world, written in English and Anishinaabemowin.
The film captures the diversity of the neighbourhood at that time.
A film crew journeys to resurrect a lost film, taking it to the communities where the film was originally shot. Images come to life; people recognize faces, landscapes, and lost traditions.
Trade is an experimental video short exploring concepts of borders and trade, and their relationship to notions of collective history and national identity in the North American colonial context.
Retro children’s TV takes a comical jab when one letter of the alphabet gets a new association.
Perspectives on Western Canadian Métis culture.
A place called home, a North End poem.
Video collage that approaches memory and how we remember, by overlaying images and sound, to create a disorienting moment in time.
A lively look at the lives and musical roots of Aboriginal women from across North America.
A video collage based on twenty-eight tracking shots of city scenes.
A home movie of Cree woman hunting is saved from being lost forever, but how does it compare to official Canadian history of northern Manitoba?
Profiling the affects the Albertan oil fields have on the Indigenous communities nearby.
Julia Julep is a short magical tale about Julia, a very young girl who makes peace with her mother’s recent death.
This is a Photograph of Me is a video poem using Margaret Atwood’s poem of the same name as a script. A gentle visual meandering, the landscape, water, and cabin as metaphor for body, and how we are placed, and place ourselves, psychologically in space.
A boy becomes music.
Un jour, à Belfast, en apprenant la mort d'un prisonnier, des femmes en colère se sont réunies sur la place. Et là, un couvercle de poubelle à la main, elles ont martelé le sol pour souligner le triste courage de ce neuvième gréviste de la faim à mourir en silence.
We need this. So look for the good and ignore the rest.
Daring to follow one’s desires, create, initiate, engage with life, choose oneself… These are the gifts of maturity.
This performance video captures how the artist feels about their initial identity that was lost and their current identity, which is confusing. The video shows pain, burden, and a strong desire to be free from all the expectations carried.
This animation combines fact, memory, self-reflection and fantasy with humour. Using finely wrought drawings, handcrafted textiles and girlish stickers, Moore examines and ultimately celebrates her relationship to her Ukrainian birth heritage through a remembered conversation with her adoptive mother.
Everyone sees. No one tells.
Inspired by early video art, La Lune is a poetic exploration...
Built from artifacts recovered from her own then her mother's storage closet, “Confessions of a Compulsive Archivist “follows the filmmaker's tragic-comic struggle to let go of a few things of obviously no use to her. Part found footage film, part camera-less video, it turns stuff that should have been thrown out long ago into a poignant study of the relationship between the creative imagination and our attachments, be they material or emotional.