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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.
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.
"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.
Two sisters attempt to find common understanding amidst bickering.
A young loner struggles to make connection at a haunted summer camp.
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.
A presentation for filmmakers and artists with VUCAVU.com’s Digital Programming Intern, Stephanie Poruchnyk-Butler.
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.
Clash of cultures, care of the elderly and four women trying to make sense of their unravelling family, this is Mum Singh.
Spirit Bear's friends teach him about residential schools and how he can help with reconciliation!
Can’t Help Falling in Love with You follows Laura Ohio documenting Los Angeles through the dual lens of artist and sex worker. The film reveals the production of emotional experiences and the radical intimacy in which “artists and prostitutes are compelled to connect with complete strangers: a public. They share themselves with everyone but no one in particular” (Baudelaire).
A group of Vietnamese nationals is making their way to an unknown location in a shipping container to find a better life.
Open Water is an immersive short documentary film about a 61-year-old woman's attempt to swim across the largest freshwater lake in the 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.
A young man pursues the apparition of a loved one who disappeared one turbulent night.
What of our homes lasts within us? Shea stretches the answer across a diaspora.
“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.
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!
In A Darkened Room takes place in a surreal world, presenting us with an individual who refuses to accept his evil persona. He faces the incarnation of his darker half, and his denial results in the termination of his being.
A woman sets off on a journey to establish her career just as she learns that she is pregnant. This twist in her destiny leads her down an unexpected path.
Jeff is driving. Nydia is behind him. The motorcycle glides between cars and time is suspended. The trip ends and Nydia goes back to her monotonous routine. But everything is fine, Jeff will return.
A young boy must face a future without his father.
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.
A constructed cinematic space where life and death exist.
To create "Constars", Donna and Lori improvised for over three hours in a hotel room with several suitcases of costumes and makeup. Their goal was to "find" as many characters as they could wearing each other's clothes, eyeglasses, wigs, etc.
In three parallel worlds, two lovers meet, lust, disappoint and drink coffee and it's time for the cycle to change.
For almost 40 years, Colette Whiten has quietly and powerfully challenged gender dynamics, political power and mass media imagery... This video portrait was commissioned by the Canada Council for the Arts and the IMAA.
Funambule moves between the open expanses of the grasslands to the dark shadows of a cedar grove where a traveler and a hunter beckon us to the heart of the forest.
A parody of the art film where sentimentality and self-consciousness are brought to an absurd level.
A short documentary film that follows four young gay men as they discuss gay life and sexual health in Montreal.
A short video featuring composited imagery with themes of the transitory nature of moments in time, the ephemeral passing of everyday mundane experiences, and dealing with loss.
Oil Sands issues are discussed at length by celebrities, activists and politicians. Will you listen to those living downstream of industry?
A split-screen video of the Trans-Canada Highway and the single Access Road on our Reserve, the Lac des Mille Lacs First Nation / Nezaatiikang, located north-west of Thunder Bay. Before the completion of the Access road in the late 2000's, the Reserve was only accessible by water. The roads work as metaphor of Colonization by revealing disparity between Canada and Indigenous Nations.
After his family's untimely demise in 1945, George Bassler bizarrely crafts a perpetual motion machine.
Métis Femme Bodies returns the narratives to those who have had their voices muted and cultures stolen from them.
Inspiration for this video came from Winona's dogs Kai and Tojo, their playful attitudes and the joy they bring to her life.
A manuscript, written in 1954 to aid missionaries working among the Cree speaking natives of northern Saskatchewan, Canada, is the basis for this reflective narrative.
A video collage based on twenty-eight tracking shots of city scenes.
A girl with the power to heal conducts a ceremony that attracts a shapeshifter.
Home deals with the conflicting worlds of Aboriginal people, the view of the urban Aboriginal and the view of the rural Aboriginal.
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.
In 1943, within a few days, 25 people died at the Qarmaarjuit camp, on Baffin Island, Nunavut, which is over half of the population of this Inuit community. Two survivors from this tragedy, Ruth and Elisapie, return to the location to pay final respects to their family.
Nightmares lurk in the shadows in this dance/horror/comedy film.
The emotional and mental life of a homeless bag lady obsessed with Marlene Dietrich.
A study of spectral colours during a walk through the streets of Winnipeg for WNDX's 6th annual One Take Super 8 event.
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Women discuss the ubiquity of pornography and the effect it has on women’s self- identification process.
Children explain what resistance means to them.
The primo tourist spot, Coney Island, as seen by a wandering heart.
This version of the classic tale is explored through the internal narrative of Red Riding Hood herself. She is consumed with overwhelming anxiety about everything in her personal life and surrounding environment. Instead of being a comfort, Grandma’s house becomes the site of her resignation to events when fatigue eventually sets in. Visually playful, the main character changes from finger puppet to paper cut out, to human actor, while her inner self remains constant.
Filmed within a chain hotel’s Roman Theme Room, this video features a weeping woman having a bubble-bath and emotionally eating chocolates.
A meditative journey through Expo 67, re-visiting a significant moment in Canadian history using manipulated imagery taken from educational and documentary films. Footage has been re-worked using tints, toners and photochemical techniques to create a vibrant collision of colours, textures and forms.
A reworking of images of Princess Diana drawn from a CNN tribute called “The People’s Princess.” The isolated and manipulated images point to England’s colonial past and to the elusiveness of a media image.