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The VUCAVU.education Digital Platform Outreach Coordinator will work collaboratively with our team to launch and promote a new film and media arts dissemination service called VUCAVU.education, our NEW! educational access technology for institutional subscriptions.
The successful candidate will perform tasks associated with communications, outreach, partnership development, marketing, web content management and other tasks as needed.
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.
Two sisters attempt to find common understanding amidst bickering.
A young loner struggles to make connection at a haunted summer camp.
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.
"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.
Clash of cultures, care of the elderly and four women trying to make sense of their unravelling family, this is Mum Singh.
A shortened version of the synopsis that must be less than 500 characters in length. This teaser appears in a pop up when a user hovers their cursor on a title image in our search or other pages.
Spirit Bear's friends teach him about residential schools and how he can help with reconciliation!
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.
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.
As he is making a didgeridoo, Bernard Bosa tells us what vibration is for him, what it has done in his life.
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 presentation for filmmakers and artists with VUCAVU.com’s Digital Programming Intern, Stephanie Poruchnyk-Butler.
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.
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.
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.
I lost my mind from working at a government call centre. This is my story.
Oh Canada - Oh Covid documents the opening days of the coronavirus pandemic in Ottawa, Ontario Canada.
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!
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.
Who is up there? Who is at the top? This endeavor to move from one place to another was influenced by Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” in which a character travels through an unknown landscape.
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.
Set to music by Little Hawk, this animated and starkly honest story is a daughter’s tribute to her estranged mother.
For Canadian-born women of Chinese origin, the wearing of this dress is fraught with tensions between desire and fear, wonder and contestation.
A reflection on distance, grief and memory, through the landscapes...
A deathbed tale. A skeptical daughter. A genealogical goose chase to the remote Icelandic highland.
An incident at the fridge. Some floozy, a gal in waiting, a gal in a camisole, a guy in a dress, a gal in a kilt, and a gal in charge.
Three queer Winnipeggers reflect on their erotic relationship with the automobile.
On a hill, a girl re-imagines her journey of survival. Spoken word and layered visuals create an intense urban tale of personal transformation.
Gerry Barret: The Original Aboriginal takes us from studio interview to the stage at Rumor’s Comedy Club and the Cat Sass Tavern. Gerry’s repertoire includes topics like: what should an Indian D.J. sound like on the radio?... A day in the life of Canada’s first native prime minister... a ballad to Elijah Harper and much more, including a stop at a movie shoot.
Walking nude along the dusty railroad tracks of life, a woman discovers a sweet decorous Cake in her path.
Métis, Métis Not is a video documentation of the filmmaker’s lack of relationship with her cultural background
After Birth, an inter-generational journey to return to a ceremonial custom of burying the ‘after birth.’ Together three women and their kids walk the land and affirm their intergenerational knowledge and active presence in ancestral memories and matrilineal leadership.
A collaboration between partners Theo Pelmus and Kris Snowbird, who is Ojibwa and Cree, put themselves in a gesture conversation about their link as a couple coming from different cultural backgrounds.
A distinct world – that is often an isolated part of a larger world – is viscerally envisioned in this uniquely hand- processed film.
The re-imagination of the generational passage of traditional knowledge between a woman and her grandmother moon.
Grand Mother Tongue pairs poetry, spoken in Plains Cree, and breath with the intimate imagery of strawberries being consumed bite-by-bite, and finger lick for finger lick.
This video poster for “Idle No More” was inspired by the young students at the Native Education College, that are engaged, often for the first time, in having their voices heard by Canadian society and the Canadian government.
milkteeth is an investigation into the imperfection of memory and attempts at preserving the ephemeral.
Exploring the legacy of the Indian Residential School system by looking at its history, present conditions and hopes for the future.
The artist ponders the possibilities of reconciliation.
In an urban backyard a clown washes an oil-soaked owl.
It started with a shot in a back alley, rage and frustration. It ended with a rap video about intolerance. Produced through the Aboriginal Teen Video Initiative.
Generation is a fast paced video that manipulates media-derived imagery to speak about the role that advertising plays in shaping our view of ourselves, our culture and our responses to the larger global culture.
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.
We know now that in the early years of the twenty-first century this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man. [adapted from Orson Welles' adaptation of HG Wells' War of the Worlds (Orson Welles And Mercury Theatre On The Air, Columbia Broadcasting System, 8:00 To 9:00 P.M., Sunday, October 30, 1938)]
In three parallel worlds, two lovers meet, lust, disappoint and drink coffee and it's time for the cycle to change.
Home deals with the conflicting worlds of Aboriginal people, the view of the urban Aboriginal and the view of the rural Aboriginal.
She Drifts examines the borders of a difficult choice.
When our intrepid heroine Darcy gets her heart broken on her 30th birthday, her friends rally around to help her recover.
This film is available in French only.
Covenant explores the differences between traditional history and effective history in an attempt to reconcile an ancient biblical narrative.
The Goddess of Humanity is an imaginary deity safeguarding human rights.
This documentary of the artist's father is in Cantonese with English subtitles. The visual image is expressed by a technique called stop-motion painting where each stroke is recorded for 2 to 3 seconds. The footage is sped up to create a fluid painting motion. Documentary of My Father is about Lam's father before she knew him personally, before she was born.
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.