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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
Spirit Bear's friends teach him about residential schools and how he can help with reconciliation!
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: PORN Dossier. The envelope and folders are opened and the contents examined.
Clash of cultures, care of the elderly and four women trying to make sense of their unravelling family, this is Mum Singh.
Two sisters attempt to find common understanding amidst bickering.
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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.
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.
A young loner struggles to make connection at a haunted summer camp.
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.
Water bodies grow restless as they awaken from winter’s deep freeze.
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!
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.
For over sixty years, loving grandmother Cecile St. Amant has been keeping a deep secret - she is Métis.
Home deals with the conflicting worlds of Aboriginal people, the view of the urban Aboriginal and the view of the rural Aboriginal.
This film is available in French only.
In three parallel worlds, two lovers meet, lust, disappoint and drink coffee and it's time for the cycle to change.
After years of repression, an old woman's common sense goes head-to-head with the fantastic imagination of her inner child, who yearns to be free.
Exploring the legacy of the Indian Residential School system by looking at its history, present conditions and hopes for the future.
In the single-channel video "Hybred", artist Christine Kirouac translates a conversation with her mother into an exploration of the stereotypes and subjectivities surrounding her Métis identity (Cree/Irish).
I lost my mind from working at a government call centre. This is my story.
The video explores gay Asian men's (GAMs) cruising strategies on American gay sex hookup websites.
Récit ironique d'un corps qui a perdu toute maîtrise sur son visage...
The performer attempts to apply make-up while wearing electro stimulators on both arms set to maximum power.
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.
Dude? Dude.
The 1990 Oka crisis from the perception of a child and performed by the survivors, 25 years later.
In an urban backyard a clown washes an oil-soaked owl.
She Draws a Circle reflects on the work of generations of women to interrupt cycles of violence and oppression, looking to the ways in which our spiritual connections to the land and one another help us to hold space for regenerative healing, bringing the hidden to light drawing on that light to encircle each successive generation.
Mikomiing is an Anishinaabe word for 'on the frozen water' a term often used when a commercial fisherman has gone out to check his nets. This documentary follows a day in the life of a fisherman in the First Nation community of Little Saskatchewan, Manitoba.
A film about the annual gathering at South Indian Lake, Manitoba.
A displaced young girl, her overwhelmed older sister and the superhero that brings them together.
A resourceful young Métis man comes to the rescue of family, friends and strangers in this amusing short film.
On a hill, a girl re-imagines her journey of survival. Spoken word and layered visuals create an intense urban tale of personal transformation.
A look at how the community of Lake St. Martin First Nation was destroyed and displaced by water management policy.
In Crystal Skin provides a glimpse into the lives of four individuals living with the same rare disease in Bogotá, Colombia.
Filmmaker Coleen Rajotte returns to Pikangikum First Nation in northwestern Ontario, a community with an unusually high suicide rate.
A study of light and shadows on a late summer afternoon
"Gabey and Mike: A Jewish Summer Camp Love Story" takes its name from a song by Mermaid Café - a folk band comprised of Andi D., Joe A. Rider and Merrill Nisker (now known as ‘Peaches’) that gained popularity at Canadian Jewish summer camps in the early 90s. The video juxtaposes the tale of the band with playful re-creations of the story of Gabey and Mike, in a queer re-staging of the classic summer camp movie.
Pixel Pose depicts a lesbian’s life in three stages: the single lesbian, the lesbian couple and lesbian family. This movement based video uses queer text and carnal poses to explore issues of lesbian intimacy and representation.
The surveillance video depicts the omnipresence of internalized social norms restricting the lives of many women living under the gaze of the rigid traditions.
A couple of uber-goths ride the public transit to the mall to buy more lipstick, but the subtext! Pain, suffering and eternal damnation wrapped in velvety angst. It’s sunny outside, but dark in their souls!
Sisters of the Cross is a meditative video that proposes to unveil the hidden and profound lives of a disappearing order of nuns in Winnipeg, Brazil, Argentina, and France. This contemplative work is a meditation on the texture of slowness, the nature of listening, and the relationship between attention and time.
Wontons is a video that has dialogue centred on being mistaken for a different race. The non-translated dialogue, spoken in Cantonese, may be mysterious to viewers.
Domestic bliss? Claustrophobia? Xenophobia? Terror? Geller shows us a highly condensed, yet playful narrative on conjugal life when her protagonist is dominated by “B” movie scenes.
A young woman enters a crisis on the eve of her 19th birthday as she realizes she is about to out-age her older sister who died at 18.