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A group of Vietnamese nationals is making their way to an unknown location in a shipping container to find a better life.
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.
A group of amateur astronomers and eclipse-chasers prepare to view a total eclipse.
I lost my mind from working at a government call centre. This is my story.
Clash of cultures, care of the elderly and four women trying to make sense of their unravelling family, this is Mum Singh.
An intimate portrayal of the closed-off Russian city of Norilsk through the eyes of its youth, mine workers and truth seekers.
Short descriptionThe conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan as seen through the eyes of the inhabitants of the Caucasus.
Night Circled was made by recording video from online surveillance cameras.
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.
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.
Captured over five years in 18 communities, INDIAN TIME paints a personal, up-to-date portrait of 11 of Quebec's Indigenous peoples. With some forty people speaking in turn, INDIAN TIME makes for exceptional encounters and immerses viewers in "Indian time" with their eyes and hearts.
"Those That Will Come, Will Hear" constructs a portrait of the erosion of languages; a global phenomenon that is still largely unexplored. This exploratory film will be a way to discover the essence of First Nations and Inuit languages still spoken in Quebec via the richness of their unique sounds and the rendering of this inherent musicality into visual imagery.
Border mechanisms that act on migrants are many. Moving from shelter to shelter and hopping on trains, they head up north across Mexico to reach the United States and Canada. During the U.S election, migrants are more than aware that it could be their last chance to cross the border. Following their trajectory, Destierros draws a path of reclusion. A path where time remains the longest road between two places.
An examination of how art and truth come into conflict at the trial of a young man accused of rape.
An austere film with touches of offbeat humour
A woman deals with the death of her mother through self-annihilating tendencies.
A woman paints with her vagina to please the art hungry masses that crowd her gallery and her life.
Métis, Métis Not is a video documentation of the filmmaker’s lack of relationship with her cultural background
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 short film essay analyzing a landscape shaped by religion, capital, and war. The film blurs the line between memory and history, only to reveal their cyclicity.
Since launching our platform in 2017, we have collaborated with curators and programmers from across the country to present film and video programs available for free streaming for a limited time. Each program includes a critical curatorial essay that explores the overarching themes and selections. After the free viewing period has expired, we encourage the public to read the essays and rent the works individually.
A road trip video. The Canadian prairie landscape is sketched in simple forms in this on-the-move approach to landscape art.
Footage shot in Coba, Mexico and the Siwa Oasis in Egypt and a found film from California serve as inspiration for a series of sketches on the notion of the vanishing point. Commissioned for LIFT's 30th Anniversary Celebration.
We have killed with a geometry that is not our own.
Experiment in Landscape, No.2 was made by filming a view of Bow Lake through the ground glass of an 8”x10” large format camera. The element of humour and awkwardness within my actions were intended to disrupt the master narrative of the long tradition of large-format photography capturing the apparent ‘untouched’ beauty of the North American West, while the moment of equilibrium within the headstand speaks to my desire to be consonant with this environment.
Climate change envisioned on the microscopic scale.
"ôtênaw" is a film documenting the oral storytelling of Dwayne Donald, an educator from Treaty 6, Edmonton Canada. Drawing from nêhiyawak philosophies, he speaks about the multilayered histories of Indigenous peoples’ presence both within and around amiskwacîwâskahikan, or what has come to be known as the city of Edmonton.
Montreal based chef with Mauritanian origins is missing the main ingredient of his delicious recipes: the desert salt. He crosses the desert annually...
This is a video about drawing. It gives view of processes, not of completed drawings.
Entrainment ritual to assemble from missing parts, 2017, documents an installation experiment in my studio. This layered assemblage of domestic and landscape imagery and sound tethers my present environs with some half-fictional, nostalgic place.
A dance video on hitch-hiking. Standing by the side of the road and sticking out your thumb is a very particular gesture. The video expresses both the exhilaration and anxiety associated with taking a chance and heading out into parts unknown.
The tape begins as a structuralist piece, an extended tracking shot, but collapses after a couple of minutes. In that broken space of discontinuity, language briefly emerges. The second half of the tape is more narrative. The flight of a man running across the frozen Gardiner Dam on the South Saskatchewan River, a middle aged man, laden with an unanswerable irrationality.
An optically printed dream of falling, both gorgeous and ominous. The body in mid-air. A canyon of high-rise buildings. Jury Prize for Best Canadian Work, WNDX Festival (Winnipeg, MB), 2010
A poet constructs 'home' through blanket forts, collected sounds and a new, original poem.
Women’s Hands is a video about honouring the contributions of women in not only India, but around the world.
Hand-drawn illustrations animate this touching personal story about the "60’s Scoop” of Aboriginal children into the Canadian child-welfare system.
A woman simultaneously adorns and disfigures herself by sewing tassels onto a flesh-coloured cloth mask, creating a beard. Perhaps she is guarding herself against vanity; perhaps she is atoning for it.
"Calamity" follows the Wild West heroine Calamity Jane through time.
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.
Do you like your body?
"Cave Small Cave Big" is a magical and surreal short film written by five-year-olds Madeline Harker and Adelaide Schwartz.
In this video, performance artist, Bridget Moser interacts with an elaborate collection of therapeutic props.
An Iranian vocalist struggles to make her voice heard in a country where female singers are banned.
Bev Pike takes us on a colorful and humorous journey as she explores "Spinsterhood".
Récit ironique d'un corps qui a perdu toute maîtrise sur son visage...
A true story of hope, ethnic cleansing and letting go.
Shot improvisationally in 2010, shortly after the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, this film takes a lyrical approach to examining recent history and the process of reconstruction in the post-war era.
The film depicts a society controlled by an autonomous system.
The little-known editor of the epic opus Shoah, Ziva Postec delves into her memories, where personal recollection mingles with the shards of History. For the first time, she tells her story, bringing previously unseen footage to the screen.
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.
Within a few months, the Kutupalong refugee camp has become the biggest in the world, home to 700 000 Rohingya exiles fighting for their survival.
SURGES is an online ecosystem of seven virtual environments presented by IOTA Institute in partnership with VUCAVU. This project invites artists to design online exhibition spaces with technical support, to create experiences for audiences beyond linear visual aesthetics. Artworks explore vibrational haptics, interactive instruments, 360 video, and augmented reality to create multisensory online experiences and encounters.