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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.
Spirit Bear's friends teach him about residential schools and how he can help with reconciliation!
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.
Clash of cultures, care of the elderly and four women trying to make sense of their unravelling family, this is Mum Singh.
"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.
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.
As he is making a didgeridoo, Bernard Bosa tells us what vibration is for him, what it has done in his life.
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.
Two sisters attempt to find common understanding amidst bickering.
A presentation for filmmakers and artists with VUCAVU.com’s Digital Programming Intern, Stephanie Poruchnyk-Butler.
A phone conversation sets the diasporic table as a disembodied figure prepares Qahwah Arabi / Arabic Coffee.
"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.
A loving portrait of Winnipeg's crown jewel: Portage Place Mall.
Artist Talk with Farrah Miranda & Evelyn Encalada Grez
Artist talk with Nelson Wu (With Audio Description)
Cliff Eyland looks back on his life as a visual artist after a successful double-lung-transplant.
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).
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!
The Goddess of Humanity is an imaginary deity safeguarding human rights.
In three parallel worlds, two lovers meet, lust, disappoint and drink coffee and it's time for the cycle to change.
A year of pictures mash into an intense viewing experience.
An experimental short exploring the tenuous grasp the promises we make have on our lives.
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...
At times painful and disturbing, Still Sane's overriding theme is ultimately one of defiance and survival: we can maintain our choices, even in the face of literally mind-numbing oppression.
Year by year, the “Canadian” style of pronunciation is challenged by a deluge of U.S.A. media. By peering into the mists of his own childhood, Ferris presents a tongue-in-cheek look at what our alphabet may once have been -- with subliminal Canadiana thrown in for good measure.
A ritual of grief and expiation, "August" looks to the sky as a means to connect to the infinity of creation and the source of awareness. Mystics believe that the awareness of this unity may be sufficient to carry us through our most difficult times. The artist reflects on her past as she contemplates her impending mortality.
Six teenagers go through their first emotional flutters. Boy-girl relationships, friendship, first love butterflies in the stomach, body changes, sexuality… Why is everything so complicated?
Neither dogmatic nor sanctimonious, "The Theory of Everything" offers a convoluted discourse and a slew of perspectives that challenge accepted notions and spark the imagination.
"How to re-awaken the contemplative eye? to falter and be still. When my mother died, my mouth contracted and pressed its seed into my throat. i surrendered and resisted.
Empowering Rural Women of Rajasthan is a video that shows Lodha’s colourful heritage, the music she learned in her childhood and her love for the women of Rajasthan. She focusses her attention on a group of women engaged in digging a community ditch, and shows the strong bonds that bind these women through the sharing of food and song. Empowering Rural Women of Rajasthan was produced as part of the New Artist in New Media Fund program at Video Pool Media Arts Centre.
This video uses the word Apocalypse not only in the original Greek sense (revelation) but also with an eschatological bent (the end of all things). End of the world. Loss. A dirge. A visual meditation on the tension between the natural world and what we've made of it.
Burning an Effigy considers intergenerational legacies of the Indian residential schools, the colonial presence, and its persistent impacts on community.
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.
"Buried Traces" is an 8 minute experimental documentary exploring questions of Métis identity, cultural loss and renewal.
Canadian Time 2 builds upon a 2006 Kirouac performance underwent at the Rijksakademie (Netherlands) where she painted time signatures on the wall in the hours awaiting the results of her program eligibility. In 2011, she translates a similar, yet more pronounced set of circumstances in a performance executed at the Receiver Festival in Charleston, SC. Alluding to the twelve-hour drive from her home in North Carolina to the Canadian border, she marries painting and tragi-comic theatre in a perfor
In an Algeria divided between tradition and modernity, two young adults named Karim and Hadjer could not love each other free.
Transformed into a salmon, an Indigenous street artist travels through decayed urban landscapes to the forests of long ago, in this sublime mixed animation.
Inspiration for this video came from Winona's dogs Kai and Tojo, their playful attitudes and the joy they bring to her life.
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).
Haunted by visions of serpents and taunted by dark thoughts, a young woman addresses what might be a family curse.
In pursuit of an eclipse, the citizens of Winnipeg flee the city. Meanwhile, stranded in Tudor Village, the caretaker does his best to interrupt their trajectory & entice everyone to return.
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 young Aboriginal man's thoughts and emotions iterate his personal growth through this lyrical story.
‘Video Home System’ traces the convergence of popular culture and politics in Pakistan during the 1980s and 1990s. This video showcases the connections between pop culture and nationalism, and how bootleg economies kept the cinema industry alive during periods of censorship.
Invisible spiritual and psychological issues permeate every aspect of life, and yet remain hidden in average experience. The transformation from suffering to joy is one such process, and is explored in this three-part piece that pays homage to the video art of the 1980s and 1990s.
Notions of externalized and internalized journeys, identity and place, and the mundane and the exotic are explored in a series of clips from an imagined nature documentary series. At question is our spiritual and psychological relationship with the land and how we project our unmet needs and desires onto it.
Mila, a 10 year old girl, is recording the sounds of her everyday life.
Reflections on life... A comingling of the known and unknown.
Set to music by Little Hawk, this animated and starkly honest story is a daughter’s tribute to her estranged mother.
Quel est ton paradis ?...
Inheriting her father’s studio, Jennifer Alleyn finds herself drawn to the intimate space, still exuding the artist’s imagination.
New Rooms was made from a sequence of photos that I found in online image archives like the New York City Library's Picture Collection. The photos that contained people were transformed into written descriptions. As a result, the presence of those people must be imagined.
Filmed within a chain hotel’s Roman Theme Room, this video features a weeping woman having a bubble-bath and emotionally eating chocolates.