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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.
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.
Night Circled was made by recording video from online surveillance cameras.
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.
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.
"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.
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 paints with her vagina to please the art hungry masses that crowd her gallery and her life.
A woman deals with the death of her mother through self-annihilating tendencies.
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.
This movie focuses on a condo site rising on Toronto's lakeshore, whose projects are being financed by Sotheby's fine art auction house, amongst others.
In Toronto's Nordheimer Ravine, an environment of thick brush and dead wood flattens into fields of colour. Its paths lead to Winston Churchill Park, where the entrance to a city reservoir overlooks a green vale.
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.
The architect of ideology attempts to design a rationale to exist within the ambiguous territory located between "is" and "ought", and discovers that he has encountered an unresolvable dilemma.
A psychic's prediction of impending disaster underlies this experimental meditation set on the marshes of Sackville, New Brunswick.
A short drama based on a poem by internationally acclaimed poet George Amable. Shot in an abandoned community in Manitoba, the film is about a writer who abandons civilization for the gentle, natural beauty of a ghost town. The effect this has is revealed when a woman close to him comes to find him.
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
This film offers an extraordinary and beautiful view of the land that grows the wheat, and a portrait of a way of life under economic siege.
Being natural born pattern seekers, we are forever looking for this clue or that clue.
Emerging from wilderness, a man discovers that strange mechanical objects have replaced all the people.
Profiling the affects the Albertan oil fields have on the Indigenous communities nearby.
An inventory of lost memories and places, the sun bleached landscape of Saskatchewan serves as a metaphor for displacement, a framing of emptiness and absence. Traveling to forgotten towns and channeled through old family photographs the camera catalogues the haunting remnants of the past, frail monuments and communities laid bare, broken under economic collapse. Under the weight of the prairie skies a visceral, personal encounter is revealed in the solace of open space.
The Common Handbag: it contains the only survival equipment carried by many women. Is it a useless burden, or a vital accessory? This short story plunges into the woman’s “tool box”.
In this video work Milton stages and performs the gaudy decadence of an emotional breakdown within her own bedroom.
A woman is dragged through an empty field in scenario reminiscent of horror movies and news stories. But she is alert, impassive, and remains vigilantly focused on the camera. This hand-processed, Super 8 film juxtaposes degraded, awkwardly-staged footage of every woman's worst nightmare with an interior monologue regarding media representation of sexualized violence. The piece asks how violent, misogynist images play out in our psyches and in our culture. The film was commissioned by 8fest, To
Made for camera performance about the tyranny of white sugar
The 1990 Oka crisis from the perception of a child and performed by the survivors, 25 years later.
Short, Castle and Nehls carefully craft floating hands in space with their laptop computer creating surprising pleasurable effects with their mere hand movements
A video performance which explores gender identity beyond sexual orientation.
Produced by Federation des Femmes du Québec, this documentary offers interviews taped during the International Preparatory Meeting of the Women’s March in the year 2000. Gathered in Montreal, representatives from around the world share their thoughts on poverty and violence against women.
In "Grandma Smokes for Jesus’ Love", Erika MacPherson is engaged in a dialogue with the stories of her grandma.
Elsa and The Roost are at the forefront of pushing Winnipeg's nightlife to become a safer, more sparkly place.
In the stories of adoption, the mothers who gave birth were invisible. Exiled Mothers takes us on the artist Sharon Alward’s journey to recover her own repressed, secret, shaming memories from relinquishing her daughter in 1971.
Trying to revisit her pre-baby days by taking a trip to China, the filmmaker realize how much she has changed.
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 true story of hope, ethnic cleansing and letting go.
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.
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.
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.