Content Focus Cineworks Mandate: - To provide facilities for the production of independent, non-sponsored film. - To assist in the production, distribution and exhibition of independent films, having educational and cultural benefit to the community. - To facilitate public participation in the development of Canadian cultural policy through discussion, research and submissions. Films/Videos Provided by Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society A Meditation On Grain 2020 David Jeric Avelino In a chaotic sea of silver, images reveal themselves. Ice Cream 2010 Sydney Southam A video piece using 16mm family film footage from the 1940's until the 1970's, this piece explores memory, death and the loss of childhood innocence through the metaphor of Ice Cream. Using footage shot decades before my birth, I use images of my father as a child to express the sense of loss I feel over his suicide when I was aged 7. My aim with this piece is to create a "post-memory" of his life and death. No Monopoly On Bad Judgement 2016 Peter Sickert Luminous flashing colours, police cruiser, night time at a donut shop. Intrigue? Incident? Mystery? Science Fiction? Once Upon a Time 2020 Hân Phạm Once Upon a Time is an archival film about childhood memory, dreams, and longings, all transformed through the magic of storytelling and experimental images. Juxtaposing the changing landscapes of Sài Gòn, Vietnam through history and children storytelling, the film becomes a space of happening where (queer) storytelling re-enact and provide justice to the past as an effort to reinvent the collective memory and provide the comfort of home in the turbulence of history and reality. The Feminine Appetite 2020 Isaac You A found footage experiment about gender roles, consumerism and hunger. The Script 2020 Conor Provenzano “The Script” presents a collage of revealing moments pulled from material in the Prelinger Archives, an online collection of over 11,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial and amateur) films made between the 1910s – 1980s. View All Films/Videos Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society’s Artists Laura Arboleda Giselle Liu Xinyue Liu View All Artists