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- Interconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a massage therapist who is treating a woman, while her daughter accidentally loses the woman's pre-school daughter in the park. The older daughter meets a voyeur (vision), a professional house-cleaner has an acute sense of smell, a cake maker has lost her sense of taste, and an older man is losing his hearing.
- A witty satire about cultural stereotyping.
- Shot to resemble a personal diary film, and starring Shelly Silver herself as the fictional filmmaker heroine, "Suicide" is edgy, dark and funny; an audacious act of flirting with the suggestive autobiographical and autofiction genres.
- The Lollipop Generation tells the story of 'Georgie', a runaway teenager played by Jena von Brücker, and the people she meets on the "...outlying streets with no name..." At the same time, the film serves a diaristic function, documenting the people the director has met and the cities she traveled to, capturing an entire generation of underground performers.
- Features interviews with the women behind the decks in the world of underground dance culture where women rarely appear in the role of the DJ at clubs or raves.
- Nunavut-based director Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat The Fast Runner) and researcher and filmmaker Dr. Ian Mauro (Seeds of Change) have teamed up with Inuit communities to document their knowledge and experience regarding climate change. This new documentary, the world's first Inuktitut language film on the topic, takes the viewer "on the land" with elders and hunters to explore the social and ecological impacts of a warming Arctic. This unforgettable film helps us to appreciate Inuit culture and expertise regarding environmental change and indigenous ways of adapting to it.
- Six short video art works addressing different topics: 1. This highly effective process will be an opportunity to not only overcome your fear but to progressively learn to enjoy flying; 2. Destination, Halifax, 1928; 3. The world changes and the so-called experts start questioning whether you've lost your touch: 4. Perhaps we should begin with a definition of what "autophenerology" is: the subject/object of the research is also the observer/scientist; 5. When I was little I wanted to become an astronomer; 6. I first learned about fleas from my cat.
- A Chinese-Caribbean-Canadian woman tries to embrace her parents' identity.
- The queerest duo ever are back at it again. In this ode to the horror genre, Jonny Pimp & Honey Ho investigate a strange death in the small town of Pansy Hills only to end up fearing for their own lives. Is there a gay-bashing killer on the loose? Is it a queer-hating supernatural being? Or is George W. Bush brainwashing the town?
- A Cree women in distress is lost in a dream state and forced to face her worst fears.
- His film In This House, 2005 records the search in the garden of a house in southern Lebanon for a letter encased and buried there by a former National Front resistance fighter who had occupied the house in the early 1980s.
- In a tightly-knit Cree community in northern Canada, 16-year-old Alyssa's plans to become a mom begin to unravel.
- A Japanese artist's comically surreal encounter with a blonde gallery owner in Amsterdam. Dream or nightmare - everything goes wrong until suddenly, they stumble on a brand new inspiration, or do they?
- In this ode to comic books adaptations, Jonny Pimp & Honey Ho are summoned by the gayborhood to stop an elaborate "normalization" plan by ex-gays Sissy Sin and Stew Rait.
- Jagadakeer is an Armenian term meaning fate, destiny or literally what is written on the forehead. Memory, nostalgia, displacement and reconnection are explored using the Armenian genocide as a point of reference, and visual/aural backdrop. Nuance and gesture are accentuated by stories and sounds, which take us backwards to the past and forward to the present simultaneously. These stops and starts form a complex series of transitions to revisit both real and imagined sites, to evoke a sense of homeland, a lost and enigmatic landscape.
- A video work jointly produced by Robert Filliou and Clive Robertson and mystery guest, Marcella Bienvenue, during Robert Filliou's artist-in-residency (October 1st-21st, 1977) at the artist-run centre Arton's in Calgary, Canada. "Porta Filliou" was made as a video supplement to Robert Filliou's book "Teaching and Learning as Performing Arts", 1970. "Porta Filliou" includes "The Gong Show", a performance Robert Filliou made with Brian Dyson, and earlier Fluxus films including a joint performance with Emmett Williams ("What's Happening?") and a non-continuity film made with George Brecht, Marianne Staffels-Filliou, and Donna Jo-Jones. Robert Filliou's work and ideas were the catalyst for the founding of the artist-run centre movement in Canada and Quebec.
- A woman sets out to photograph moments of intimacy. On an Internet dating site she writes: 'I'm looking for people who would like to be photographed in public revealing something of themselves...' What I'm Looking For, a 15-minute high definition video, documents this adventure; the connections formed at this intersection between virtual and actual public space. The video is a rumination on the nature of photography and the persistence of vision. It is a short tale of desire and control.
- Butterfly Monument documents the creation a public memorial dedicated to the late Shannen Koostachin, a young Cree education advocate from Attawapiskat First Nation, Moskekowok territory. Through personal stories shared by Shannen's immediate family we learn about who Shannen was and what motivated her passionate crusade for equitable access to education for Indigenous children and youth. The film also documents director Jules Koostachin's efforts to lead the community campaign that made this public monument to her young relation a reality. Shannen was a trailblazer with Canada's largest youth-led activist group when she sadly passed away at the young age of 15. Her legacy is kept active by Shannen's Dream, a national campaign for improved First Nation schooling. The Butterfly Monument, Canada's first public monument honouring a Cree youth is located on the traditional territories of Timiskaming First Nation, in the City of Temiskaming Shores, Ontario.
- APishKweShiMon is a beautiful birthing story of resilience, as well as the sequel to PLACEnta (2012), a short documentary about finding the appropriate place for a placenta ceremony. The placenta ceremony is a sacred rite, and was performed after each birth of every Cree child many years ago. Sadly, our ceremonies and ways of being were interrupted by colonialism, but as a community, we are slowly weaving the ways of our ancestors back into our lives and reigniting the flames of our past. After eleven long years, Jules, a Cree media maker, and the mother of twin boys Tapwewin and Pawaken has finally found a place to conduct the ceremony. The twins' placenta has been frozen since their birth in 2006. After careful consideration, and a big move across the country, the Koostachin family finally conducts the ceremony. Amazingly, as though the ancestors have guided them through, Asivak, the twins' older brother, and their father Jake Chakasim take the lead and support the twins as they prepare for the ceremony in Vancouver. A few weeks later, Jules travels alone and with the ashes of the placenta to her home community of Attawapiskat First Nation in northern Ontario. While in Attawapiskat, and with the guidance and support of family members and friends, they come together to discuss how and where the ceremony needs to take place. Jules' spirited journey of reclamation is one of hope and inspiration for the next generation.