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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- In a tightly-knit Cree community in northern Canada, 16-year-old Alyssa's plans to become a mom begin to unravel.
- 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.
- A witty satire about cultural stereotyping.
- "An experimental documentary about the violent closing of the first Queer Sarajevo Festival. Straddling truth and fiction, the film interweaves the courageous story of the four festival organizers with an apocryphal essay by Susan Sontag - about cover versions of "bird" songs - that pushes the limits of liberal solidarity."
- 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.
- Through the use of slow motion and a monotonous sound track, "kiri no uta" (mist song) is intended to stimulate the viewers' senses, altering their perception of time, and providing them with moments for their own reflection...
- Various permutations and combinations of Abraham Zapruder's 8mm home movie footage of the assassination of JFK.
- 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.
- Two characters, a woman and a man, travel together, but where they go, what they see, and even the exact nature of their relationship are unclear.
- Tells the story of a man, who has a dream. His mother interprets the dream as a message from his ancestors calling him back to the place where he was born. He visits family that he has never met and collects images on videotape.
- Based on a true story. Aboriginal children were taken away from their homes, their families, their traditions and locked away in residential schools far from home.
- Looking back to see is a journey through a dreary, artificial landscape accompanied by ghostly sounds that speak of escape at the same time that they remind us of worlds that have been paved over "to make life better." looking back to see is the first in Sarah Abbott's Bicycle Diaries video series.
- In response to a newspaper ad, an actor sits on a couch and prepares to cry for 20 minutes by listening to songs from his past. Intersecting relationships emerge between the actor, couch, spectators, and objects lost under the pillows.
- A rut is a groove or path worn down through prolonged use or habit. However, it is also the mating season of various animals.
- A series of seven short character sketches. Each character is rendered as if in a tableau. The characters never interact with each other. They exist in a very private space, adapting to their environment in a unique personal way.
- A Cree women in distress is lost in a dream state and forced to face her worst fears.
- 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.
- The struggle of being aware and present in life's moments.
- Two women, a Japanese and a Westerner, reflect on the energy, beauty, and transience of nature as they wander through the Japanese countryside in the summer.
- 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?
- As we fly with the birds across a vast valley, accelerating and decelerating, the image transforms between abstract lines of movement and concrete images of a snow covered Swiss mountains.
- In a cold winter day in Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan, "tanchozuru" (Japanese cranes) court each other through an elegant dance.
- A mystical gardener harvests fruits from the earth that defy everyone's expectations.
- In a Buddhist temple in Japan, people gather around an incense burner. As they bathe themselves in the smoke of incense, their bodies and spirits are energized by the scent.
- 12 year-old identical twins Tapwewin "Truth" and Pawaken "Totem" have never cut their hair. In Cree culture, and in many Indigenous communities across Turtle Island, hair represents our sacred connection to AsKi, the Earth. Growing the hair is a manifestation of the growth of spirit. Jules Koostachin, Tapwewin and Pawaken's mom - and documentary filmmaker - learned of a sacred coming-of-age ceremony when she was in her early 20s. An Elder told her that when boys hit puberty, a ceremony around the cutting of hair is a right of passage that supports and uplifts youth as they transition into the next phase of their lives.
- 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 hilarious animated version of an encounter between the Pope of the Catholic church and a rabbi occasioned by the former's desire to expel the latter's people from Rome.
- A film essay concerning memory, perception and the density of history.
- In My Heart the Prophet, created specifically for the "Heart Tapes" video series conducted by video artist and curator Nelson Henricks, Abbott recollects her unfortunate experience with childhood love.
- Through sound and motion, "aki no tawamure" (autumn playfulness) explores and celebrates our unconscious connections with our natural environment, providing us with moments for our own inner reflection.
- Locked in cages, chained to bells, an animal paces back and forth restlessly. But as it strives to transcend its conditions, its energy transforms into mesmerizing sound and movement.
- A comical portrayal of the fate of a careless Japanese tourist and his mobile-phone/camera as he arrives in Amsterdam and meets a Dutch lady.
- The sun sets. Rocks placed on the ground, must be picked up. Hold the sun. Carry the moon.
- 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.
- Parents of Cree twin boys are guided by a spirit helper.
- A man convalescing in a sanatorium writes letters to a lover on the outside. Using black and white to embellish the author's poetic and neurotic musings, Letters from R presents an intelligent consideration of memory - and its fallibility - and a mature examination of one man's tenuous grip on reality.
- Is Kevin, the bad boy of the family, a fictive character or not? The parents make the assertion that they only have two daughters, but they can't stop talking about the mischievous and devious antics of their beloved Kevin.
- A terminally ill woman describes the circumstances of her love life while images of a domestic interior taken from a single and static viewpoint simultaneously construct and deconstruct the narrative.
- A comical pseudo-educational video. The artist plays a character learning to adapt to what he believes is the Dutch way of doing things.