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EXPERIMENTAL
Crossing boundaries of form and genre, these experimental moving image works challenge normative uses of film language to explore a variety of subject matter, from the personal to the political. Innovative and playful processes are developed, reinterpreted, and combined, including the use of found footage, hand-processing, cameraless techniques, optical printing and collage. Together, they shine a vital light on perspectives, mediums and communities that have existed on the margins of visual culture.
Image Still: anivides Collective’s diario de verano
INDIGENOUS
These Indigenous-made documentary, narrative and experimental films explore stories of decolonial resistance, resilience, and community, drawing from ancestral teachings integrated with contemporary perspectives and personal experience. The artists reflect on the complexities of current Indigenous relationships with land, identity, and history, creating works that generate discussion, catharsis, celebration, and calls to action.
Image Still: Shelly Niro’s Honey Moccasin
QUEER
This compilation showcases recent moving image works in the collection that are by, for and about members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community. The films cover a broad range of subject matter and the intersections at which they connect, including gender and sexual identity, race, intimacy, disability, political activism, social dynamics, queer aesthetics and family. Creative subversions of genre and form are used to explore marginalized histories and challenge social and artistic conventions.
Image Still: Jason Britski’s, Hot Under the Collar
DOCUMENTARY
These recent documentary works by emerging and established voices take a variety of experimental approaches to tell unflinching, empathetic and critical narratives about the personal and political issues that face our communities today. The diverse filmmakers engage with docufiction, reinterpret archival material and manipulate the form to reveal hidden truths and reflect underrepresented perspectives.
Image Still: Jeffrey Zablotny’s Messengers
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ANIMATION
This compilation showcases recent works from our diverse collection of animation. Digital and analogue mediums are both represented, including a variety of artisanal techniques like hand-processing, collage, photograms, hand-drawn stop motion, manipulation of found footage, and cameraless animation.
BY WOMEN
Through personal narratives, underrepresented histories, and visionary formal experimentation, these artists explore complex subject matter from authentic and subversive perspectives. Documentary, narrative, experimental and animated works by women are included.
INSTALLATION & GALLERY
This compilation previews recent film and video works that are available for gallery exhibition and installation screening. Both single-channel and multi-channel works are present in our collection, and some are available as an installation plan with specific instructions.
EMERGING FILMMAKERS
A diverse palette of moving image works from emerging voices in Canadian independent film. The wide range of thematic exploration and innovative formal approaches in our collection offers a glimpse into what is possible outside of the mainstream.
ENVIRONMENTAL
Gathered here are a variety of moving image works related to the environment, both natural and manufactured. These artists explore the conflicts and connections between communities, our landscapes, and technology, using experimental documentary approaches and eco-processing techniques.
Our team can curate a compliation more tailored to your specific needs. Email bookings@cfmdc.org detailing your thematic interests and formal considerations. You can also include any parameters you would like us to consider, such as: length, format, genre, country, language, filmmaker.