Film Categories: Activism + Protest

  • A Semiotic Square for Violent Bear

    What does our culture dream? How can we locate that dream within the logics which govern our lives? Half collage, half essay, half serious, “A Semiotic Square for Violent Bear” is a busy, referential riff on the political moment.

  • Dear Moritz

    A short film essay that invites you to observe and reflect along a chance encounter between an artist, police and two friends in public space. A spontaneous moment attached to a loaded location, reflecting upon power, privilege, colonial pasts and present realities.

  • Let’s Rap

    “Women, speak your mind!” says one of the rappers in this collage of women of all ages and races who use the directness and power of rap music to express their views. These women, who rap in their own words about their own lives and beliefs present us with a lively, musical and often comical look at key issues facing women today. Let’s Rap! brims with energy, from its dynamic editing, witty set designs and colourful costumes right down to the pulsating beat which underlies its enthusiastic performances. Led by the powerful Montreal rap artist Freaky D, one of Quebec’s…

  • Spanky’s

    Spanky’s is a queer coming of age story that pays tribute to the dancers of a small town strip club. Through the use of the artist’s personal collection of posters and water imagery a story unfolds at the intersection of sex work and queerness.

  • Auspicious

    This short documentary is a collaborative project exploring the union of two men who identify as queer and feminine in a conservative Hindu culture, where sexuality and gender roles have historically been very strict.

  • Call Tony

    Call Tony is an experimental documentation of our personal kink histories as we relate to the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives, one another and community. Our creative process was in part shaped by the pieces of history that we did but mostly did not find at the archives. Call Tony is archival itself as it documents us as queer living kinksters exploring safety, healing, belonging and play. Working together closely on this video led to the recording of a dialogue rooted in the shared and differing identities embodied in our friendship.

  • Spectacular

    Spectacular is an experimental sci-fi journey across Canadian landscapes, set to the score of electronic duo LAL. Featuring a celestial Travel Guide, and a crew of Lost Voyagers, these characters find each other and set off together, their very survival an act of resistance. The Guide sends out a signal, giving the Voyagers a point of reference for their longing, like a lighthouse in a turbulent sea. Wandering in a fractured world, we follow on their search for a fresh beginning, away from the noise and scarcity of their current predicament.

  • La Moisson

    Un film corporel et cauchemardesque avec violence excessive. Nightmarish corporeal body horror film with excessive violence.