Film Categories: art & artists

  • Firefly, A

    Based on a poem by Souvankham Thammavongsa, “A Firefly” plays with words, letters and optical sound. Produced for LIFT Poetry Projections 2007.

  • Shit Storm

    Based on a notorious ‘art scandal’ from 2007, writer/artist RM Vaughan recounts how rich and powerful members of the art world turned on him when he wrote his true thoughts about the mundane work proffered by the so-called Vancouver School. Art doesn’t have to be pretty, but does the art world have to be so ugly?

  • Out & About with Brewer & Berg – A Multidimensional Travelogue

    “Out & About with Brewer & Berg – A Multidimensional Travelogue” is a philosophical travelogue of Europe with two zany guys in an amazing filmed documentary of their vision quest in search of a new mythology that includes gay and lesbian consciousness. “Out & About with Brewer & Berg” is where Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell meet Dan Rowan and Dick Martin. It’s where “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” meets Carlos Castaneda and David Attenborough. It’s where “My Dinner with André” meets the “On the Road” films with Crosby and Hope. Replete with riveting graphics, insightful quotations and a…

  • 10th Avatar

    Television’s influence is so great that it has left us completely mesmerized and has become our new form of worship. Our faith in the divine power has been challenged several times, through the ages. According to Hindu mythology an avatar appeared who relieved man’s distress and re-established the belief in God and the avatar. Nine incarnations of God or avatars have appeared thus far and the 10th avatar appeared with the fusion of mass media and formal worship. This is the story about the challenge divine worship faced as cable TV encroached our “idle” time.

  • Moments in Motion (Mouvement Perpetuel)

    Seven short profiles of Canadian choreographers, each powerful voices from the new generation: Natasha Bakht from Ottawa; Byron Chief-Moon from Lethbridge; Day Helesic from Vancouver; Hinda Essadiqi and Audrey Lehouillier, both from Montreal; Malgorzata Nowacka from Toronto; and Sarah Stoker from St. John’s. From diverse cultures and backgrounds, these artists are all cultivating new ground, questioning the established codes and redefining the language of choreography. None shy from taking risks. Zeroing in on the creative process, the film presents their distinct worlds through cinéma-vérité and dance-for-camera sequences. By infiltrating their communities, studios and homes, the camera seizes the essence of…

  • Rubb My Chubb

    If you’re a Torontonian, and hip to the fat revolution, you can’t have missed the recent explosion of the Fat Femme Mafia. Call them what you want. Large and in charge. Larger than life. These women have been hitting the city with the strong words of politics of size. During the inception of the Mafia, we could only gossip with possibilities. Soon there were rumours, whispers, and boisterous claims about the phenomenal event that was to be Chubb Rubb: A Fat Cabaret. This short documentary follows the Fat Femme Mafia, their fat co-conspirators and allies in the days leading up…

  • Chronicle Re-Constructions

    “I believe that filmmakers in the future will have to establish an archaeological approach to their subject matter. Instead of photographing images, we may have to dig them from the ground, and paste them together – film will look like today’s Dead Sea Scrolls.” – Steven Woloshen

  • Cut

    “Cut” is a short animated film about a woman who gets a haircut on lunch and gets more than she bargained for.

  • In Every Dream Home a Heartache

    Kids on TV and Johannes Zits have together created a music video art piece based on Johannes’ visual work and the song “In Every Dream Home a Heartache” performed by Kids on TV. The video takes the song’s plotline of a rich man falling in love with a rubber doll and uses it to critique queer consumerism and the advertising industry’s targeting of the gay-demographic — turning peoples desires into a fetishization of newly built condos and lavish funishings. The rubber doll is portrayed by KOTV member John Caffery is covered with green-screen paint and super-imposed with gay male pornography…

  • Mr. Edison’s Ear

    “An inventive exploration of the visceral nature of sound and how we learned to capture and reproduce it over time. Anchored by the discovery of the phonograph by the brilliant-and deaf-inventor Thomas Edison, this visual and conceptual collage of rich archival footage and animation playfully traces the birth of technological reproduction and the beginnings of our modern, audio-drenched world.” – Gisèle Gordon (Hot Docs Canadian Spectrum programmer) Selected Screenings: Canadian Spectrum, HotDocs, 2008; DOK Leipzig Festival, 2008