Film Categories: art & artists

  • They Looked at Me and I Smiled

    Artists who use their bodies as their medium or canvas while existing in their natural environments. Are they performing? Do their performances end after the makeup is removed? Can a performance continue in an empty apartment instead of in front of an audience?

  • Hear Me

    A formal collage of various song bites that expresses feelings of anxiety and depression. Uses music and lyrics to describe struggles with mental health / finding hope. I collected lyrics for a couple months that I connected with and helped me understand and describe my struggles with mental health. Then I stitched them together in a poem of sorts. The poem as well as the imagery are jumpy and mimic what goes on in a spiral or panic attack (at least for me) as I move through a dark space and back toward light.

  • The Ritual of the Sex Magick Warriors

    The Sex Magick Warriors are organizing, they reveal themselves to the city and risk it all to carry out an obscure objective. The colors pink and teal are the embodiment of Magick, Art and Sexuality and their use by the warriors -through empathy, telepathy and tactile care- spills the tea on their means for survival in these harsh urban environments. The ritual exposes the hardships of this army of lovers and reveals their sensual strategy for self preservation.

  • ENG Europe

    In 1972, experimental dancer/choreographer Lily Eng and visual artist/filmmaker Peter Dudar created a partnership called Missing Associates. They initiated the first wave of experimental dance in Toronto galleries, then performed coast to coast in North America. And at a time when Europe was split by a physical and cultural “iron curtain,” Missing Associates showed in venues on both sides of that divide, establishing a vital, ongoing presence for Canadian experimental dance and performance art within the international scene. Eng Europe is Dudar’s chronicle of Lily Eng’s European performances. Lily Eng used deeply exploratory movement techniques, plus hardcore performance art concepts.…

  • The Dandelion Club

    A gang of queer kids stylishly loiter about town. Pollinating. A collective resistance that collects at the margins of society and develops even on its fringes. No patch of concrete too solid to bloom through. An existence as a pest. A nuisance. And a fabulous one at that. Negotiating identity as: weed or flower?

  • Activate NDN Consciousness

    Activate NDN Consciousness combines found footage of harmful Indigenous portrayals with contemporary NDN protest and revolt.

  • Two Questions

    Two questions to help prevent sexual assault.

  • What Happens to a Dream Deferred

    It’s New Year’s Eve in Tijuana, Mexico. Wood and Colonel are busy making Soup Joumou to celebrate Haitian Independence Day with their friends at the “Trap House”. As their cooking progresses, memories of the perilous journey that brought them to the US/Mexico border two years ago resurface. From Haiti to Brasil and through nine other South and Central-American countries, here they are, sandwiched between their dream of a musical career in the US and a US president who calls Haiti a shit hole and believes all Haitians have AIDS.

  • TAKE

    TAKE (te reo Maori: issue, promise, challenge) weaves mana wahine (female knowledge), dance and archival materials to retell the story of the removal of the ancestral Maori meetinghouse, Hinemihi o te Ao Tawhito, from Aotearoa, New Zealand to England in 1892. It is a call to return Hinemihi, embodied by Australian born Maori dancer and performance artist, Victoria Hunt. Set in the liminal spaces between history and emotion TAKE unfolds a story of origins, of traumatic events and colonial violence.

  • The Spanish Experimentals of Eve A. Ma

    Compilation of Eve A. Ma’s works: 1. Two Streets and Adela 2. Tone Poem with Hang Drum 3. Her (Ella) You are able to click on each title to see the separate film page and to inquire about individual films.