Film Categories: art & artists

  • 24 Cards

    A tribute to film critic, writer, visual artist and filmmaker, Donald Richie who from the early 1980’s until 2013 was a friend and mentor. In his writing and curating, Donald Richie was instrumental in introducing Japanese Cinema to Western audiences. These yearly post cards, hand written or typed with unique personal images were one form of communication between the filmmaker and Mr. Richie. The film is SILENT.

  • Handtinting

    “‘Handtinting’ is the apt title of a film made from outtakes from a Job Corps documentary which features hand-tinted sections. The film is full of small movements and actions, gestures begun and never completed. Repeated images, sometimes in colour, sometimes not. A beautifully realized type of chamber-music film whose sum-total feeling is ritualistic.” – Robert Cowan, Take One

  • meditations on a process

    An experimental documentary exploring the filmmakers’ mutual interests in spirituality, imprints of childhood, and ecologies of presence in personal filmmaking practices, bookended by poetry that situates their musings in a rapidly changing Toronto.

  • The Blactor

    On route to a “gansta” audition, a young Black actress must prove to a cop that she’s not the role she’s auditioning for.

  • The Comics

    When Annie and Mark’s controversial comedy video goes viral, they make a run for the country. There, they hide out in a worn down, under the radar motel – hoping to stay out of the public eye while their video rapidly makes its rounds on social media.

  • Goin ape 2

    Three stories intertwine in a climatic double ending, Ape is stuck in the middle.

  • FOTO CINE MAMA & I

    There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We’ll dream of being blind.” — Paul Virilio If you have no room for a film essay work – don’t waste your time further. A film essay delving into the essence of photography, intrinsically incomplete, lacking, fractional. All images inherently reach beyond their boundaries—this is a truth rooted in history and made even more evident in our current age, dominated by the astonishing and decisive powers of artificial intelligence. The film’s core utilizes a collection of personal photographs of the filmmaker’s mother and…

  • Cherry Light

    An abstract film.

  • Hand Made Electricity

    Image: Oliver Hockenhull Sampled: Norman McLaren Music: Lisa Walker Info: Graphical sound & visual music painting in action, hand painting on film sampled, metamorphic pastels and the projection of the netted dynamic blue dot of the causal field. Finding no time in time. A singularity expressed, drummed out like a message for you and you and…

  • A More Radiant Sphere

    A More Radiant Sphere tells the long-lost story of Communist poet, activist and Canadian political prisoner Joe Wallace, bringing him to life through archival material, both real and imagined. This hybrid film is shot primarily on 16mm film and weaves together the story of Wallace, the failed Canadian Communist Party, and the filmmaker’s own surprising discovery of her relation to Wallace through a distant relationship with her father (Joe’s great-nephew). Segmented throughout are folk songs based on Wallace’s writings, performed by award-winning folk musician Simone Schmidt, aka Fiver. The film delves into the limits of history and its records, and…