Film Categories: body

  • Sports Bra

    Exercise is failure in action. RM Vaughan and Shannon Cochrane try to be fit, sporty, and active people, but bad wigs and poor co-ordination always get in the way.

  • Knee for All

    “Knee for All” features gender-free knees for the new generation. Remodelling the seedy-super-eight-basement-porn aesthetic, “Knee for All” displaces the focus on genital- and gender-based-sexuality with universal body parts: the knees. Get what you kneed from “Knee for All”!

  • Moving Pictures Quartet

    A new DVD compilation of four short dance films produced by the Moving Pictures Dancefilm Art Society. ICARUS Dir. Curtis Wehrfritz, 6 min., 2001 Shot on two hand-cranked cameras, this film captures segments from “Wind,” part of a performance cycle about the four elements choreographed by Bill James. Inspired by the Greek myth of Icarus, who fell from grace after flying too close to the sun, this work contrast post-industrial waste with stunning images of artifice. Performed by Yvonne Ng, Shannon Cooney and Robert Glumbek, with music by Tom Third. GARDEN OF STONE Dir. Gregory Nixon, 5 min. 1999 Kathak…

  • Digital Nudes in Oil

    A short documentary of the artist working in his studio speaking about his painting, modernism, formalism and censorship in Canada from a gay perspective.

  • NYC Dilemma

    In 2002-2003, San Francisco composer Jack Curtis Dubowsky moved to a fifth-floor walk-up in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. This semi-verité musical video by Todd Wilson (Under One Roof), shot entirely in one day, documents the great dilemmas of NYC life. Go to the survival job, or attend a business meeting with a potential client (portrayed by real-life client and director Elizabeth Elson [Born in a Barn])? Eat lunch or scavange? How hot is it outside? How to afford a gym? And, the greatest mystery of all, if this is an “E train running on the F line,” is it an…

  • Pulsions

    “Pulsions” explores the fluidity of space and time through its emphasis on pulsing movement. “Pulsions” is a companion piece to “fugitive l(i)ght” (2005). The two films grew out of one project that aimed to explore the double ellipse/figure “8” that is created through the movements of living bodies, namely humans, birds and insects, underwater and in the air. Music by Colin Clark. Dance (choreography and performance) by Lucie Mongrain. Selected screenings: Alucine Festival, Toronto, ON, 2007; Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON, 2007; WNDX Festival, Winnipeg Cinematheque, Winnipeg, MB, 2007; Warsaw Media Festival, Poland, 2007

  • Echo

    “Echo” recalls childhood and the native home of the filmmaker through image, song and text. This self-portrait hints at the fragments, the pieces, the painful and repressed shards that the self contains, and through which it strives to piece together and illuminate its mysterious gaps. “‘Echo’ by Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof boldly explores homesickness and cultural yearning through visual imagery, song and text. In this atypical self-portrait, the artist has created a photogram of her body that acts as a travelling matte through the countryside of her native land as she mouths an old Polish immigrant’s song; the original recording pierces like…

  • Portrait of a Couple

    A few days before moving to Spain, Ryan learns that he might be HIV positive. This situation will force him to deal with his boyfriend and his worse fear: loneliness. “Portrait of a couple” talks about the lack of trust between two lovers in a difficult moment. The dilemma is approached through the fear we all share of being sick and dying alone. The movie addresses the topic of a gay couple learning about their HIV status, from a particularly different perspective, not in a condescending or victimizing way, but allowing human nature to surface with all its flaws and…

  • Tranzploitation

    “Tranzploitation” is a trans-comedy. A trannedy! Or perhaps just a hot tranny mess. The story follows Kaleb as he fights discrimination (the anti-trans fats police), exploits his new trans-man identity (hello cheaper haircuts!) and makes the personal decision to get the surgery he needs (Botox, of course). Don’t miss the cameo by Amy Ray of Indigo Girls fame!

  • FACE IT! (Cast Your Self™)

    Images from the private sphere of the world wide web. “The video has been removed due to its inappropriate nature”. (Sat, 03. Mar 2007, YouTube | Broadcast Yourself™)