Film Categories: body

  • 52

    “52” probes one man’s greatest nightmare: getting old. Written by and starring Scott Thompson (Kids in the Hall).

  • Difficult Love

    “Difficult Love” is an intimate, thought-provoking portrait of internationally celebrated South African lesbian photographer, Zanele Muholi, and her highly personal take on the challenges facing black lesbians in South Africa today. The film features interviews with Muholi as well as with her friends, colleagues and peers, and provides a compelling overview of the artist, her life and her work. This poignant documentary takes us behind the façade of art making and shares with us the highly political environment Muholi must navigate in order to bring her lush photographs to light. Winner Best Short Film – Audience Award, Africa in the…

  • 4 Pounds

    “4 Pounds” is the story of an actor who, over the course of four life-altering weeks, focuses his considerable will to the goal of losing some weight. Though the people in his life try to dissuade him from his ruinous path, he ignores them in his headlong rush towards self-destruction. Written by and starring Scott Thompson (Kids in the Hall).

  • Manholes (Brian)

    The “Manholes” series takes a pan of a single male figure and fragments it into a grid of peepholes. The microscopic mapping of the body is intimate yet clinical. The cascading body parts create a kaleidoscope of changing skin tones. It is difficult to find the point of origin on the subject’s body, though occasionally signifiers make it possible; an eye, a nipple or the toes suddenly orient the viewer. The quiet audio combines electric currents, rushing water and vocals that mimic the visual energy and its meditative quality. “Manholes (Brian)” is a looped installation, but it is also available…

  • Manholes (David)

    The “Manholes” series takes a pan of a single male figure and fragments it into a grid of peepholes. The microscopic mapping of the body is intimate yet clinical. The cascading body parts create a kaleidoscope of changing skin tones. It is difficult to find the point of origin on the subject’s body, though occasionally signifiers make it possible; an eye, a nipple or the toes suddenly orient the viewer. The quiet audio combines electric currents, rushing water and vocals that mimic the visual energy and its meditative quality. “Manholes (David)” is a looped installation, but it is also available…

  • Manholes (Kevin)

    The “Manholes” series takes a pan of a single male figure and fragments it into a grid of peepholes. The microscopic mapping of the body is intimate yet clinical. The cascading body parts create a kaleidoscope of changing skin tones. It is difficult to find the point of origin on the subject’s body, though occasionally signifiers make it possible; an eye, a nipple or the toes suddenly orient the viewer. The quiet audio combines electric currents, rushing water and vocals that mimic the visual energy and its meditative quality. “Manholes (Kevin)” is a looped installation, but it is also available…

  • Milkman & Milk Bath

    In “Milkman”, a seated male figure sits staring endlessly ahead, his gaze locked on the viewer. Milk is streaming from his nipple and into a glass that he holds in his left hand. The continuous flow of milk never seems to fill the glass. The sound of the flowing milk creates a human fountain out of this portrait. In “Milk Bath” a man’s face sits like an island in the middle of a pool of milk. His facial hair slowly grows then disappears, the left side independent of the right. In the same fashion, his eyes are adorned with make-up,…

  • James MacSwain Retrospective, A

    “Atlantic native James MacSwain has made more than 20 films over the last 30 years. His voice has become a pervasive and sophisticated contribution to the experimental film community in this country, often literally as his extensive use of voiceover – and his clever scripts – evince a considerable talent as a writer. MacSwain’s particular use of 16mm collage and animation appear deceptively simple, but his films have a lingering depth and poignancy that resists easy categorization.” – Images Festival, 2011 DVD Compilation Contains: 1. Little Known Curious Facts (1981, 4.20 min.) 2. Flower (1984, 8.20 min.) 3. Amherst (1984,…

  • Spiral Transition

    “Spiral Transition” is a candid, compelling and interwoven documentary that explores the filmmaker’s relationship with his mother and how it is changing and evolving as he transitions genders.

  • Rhythm 93

    A Pre-Raphaelite portrait of the visionary state as arising from nervous breakdown. Filmed in bitter winter in England’s bleak post-Thatcher years, using only natural light, the camera’s focus and exposure shift continually in a subversive riff on classical cinematic match-cutting. Perhaps something occurs, but what? Winner, Director’s Choice, Black Maria Film Festival (1994).