Film Categories: body

  • Type O

    “Type O” explores a metaphorical comparison between blood and words. Combining stop-motion animation and experimental film techniques, the film inhabits a realm where the boundaries between reality and fantasy are blurred. In an attempt to defeat her writer’s block, the central character engages in a physical struggle with her typewriter. A finger is caught by the random keying, drawing blood. With the first drop of blood split, words bubble to the surface and the writer’s block begins to clear. Just as blood is life-sustaining fluid, words are the writer’s lifeline. The organic qualities of blood and words are realized visually…

  • Thirst

    “Tammy Ballaban wants to leave her mark, to be remembered, to stay safe. So she stops eating. ‘Thirst’ is an unconventional and beautifully structured meditation about eating disorders, hunger and desire, our need for identity, and control. A sumptuous collage of image and sound reflects the amorphous dialectic between conscious and unconscious drives.” – Lynne Fernie Selected screenings: Documentary Channel (Ontario), broadcast, 2006; Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival, 2002; Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Toronto, 2002; Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival, 2002.

  • Late Night Visitor

    “Late Night Visitor” is a tribute to the physique films of Bob Mizer and AMG Studios. As wrestlers, body builders and posers, it is an unforgettable part of our heritage.

  • Cherries in the Snow (an Ode to Joan Nestle)

    An ode to Joan Nestle and all the other fabulous femmes who came before me.

  • grotesque

    A devil makes a violent attempt to change himself into a heavenly creature. His evil process backfires when he is confronted with the creatures from within.

  • Rub

    Masturbation is one of life’s sweetest distractions. This experimental film is an homage to the pleasures a girl can experience, all on her own.

  • InsideOut

    The film frame is a metaphor for the body and a Woman feeling like it is a boundary.

  • No Soy un Oso (I Am Not a Bear)

    An interview and a debate over what makes the man a bear and why he would resist belonging to a group of big hairy men.

  • Pustulations

    “Pustulations” is a short animated film using the painting-on-glass technique. It is about one woman’s compulsion to pick at her skin and the purulent, pustular world beneath it. Awards: National Film Board of Canada Award for Best Emerging Canadian Film or Video Maker, Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, ON, 2004 Also available on FEM CRIT.

  • Buoyant

    “Buoyant” is a charming experimental documentary which interweaves the stories of the Padded Lilies – a troupe of fat synchronized swimmers – and Archimedes – the Greek mathematician obsessed with floating bodies and inventor of the “Drystroke Swimulator.” It leaves us with the exuberant possibility of a fat body that literally and culturally rises, like cream, to the top. Please note: “Buoyant” can also be presented with live musical accompaniment. Contact the CFMDC for more information.