Film Categories: Childhood

  • Prom Fight: The Marc Hall Story

    Over the years conventional wisdom on Homosexuality has changed dramatically and a more liberal attitude of acceptance and tolerance has evolved. But no one seems to have told the Durham Catholic School Board in the province of Ontario.. “I am writing to request that the school board reverse the policy taken to deny me the opportunity to attend my school prom with the person of my choice, my boyfriend. That’s all I want: to go to the prom with my date, like everybody else, and to make sure that no other student of the Durham Catholic School Board will never…

  • BRU HA HA!

    “BRU HA HA!” An overexcited and noisy response. A Commotion. A hubbub or an uproar. “BRU HA HA!” A short hand-scratched film by Steven Woloshen! A film about relationships of the human kind. Homage to painter Joan Miro.

  • Cameras Take Five

    The enduring romance of lines is explored in this colourful handmade cameraless animation by Montreal animator Steven Woloshen. Dave Brubeck’s classic jazz standard “Take Five” is the starting point of this abstract visual interpretation. In Cinemascope. “I began this film in my usual fashion, which is to say, I hadn’t planned any narratives, characters or sections as starting points for this animation. As I worked and listened to the track – at least twenty times – the line drawing (representing the sound of a saxophone) was leading me either to one side of the frame or the other. The main…

  • Minuet

    A handmade, minute-made motion picture essay on colour harmonics, visual overtones, and the rhythms of an abstract encounter.

  • Carry on Crime and Punishment

    A short story for children, adults, and human societies; a five minute “moral adventure” about two dognappers who steal a valuable singing dog in Southern Ontario.

  • 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.

  • Term, The

    A lovely and spare animated film illustrating the poem, “The Term,” by William Carlos Williams. The film is an homage to the work of Williams and to the school of Imagist Poetry, which he founded and best exemplifies. The filmmaker chose this particular poem because of the power of the imagery, the constant metamorphosis, the musicality of the words and the gentle humanistic quality of the message. All these things lend themselves well to film: particularly to the style of animation she has developed. The animation is hand-drawn pencil on paper, fully animated twelve drawings per second. The drawings illustrate…

  • Lucky Bugger

    A young boy spending the afternoon at the beach with his parents wanders off on his own to explore. In the isolated dunes, he spies two gay lovers.

  • Saskatchewan Part 2 (That’s My Wonderful Town)

    Brian Stockton’s series of eccentric autobiographical short films continues with “That’s My Wonderful Town,” an ode to Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada – past, present and future. The Supers return for part 2 with another stunning musical score, and the filmmaker’s son, Keaton L. Stockton, appears as “Kindergarten Brian.” “Saskatchewan Part 2” also features special appearances by Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, and David Letterman’s gas pump jockey, Dick Assman. Filmed in glorious 35mm Panavision®, this is Saskatchewan like it has never been seen before.

  • John Porter Sampler

    John Porter uses film as visual art, much like painting or sculpture,. Most of his 300 films are silent, very short and made in series, such aas landscapes, cityscapes, popular rituals, crowd documentaries, local histories, toy stories and “Camera Dances” in which he performs for the camera. Unlike most filmmakers, John shows his original films (no copies) and incorporates performance into the exhibition by miming in front of the screen, moving a hand-held projector around the room, and talking with the audience during the his films. He has been invited to many university film production classes to demonstrate a different…