Film Categories: Childhood

  • Kill Road

    “Enduring a dysfunctional family requires stamina, wit and sharp survival instincts, as demonstrated in this anguished ode to family peculiarity. A pixilated tale of a girl whose off-kilter parents become lost in a mission to nurse a raccoon – an unfortunate road-kill victim.” – Images Festival, 2004 AWARDS: Images Prize for Best Canadian Media Artwork in the Festival, Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, 2004

  • This Boy

    Set in 1965, “This Boy” is a funny and charming film which traces an afternoon in the life of Kit, an imaginative, ardent tomboy of eleven who idolizes John Lennon and secretly goes about dressed like him. One spring afternoon, Kit and her best friend Mike decide to pay a visit to their classmate Holly, Kit’s crush. What begins as a light-hearted adventure shifts as the two friends get further from home. Kit and Mike are surprised by what they see en route, and even more so by their own actions and poorly understood desires.

  • Street Sweeper Suite

    A night in the life of a street-sweeping machine as it roams from one street to the next in its endless search for litter. With an original score by Legion of Green Men.

  • Jimmy

    Jimmy has sandy hair, velvety brown eyes, and needle marks that freckle the baby smooth skin of this thin arms. Jimmy is twelve years old… and a heroin addict.

  • Charleston Home Movie

    A charming and evocative sketch of the streets and people of a Southern American city. The images, distilled from hours of “home movies,” are converted from live-action to animation through a process called rotoscoping. “Morse’s drawings are beautiful, partly because of what she chose to leave out of the drawing and partly by what she chose to leave in. It is an almost perfect representation of a person’s memory.” – Grand Rapids Press

  • Family Outing

    Using home movies to depict the inner feelings of a closeted adolescent, “Family Outing” attempts to negotiate a queer position within the conventional family structure. Its ravishing, optically printed images form a haunting commentary on childhood, alienation, love and ultimately renewal. “Bradley re-edits his source material with clinical precision to produce a film of enormous strength which, through image alone, acts as a kind of early warning system for the tsunami of coming out.” – 2001 Antimatter Festival of Underground Short Film & Video, Victoria, BC Selected screenings: “Short Film from the Canadian Underground” International Touring Program, 2002; Yorkton Short…

  • Transfixed

    “Transfixed” is a meditative film that celebrates the beauty found within the small details of existence. “‘Transfixed’ evokes the boundless joy of the vicarious unlimited experience of childhood, while at the same time reminding us of life’s accelerated velocity and transitory nature.” – Antimatter Underground Film Festival, 2002 Selected screenings: Honorable Mention, Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA, 2003; Reykjavik Short Film Festival, Iceland, 2002; Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, 2002; Yorkton Short Film Festival, Yorkton, SK, 2003

  • Little Life, A

    Hatch, eat, fly, die. The life of “phaenicia sericata,” the green bottle fly. A little life, a short film. No dialogue. Suitable for all ages.

  • Bug Girl

    Part science movie, part storybook, “Bug Girl” is an ecological fable. While searching for her lost cat, a young girl accidentally swallows a bee. Macrocosmic and microcosmic worlds collide and the young girl enters the biotech garden. Here, innocence is lost and her journey transforms into a visual tumble through nature, biology and consciousness. “Bug Girl” is primarily intended to be an installation piece shown in a gallery context. However, it can also be screened as a single-channel work. For the installation, the image is projected onto a circular screen with surround sound. Contact the CFMDC for fees and technical…

  • P

    “P” explores a single theme: excrements. Babies, worms and flies guide us through a compilation of facts and theories, approaching a theme often regarded as disgusting in a meaningful and humorous way.