Film Categories: Mental Health

  • 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!

  • Hello, My Name Is Herman

    “Hello, My Name Is Herman” poignantly and humorously describes the relationship between a 91-year-old Jewish man, his lesbian granddaughter and her girlfriend. This ten-minute documentary explores intergenerational and interracial relationships, coming out, aging, and the process of accepting difference and love. Awards: Audience Award for Best Short Film (Tie), Fairy Tales Festival, Calgary, AB, 2009; Mikey/Schmkey Award for Best Short Film or Video at the 2007 Toronto Inside Out Film Festival. Honourable Mention for Best Up-and-Coming Toronto Film or Video Maker Award at the 2007 Inside Out Film Festival. Special Mention at the Iris Prize Festival 2007 in Wales.

  • Are You Norma?

    “Are You Norma?” is an experimental animation exploring fashion restrictions placed on the female body.

  • Baggage

    Martin, a 30-year-old single man, lives a regular and well-ordered life. One morning, however, a mysterious suitcase inexplicably appears, and pursues him wherever he goes: in his home, at the office, outside at lunch time. Finally escaping to a public washroom, he encounters a man he recognizes from his past. Frightened, Martin takes refuge in a toilet stall. When he comes out the man has disappeared, only to be replaced by the ever-present suitcase. Martin decides to face his fears and open the suitcase, and what he discovers inside leads him towards a richer and more poetic existence.

  • Foodie

    Born into a murky world, jettisoned into flourescence, Foodie is all emotion, all merchandise, all pressure and all pleasure. Foodie waddles through emotional worlds that are hungry and stuffed, cozy-mean, cocooned and exposed. Foodie is the perfect consumer who is simultaneously socially conscious and suspect. Watch Foodie, struggling to stay within boundaries of good and proper, worrying all the time, trying to live forever with too much and not enough.

  • Greg

    Greg Sells has been described as the “Rain Man” of women’s music. Some assume he is autistic. Some think he is a deviant. The female musicians accept him, so why does everyone else want to label him? Featuring: Patrice Pike, Terri Lord, Gretchen Phillips, Ginger Leigh, Sara Hickman, Shelley King and Dayna Kurtz

  • Autoplastic

    “Autoplastic” intimately explores perceived psychosis in store front manikins.

  • Shift

    A low-tech sci-fi story set in a disenfranchised, near-future post-Crash urban sprawl, a violent place with no one in authority. We meet the Switchcocks, an all-girl revenge gang who make their living by taking on vengeance contracts for other Glop residents, and running drugs. One night, Lexi, gang member by night, courier by day, hooks the gang up with the dangerously potent drug called ‘shift.’ They sample it and then they run amok, taking ‘vengeance’ on an Enclave drone – without a contract: for fun. Lexi awakens the following day and must deal with the aftermath and her own role…

  • Pepper’s Lost Highway

    Pepper Highway is a reclusive poetess who lives in the desert under a Joshua Tree. She is a distant cousin of Canadian playwright / musician Tomson Highway and dancer / choreographer René Highway. This short piece is one of her very few public appearances. Pepper’s Lost Highway: Like rain on a blackened highway in a David Lynch film I dance over asphalt Splashing a peppery light reflecting off water Pirouetting a tangible memory of René His long red muscles An intertwinement of sinew, an oil gloss Whipping blue black hair In the darkness of a lost highway I dance over…

  • Dish

    “Dish” is a unique documentary series created by David Quantic. Fast-paced editing and eye-popping graphics fuse together interviews with fans of popular culture to create a “chorus” of enthusiastic opinions. In this debut episode, 6 gay men talk about their obsession with Oprah.