Film Categories: Music Video

  • Rock Pockets

    A short personal documentary disguised as meta-music video. A sugar rush of sex, politics and rock’n’roll as seen through the eyes of a ten year-old boy at the fair. Featuring appearances by members of Shout Out Out Out Out, The Wet Secrets, and the music of the Vertical Struts (r.i.p.). Awards: Inaugural Lindalee Tracey Award at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival

  • Going Back Home

    Turmoil of unsheltered childhood; the dwelling as self. “Louise Bourque’s ‘Going Back Home’ conveys a sense of loss and upheaval with just a few images.” – Steve Anker and Kathy Geritz, program notes, San Francisco International FIlm Festival, 2002 “The disasters of life can make it hard to go home. Bourque’s brief, beautiful, and affecting film goes by so quickly it’s printed twice on the reel, so you can get a second look.” – Program notes, Images Festival, 2001 “To the scratchy sounds of an old music box… ‘Going Back Home’ weaves snippets of old reels of houses collapsing, fires…

  • Neighbours Walk Softly

    “‘Neighbours Walk Softly’ is an anti-war protest poem, a test of the idea of neighbourhood, and a highlighting of the dividing lines we’re only too willing to fight to defend in the inevitable times of crisis. “This Super 8 and video footage was collected in an upscale Vancouver neighbourhood over the period of one year. The act of looking through a lens caused me to realize what wasn’t there to be seen – even though there weren’t any physical walls to keep out the poor and the less beautiful, somehow they were missing from the footage I collected. “The familiar…

  • Elect the Dead

    A music video for Elect the Dead by System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian.

  • Move Click Move

    Deanna Morse has produced over thirty films and videos since the early 1970s. This DVD is an interactive journey through her work, featuring 36 short animated and experimental works and hundreds of production stills. “MOVE CLICK MOVE is not only a terrific teaching/learning tool, it is also a tribute to the visual arts” – Mike Allore, Michigan VUE). For Sale Only. INTRODUCTION: HOW ANIMATION WORKS, 2001 move click move (2:13) SAMPLE THE FILMS About this DVD (6:59) 27 “making of” stills FUN SHORTS! MONKEY’S T-SHIRT, 1990 Embedded figures puzzle (1:31) 8 “making of” stills NIGHT SOUNDS, 1991 Scared of the…

  • Queers on the Verge: Experimental Works for Educational Environments

    Available for purchase in the CFMDC Shop: https://www.cfmdc.org/shop. This compilation brings together challenging and innovative film and video works that explore lesbian/gay/bi/trans culture by both Queer pioneers and emerging makers. It covers a broad range of subject matter including gender and sexual identity, social dynamics, coming out, the impact of AIDS, and Queer youth culture. “Queers on the Verge… is an excellent compilation of short subjects featuring contemporary gay, lesbian, and transgender themes. This DVD is highly recommended and will be a great catalyst for discussion in high school and colleges, not just to gay audiences. It should be accessible…

  • Freeshow Seymour Compilation

    Freeshow Seymour is the collaborative effort of Allyson Mitchell and Christina Zeidler, who came together to explore their mutual crush on film-craft. Individually, they have been making work since 1994. In 2003 they both attended the Big Rock Candy Mountain residency at The Banff Centre, where they joined forces to highlight the work they are doing on candy and consumption and to explore their love of film. The basis of Freeshow Seymour is process. The two artists meet and see what evolves out of being together – whether it is films, music, crafts, performance or just thrift-store shopping. Their artworks…

  • Universe Energies Sustain Us

    A poetic video collage about light, air and language, the materials and processes we use to communicate and survive; exploring the translation and regulation of data by the body and technology; the aesthetics and consequences of error; the relationships of transparency and difference; problems of image order and presentation, identity, authenticity, feedback and loss, copyright and ownership, access and denial, time, space, speed and memory. Composed of recycled sequences of abstract animation and performance video (sourced from Cold Tape, Myeyeye, Enter, Island, Walk, Play and Letters), together with documentation of the imaging process, and incidental, ambient and appropriated material. Originally…

  • Walk

    A dance video exploring body movement as visual music and conduction. Made in collaboration with the Scottish dancer Vanessa Smith Influenced by the music of John Cage and Butch Morris and the choreography of Rudolf Laban.

  • Slice of Primal Pie

    “Slice of Primal Pie” takes on the challenge of capturing the excitement and spirituality of the percussion group Primal Rhythm in film. Using mixed mediums (Super 8mm, 16mm, animated 35mm stills, colour, b&w, infrared) the images were first shot and edited, then Primal Rhythm composed live to them in the recording studio. As a result this “visual rhythm film” has a very organic feel, as opposed to the traditional slick approach to music videos. “Slice of Primal Pie” is as much about the universal appeal of their music as it is about these self-proclaimed “urban primates.”