Film Categories: Race + Ethnicity

  • Entonces Bueno

    Havana, Cuba. A man and a pig lead the way through this series of nine brief portraits of Cuban artists. A mixed-media short film composed of 16 mm, animated 35 mm stills, Super 8, interviews and sounds recorded in Havana. An image maker spends a month in Havana. There he meets a few visual artists with whom he talks about the kinds of ideas that motivate their art. Through this, the filmmaker creates metaphors of the exterior world these eight artists’ experience.

  • Minus

    “Minus” is a hand-processed, uncut, singular stream of movements. To take away: either to leave remnants of light or to leave remnants of rhythms. Entirely hand-processed and unscathed by the blades of the splicer. This is Chong’s first 16mm film. Inspired by Ritchie Hawkin’s Concept albums.

  • Notebook on Lightning Bolts & Turntables

    “Notebook on Lightning Bolts & Turntables” is an animated adventure that moves through the city in search of safe havens, house music, romantic boys in record stores, distracting images from childhood, and finally into the place where we all want to be…all in the attempt to find a place of least-anxiety. Shot on Super 8 and blown up to 16mm, “Notebook on Lightning Bolts & Turntables” is an animation film that encompasses clay-mation, cell animation, and live action.

  • Bag, The

    Three camcorders are given to selected groups of actors who are asked to make films after their own desires. During the shooting of the film, the real director constantly interferes from behind the camera. He manipulates the actors and their stories to the point where the actors become angry and begin to protest.

  • Music Might Have Deceived Us

    “Chong brings queer chops into new sightlines with this elegant mini-essay on desire… A series of peek-a-boo mattes admit moments glimpsed in passing. Scars of seeing. The throbbing, hand-processed emulsion begins with clouds then descends through traffic to arrive at the aching towards some new moment of release.” – Mike Hoolboom, Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, Toronto, 2000

  • Full Frontal

    Roman, a troubled painter, has difficulty producing new work for himself and his wife Luba, a gallery owner. He has unresolved issues from the past. When he was a boy he witnessed the suicide of his mother, which haunts him to this day. Not being able to forget and go on, Roman creates a wall between himself, his wife, and the rest of the world. A few turns of events will help Roman realize that he has to face life and what it offers.

  • On the Borders of Gardens (Part 1)

    A documentary about Palestinian refugees, Israelis, and dreams of homes beyond borders. This film deals with the seemingly intractable problem of Palestinian refugees.

  • Burning Down the Dream

    A funky examination of cultural appropriation, sweatshop labour and what you can do about it.

  • On the Borders of Gardens (Part 2)

    A documentary about Palestinian refugees, Israelis, and dreams of homes beyond borders. This film deals with the seemingly intractable problem of Palestinian refugees.

  • Lost Heroes

    Francisco, the lead character, is a Portuguese-Canadian artist who has just been commissioned to work on a painting celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Portuguese revolution, which took place on April 25, 1974. His agent, upon realizing how distanced Francisco feels from his home, sends him to Portugal to rediscover it. Once there, he goes to meet Catarina, a childhood friend who lives with her family in a small village. Conflict arises when Catarina’s father discovers that Francisco has returned. An ex-captain of the notorious PIDE, the Portuguese equivalent to the KGB, he had Francisco’s father imprisoned, tortured, and killed…