Film Categories: War + Conflict

  • Sab Shimono: Acting “As If”

    On the eve of his eightieth birthday, acclaimed Japanese American actor Sab Shimono reflects on his lifelong commitment to the craft of acting, his struggles against racism and homophobia, and how his life was transformed by gay bars and marriage equality.

  • Determinations

    1988 & 2023 4K revision (Revision sponsored by Telefilm Canada Reignite program (for historical valuable Canadian films and to archive such films) which allowed me to transfer my 1988 16mm film to 4k video. A post-punk gonzo doco from the 1980’s restored for the digital realm. The Squamish Five story — a significant historical Canadian recollection, a refreshment of memory in a time of ever increasing environmental suicidal somnambulism & social, political dementia. The Reagan era (1981 – 1989) in the USA marked a time of heightened tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, with the deployment of…

  • Łódź:22592

    A recently published book by Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario, profiling the resurrected photographs made clandestinely by Henryk Ross ( 1910-1991) in Poland’s Lodz ghetto, inspires the filmmaker to wonder once again, how his father survived those turbulent, WW II years in Poland. Filmed in the USA, Canada and Poland. Sound begins at 8:02

  • Phatter pussykat-super cah

    In a post apocalyptic setting two gangs set out to save a young girl from being kidnapped by a psychotic villain. In comic book fashion all end as a part of the game in the structure of society.

  • Sea, carry my dream / Mer, emporte mon Rêve

    Toward the land, toward the sea. Where can a boy be safe? The universal story of fear and hope for boat people seen through young eyes. The little red fish shows him a mysterious world full of wonder and danger under the sea that his fragile boat is escaping on.

  • Canada Park

    I walk on snow to fall unto the desert. I find myself on unceded indigenous territory in so called Canada, an exile unable to return to Palestine. I trespass the colonial border as a digital spectre floating through Ayalon-Canada Park, transplanted over three Palestinian villages razed by the Israeli Occupation Forces in 1967. Canada Park is an experimental video poem exploring the politics of dis/appearance of Palestine as narrativized, mapped and imaged in Google Streetview and early 20th century colonial landscape photography of the ‘Holy Land’, namely at the site of the village of Imwas which is theologically conflated with…

  • Lion in the Wind

    Fugue for wushu in the West.

  • Traces / آثار

    In the midst of the rubble of a torn building, a reel of film. An unlikely unraveling of queer bodies taking shape and form, while the war-torn city around and its spectacle of toxic masculinity glitches and disintegrates.

  • Before Me

    An incomplete family story leads the filmmaker on a quest to find her mother in the British archives. The discovery of a photograph unearths a story of upheaval, desolation, and ultimately, transformation. A lament for a mother whose life was lost, then found, in the dust of the archive.

  • The Day Stashi Ran Out of Honey

    An old man, a village, a potato field in bloom, and the sudden appearance of war on your doorstep. The Day Stashi Ran Out of Honey creates a haunting visual collage of kate 1930’s Poland, blending historical reality with one grandfather’s recollection of a fateful day.