Film Categories: Youth

  • Brick, The

    A docu-drama on the sterility of suburban high school life and an example of one young man’s attempt to escape. From a brief intense excursion into drugs, music and parties, to a rational attempt at change through participation in a school paper, “The Brick,” Michael’s alienation is symbolized in a recurring nightmare of frustration and anger where he hurls a brick into a black void. Eventually he comes to terms with his loneliness and blindness through photography, and accepts his entry into the adult world.

  • Day Jesus Melted, The

    “The Day Jesus Melted” is a playfully poignant story of a child’s confrontation with the mysterious world of faith.

  • Angela

    After she falls unconscious while exploring alone in a forest, concern for young Angela’s safety causes family conflict.

  • Bridging the Gap

    An evolution on the Pied Piper theme. The child who was left behind in the original story is now able to keep up due to the effort and bravery on his part and the enlightened concern on the part of others. Produced for the United Nations’ Year of the Disabled.

  • Ditty Dot Comma

    “Ditty Dot Comma” is the first motion picture musical salute to visual punctuation. Set to the cool jazz styling of drummers Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa, and including the pulsating piano rhythms of Oscar Peterson, we make this musical leap into this abstract animated film. Using animated shapes, drawn directly onto the film’s emulsion, Woloshen opens the door into the abstract world, and propels the audience into a pure widescreen experience. Liberated from plotlines, language and recognizable forms, a universal film experience emerges, suitable for all ages and nationalities.

  • Brighter Moon, A

    “A Brighter Moon” is the story of Mikey and Valentine, two students from Hong Kong who have come to Toronto to study English at a “visa school.” Mikey and Valentine find themselves in a strange land where they must struggle to survive in a world without parents. The film attempts to show the foreign students in a sympathetic light, pointing to some of the problems they face in Canada. The title refers to an Asian proverb that translated roughly means, “The moon shines brighter in a foreign country.” “A Brighter Moon” was filmed entirely in Toronto’s Dundas Street Chinatown and…

  • Bon Bon

    A candyland town kicks up its sugar heels for a midday parad

  • Thirst

    “Tammy Ballaban wants to leave her mark, to be remembered, to stay safe. So she stops eating. ‘Thirst’ is an unconventional and beautifully structured meditation about eating disorders, hunger and desire, our need for identity, and control. A sumptuous collage of image and sound reflects the amorphous dialectic between conscious and unconscious drives.” – Lynne Fernie Selected screenings: Documentary Channel (Ontario), broadcast, 2006; Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival, 2002; Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Toronto, 2002; Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival, 2002.

  • Babble on Palms, The

    The “Babble on Palms” is a lush and vibrant cameraless animation, combining found footage, scratch and inking techniques with the universal language of music. Individuality, censorship, shared experiences, and unseen auras are just some of the topics examined in this short experimental animation by Canadian filmmaker, Steven Woloshen. Perhaps, when our ears cease to listen, the “Babble on” palms, speak. Made on September 12th, 2001 in response to the previous day’s event. Suitable for all ages and audiences.

  • Jack

    Six months after his long voyage into this world, Jack takes his place in the high chair. While reproduction is his birthright, he is puzzled by a strange creature with glass eyes, with a motor in place of a heart. For months there was only sound and now there are only pictures.