Film Format: 16mm

  • Butch or Consequences

    Louise, an old-school butch, falls in love with a pretend TV lesbian and in her desperate need to be with her she participates in a fictional make-over show, Inside Out: Deviant Dyke to Diva. Louise, reveals her new marriage approved look to her local dyke march when suddenly it all starts to go wrong, or, some would say, it all gets right.

  • I Remember Now, We Never Danced, I Miss You, Good-bye

    Everyday movement, woven into a dance of memory and loss. Selected Screenings: International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2007; Seattle International Film Festival, 2007

  • Doctor’s Daughter or The Secret and the Lie, The

    “The Doctor’s Daughter or The Secret and the Lie” is the docu-dramatization of the beginning and the end of a six-year relationship between two young women. The film moves back and forth between Trinidad in 1991 and Toronto in 1996. Nicki (Janine Fung) visits her friend Regan (Gillian Frise) in Trinidad. Nicki falls in love with Regan but Regan is engaged to Howard (Richard Bolai). Nicki and Regan sleep together anyway. Six years later Regan returns to Toronto and moves in with Nicki. That’s when it gets hard to tell whose life is a lie and who’s living the lie.…

  • (panacea)

    Two lovers – a sailor and an artist – made of different fabrics (one skin, one pleather) spend their last afternoon together.

  • Dreaming House, The

    The filmmaker, his father and his youngest child walk past the house in Chinatown where the filmmaker’s father was born, triggering a sublime moment.

  • Cruel Rhythm

    Shot during the opening stages of the First Gulf War, Kerr’s “Cruel Rhythm” revisits the American desert for a cinematic tone poem in the vein of ‘The Last Days of Contrition’ A canopy of sound bites of media coverage on the build-up toward the war is juxtaposed with the alienness of windmills in the desert, and a startling sequence of drifting faces of a crowd coming towards the camera in slow motion. A thought-provoking piece on media’s construction of societal paranoia “Cruel Rhythm” is an attempt to make a public, shared feeling intimate, or conversely, to make a subjective feeling…

  • Fugue

    Inspired by musical and psychological definitions, “Fugue” examines the dark flight from identity and environment. Hand-processing and the juxtaposition of positive and negative footage depict the journey of a woman as she shifts between being black or white and widow or bride. Selected screenings: Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, 2005; Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour, USA, 2005; London Film Festival, London, UK, 2005

  • Artist Spotlight Series: Philip Hoffman

    Available for purchase in the CFMDC Shop: https://www.cfmdc.org/shop. Described as Canada’s “pre-eminent diary filmmaker,” Philip Hoffman has been making work since the late 1970s. Expanding the boundaries of the personal documentary, his films explore themes of family, memory and loss while at the same time interrogating the film medium and the authenticity of the photographic image. “Philip Hoffman is a precious resource, one of the few contemporary filmmakers whose work provides a bridge to the classical themes of death, diaspora, memory, and, finally, transcendence.” – Martha Rosler. Study guide includes an essay by Michael Zryd, York University. 1) Somewhere Between…

  • Crystals

    A cinematic tribute to William Bentley, a Vermont dairy farmer who pioneered the “art” of snowflake photography for forty-six winters (1885-1931), proving that no two of his 5381 specimens were identical. This film contains about 1500 examples (fewer than the average snowball), showing the incredible variation of design in nature, while producing the effect of an “organic” hexagonal mandala in a state of continual metamorphosis.

  • Artist Spotlight Series: Gariné Torossian

    Available for purchase in the CFMDC Shop: https://www.cfmdc.org/shop. In her lush, intricately constructed works, Gariné Torossian explores film form, hybrid film and video technologies, and themes of belonging, identity and the body. “Mining a rich palette of colours and textures, superimpositions and dissolves, mixing formats of Super 8, 35mm and video, [she] creates films that bridge the gaps between visual art, sound art, cinema and the rock video” (Lux Distribution). Study guide includes an essay by Ian Balfour, York University. CLICK HERE to download study guide. 1) Visions 2) Girl from Moush 3) Drowning in Flames 4) Pomegranate Tree 5)…