Film Format: 16mm

  • Dark

    In this film, Winkler confronts the subject of the Australian aborigine through the intercutting of footage from a contemporary aborigine political demonstration with images of the past: cave drawings, the sacred Ayers Rock and the head of an old warrior. Through assertive zoom and pan shots of the rally, Winkler achieves a sense of extraordinary energy, of a generation of people coming out of oppression.

  • Portrait of a Couple

    A few days before moving to Spain, Ryan learns that he might be HIV positive. This situation will force him to deal with his boyfriend and his worse fear: loneliness. “Portrait of a couple” talks about the lack of trust between two lovers in a difficult moment. The dilemma is approached through the fear we all share of being sick and dying alone. The movie addresses the topic of a gay couple learning about their HIV status, from a particularly different perspective, not in a condescending or victimizing way, but allowing human nature to surface with all its flaws and…

  • Gesture

    As for the two films made with Hidalgo, Ariganello assumes a role more traditionally defined as “cinematographer,” and his aptitude for composition, lighting and camera movement is skillfully in display throughout. Both works with Hidalgo are to “the real” what the films with Gehman are to “the fantastical,” and are keenly aware of the cinematic traditions from which they emerge. Each draws extensively, in style and structure, from neo-realism and observational documentary, while the function of Hidalgo’s narrator in Gesture operates to construct a story of a not-so-distant future-present, not unlike in Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962). — James Missen

  • Dinx

    A dissatisfied bar waiter in a men’s burlesque club is thrown back in time to relive a day from his childhood – in short-shorts. Selected Screenings: Worldwide Short Film Festival, 2008 (Toronto, Canada); Inside Out Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, 2008 (Toronto, Canada); Mix Festival Milano, 2009 (Italy)

  • Babysitting Andy

    What do you do if you’re nine and nobody will tell you what ‘fellatio’ means? If Andy, the most curious nine year-old, has a question, she will do anything to get the answer. When Andy’s uncle and his boyfriend arrive to babysit, Andy is not on her best behaviour, armed with a supersoaker and a devious mind, Andy corners the men, who can do nothing but comply.

  • Kat-I’s Sex Toy Stories

    What is your sex toy story? Women about town Kat-I and Nano elicit an eyebrow raising assortment of true tales about sex with objects.

  • 3 X 16

    These three short films consist of perceptive depictions of a public square in Lima, the view from his mother’s rooftop, and work at the Toronto Film Festival revision department. The filmmaker used 16 mm as documentary format. Each film in this series is almost three-minutes long, which is the length of one roll of 16 mm film. The entire film uses in-camera editing, therefore all the editing decisions were made on location.

  • Dark Island, The

    A man reminisces about the day in his adolescence when he was told of his grandfather’s death. The news acts as a catalyst for a seminal, disturbing experience; in retrospect, he realizes that he was forced to confront his growing independence from his family and particularly, his younger brother. “The Dark Island” conveys this epiphanic moment, an illuminating turn in the man’s life, by abruptly shifting rhythm and by emphasizing subjective sound. Moving from an urban to a rural environment and employing voiceovers which overlap the present and the past, the film evokes the inevitability of familial separation and the…

  • Are You Norma?

    “Are You Norma?” is an experimental animation exploring fashion restrictions placed on the female body.

  • Time Being I-IV

    Brief moments of being, fleeting bits of the surrounding chaos. These four short films (each 1.5 to 2 min. long) can be shown separately, or one after the other on one reel.