Film Format: 16mm

  • Beauborg Boogie Woogie

    Rimmer takes a quick, playful romp through the Beaubourg’s paintings, twisting and bending their reflections to his own light rhythms.

  • rameau

    A documentary work which takes an in-depth look at the full range of Michael Snow’s work, including his painting, photography, music, sculpture, and filmmaking. Through conversations with Snow, and interviews with other members of Canada’s cultural community, the viewer is given an understanding of his challenging art. The film is designed in such a way as to give the uninitiated viewer a lasting introduction to Snow’s work and an understanding of our national artistic heritage.

  • So Far So

    A pencil portrait of the artist as a young woman. My Boyfriend Gave Me Peaches: Fleming utilizes her quirky, elegantly minimalistic style to superb effect in this film, a humorously nasty teenage girls’ ditty about a mean boyfriend who gets bumped down the stairs and carted off in an ambulance. I Love My Work: In the faux-naif stick-figure animation Fleming describes the plight of the modern woman who insists on trying to get to work, despite horoscope warnings that she should stay at home.

  • So Is This

    This film is filmed text. The film reads: “This is the title of this film. So is this.” This film is an in between the author and you. It is communal reading. Within my work it could be described as a child of “One Second in Montreal” and “Rameau’s Nephew.” “A delightful film, full of humour and sentience, it is also an odd film: a text-film, a silent black-and-white talky in colour, a self-reflexive document and a fictive construct, a non-movie that paradoxically fulfills and subverts the implications in the titles of such books as ‘The Language of Cinema’ and…

  • Solar Frontier, The

    A film about solar-heated houses in the snowbelt – their cost, performance, and technology – as told by the architects and people who live in them. The film demonstrates that solar energy is a feasible alternative now, not next year or in the next century.

  • Soldier Boy, The

    “The Soldier Boy” explores the cross-cultural dynamic between Greece and Canada through themes of Greek mythology and codes of sexuality. It premiered at the 1995 Toronto International Film Festival and was critically acclaimed as an “evocative” and “amusing” satire.

  • Solidarity

    A film on the Dare strike of the early 1970s. Hundreds of feet and legs, milling, marching and picketing with the word “solidarity” superimposed on the screen. The soundtrack is an organizer’s speech on the labour situation. Like her films “Rat Life and Diet in North America,” “Pierre Vallieres” and “Reason Over Passion,” “Solidarity” combines a political awareness, an aesthetic viewpoint and a sense of humour unique in Wieland’s work. Image description: Plain black laced shoes and bare or white-stockinged ankles of a person standing on green grass, a metal-tipped umbrella at their side. White text superimposed over the middle…

  • Sololady

    “Sololady” is about a fifteen-year-old Javanese girl from Solo who comes to Jakarta to sell her herbal medicines. Her herbal recipes, from ancient Chinese, Indian, and Indonesian remedies, are passed on through family lore. The healing power of pharmacopia is enhanced by her cultural image as healer for her patients, showing an Eastern or alternative approach to healing.

  • Somebody’s Kids

    “Somebody’s Kids” is a social documentary that shows three contrasting adolescents, each with a learning disability, their feelings toward the disability and their perceptions of their behaviour. It makes reference to three essential criteria which help to determine the success or failure of the child: the importance of recognizing the disability in the young child; appreciating the fact that each child learns individually; and the significance of family supports. “Somebody’s Kids” is not a technical diagnostic tool. Its aim is to stimulate discussion and to help parents, teachers, and adolescents understand how adolescents with learning disabilities feel.

  • Bed and Sofa

    A remake of Abram Room’s 1927 silent Russian feature, “Bed and Sofa”. Heralded as a revolutionary feminist film, Room’s version was suppressed for its radical treatment of sexual freedom, women’s rights, and abortion. Armatage’s version shifts the emphasis to the woman’s point of view and stylizes the narrative. A comedy.