Film Format: 16mm

  • Jardin (du Paradis) the Garden, Le

    “‘Le Jardin’ works through a number of experimental film ‘genres.’ It contains elements of the structural film, diary, autobiography, and the new narrative. It presents the viewer with a simple through-line (story), but its means are at tangent to the core of the film’s incidents. Apparently arbitrary choices of sound and image elements later resolve into a strong, effective coincidence – only to dissolve as the film moves forward. The arbitrary becoming meaningful might well be the theme of ‘Le Jardin.’” – P. Chapman, Opsis “Le film se veut une reflexion sur la vie et la mort. C’est une longue…

  • Jazz Film

    One day at the corner of Spadina Avenue and College Street, two musicians (Isaac Applebaum and Lorne Fromer) begin to play the sax and the clarinet in front of the Crest Grill. It’s cool early winter and people are off to work. A teller was killed the day before at the nearby corner bank; a memoriam to her is a series of reactions from the crowd in the jumpy erratic style of an edgy killer/bank robber. A poetic exorcism of violence on the streets.

  • Arabic Numeral Series – Arabic 19

    This series of films, each extraordinarily unique from every other (except “0 + 10” going together) is inspired and governed by strata of the mind’s moving-visual-thinking different from that of the “Roman Numeral Series” or perhaps one should say that the Arabic Numerals come to fruition thru some tree-of nerves separate from that which gave birth to the Romans (as it is physiologically deceptive to think of thought as existing in “layers”). The Arabics range in length from approximately 5 min. to 32 min. and may be projected at 24 fps as well as 18, tho’ the latter speed seems…

  • Jesus Saves

    The political emotions of the butcher shop are discussed within the codes of Catholicism. Purging Catholic guilt, sins of the flesh, and flesh eating. The confessions of a butcher gone astray. An ambiguous layering of images, one is not sure whether the confessor is human or a pig, or if the priest is a butcher.

  • Jill Johnston: October 1975

    Jill Johnston is the author of “Marmalade Me,” “Gullible’s Travels,” “Lesbian Nation’,” and “Motherbound.” This cinema verité documentary is a portrait of Johnston at work and a feminist author at a transitional point in the women’s movement and in her own career.

  • Jim and Muggins Tour Toronto

    While leading us on a very personal tour of Toronto, Jim gradually reveals his unfortunate life, optimistic outlook, and friendly manner – all of which are mirrored somewhat in his pitbull’s determination and innocence. Labelled by the police as a troublemaker and by his employers as incompetent, Jim will be seen by the audience as someone to be laughed at, someone to be pitied, and finally, as a very friendly and unique personality. The film gives us a sadly cruel yet hilarious perspective on life’s absurdities.

  • Jimmy Brown the Newsboy

    This visual poem for children utilizes silhouette paper doll cut-outs and characters to follow a young boy and his pet frog on an early morning paper route. The characters dance in time to the music, a traditional American folk tune, from which the film takes its title.

  • John Dunsworth – The Candidate

    Ever wonder what it would be like to run for political office? Sure you have! Actor and theatre director John Dunsworth exercises his curiosity about the political process in this look at his life on the campaign trail during the 1988 Provincial election in Nova Scotia.

  • John Nesbitt – Sculptor

    John Nesbitt is one of Canada’s greatest sculptors. Born in Montreal in 1928, he became prominent in art circles in the 1960s. After living in New York for a time, he returned to Canada in the 1970s to live on Cape Breton Island. Since the 1960s, Nesbitt has chosen to avoid public exhibitions in favour of producing a huge body of work outside the commercial environment. However, in the 1980s he is once again exhibiting his work and gaining recognition. “John Nesbitt – Sculptor” is an intimate portrait of the artist at home and at work. The film explores Nesbitt’s…

  • Journey

    Staring out a moving subway car window, we see the world pass with a deadly ominousness- achieved through high contrast film, Gregorian chants, and the visual invasion of the standard cinematic frame.