Film Format: 16mm

  • Where Is Memory

    “Part fictional narrative, part travelogue, part documentary, this unusual film serves as another sign that non-fiction film as we know it is going through a major revolution. Engaging fictional narrative elements to create a ‘mystery,’ ‘Where Is Memory’ is a boldly original and affecting meditation on the nature of complicity and the Third Reich. Masterful use of archival footage matched with contemporary footage of Europe, a haunting score and an inspired mix of realities for a thoughtfully framed poetic odyssey that charts new cinematic territory.” – Judges’ Award, Northwest International Film Festival “Mixing narrative with archival and new footage, ‘Where…

  • Where the City and Water Meet

    “Where the City and Water Meet” is a film of interest to those who like to trace urban history or restore its heritage, and to those who plan cities professionally or advocate the citizen’s view of planning. It is for sailors, swimmers, stollers, indeed anyone who has felt that special attraction to the threshold “Where the City and Water Meet.” A study guide is available for teachers who wish to use the film at secondary or post-secondary levels.

  • While Revolved

    Pools of light and shadow displace each other as the camera describes an arc or spiral on a section of wall or ceiling. Periodically the motion stops, replaced by selective focus on a grainy object, creating a sense of wave motion in and out of the screen. This film is concerned with the projected, not just light or the emulsion or the illusion or the projector or the camera, but all of them. The surface of the film, the grain, is remembered when a similar but illusionistic surface appears (just a magnified), crossing the fram. Other times the grain is…

  • White Museum

    “‘White Museum’ is a 35-minute audio piece with 33 minutes of clear leader tape. In some hands, that could mean a fatal tour into the land of self-indulgence, but Hoolboom manages to make of his cinema without images an engaging, squatter’s eye view of the critical landscape. Hoolboom’s anecdotal voice-over floats over a soundtrack collage of pop-culture effluvia, television ads and snippets of rock music. His musings on film, the word and the workload of trees often resemble a cerebral stand-up routine.” – Robert Everett-Green, Globe and Mail “What a great idea! Makes Jim Jarmusch look like Cecil B. DeMille.”…

  • Who’ll Stop the Rain

    “Who’ll Stop the Rain” is a short but provocative animated film about the acid rain that falls in Canadian forests and on Canadian wildlife. The film is not intended to inform viewers of scientific facts. Its only goal is to motivate them to help stop the rain and can be used to generate discussions concerning the acid rain problem.

  • Why I Hate Bees

    WHY I HATE BEES is a comedic journey into a young girl’s memories of near death, based on the short story by Canadian writer Nancy Jo Cullen. Awards: Best Canadian Lesbian Short, Inside Out Festival, Toronto, 1998; Grand Prize, Cabbagetown Film Festival, Toronto, 1999; Honourable Mention, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2000. DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT: When I discovered Nancy Jo Cullen’s short story “Why I Hate Bees” in the Saskatchewan quarterly literary magazine, Grain, it had just won an honourable mention in the publication’s writing contest. Nancy lives in Calgary, Alberta. The complete text of her story serves as the narration for…

  • Why I’ll Never Trust You (In 200 Words or Less)

    Late afternoon on a hot summer’s day. Two women lie together in a post-coital languor, talking and laughing. Then one makes a phone call – a call which reveals that everything is not as it seems. “One of the very best films of the festival; it straddles conventional narrative and experimental lyricism with much grace and sensuality.” – Jerry White, Point of View Magazine

  • Wide Angle Saxon

    “‘Wide Angle Saxon’ provides the occasion for Land to demonstrate, albeit ironically, his view of the status of cinematic imagery in a Christian vision that acknowledges a rational historical order… The film obliquely describes the conversion of a television work only to be convinced by it, suddenly, while politely clapping for an avant-garde film that has bored him.” – P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film

  • Wild About Ari

    “Wild About Ari” concerns Sophie, a young Greek woman, who rejects her family through an academic appreciation of Aristotle, while Tom, a young white romantic, pursues his desire to become black. The Toronto Festival of Festival programmers described the film as a “bent, witty drama… that answers all the big questions” on ethnic identity and cultural appropriation. “Scripted with the style and directed with precision”… “Wild about Ari” hopes to win audiences with its fresh insight, humour and eccentric characters. NOW Magazine cites: “Demas’ deft dialogue, which tweaks cultural stereotypes, makes this movie a treat.”

  • Wild Sync

    A combination Christmas home movie/instructional film on how to make lip-sync sound films with only a wind-up camera and wild tape recorder. Inspired by V. I. Pudovkin’s 1929 statement, “One must never show on the screen a man and reproduce his words exactly synchronized with the movements of his lips. This is cheap imitation, an ingenious trick that is useless to anyone.” “The flamenco dance sequence, wth Hancox yelling out his ‘wild sync’ technique, is the most absurd piece of cinema I’ve ever participated in.” – Lorne Marin “…after Hancox announces near the end that the main action here is…