Film Format: 16mm

  • Brig, The

    The Living Theatre production of Kenneth Brown’s play ‘The Brig’, filmed on the stage of The Living Theatre and with the original cast. “‘The Brig’ is a raw slice of new American cinema filmed on an off-broadway stage by Jonas and Adolfas Mekas with such brutish authenticity that it won a Venice Film Festival grand prize as best documentary. Part drama, part polemic, with shock-wave sound and a nightmare air that suggests Kafka with a Kodak, the movie does exactly what it sets out to do – seizes an audience by the shirt-front and slams it around from wall to…

  • Brighter Moon, A

    “A Brighter Moon” is the story of Mikey and Valentine, two students from Hong Kong who have come to Toronto to study English at a “visa school.” Mikey and Valentine find themselves in a strange land where they must struggle to survive in a world without parents. The film attempts to show the foreign students in a sympathetic light, pointing to some of the problems they face in Canada. The title refers to an Asian proverb that translated roughly means, “The moon shines brighter in a foreign country.” “A Brighter Moon” was filmed entirely in Toronto’s Dundas Street Chinatown and…

  • Whites, The

    A dark and comic look at a tortured family and their frenetic daily rituals. The Whites’ existence centres around a mysterious library card catalog, which serves both as a source and repository for traces of family life. The catalog’s system of perfection intersects with the rigid hierarchy of this household. Manipulated voices replace dialogue, and although words are unintelligible, we understand the Whites very well. Highly sylized yet grounded in humanity, this film is a disturbingly funny tale of home and hearth.

  • Contretemps of Christmas

    It’s Christmas day and festivities are underway in the Porkloin household. Mother’s holiday fever runs high, the ill-advised gifts have been opened, but the biggest gift still remains. . . In the spirit of demented fairy tale, this microfilm explores a darker side of the holidays.

  • Daily

    5 am she rises. 7 am she is ready. This film observes one woman’s morning routine. We track this intimate ritual. She is mechanical and efficient. Her morning drill is done with precision, yet her look is vacant. Despite the clockwork, things are not as “together” as they seem. Disconnected editing and sound create an otherworldly space; her apartment is neverneverland. Time is manipulated and actions are exaggerated. Her person is fragmented. She could be a cartoon.

  • Brothers in Music

    John T. Davis (pianist/organist/vocalist) and Jim Heineman (saxophonist) are two Canadian jazzmen who have had to wage the war between the compulsion and the passion that they feel towards their music and the struggle that is involved with trying to make a living in the field of jazz music in Canada. John T. Davis is a Black musician from a poor rural environment. Jim Heineman is a white musician from a white middle-class urban environment. “Brothers in Music” begins by exploring the personalities, experiences and inspirations of these two very talented and different musicians and then moves on to examine…

  • Sunshine

    The most awkward of hosts receive the strangest of guests tonight, and no one entertains quite like Kip and Viv do. An unexpected visit from strangers stirs up vengeance, and leaves a trail of crushed spirits – but all in good fun.

  • Death to Everyone

    “Using the drawings of Bruno Schulz, who must be numbered among the great writers of the 20th century for his two slim books of short stories, Torossian builds up a disturbing imagescape of sexual malice and voyeurism. Torossian’s films are characterized as much by her reuse of other artists’ work as they are by her trademark collage techniques.” – Chris Gehman, Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, 2001

  • MeMeMaMa

    The magnificence of the solar winds, the unseen emissions from the centre of the galaxy. In Woloshen’s first film of the 21st century, a new cameraless animation engraving technique seeks to capture a new spectrum of light from the centre of the solar system and the core of the projector’s lamp. Is the cinema’s screen a litmus paper of the projector’s activity?

  • BROWNSNOW

    “‘Brownsnow’ presents a fascinating combination of two artistic visions: Carl Brown’s and Michael Snow’s. The form of this expressionistic documentary on Michael Snow’s artwork is a complete melding of Carl Brown’s rich manipulation of the photographic image with the fundamental concepts of Michael Snow’s aesthetic vision. “Brown’s strengths as a portrait photographer are also well-translated to the filmic medium as he situates key commentators on Snow’s artwork (Dennis Reid, R. Bruce Elder, Jonas Mekas, Peggy Gale and Regina Cornwell) in various dramatic Canadian landscapes. Like an abstract expressionist painting in motion, Brown’s brilliant work as a colourist deftly employs photographic…