Film Format: 16mm

  • Xerces Blue

    A young woman arrives at a rural Ontario farmhouse looking for her genetics professor. There she encounters not the professor, but his two daughters. She begins to suspect that the children are the results of the professors research into cloning. The Xerces Blue was the first North American species of butterfly to become extinct because of human activity.

  • Past Perfect

    “Past Perfect” is a spirited meditation on the elusiveness and inaccessibility of (Jewish) history as conveyed through sightseeing tours of “Jewish” Poland, a grandmother’s recollection of life in America during War II, and memoir-like “last moments” of a great aunt believed to have died in Treblinka. Shot almost entirely in contemporary Poland, “Past Perfect” lyrically portrays the relentless yet ultimately futile attempt to resuscitate a history literally gone up in smoke. “It is not entirely out of line to call ‘Past Perfect’- filmmaker Cynthia Madansky’s meditation on Jewish history, notably the Shoah – spirited and darkly amusing. After all, Madansky’s…

  • her carnal longings

    “her carnal longings” is a beautiful meditation on the human body and the film medium at a time when the futures of both are in question. Using the “emulsion lift” technique on 16mm film, sections of emulsion were lifted off, torn up or smudged, and then re-adhered. In combination with digital video technology, the filmmaker creates an intricate analogue/digital weave which explores both the body’s and the film’s surface. The film emulsion wrinkles, rips and dissolves – reminding us that it, like human flesh, is fragile and perishable.

  • Thorn Picker, The

    A camera-less, hand-painted animation inspired by the Roman sculpture La Spinozza, which depicts a young woman removing a thorn from the sole of her foot.

  • Mütter, Die (The Mothers)

    The Grimm Brothers recount their post-apocalyptic vision of a mother forced to give up her youngest child. Adapted from the German fairy tale “Godfather Death.”

  • Ginger Beer

    Paul wants to escape the pressures of teaching his homophobic students by entering the fantasy world of ballroom dancing. After a disastrous experience at a straight dancing school, Paul’s life takes a definite turn for the better when he discovers Linda, the glamorous lesbian dance teacher. But who will he be dancing with at the college Xmas party? “Strictly adorable.” – Shane Smith, Inside Out Toronto Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival “Absolutely wonderful.” – Jennifer Stark, Palm Springs International Short Film Festival

  • Buoyant

    “Buoyant” is a charming experimental documentary which interweaves the stories of the Padded Lilies – a troupe of fat synchronized swimmers – and Archimedes – the Greek mathematician obsessed with floating bodies and inventor of the “Drystroke Swimulator.” It leaves us with the exuberant possibility of a fat body that literally and culturally rises, like cream, to the top. Please note: “Buoyant” can also be presented with live musical accompaniment. Contact the CFMDC for more information.

  • You Fake

    In this hilarious short, two women bet on how many lesbians fake orgasms.

  • All Flesh Is Grass

    “Susan Oxtoby’s film “All Flesh Is Grass” is one of the most aptly tragic visions of life-on-earth I’ve recently seen – one of the most perfect step-printed hand-held (hold your hand’s eye) pain’s taking orders-of-metaphor perhaps yet created through any conscious arrangement of symbols inasmuch as Susan evolves much of the aesthetic of Arthur Lipsett free of his symbolic cynicism; and she holds the camera personally to her ‘heart’ in a way Joseph Cornell would have, I’m sure, had he been able to work with the camera directly: in other words she has not distanced herself by using ‘found footage’…

  • Fartasia

    “Fartasia” was made by running film through a sewing machine. The result is, as the filmmaker says, “surprisingly organic.”