Film Format: 16mm

  • Kill Road

    “Enduring a dysfunctional family requires stamina, wit and sharp survival instincts, as demonstrated in this anguished ode to family peculiarity. A pixilated tale of a girl whose off-kilter parents become lost in a mission to nurse a raccoon – an unfortunate road-kill victim.” – Images Festival, 2004 AWARDS: Images Prize for Best Canadian Media Artwork in the Festival, Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, 2004

  • Obedience

    A wealthy landowner battles his wayward son in a southern gothic story of power, sex and cruelty, set in 19th-century South Carolina. A harsh, unflinching look at the results of racism and abuse.

  • This Boy

    Set in 1965, “This Boy” is a funny and charming film which traces an afternoon in the life of Kit, an imaginative, ardent tomboy of eleven who idolizes John Lennon and secretly goes about dressed like him. One spring afternoon, Kit and her best friend Mike decide to pay a visit to their classmate Holly, Kit’s crush. What begins as a light-hearted adventure shifts as the two friends get further from home. Kit and Mike are surprised by what they see en route, and even more so by their own actions and poorly understood desires.

  • neige noire

    16mm dual-projection “Carl Brown makes celluloid dance. [His] new film work will burn colours so deeply into your brain, you’ll be watching a light show inside your eyelids for hours. Titled Neige Noir (‘Black Snow’), a name that conjures up Toronto winters but actually refers to the trenches of the First World War, the piece is a visual feast… “It opens with a calming sequence of manipulated representations of a swimmer and the sea set to a lulling jazz tune, and then crashes into a steady techno and white noise assault with pulsating images. Brown radically alters the celluloid itself,…

  • Invitation au Voyage, L’

    the fishing boats are out in the water the fish are caught brought into shore the men haul the catch off the boat the boat once again goes out to catch and the cycle continues for centuries this pattern has repeated it’s cycle like the tides which roll in and out a story which draws its energy from the sun the moon draws the tides the men work and die and it continues take a moment stretch your eyes and imagine just imagine all stories are true – Carl Brown

  • My Heart Belongs to Daddy

    “My Heart Belongs to Daddy” is a story about the zany mis-education of a small-town queen. Lennie wants nothing more than to be Miranda Richardson. Lennie’s daddy wants nothing less. Determined to achieve his goal of becoming a “somebody,” Lennie enters an amateur drag contest, only to find the path strewn with heartbreak and betrayal. A kooky comedy about lust, revenge and looking for love in all the strange places. Awards: Winner Best Director, Best Use of Music at the Hollywood North Underground Movie Festival, Toronto, 2003

  • Chain Reaction in Virtual Reality

    This short animated film is the filmmaker’s non -verbal gut (chain)-reaction to “life at the end of the 20th century.” In the film, fast-paced images and ideas, and a dense sound track, relentlessly keep hitting the viewer’s senses, yet allow the viewer to make his/her own interpretations as to the meanings behind the images. As in all of Amitay’s films, coloured sand and fine jewelry are the animator’s medium.

  • This Town’s Called Crash

    “This Town’s Called Crash” is a humorous snapshot of urban sub-cultures and their neuroses. Byron needs an apartment, fast! In his quest for shared accommodation Byron encounters a series of prospective roommates, but finds only rejection. He just doesn’t seem to fit into any particular “urban tribe,” despite his willingness to please.

  • Pepe

    “Pepe” shows us the transformation of animal to food. But the animal resists! It does not submit to the power of the knife, the spice and the heat. Who walks out victorious, the cook or the cooked?

  • Through Your Eyes

    “Through Your Eyes” tells the story of Maria, a young Latin-American woman whose parents disappeared under the Argentinian military dictatorship when she was a child. Risking it all to uncover the mystery of their disappearance, Maria delves into her memories and history – a history which struggles to stay alive in a society which attempts to silence it. In Spanish with English sub-titles.