Film Format: Digital File
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Passing Shadows
Passing Shadows attempts the seeming impossible: to travel the inner pathways of poet Andrew Suknaski’s creative impulses. The film traces in detail the painstaking, methodical and happenstance search Suknaski undertakes to discover the images and the emotions that fill his poetry. He wanders along bookshelves, across faces and into shadows pursuing the moments and symbols of truth that Suknaski strives to translate into words.
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Granville: A Portrait
Granville: A Portrait is a fictionalized story based on the real life experiences of a Black Male Stripper, Granville Johnston. While dancing in a strip club, Granville takes a fall, injures his leg and is taken to hospital, so the narrative unfolds in a series of flashbacks that illuminate his story.
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Vanishing Heat
Vanishing Heat is part of a series of films where I explore the dichotomy between tranquility and activity in our natural and manufactured worlds. Time, motion and stillness are intertwined to express interactions that are both deliberate and accidental as energy given off by one system affects another.
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Pocket Call
Isolated in an old house, a man sees his daily life merge with that of a female presence that gradually invades his space. Trapped within his own home, he must confront this strangely familiar ghost.
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Night and fog in Kurdistan
Night and Fog in Kurdistan is a documentary by a Kurdish female filmmaker that follows seven Yazidi teenage girls who survived the 2014 ISIS genocide. The film traces their five-year journey from refugee camps in Turkey to resettlement in Europe, showing the effects of genocide, displacement, and the challenges of migration. Using illustration, self-storytelling, and first-person perspectives, the film lets the girls share their own experiences of survival and adaptation.
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Maybe…EARTH
It is very easy to die on Mars. Yet the race to the cold, dark and oxygen-deprived planet has never been stronger. Maybe it’s some kind of self-fulfilling prophecy driven by billionaires. Maybe plants can help break the spell. Maybe…EARTH.
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Dear Moritz
A short film essay that invites you to observe and reflect along a chance encounter between an artist, police and two friends in public space. A spontaneous moment attached to a loaded location, reflecting upon power, privilege, colonial pasts and present realities.
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Let’s Rap
“Women, speak your mind!” says one of the rappers in this collage of women of all ages and races who use the directness and power of rap music to express their views. These women, who rap in their own words about their own lives and beliefs present us with a lively, musical and often comical look at key issues facing women today. Let’s Rap! brims with energy, from its dynamic editing, witty set designs and colourful costumes right down to the pulsating beat which underlies its enthusiastic performances. Led by the powerful Montreal rap artist Freaky D, one of Quebec’s…
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Navels I
Artist Robin Riad talks about her relationship with her belly button. This is the first in a series of short film profiles about navels.
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She Measures the Earth
She Measures the Earth follows four women scientists across Canada, a glaciologist, an ecologist, a field researcher, and a scientist dancer, as they reshape what it means to do science, teach it, and live it. Set across glaciers, forest classrooms, ice waterfalls and dance studios, it blends poetic visuals with scientific precision, and treats climate not as a crisis to be reported, but as a relationship to be felt.
