Film Format: Digital File

  • To Make Ends Meat 心頭肉

    As a Chinese-style sausage factory in Vancouver’s Chinatown closes down, the legacy and community it has fostered for over a century is celebrated and remembered through the eyes of one of its workers. Embracing subjectivity, intergenerational relationships and cultural revitalization, To Make Ends Meat 心頭肉 is a call to commemorate the old, in a city fixated with newness.

  • The Goats of Monesiglio

    Observational short documentary about an Indian Punjabi family and an Italian family working side-by-side in the northern Piedmontese town of Monesiglio. Through brief observations of everyday moments, viewers gain fleeting insights into the characters’ experiences as they care for a flock of over 300 goats and produce traditional artisanal goat cheese. With hundreds of thousands of Indian agricultural labourers working in the dairy production sector of Italy (the vast majority Punjabi Sikhs), the film captures a microcosm of contemporary rural Italian life – while harkening back to a historical way of life. Themes of cultural belonging, our relationships with animals…

  • Girl in Blue

    Girl in Blue is a short experimental film shot on 16mm that reflects on the filmmaker’s experience with depression, grief, trauma and chronic illness.

  • Paris Model

    Paris Model uses a combination of 16mm found footage and experimental film manipulation techniques to create a macabre and haunting image, asking the audience to contemplate mortality and the temporality of the flesh. The ghostly figure of the model fades in and out of recognition, skin bubbling and dissipating, adding a disturbing yet exciting element to the striptease being performed for the viewer. In addition, the film also seeks to distort and disrupt the viewer’s gaze of feminine bodies and asks the viewer to consider the way in which they view and support sexual autonomy.

  • Becoming Air

    Take a deep breath. As you exhale, imagine that in about three years, anywhere you would go on the planet you will find molecules that were inside you in this moment.

  • monolithic tenderness

    A tessellating flicker film that seeks to undo the cold, impersonal architecture of the city by dousing it in organic and domestic forms. Featuring a collaged soundtrack of spam phone calls, pulsing synth chords, bagpipe drones, and a lullaby sung to my daughter while in-utero.

  • Eid

    “Eid” follows two Palestinian women who are unable to visit their son’s graves. Eid explores the impact of borders and restrictive laws on fundamental human rights, focusing on the right to grieve. The film is inspired by the true story of Abdelaziz Ibrahim, an artist for the Palestinian Liberation Organization, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Tunisia.

  • Joy Gas Joy

    Images from 1970s-80s Oil Week magazines are collaged and animated. Petro-propaganda while you wait.

  • Spanky’s

    Spanky’s is a queer coming of age story that pays tribute to the dancers of a small town strip club. Through the use of the artist’s personal collection of posters and water imagery a story unfolds at the intersection of sex work and queerness.

  • Piyak Oskan

    Piyak Oskan, meaning “family” in Michif, tells the story of Rose, a Métis woman who grows up and falls in love in her Road Allowance community. However, the Saskatchewan government imposes strict conditions on her family, drastically changing their lives.