Film Format: Digital File

  • DP2

    DP2 is the restored version of the film DP (Displaced Person), originally released in 1982. Uniquely melding documentary and contemporary performance art, DP2 is based on the reminiscences of a displaced Ukrainian who spent most of World War II in Nazi Germany and miraculously survived forced labour, concentration camp internment, and near-deportation to Siberia. Intercut with the narrative are dynamic movement sequences shot in a vast glass and marble structure, choreographed and performed by Lily Eng (Canadian Spotlight Artist, Reel Asian International Film Festival, 2011). Eng’s action sequences expand the intellectual and emotional resonances of the narrative, and vice versa. Her…

  • Edgy Sexy Modern

    Edgy Sexy Modern is shopping as ritual — a twenty-first century, yet primeval dance. Edgy Sexy Modern was shot entirely inside mega-malls with a pocket camera that was dismissed or unnoticed by security guards and public alike. By using many creative editing techniques, this film unmasks mass behaviours and intimate, unguarded moments between individuals. The ritual is enacted in front of logo texts like Armani, Lacoste, Holt Renfrew, Banana Republic, Apple, and Tesla. No product is ever shown, but we know what these logos signify. Outside class, race and ethnicity may divide the cosmopolis, but inside the mega-mall the diversity…

  • Monster Mash

    A Halloween hookup turns into something more for a pair of morbid misfits costumed as Horror Cinema’s most iconic female characters. Monster Mash is a queer valentine to horror cinema, paying homage while vilifying the genre’s homophobic elements through subversion, appropriation and recontextualization, The film is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Toronto and Ontario Arts Councils.

  • Lily In The Grinder

    Kaleidoscopic, operatic, and layered, Lily in the Grinder explores meaning through sex, death, and time. We already are everything we will ever be.

  • Meer der Dünste (Sea of Vapors)

    A cascade of images cut frame by frame flow into an allegory of the lunar cycle.

  • La Estancia

    “Through a succession of subtly constructed tableaus, this powerful film is a profound critique of systematic oppression. Instigated by a massacre amidst a land-rights conflict in Paraguay, this haunting work transcends the local context to voice the struggle for essential freedoms.” — 60th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Germany, 2014)

  • I REALLY LIKE YOU

    Michael runs a diner frequented by people looking for casual sex. Loveless, he swoons over the most recent visitor, Brandt. When Brandt reveals that he’s not interested in love, Michael does not take well to being rejected.

  • 100 Crushes Chapter 6: They

    “The director’s feelings of envy and resentment of a roommate’s pronoun-of-choice eventually evolve into delight in one simple word. This freedom allows for new embodiments of gender—as beautiful and strange as a unicorn, a pair of wings or a bouquet of roses.” — Inside Out 2014 Toronto LGBT Film Festival

  • MY WOUNDED HEAD

    A transwoman puts on makeup. The makeup and her movements are a metaphor for her transformation, as well as the dialectical revealing and concealment of herself from the scrutiny of the outside world. Taking its title from Marc Chan’s composition, MY WOUNDED HEAD is an experimental short film that investigates issues of representation, preconceived notions and reflexivity. Marc’s music, featured in the soundtrack, is itself a reflexive reinterpretation of a set of chorales from Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion, “O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden” (“O Sacred Head Now Wounded”).

  • SPANKIN

    An anagram of “napkins,” SPANKIN transposes the gay hanky code of the 70s onto contemporary coffee culture. Although humorous in content, SPANKIN is an allegory for hierarchical relations within minority groups, consumerist co-optation of identity, and the collective historical forgetting of repression and resistance. The older man has lived through it, the middle-aged man has heard about it and needs to look it up, while the young man is oblivious. Inspired by the criminalization of homosexual behaviour in Russia, India, Nigeria, and Uganda in 2013, SPANKIN revives the handkerchief code formulated during a similar period of suppression in North America…