Film Format: Digital File

  • I Love My Work

    Some of life’s little obstacles that get in the way of a girl and what she really wants: to do her work.

  • Loretta’s Flowers

    On a languid summer’s day in Toronto, a young woman cycles between increasingly intimate encounters with three discrete relations, trapped in a pattern of insatiable longing.

  • Topology of a String

    Topology of A String is a video installation of seven looping videos that investigate permutations and possibilities of a single continuous line in space. Without ever breaking the line, hundreds of variant forms can be created by weaving the string over and under fingers, across the palms or backs of the hands. This project links string games, an ancient form of entertainment shared by cultures the world over, to the branch of mathematics called topology. Each sequence starts at the same opening position yet a single change in the over-under pattern results in a completely different form. The near infinite…

  • THE GENDER LADY: THE FABULOUS DR. MAY COHEN

    Roe v Wade and women’s abortion rights are under concerted attack in a number of American states. In Canada abortion has been legal for more than 30 years, but access to abortion services varies considerably across the country and conservative MPs and MLAs are increasingly participating in anti-choice strategy gatherings. Into this retrogressive context arrives a timely documentary: the compelling story of a courageous, pro-choice feminist campaigning Canadian family physician, “The Gender Lady – The Fabulous Dr May Cohen”. Dr. May Cohen has advocated for women’s health, women’s rights, abortion rights, LGBT rights and human sexuality for more than fifty…

  • Closer Outside

    “CLOSER OUTSIDE, the highlight of the program is an amazing film. Grenier, whose background includes painting, has a powerful command over color as an emotional hook, giving the film an anticipation and suspensefulness not generally associated with minimalist films. Just as the viewer is drawn into the sensuous presence of a setting, suddenly colors shift, objects seem dislocated in space, identities change, all creating an almost visceral shock of surprise to the viewer…” -George Howell, Buffalo EveningNews.

  • Catch

    “Catch is a fragmented observation on hidden reflective surfaces, the corner of a dormant television screen, a window…” -Mike Reynolds, Berkeley Barb

  • Mend

    Is it happening in the screening room or on the screen; in a snowstorm or inside; what isn’t surrounding and what is? From filming Ann sewing, on a grey winter day.

  • The Gender Lady: The Fabulous Dr. May Cohen Short

    This is a short preview of the full documentary The Gender Lady: The Fabulous Dr. May Cohen. Dr. May Cohen is a brilliant Canadian physician and women’s rights trailblazer. For over 60 years, she has advocated powerfully in Canada and internationally for women’s reproductive rights, women’s health and women physicians’ advancement — and in the end, for us all. May is widely recognized for her many contributions to women’s health, sexuality, abortion choice and human rights. Numerous medical awards bear her name. The Gender Lady explores Dr. Cohen’s life and career and her extraordinary gender equity and human sexuality contributions.…

  • Extractions

    A personal film about Canada’s extraction industry and its detrimental effects on the land and Indigenous peoples. This film parallels resource extraction with the booming child apprehension Industry currently operating in Canada which is responsible for putting more Indigenous children into foster care than were in Residential Schools. As the filmmaker reviews his life and how these Industries have affected him, he also reflects on having his own eggs retrieved and frozen to make an Indigenous baby.

  • War Movie

    Two close friends leave a movie theatre after having seen a war movie. One is set off by it, and the other is ambivalent. This seemingly innocuous disagreement spirals into a larger point of contention between the two, unearthing deeper truths.