Film Format: Digital File

  • Parallèle Nord (Parallel North)

    “Dans un monde réellement renversé, le vrai est un moment du faux.” – Guy Debord, La société du spectacle Qu’en est-il de la forêt boréale? “In a world that has really been turned upside down, the true is a moment of the false.” – Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle What about the boreal forest?

  • Just Passing Through

    Told through the perspective of a landscape, “Just Passing Through” tells the story of evolution as one image gives rise to the next. The film explores the relationship between permanence and impermanence where familiar subjects are fleeting and we are left to contemplate unfamiliar landscapes.

  • Buffalo Death Mask

    A conversation with Canadian painter Stephen Andrews returns us to a pre-cocktail moment, when being HIV+ afforded us the consolation of certainty.

  • Dawn

    Dawn tells the story of two strangers who have more in common than they first realize. After Tye detects what he considers a racist glance from another passenger on the evening train home, a confrontation ensues. Tye is shocked to discover that they share something big, and both men are forced to face their prejudices in ways they never expected. Iris Prize Shortlist 2013

  • Dr. Bish Remedies

    From Ross Lipman’s “personal ethnographies” series, an informal visit with legendary filmmaker Bruce Baillie at his home on Camano Island in Washington State. “From the lone transcendent biker riding the two-lane highway of nightmares in 1964’s Mass for the Dakota Sioux to 1970’s Quick Billy, Baillie blazed a path through nothing less than the American consciousness itself, closing the cycle with the Quixotic epigram “Ever Westward Eternal Rider!” As the admonishment warns, the journey continues, and endpoints are illusionary – only movement is of essence. –“Whither Bruce Baillie?”, Ross Lipman, 2010

  • Howard

    “Howard” is a documentary about the filmmaker’s estranged Uncle Howard who was murdered in Yonkers in 1995. The film uncovers his complex and conflicted life as a gay man troubled with piety and self worth, which drove him to success, yet, ultimately led to self-destructive behavior and death. The story is intertwined with the filmmaker’s musings about the life/death of the Uncle she did not know in an attempt to comprehend what it means to have an estranged relative murdered.

  • Cuki Colorinchi Evolution

    A masked crochetist shows us his sudden immersion into crochet art. Spanish with English subtitles

  • Like a Tree in Which There are Three Black Birds

    Jimy waits in a hotel room to seal a deal. His intentions are well meaning but we soon discover his judgment have left him in a state of fragility and danger. Jimy must now deal with his brother, who has been made aware of the deal, and his adult nephew who Jimy has helped raise since he was ten years old. As Jimy comes to terms with the consequences of the deal we see how the tension affects him and those closest to him. Feeling trapped in the city and intuiting the danger, Jimy leaves for a different yet familiar…

  • Confessions of a Fag Hag

    Georgette, the resident fag hag, hatches a plan to get rid of a rival, but the outcome is not what she had anticipated…

  • Walking Away 2

    Scarborough Bluffs (1974): a woman walks away from us, through a field of grass. Approaching a treeline, she turns and crosses the frame. Instead of panning to accommodate her, the camera zooms wider – the woman continues to diminish as if still walking away and the landscape is fully revealed. The shot partially repeats: a wipe transition replaces the grass with water, and a ‘shipscape’ from Toronto’s Port Lands (2011) is revealed. Poetically, light reflected from downtown office towers catches the sail of a boat crossing the frame. Then amusingly, a split-screen sequence underlines the correspondence between woman and sailboat.