Film Format: Super 8

  • I Just Wanted To Be Somebody

    What do the religious right and the gay liberation movement have in common? Both were fortified by the efforts of one woman – Anita Bryant. Part document and part poem, “I Just Wanted To Be Somebody” brings us back to the late 1970s and reflects on Bryant’s life and the impact she had. The film is comprised of news footage, commercials and Bryant’s own home movies.

  • Brown Christmas with Colour

    Without Snow, we lit up the season like never before. Part of “Twenty Five Short Films in and about Saskatchewan.”

  • Gendercator, The

    “The Gendercator” is a satirical take on surgical body modification and gender. The story uses the “Rip van Winkle” model to extrapolate from the feminist 1970s to a frightening 2048, where politics and technology have conspired to mandate two gender “choices”: macho male or Barbie babe. In this dystopian future, those whose gender presentation does not comply will be GENDERCATED.

  • Tell Us The Truth Josephine – A Bitter Immigrant Story

    “Tell Us the Truth Josephine” is a 15-minute experimental drama about a Maltese woman’s search for “home.” Josephine struts across Canada on stilts. And for Josephine to find home she must accept the Truth. And once she does she can come off her stilts and land. Her journey is haunted by fragmented voices and images of her bloodline – bitter immigrant stories.

  • Delta Don

    Delta Don is in each one of us; while we yearn for that perfect longtime companion, we usually settle for less. Delta Don, however, has the staying power of a good 70’s pop tune. In spite of all odds, he inspires us to push harder, even if that takes us to the truck stops and rest areas along the I-75 in Georgia and Tennessee. A bittersweet, hummable comedy.

  • Artifices #1

    Luminous traces obtained through in-camera optical manipulation of nocturnal imagery.

  • Desert

    “A desert vision of heat and haze; of aqua mirage, city lights and the slowly melting sun.” – M.J.

  • Deviate

    “Deviate” is a short Super 8 film made specifically for the Memorial Project. While friends of Dan Moyen, who died of AIDS in 1990, talk about him, the viewer sees old footage of Dan expressing his feelings on the matter.

  • Sparklene

    This is a story of the transformative effects of sparking, speculative frenzy. It questions whether embodied contact with objects and living creatures can occur outside fixed clichés of perception so that eyes can have multi-sensory effects.

  • Accidental, The

    This film is about inappropriate attention to sensory experiences other than the visual while driving and in response to an accident. Sound, touch and taste may disrupt safety to others and might threaten public order when not kept in check by the dominion of the visual. Dogs know all about this.