Genres: documentary

  • Once

    “Once” is a film about language, loss, and the construction of memory through language. Through voiceovers and fragmented footage, the characters in “Once” tell how they have come to study language in an attempt to relocate themselves at particular junctures in their lives. They describe their desire to learn Yiddish, a language they have speculative connections to or memories of. Their distance from the language and its intrinsic power to link them to an identity seems to increase their appetites for this language lost. Yiddish, it appears, while providing the elements of language, also represents a loss for, and only…

  • Way Out, A

    “A Way Out” is a documentary about breaking the cycle of poverty in Canadian’s oldest and largest “ghetto,” Regent Park. In addition to talking about what it is like to grow up poor in North America, it explores the reasons behind one person finding a way out and others remaining. As a former resident of a low-income community, Christene Browne went back to find out what had happened to some of her old friends. Formal and impromptu interviews are conducted and the community is revealed through footage and stills. A young man who currently lives in the community is also…

  • Shelter

    “Shelter” is a multi-layered experimental film that cleverly weaves archival social commentary and recent political activism in a playful analysis of our culture’s misplaced priorities. The film blends a variety of appropriated material – including a homeless demonstration during the gala premiere of an Atom Egoyan film at the Toronto Film Festival – with archival footage of circuses, westerns, and Pierre Burton discussing the pros and cons of building a bomb shelter. “Shelter” also celebrates the inherent qualities of the film medium, qualities that have quickly become marginalized through the current obsession with digital technology.

  • Drive: automatic/standard

    A film about cars, monster trucks, and the North American driving landscape.

  • Blue School Volume 1

    While learning to work metal, 3500 years ago, humanity entered into a new phase. While transposing its knowledge of hunting to the exploration of new alloys, it merged the ancestral transmission of knowledge to molecular structures hitherto unknown. Today, the Rawdon Car Suspension team follows an analogous path. While it devotes itself to the repair and maintenance of materials vital to the functioning of our era, it shows us the moral qualities of metalwork: precision, patience, reflection, force, intelligence and generosity.

  • Blue School Volume 2

    While learning to work metal, 3500 years ago, humanity entered into a new phase. While transposing its knowledge of hunting to the exploration of new alloys, it merged the ancestral transmission of knowledge to molecular structures hitherto unknown. Today, the Rawdon Car Suspension team follows an analogous path. While it devotes itself to the repair and maintenance of materials vital to the functioning of our era, it shows us the moral qualities of metalwork: precision, patience, reflection, force, intelligence and generosity.

  • Ecole Bleue Volume 1, L’

    En apprenant à travailler le metal, il y a 3500 ans-déjà, l’activité humaine entrait dans une nouvelle dimension. En transposant ses connaissances de chasseur à l’exploration de nouveaux alliages, elle fusionnait l’ancestrale transmission de savoir à des structures moléculaire inconnues des gens d’alors. Aujourd’hui, l’équipe du garage Rawdon Auto Suspension poursuit une demarche analogue. En se livrant corps à corps dans la reparation et la maintennce de materiel vital au fonctionnement de notre époque, elle offre à notre mémoire les qualities morales du travail sur le metal: La precision, la patiencence, la réflexion, la force, l’intelligence, la générosité.

  • Ecole Bleue Volume 2, L’

    En apprenant à travailler le metal, il y a 3500 ans-déjà, l’activité humaine entrait dans une nouvelle dimension. En transposant ses connaissances de chasseur à l’exploration de nouveaux alliages, elle fusionnait l’ancestrale transmission de savoir à des structures moléculaire inconnues des gens d’alors. Aujourd’hui, l’équipe du garage Rawdon Auto Suspension poursuit une demarche analogue. En se livrant corps à corps dans la reparation et la maintennce de materiel vital au fonctionnement de notre époque, elle offre à notre mémoire les qualities morales du travail sur le metal: La precision, la patiencence, la réflexion, la force, l’intelligence, la générosité.

  • Tom

    “A dazzling experimental documentary about notorious cineaste Tom Chomont. Tom narrates his recollections and transgressions against a dizzying array of found footage, video, super-8 and photographs. At moments, he appears in front of the camera, alternately flamboyant or fragile. His revelations cover a broad scope from sadomasochistic desire through existential vulnerability to an incestuous relationship. With this extraordinary portrait, Hoolboom creates a different kind of biography film, one that eschews traditional mimetic realism in order to depict the reminiscences of a fading life lived in the throes of image culture.” – Diane Burgess, Vancouver International Film Festival “An uncommon biography…

  • Ritual Nation

    Over the course of two years, filmmaker M. Sean Kaminsky travelled alone with nothing but a compact digital video camera and a backpack to visit three unique alternative communities: the Rainbow Family in Nevada. The people he met who opened up and shared their experiences and expressions of ritual and community formed the documentary “Ritual Nation”.