Genres: documentary

  • Fat of the Land

    In the first kitchen-grease-powered road movie, five women tour America fueling up on the waste oil their fellow travelers have left behind. From New York to San Francisco, the women careen across the nation in their modified van, fueled only by leftover restaurant frying oil. Through interviews and chance encounters, the video sardonically critiques the stranglehold petroleum has on our economy, while investigating the possibility of bio-diesel as an alternative. Shot in an energetic style, consistent with the do-it-yourself impetus of the project, this documentary humourously engages ordinary people in a serious discussion about transportation fuel. Selected screenings: MACBA, Barcelona,…

  • Through Your Eyes

    “Through Your Eyes” tells the story of Maria, a young Latin-American woman whose parents disappeared under the Argentinian military dictatorship when she was a child. Risking it all to uncover the mystery of their disappearance, Maria delves into her memories and history – a history which struggles to stay alive in a society which attempts to silence it. In Spanish with English sub-titles.

  • Retrato Oficial 1 | Official Portrait 1

    After declared unfit to stand trial in England, former dictator Augusto Pinochet stands up out of his wheelchair and greets supporters.

  • Chambers: Tracks and Gestures

    An intimate portrait of Jack Chambers, a major figure in the Canadian cultural landscape, a man who has been called Canada’s finest painter. Within a carefully constructed narrative of the artist’s life, this visually lyrical film includes the full range of his work from the age of thirteen until his death. The story is told in Chamber’s own words and in narration, and these voices are balanced by interviews with several of the people who were close to Chambers at different times in his life. “Chambers: Tracks and Gestures” combines new footage evoking the artist’s youth in London, Ontario, his…

  • Street Sweeper Suite

    A night in the life of a street-sweeping machine as it roams from one street to the next in its endless search for litter. With an original score by Legion of Green Men.

  • Leche

    This film, hand processed and hung to dry on the clothesline, examines details of the life of one family, living on an isolated dairy ranch in Central Mexico. Uman’s “Mala Leche” (2003) is a companion piece. Spanish language with sub-titles.

  • Mala Leche

    This film follows members of the family presented in Uman’s earlier film “Leche” (1998). Now living in California’s agricultural Central Valley, they continue to work with dairy cattle but under very different circumstances.

  • Private Movie

    A love story in three parts. This film tells of a woman’s journey of love, with nostalgia, pets, places and men.

  • Hand Eye Coordination

    “Hand Eye Coordination” explores the manual manipulations upon the film body, examining the cinematic result of mechanical interventions. This film tells the story of its own making.

  • Does this mean we’re going together?

    Part two of the artist’s trilogy exploring the depiction of sexuality in teen films of the 1980s, in which a scene from “Valley Girl” is re-worked.