Genres: documentary

  • Cigarette Blues

    “Cigarette Blues” is a little film with a big message – that smoking cigarettes causes cancer and cancer will kill you. The pain and sorrow of this fact is demonstrated through the work of two very different artists. A sculpture, composed entirely of cigarerette butts smoked by prominent West Coast artist Louis Bunce, completed shortly before his death of lung cancer, opens the film. Oakland Blues singer Sonny Rhodes follows, singing the title song, a mournful tale of his lover whose refusal to stop smoking led to her death. “‘Cigarette Blues’ is a beaut!… you take people right up to…

  • In Bobcaygeon

    A moving portrait of one boy’s strength of character in the face of challenges associated with having microtia, a birth defect that causes severe hearing loss. “John Morgan, the 10-year-old subject of the short, artful documentary In Bobcaygeon, has microtia, a birth defect that caused him to be born with only one fully developed ear. There’s nothing wrong with John’s mouth, though – he talks a lot, about his microtia, about playing minor hockey and about the camel his family keeps in the backyard. The film’s vaguely avant-garde construction may pose a challenge for younger viewers, but there’s an unpretentious…

  • Behind the Music: Destiny’s Neighbour

    A behind-the-scenes look into the smash sensation “Destiny’s Neighbour” – the dancing, the dreams and the donuts. “There just aren’t any sexy fat boys in girl drag on T.V.” – Behynde “Destiny’s Child is just a slimmed down version of us. They ripped off our moves, they ripped off our songs.” – Mass-Assey “We had to kick her out because she was eating all the donuts.” – K-Kremey

  • Few Good Dykes, A

    “A Few Good Dykes” is an unconventional documentary about the Dyke Uniform Corps, a highly selective organization of women united by their common fetish for uniforms and dedicated to the principles of honour, integrity and discipline. What is behind the desire to make it into the Dyke Uniform Corps: the control? the comraderie? the shiny buttons? This documentary goes behind the scenes to show the surprising, endearing and sometimes troubling reasons why the women of the Corps want to wear the uniform and belong to this cult of masculinity. Special Audience Award, SXSW Festival

  • All the Teachers I Have Known

    Brian Stockton’s series of autobiographical short films continues with this two-minute diversion, which is subtitled “The Epic Story of My Life, Appendix A.” This segment is a tribute to all the teachers Brian has known from kindergarten to university, including cinema legend Jean Oser.

  • Freeshow Seymour Compilation

    Freeshow Seymour is the collaborative effort of Allyson Mitchell and Christina Zeidler, who came together to explore their mutual crush on film-craft. Individually, they have been making work since 1994. In 2003 they both attended the Big Rock Candy Mountain residency at The Banff Centre, where they joined forces to highlight the work they are doing on candy and consumption and to explore their love of film. The basis of Freeshow Seymour is process. The two artists meet and see what evolves out of being together – whether it is films, music, crafts, performance or just thrift-store shopping. Their artworks…

  • Rx

    A young gay man in a tiny Toronto apartment experiences a nervous breakdown, causing him to obsessively arrange and re-arrange his large knick-knack collection. Based on a true story, “Rx” is a bittersweet, funny chronicle of a mind turned frantic by fear, worry and novelty paperweights.

  • Cityscape

    “Cityscape” is an impressionistic documentary film intended to create a social awareness of the need to design safer cities and urban environments for women.

  • Attack of the Naïve: Ages Four to Twenty-One in Thirteen Unlucky Vignettes

    A confessional documentary on the artist’s schooling in love from the cradle to the crib. Scenes from movies, television shows and commercials are processed through analogue video techniques to yield a pop-art sensible understanding of the North-American Love Experience.

  • Clinton Special: A Film About the Farm Show, The

    The summer of 1972: the Theatre Passe Muraille Company moves into the farming community of Clinton, Ontario, and makes a play out of the stories and events of the people of that region. The following spring, the company takes its play, “The Farm Show,” on a tour of the farming communities of southwestern Ontario, sometimes performing in auction barns and town halls. “The Clinton Special” is a documentary of the tour and includes scenes from the play.