Genres: documentary

  • Innocent Vision

    “Innocent Vision” is a documentary about the world from the viewpoint of children through their personal photographic interpretations.

  • Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins

    In his own words and music, Lightnin’ Hopkins reveals the inspiration for his blues. He sings, jives, ponders. He boogies at an outdoor barbecue and a black rodeo and takes you with him on a homecoming visit to his boyhood home of Centerville, Texas. Blank has captured Lightnin’s blues in their fullest, darkest power. The film reaches “past the impish bluesman himself into the Blues itself, into the red-clay Texas, into hard times, into blackness, into the senses… you begin to understand the reasons why black Texas people might be in love with this land and angry at poverty” (Carmen…

  • First Comes Love

    Two best friends in their early twenties gaze into each other’s eyes and recollect their sexcapades with a stupefying succession of boyfriends. The only true love here is their mutual adoration.

  • House Opera (it’s in the mix)

    This documentary is about the theatrical troup House of Pride, which consists of three main performers whose unique style combines both theatre and club cultures. House of Pride’s work transcends the usual boundaries of nightclub entertainment and performance art, bringing a new design of performance to theatrical spaces. The content of the performance smoothly blends together universal issues of gender and sexuality, individualism, spirituality, and the environment in a live theatrical show. House of Pride is a Montreal collective which combines outrageously athletic club-vogue-influenced choreography with searing confessional monologues.

  • 62 Injections

    Get up, shower, shave, coffee, right? How about get up, jab finger, draw blood, give yourself a needle? Again and again … This film presents the daily routine of the film’s director, an insulin-dependent diabetic. The film records his morning regimen of blood sugar testing, needle preparation, and insulin injection, climaxing with a montage of a month’s worth of needles into various sites on his body. Afraid of needles? This won’t hurt a bit.

  • Brakhage

    Stan Brakhage is a legend, possibly the most important filmmaker of the avant-garde, and one of the greatest artists of our time. Since 1952, at the age of nineteen, Brakhage has created over 300 films, ranging from several seconds to several hours, constantly and consistently redefining the shape of film art. “Brakhage” explores the depth and breadth of the filmmaker’s genius, the exquisite splendour of his films, his magical personal charm, his aesthetic fellow travellers, and the influence his work has had on generations of other creators. ‘“Excellent! A reverent, hagiographic, even mystical portrait of the canonical avant-gardist.” – Ed…

  • Lisa Lisa

    Have you ever dated a woman named Lisa? Is it possible that more dykes are named Lisa than any other name? Find out what 22 women in Chicago had to say about it.

  • I Know a Place

    Producer: Jane Farrow Writer/Director: Roy Mitchell An intimate, funny, and completely engaging family photo album of a thriving little queer community buried in the heart of the rugged and isolated Ontario steeltown of Sault Ste. Marie. Bob Goddere is at the centre of this historic demi-monde. Director/writer Roy Mitchell accesses this intriguing story through his personal relationship with Bob and the community as someone who grew up in the Sault, and like so many young queers, came out at Bob’s parties in the 1970s and 80s. Conventional wisdom has it that good fences make good neighbours. But when you meet…

  • Like Mother, Like Daughter

    In 1992, Saskatchewan composer Elizabeth Raum was commissioned by the Regina Symphony Orchestra to write a concerto for her daughter, Erika, a brilliant young violinist. “Like Mother, Like Daughter” explores the working relationship between the composer and the performer, between mother and daughter. Excerpts from the premier performance of the completed concerto, “Faces of Women,” showcases the talents of these two extraordinary women.

  • Human Remains

    “Human Remains” illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of this century’s most reviled dictators: Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco, and Mao Tse Tung. We learn the private and mundane details of their everyday lives – their favourite foods, films, habits, and sexual preferences. Their personalities and psychological make-up are revealed through the details they convey. There is no mention of their public lives or of their place in history. The intentional omission of the horrors for which these men were responsible hovers over the film. “Human Remains” addresses this horror from a…