Genres: documentary

  • The Great Kind Mystery

    Inuk and Mi’kmaw artist Amy Hull tells stories about growing up in Newfoundland. Her words are illustrated by altered Super 8mm footage of Newfoundland landscapes, where the distortion of the celluloid film reflects the wonder and nostalgia of her relationship with the land.

  • Kajanaqtuq

    Kajanaqtuq (2020) is a short experimental film that features the voice of Inuk Elder Naulaq LeDrew. She speaks about her home in Nunavut, Canada and how Inuit lifestyles have changed since her youth. Altered Super 8mm film footage of the region illustrates her account of historical events and Inuit mythology. 

  • Deepest Darkness, Flaming Sun

    Deepest Darkness, Flaming Sun (2020) is a short experimental film about the Svalbard Archipelago in the Norwegian Arctic. Narrated by wilderness guide Marte Agneberg Dahl, the film features altered Super 8mm film footage of the region. Marte speaks about her travels in the Arctic, climate change, walruses and the region’s history. 

  • How amazingly unlikely is your birth

    What could a cosmology of one person’s life look like? A daughter examines the life and premature death of her father, who had a troubled relationship with the psychiatric medical establishment and was passionate about ecology, politics and space travel.

  • gestures toward Plant Vision

    A filmic meditation inviting consideration of perception in vegetal beings. Vision is somatic, of the body. In humans, vision is a dominant sense for most people and can feel indistinguishable from the mind when thoughts, judgements, and reactions are unconsciously triggered through visual experiences. Together, vision and mind can block deeper understandings of phenomena and lead to misinformed actions if intentionally looking beyond the illusory surface of things is not pursued. When we consciously imagine how plants might perceive in ways similar to and different than our own, humans extend beyond anthropocentric perception and behaviour to make space for empathetic…

  • Brimming

    A fire burns. Water flushes out the chemical leak. Will a historical moment rise to the surface?

  • Before Us

    “Before Us” is a feature-length documentary that reflects on 1960s counterculture, adoption practices in North America, and changing family structures. The film takes an unconventional approach to the adoption narrative, uncovering the ramifications of my family’s secrets and placing them within the context of a counterculture that devalued women and children, an adoption industry that viewed illegitimate pregnancy as a pathology, and a society without easy access to birth control. 

  • No Mime Game

    An effective mime-skit showing the perils of drinking and driving. A mixture of mime, camera work, and special effects prepares us to expect the inevitable crash. An excellent film for use in driver and health education or dramatic arts classes.

  • Moun an ba la: French Caribbean Diaspora in Toronto

    MOUN AN BA LA: French Caribbean Diaspora in Toronto is an ode to bicultural identity and an exploration of the collective memory of the French Antilles community in Toronto through the slice of life of an Afro-French & Canadian woman of Martiniquan heritage. Hybrid in its form, the film, which sits at the junction of direct cinema and poetic documentary, explores the question: “To which culture do I belong?” as it takes a look at the complexity of bicultural Afro-French & Caribbean identity. In the film, we witness an intimate conversation between a francophone Toronto-based Paris-born mother-to-be of Martiniquan heritage…

  • Before Me

    An incomplete family story leads the filmmaker on a quest to find her mother in the British archives. The discovery of a photograph unearths a story of upheaval, desolation, and ultimately, transformation. A lament for a mother whose life was lost, then found, in the dust of the archive.