Genres: experimental

  • Dandelions

    “Lyrical and full of mirth, this filmmaker wonders out loud in her first film: ‘How do I make myself at home in a landscape made foreign to me?’ Wilkinson looks at her self – black – and ponders in the white landscape called Canada how can she ‘enjoy the flowers’ as she cartwheels with great panache through fields of them. What kind of relationship to the land can she have in a place where she sees herself but where others constantly ask: Where are you from? Wilkinson’s existence vis a vis the land seems to lie somewhere in between the…

  • Awash

    “Awash” is a song for the mortal, depicted through images of, within and around water.

  • Occupant, The

    “The further away you go, the closer to home you get… It is true by way of geography…” Now that she has traveled land and sea, little Romny is about to meet the 360th degree of her trajectory. She reflects upon her journey and faces her duty to carry on.

  • King of the Jews

    “King of the Jews” is a film about fear and transcendence. Utilizing Hollywood movies, 1950s educational films, personal home movies and religious films spanning the history of cinema, the filmmaker depicts his childhood fear of Jesus Christ. These childhood recollections are a point of departure for larger issues, including the roots of Christian anti-Semitism and the need for forgiveness and healing.

  • Restricted

    Take a chance. Don’t do it. This is America. Do it.

  • Dangling Participle

    Made entirely from old classroom instructional films, “Dangling Participle” offers a wealth of practical advice on contemporary sexual hangups and where they come from. A collage of dating, anti-smoking, sex education, and family life films from the late 50s and early 60s, intent on convincing us that the surreal is “perfectly normal.”

  • Worm

    “Worm” is a true story about an inexplicable childhood event.

  • thrU

    This life is passing… Memories soon to fade among the final synapses of a fleeting mind. “thrU” represents the lifecycle of an individual’s unconscious reflections, memories and thoughts. Created through the integration of stop-motion, live action and cameraless filmmaking, “thrU” continues to explore the mixed medium approach to filmmaking that reveals the many layers of a world yet unseen.

  • Story of the Fish Girl, The

    “The Story of the Fish Girl” is a fantastical tale, told in the style of the silent cinema, about a young woman’s desire to escape her repressive existence, and discover independence and meaning in her life. Her transformation into a fish leads her on a journey of self-realization through the sewers of New York. Passive and naive, the fish girl swims without direction, unable to realize her goal of personal and spiritual fulfillment in the patriachal/animal world of the sewer system. The use of colour through hand-tinting techniques, superimposed over the B&W narrative, creates a visual space full of energy…

  • Sleep Lines

    On a sunny afternoon between dreaming and waking a couple come together and move apart in the interior world of their home. A hand-processed black-and-white queer experimental film exploring the tension between intimacy and separateness.