Genres: experimental

  • Rainbow Crossing – Out & About with Brewer & Berg in Hawaii

    Come trip through time and space with gay gurus Michael Brewer and Thomas Alan Berg in a multi-dimensional travelogue that explores the beauty, culture and spirituality of the Island of Hawaii from a fresh new perspective. Tom and Michael travel through the enchantig Hawaiian scenery while foloowing a trail of rainbows through realms of philosophy, spirituality, history, art, psychology and politics with an entertaining and often irreverent dialogue, featuring entertaining cameos with people met along the way, and perhaps even the ancient Gods of Hawaii themselves. Fascinating, uplifting and very entertaining, Brewer and Berg take you one a journey that…

  • American Dreams

    “James Benning’s films belie the cliches often attributed to avant-garde film. Elegantly conceived and realized, they are seductive as much for their visual audacity and originality as for the intellectual conundrums they challenge the viewer to resolve. ‘American Dreams’ is chock full of concrete, discrete elements that comprise an American iconography of the past three decades. “The film encourages a kind of perverse nostalgia for ‘the good old days’: Nixon’s ‘you don’t have Nixon to kick around any more’; Elvis’ response to questions about his gyrating style and the rumour that once he shot his mother; Patty Hearst’s ‘Tania’ statement;…

  • 10th Avatar

    Television’s influence is so great that it has left us completely mesmerized and has become our new form of worship. Our faith in the divine power has been challenged several times, through the ages. According to Hindu mythology an avatar appeared who relieved man’s distress and re-established the belief in God and the avatar. Nine incarnations of God or avatars have appeared thus far and the 10th avatar appeared with the fusion of mass media and formal worship. This is the story about the challenge divine worship faced as cable TV encroached our “idle” time.

  • Diane Bonder Compilation

    A compilation of works by the late American filmmaker Diane Bonder. Shot in Super 8 and 16mm in documentary, poetic and semi-narrative styles, Bonder’s work explores issues of belonging, landscape and loss. Her work has screened internationally at festivals including Ann Arbor (Michigan), Images (Toronto), European Media Arts Festival, Pacific Film Archive (San Francisco), Museum of Modern Art (NY), Brooklyn Museum of Art, and The Whitney Museum. Please see individual titles for descriptions. 1. I Remember Now, We Never Danced, I Miss You, Good-Bye (16mm, 8 min., 2006) 2. You Are Not From Here (Super 8 on video, 10 min.,…

  • Stone Time Touch

    “Stone Time Touch”, starring and narrated by Arsinée Khanjian, is a documentary essay which builds a layered and elusive image of Armenian identity. It is an extended meditation on the traces of Armenia as they are lived out in the homeland of imagination, in the real Armenia of today, in the Diaspora, beyond Genocide. “Award-winning Armenian-Canadian experimental filmmaker Gariné Torossian weaves together a poetic collage of memory, loss and expectation in this essay documentary of a real and imagined Armenia. Interwoven with a young woman’s journey to her homeland are the photographs and reflections of Arsinée Khanjian. As Khanjian recounts…

  • RH Factor

    A short film about crossing bridges, crossing the positive and the negative, and the unpredictability of love and new lives.

  • Boy’s Mouth, A

    The power of one boy’s speech.

  • Clean

    A brief look at one man’s obsession with cleanliness.

  • Net 06

    A cameraless film animation. An analogue digital collision.

  • Tell Us The Truth Josephine – A Bitter Immigrant Story

    “Tell Us the Truth Josephine” is a 15-minute experimental drama about a Maltese woman’s search for “home.” Josephine struts across Canada on stilts. And for Josephine to find home she must accept the Truth. And once she does she can come off her stilts and land. Her journey is haunted by fragmented voices and images of her bloodline – bitter immigrant stories.