Genres: experimental

  • Itchy ya-ya

    Slapstick imp fends off fabricated fruit flies.

  • Full Throttle Engine Component

    Aerodynamics, suspension, and non-linearity are some of the phenomena which the protagonists and spectators of this film will question in an obvious terror of the mysterious and the unknown. “‘Full Throttle Engine Component’ forges with violence and humour a narrative plot which oscillates under its author’s eccentric gaze.” – George Tampai, 1999

  • El Valley Centro

    “In a media age dominated by rapid-fire imagery and pounding sound tracks, it is rejuvenating to encounter a film that invites the viewer to find rapture and meaning in the details of a single quiet frame. Veteran experimental filmmaker James Benning extends such an invitation as he turns his meditative gaze toward California’s Great Central Valley in his exceptionally beautiful film, ‘El Valley Centro.’ Employing natural sound and contemplative proscenium shots, Benning skillfully composes a series of pure and majestic images that at once evoke a sense of nostalgic splendor as well as deliver a subtle, yet penetrating, political commentary.…

  • Baking with Butch, Episode 1

    “Seduce Her with Dessert” Guest Chef Lex Vaughn talks with Host Nina Levitt about how to pick up ladies with her specialty “Poached Pears on Puff Pastry.” What starts out as a suave preparation begins to deteriorate as Lex gets more excited — with hilarious results!

  • human tragedy on a grand scale/never confuse movement with action

    Two films on one tape. In September 1998, Kerr released “never confuse movement with action,” a post-modern biography of Patrick Hemingway (a grandson of Ernest Hemingway). July 1999 was the centenary of Ernest Hemingway. There would be the publication of yet another posthumous novel. The Hemingway family hired a merchandising agent – Ernest Hemingway was now a brand name. The trust fund was secured for future generations.1999 was Ernest Hemingway’s year. But when Patrick Hemingway saw “never confuse movement with action,” he was less than pleased. Worried about his father’s reaction, a lawyer was hired and injunction threatened against the…

  • Music Might Have Deceived Us

    “Chong brings queer chops into new sightlines with this elegant mini-essay on desire… A series of peek-a-boo mattes admit moments glimpsed in passing. Scars of seeing. The throbbing, hand-processed emulsion begins with clouds then descends through traffic to arrive at the aching towards some new moment of release.” – Mike Hoolboom, Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, Toronto, 2000

  • Contrafacta

    Contrafacta is a collage animation made by Toronto filmmakers Roberto Ariganello and Chris Gehman. Using images from medieval artworks, and quotations from the writings of medieval mystics and poets, Contrafacta creates a web of related images and events without a simple connective narrative. “This painstakingly crafted medievalist tale… conjure[s] a dreamland of floating royals and waltzing unicorns. Birth, death, plague and the farming of souls all rub shoulders in this episodic surrealist fable. In a dance of grace and punishment where miracles are commonplace, we follow the descent of a royal egg which hatches the changing shape of the world.”…

  • Breath/Light/Birth

    Video transformations of documentary footage of a woman giving birth, assisted by members of a religious commune. Isolation confronts the communal, the gruesome confronts the holy, in this most mysterious of events.

  • Fine Pain

    “This two-screen dual projector film extends Brown’s use of chemically tortured celluloid to the breaking point. A collaboration with his long-time sound colleague John Kamevaar, ‘Fine Pain’ is an extended dialogue between image and sound – like a prolonged riff of free jazz between two masters. The discordant tensions of this film will keep you on the very edge of your seat, astonish you with the mesmerizing range of colour and abstraction and the over-modulated sound vibrations.” – Pleasure Dome program notes, Toronto, March 2000

  • Christian Porn

    When the Saskatchewan Opposition party whipped Regina into a frenzy over the spending of tax dollars on screening gay porn, all hell broke lose. To overcome the uproar and win the hearts of the Christians, in steps BROTHER LOVE.