Genres: narrative

  • Big Deal, So What

    Set in the polyester 70s, “Big Deal, So What” is a deceptively simple look at the social dislocation of Rachel – a skeptical teen whose discontent sets the story in motion. Rachel leaves home and endures a number of subtle miscues, mild mishaps, and astrological misfortunes. Much to her chagrin, it is an unexpected gesture of goodwill from mother to daughter that brings her to the threshold of post-suburban independence. This is a playfully poignant film about what life is not supposed to be like.

  • Big Key, The

    A comedy about a piano player who vents his creative frustrations in various ways, causing havoc. With Phil Shreibman, Len Udow and Mary Jane Card.

  • Tree Tale

    “Tree Tale” is a film about people and the places that affect them. It is also about how people change a space when they occupy it for a long time. A girl climbs a tree, stays awhile, then finally comes down again.

  • Twisted Sheets

    One straight woman’s life takes a remarkable turn for the better when, tagging along with a friend to a lesbian bar, she runs into the current female squeeze of the boyfriend who recently ditched her.

  • Undressing Dominion

    A stylized investigation into male hysteria reveals the romance of filmmaking.

  • Use Once and Destroy

    Sketches about three heroin addicts in Montreal by ex-junkie filmmaker John L’Ecuyer. A stream-of-consciousness narration sails the viewer through Montreal’s underworld of characters: Red Theo, a dealer that treats his clients like family despite all the difficulties inherent in such a lifestyle; Nice Guy Nelson, a heroin addict that sought escape from reality by any means necessary, including auto-mutilation; and Brenda, a young woman at one time loved life but fell into the netherworld of heroin addiction, prostitution and AIDS.

  • Used Innocence

    Using experimental narrative structure as his vehicle, Benning recreates the sensationalized and controversial circumstances surrounding Lorencia Bembenek, aka Bambi, former Playboy bunny turned cop, turned accused and convicted killer who disappeared after a daring escape from prison. The film shows the evolution of Benning’s and Bembenek’s relationship, presented through their actual letters read in voice-over, which depict the filmmaker’s curiosity with the subject as it evolves from intrigue to a love obsession.

  • What Wants To Be Spoken, What Remains To Be Said

    What Wants To Be Spoken, What Remains To Be Said uses an imaginative and lyrical narrative to interweave three stories: The Canadian Legend of Marguerite de Roberval; the daily life of an unknown pioneer woman; and the versions of these histories as presented by a museum tour guide. In representing what has been lost, What Wants To Be Spoken, What Remains To Be Said seeks to affirm a place in history for women and acknowledges the act of the imagination in the mediation of the past. What Wants To Be Spoken, What Remains To Be Said is produced and directed…

  • Where Does Mess Come From?

    “A hybrid of narrative and performance, film and video that uses a baroque train trip to suggest the eruption of chaos behind every stray desire. Loose enigma gets its due here, but it is when the tape is plainest – as in a sequence where a woman reveals fantasies of men that approach ‘Cosmo’ dimensions – that things get most fascinating.” – Cameron Bailey, NOW “Where Does Mess Come From?” is a story of chaos in its most pedestrian form. The constant breakdown of order in the universe is also the constant breakdown of order in our lives. The need…

  • Where Is Memory

    “Part fictional narrative, part travelogue, part documentary, this unusual film serves as another sign that non-fiction film as we know it is going through a major revolution. Engaging fictional narrative elements to create a ‘mystery,’ ‘Where Is Memory’ is a boldly original and affecting meditation on the nature of complicity and the Third Reich. Masterful use of archival footage matched with contemporary footage of Europe, a haunting score and an inspired mix of realities for a thoughtfully framed poetic odyssey that charts new cinematic territory.” – Judges’ Award, Northwest International Film Festival “Mixing narrative with archival and new footage, ‘Where…