Genres: narrative

  • Fireland (The Sloko Valley Fire)

    A young man seeks to find adventure, love and work, leaves for the Yukon, finding all three and more as he matures and finds his calling.

  • Elizabeth Taylor Sometimes

    Using a monologue format to humorously explore the nature of celebrity and the relationship we have to images on television, “Elizabeth Taylor Sometimes” features an excellent performance from Davey (who also wrote the piece) and is assuredly directed by Strutt.

  • Kimchi Fried Dumplings

    An Asian Canadian man comes home with a new boyfriend for Christmas to find his younger brother, who is also gay, resentful for being left to care for their aging parents

  • The Alicorn

    The film takes the form of a three-tiered hallucination: a dream within a dream within a dream. A pharaoh time travels from the future to ancient Egypt and dreams of a medieval tavern where people are suffering from the Black Plague. In the tavern, on the brink of death, an old crone tells her life story. The woman’s story, narrated in old English song, alludes to her salvation by the appearance of an alicorn borne by her younger sister. Themes of women’s stories, power, and transgression are woven throughout the narrative.

  • 28 Days

    This video pays stylistic homage to girl punks and 1960’s rock and roll girl groups. Camera moves and mise-en-scene are inspired by the 1963 music film for “He’s Got the Power” by the Exciters. The video responds to the song’s theme of menstruation by presenting a series of celebratory images of female solidarity.

  • I Know I’m Late

    Playing on the classic backstage drama, this short musical featuring Jef Barbara’s I Know I’m Late embeds the story of its own making into a fantasy performance in the dressing room of a Montreal cabaret. A chorus of backup dancers distracts the star of the show as he explains his tardiness through song. The film culminates in a dance routine reminiscent of ’90s MTV music videos and offers an appreciative reflection of idiosyncratic individuality, community and inclusion.

  • Elle-vis

    Elle-vis: A Woman…Impersonating a Man…Impersonating a Legend Collectively written, produced and directed by a trio of young Toronto filmmakers, “Elle-vis” is an irreverent and offbeat half-hour comedy about a renowned Elvis impersonator who is barred from performing by the all-powerful Elvis Impersonators Union after a lurid tabloid newspaper reveals the slanderous fact that he is… a woman. On the evening of her comback performance, Angela becomes the reluctant centre of a storm of controversy and protest. Outside the nightclub where she is to perform, a crowd of ardent feminists and loyal fans clash with an angry mob of union supporters,…

  • Jack

    This is the official music video for the U.S. Girls song ‘Jack’, the first single off of the album Gem (FatCat Records, 2012). In the video, a sequined woman (played by Meghan Remy) sings from the perspective of Jack the Ripper, confounding the relationship between looker and looked at, predator and prey. This glam-inspired video was befittingly shot on a Hitachi FP-22, 3-tube vintage camera by an all-female crew. It plays on classic images of American femininity, and the lyrics of the song contribute a subtext of the misogynistic serial killer’s gaze. With references to Kenneth Anger’s ‘Puce Moment’ and…

  • Gaysian

    When a gay Asian man notices that many gay men are taking a ‘no-Asian’ stance, he tries a group he previously avoided – rice queens, men ONLY attracted to Asians. Gaysian is a comedy that explores how we all bring prejudices into the bedroom, and sometimes learn we were wrong…or not.

  • Kissing Drew

    Inside a drab middle school in 1992, a sexually-confused eighth-grader attempts to regain his dignity after being bullied by a sex-obsessed ‘cool kid’ whom he privately fantasizes about.