Genres: narrative

  • Night Vision

    A scientist swims underwater at night, her body adorned with pulsing electric lights. A blind man sends giant soap bubbles filled with his memories floating across a lake. Children play innocently on a raft as they drift downstream towards the edge of a perilous waterfall. Night Vision brings together stories of people who find light in darkness.

  • Regarding

    Regarding is a film inspired by scene no. 50 from The Red Violin (1998). In this free adaptation, the violin has been changed into a camera, an object that ignites a young woman’s passion for fame. **The dialogue and music from the film were re-mixed with permission from the producers of the film, Rhombus Media**

  • Tonight It’s Me

    A hustler and a trans woman meet up randomly for a late night tryst. Over the course of the night, the unlikely pair confess to some uncomfortable secrets and discover hidden truths. The two realize that they share a genuine and intimate experience much deeper than a hook-up.

  • The Foxy Merkins

    Two lesbian hookers wind their way through a world of bargain-hunting housewives and double-dealing conservative women in this subversive buddy comedy. An homage to and riff on iconic male hustler films.

  • Former Models

    A public and private history undo themself(ves) as they mutually encounter the trials of Labor, Love, Loss and Planned Obsolescence. A body desires its Other: a simulation is transgressed and the ultimate price is paid- “No-body is above The Law.” In this docu-narrative, the tragic story of Milli Vanilli’s Robert Pilatus and his descent into a post-racial and post-gendered pure image is told through appropriated video footage. A fabricated narrative conceived by the artist collides with Pilatus’ public biography in a technologically mediated flash of desire and information. This video is dedicated to the very real life of Robert Pilatus, 1965-1998.  

  • DP2

    DP2 is the restored version of the film DP (Displaced Person), originally released in 1982. Uniquely melding documentary and contemporary performance art, DP2 is based on the reminiscences of a displaced Ukrainian who spent most of World War II in Nazi Germany and miraculously survived forced labour, concentration camp internment, and near-deportation to Siberia. Intercut with the narrative are dynamic movement sequences shot in a vast glass and marble structure, choreographed and performed by Lily Eng (Canadian Spotlight Artist, Reel Asian International Film Festival, 2011). Eng’s action sequences expand the intellectual and emotional resonances of the narrative, and vice versa. Her…

  • Monster Mash

    A Halloween hookup turns into something more for a pair of morbid misfits costumed as Horror Cinema’s most iconic female characters. Monster Mash is a queer valentine to horror cinema, paying homage while vilifying the genre’s homophobic elements through subversion, appropriation and recontextualization, The film is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Toronto and Ontario Arts Councils.

  • Lily In The Grinder

    Kaleidoscopic, operatic, and layered, Lily in the Grinder explores meaning through sex, death, and time. We already are everything we will ever be.

  • I REALLY LIKE YOU

    Michael runs a diner frequented by people looking for casual sex. Loveless, he swoons over the most recent visitor, Brandt. When Brandt reveals that he’s not interested in love, Michael does not take well to being rejected.

  • Escapades of the One Particular Mr. Noodle

    A comedy of obsession and assimilation that charts the true account of a first generation Chinese-Canadian’s attempt to fit into a white middle-class suburb. After an alienated childhood, she eventually lands a job at an unpopular pasta bar, walking the streets as a 10-foot egg noodle. A transformation occurs when her new persona, Mr. Noodle, supersedes her own identity – only to confront a similar alienation as a noodle human.