Genres: narrative

  • Matinee, The

    A docudrama showing that bingo is more than monetary fantasy.

  • Memento

    Memento’s chameleon narrative timeshifts between the nostalgic nightmares of Rebecca (Marg Hitcick), John’s (Mark Ruzylo) invasive investigations, and Richard’s (Scott Withers) idiosyncratic meditations about John and his film. Rebecca, troubled by an uncertain past and her obsessive filmmaking father, holds a yard sale to rid herself of his memory forever. John, a disgruntled filmmaker who works in a run-down film processing lab, tries to make his first feature by cutting together old footage he finds at yard sales. When he finds some disturbing reels in Rebecca’s garbage, he questions her and has the door slammed in his face.

  • Menses

    A wry comedy on the disagreeable aspects of menstruation. Women act out their own dramas on a California hillside, in a supermarket, in a red-filtered ritual of mutual bonding. “Menses” combines both the imagery and the politics of menstruation in a fine blend of comedy and drama.

  • Arnold

    This is a comedy about a boy who sweeps floors in a Chi-Com drug store and who one day meets a girl. What happens after that is humorously absurd.

  • Metamorphosis

    A satiric parable on non-conformity and the rat race. Meeting self-imposed challenges that begin with undressing and dressing in the time it takes for his elevator to descend nine floors, a man develops increasingly complex tasks to perform in the same period. His comical secret life transforms his existence from banality to oblivion. The film makes extensive use of pixillation techniques.

  • Art of Conversation, The

    Jack Stone is bright yellow and fairly cheerful about it, all things considered. He has terminal liver cancer and must spend his last month on earth in a hospital. Family, friends, and total strangers surround Jack’s bedside to engage him in meaningful conversation while Jack’s wife tries to fend off the visiting intruders. The film is a humorous and pointed examination of “conversations” in the face of death.

  • Multiple Choice

    “Multiple Choice” uses offbeat humour to explore the theme of poverty in the consumer society. The film tells the story of Meg Harris, a compulsive shopper who is coming to grips with her high-consumption lifestyle.

  • My Addiction

    “My Addiction” is the story of Matt Flynn, a bisexual married man. He hides in the apartment of a young male hooker (Dick Large) claiming to be in love with the boy. He is finally savagely beaten by the young hooker. Matt returns to his wife and vows to love her. They proudly claim negative HIV status and toast their love.

  • My Cunt

    What do Demi Moore, Pamela Anderson Lee, and your grandmother have in common? A litany of cunts.

  • My Summer Vacation

    “My Summer Vacation” is an elegiac, poignant contemplation of the brevity of youth and the ephemeral nature of love. Along the way we see the contrast betwen middle-class life and the sexual/drug underground. Joe, a young man in his early twenties, is on the “edge” of his youth. He has been given a film camera by his older lover (who is leaving town for the summer) and Joe decides to utilize the camera in order to find himself “the perfect summer boyfriend.” The first part of the film is a joyous, comic summer exploration of Church Street, Toronto and the…