Genres: short

  • Elegant Flower

    ‘Elegant Flower’ is a diaspora story that follows the life of a Hungarian refugee over the course of his 60th birthday weekend. Burdened by the separation of his beloved family and little sister, Zoltán Király engages in activities to bridge this chasm of geography and time. Incorporating beautiful 8mm found film and distinctive Toronto landscapes, one is given a subtle revelation and connection into this quiet and passionate man’s internal struggle.

  • Embers In The Night: A New Folklore of War

    Embers in the Night’ is a short dramatic narrative that features the tale of a young boy’s journey into the bitter world of violence and hate. Fuelled by an unexplained prejudice in a remote backwater village, the boy is forced to flee for his life.

  • The Phoenix

    The Phoenix takes place in the not so distant future. Mankind has developed the ability to transfer the mind and soul of a human being into an android host body. Mars Reveille is a dying man whose life is now moment to moment. He decides to undergo this miraculous procedure for the sake of his grandson Ben. Who without his grandpa would be alone in this world and left to fend for himself. Mars’ transformation is a success but the connection to his grandson is frayed and there are quiet gnawing doubts if Mars is real at all. Mars and…

  • The Lion

    Every night for the past three months begins and ends the same for Atom Sprengja…in tears. Atom and his father Joachim quietly exist parallel to one another on a picturesque farmstead in the middle of nowhere. Two of a dwindling lineage of Icelandic farmers, each day begins and ends in almost silence. Grief commands both father and son, stricken by the recent loss of the woman who was the light and sound of the small family, Atom’s mother and Joachim’s wife. Joachim remains silent; hoping time and routine will heal Atom’s wounds. Atom suffers having his father silent and distant,…

  • Battle Cry

    At the oldest-running queer theatre in the world, Toronto’s most cerebral drag queen and “tragicomedienne” Pearle Harbour prepares to take the stage for her new show “Battle Cry: Songs Of Warfare & Gaiety”.

  • Ode to the Nine

    “Ode to the Nine” is influenced by video artist Jon Rafman. His work “9-Eyes” and “You, the World and I” inspired the filmmaker to make this video piece. This short experimental video allows the filmmaker to ponder the relevance of the moving image and what impacts it has on the Native experience of the past, present and future.

  • Insect Express

    This is a music video for the song “Insect Express” by Brooklyn-based musician, El Tryptophan. The video explores an intersection of species; insect flight patterns and modes of industrial travel merge as collective rituals in a fever dream.

  • Witch’s Work

    This animation weaves together a series of surrealist scenarios inspired by the monstrous women of Ancient Greek mythology. The animation begins with the ritual of the Graeae, a trinity of sisters from Greek mythology, who pass their divining shared eye between them. The first vision is a pan of a river, which reveals the figure of Lilith, who represents female sexuality in Jewish mythology. Lilith gives birth to an owl, a crystal, and a glowing orb. This orb transforms into a dancing, humanoid blob, which undergoes a physical transformation into a snake. The snake makes its way to a nest…

  • Soft Core

    Two bridesmaids form an unlikely connection over their bizarre sexual awakenings.