Genres: short

  • Bye Bye Now

    When people wave hello to the person behind the camera in home movies they seem aware of waving hello to a future viewer. Yet, upon viewing, the very gesture (re)presents a recurring good-bye to a fleeting moment. This film is an homage to the man behind the camera in these personal 8mm family archives, my father, who left me this heritage beyond mortality in the traces of past lives. — Louise Bourque Review : “BYE BYE NOW is cruel. A movie traumatized by time, which is the passing of time and all that inhabits it. Movies play into that, their…

  • Searching for Justice

    Searching for Justice is a thought provoking short film by Tasha Brown that delves into the lack of fairness and equality, which is deemed insignificant in many societal norms. Fluid eclectic movements of dance are interwoven with the illuminating original spoken word written by poet Kells James.

  • Traces / آثار

    In the midst of the rubble of a torn building, a reel of film. An unlikely unraveling of queer bodies taking shape and form, while the war-torn city around and its spectacle of toxic masculinity glitches and disintegrates.

  • Next Time Might Be Yes

    Audrey, an anxious college student who’s holding herself back in life confronts her fear of rejection with the help of her therapist. Along with her best friend Sienna, she finally does the things she’s always wanted to: crash a party, ask for a raise. However, there’s one big thing that she’s been too scared to do – telling Sienna that she has feelings for her.

  • BEWARE

    BEWARE takes sound bites from the 1961 anti-homosexual propaganda film Boys Beware and flips it on its head. The hacked-up narration serves as the voice over to a barrage of glitched intimacies making the homosexual monster more fun than frightening.

  • BAD STARS

    Beginning with the root of the term disaster – from the Greek (dus-) ‘bad’ and (aster), ‘star’ this project considers disaster from an astronomical sense, imagining multiple scales of disaster as causing disruption and temporary disorientation on a planetary scale. Humans have looked to the movement of stars as a way to make sense of the terrestrial for millennia, developing elaborate systems to read celestial bodies as a way to explain and predict events on earth. Studying the stars in order to discover more about the galaxy, astronomy tells us that we are in fact born of the stars, made…

  • the air we breathe

    the air we breathe is an experimental documentary that thinks through the complexities of air pollution by weaving together themes of environmental catastrophe, environmental racism, cultural and political shifts, and conspiracy. Combining research into air pollution along with personal storytelling and speculative imaginings, this project deeply considers the complicated ways in which our air impacts us: from the way that smells travel through it and the memories they evoke; to the physical impacts of pollutants through shared inhalation; to the ways in which the air serves as a metaphor of connection in a cultural sense.

  • Fragmentasia

    An exploration of the sense of self, through kaleidoscopic imagery, distorted sounds, and a flurry of colours. Fragmentasia is a self-reflexive short, shot on 16mm and Super8, using animation techniques, prisms, and mirrors, to examine the outward self versus the internal self.

  • The English Teacher

    English teacher Kofi Frimpong is starting classes once again for immigrants at a local language school in Toronto. Before starting the lesson, Taranjit Bains interrupts him to ask where the instructor is. Unsatisfied that Mr. Frimpong is teaching the class, Taranjit does not return. This isn’t the first time Mr. Frimpong’s legitimacy to teach the subject has been questioned, but it eats away at him nonetheless.

  • Mango Lemon Soda

    After spraining her ankle fleeing a terrible date, Zahrah is forced to spend an evening with her estranged ex, Tyler.