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  • Adrift in Sunset

    Dao is ready to go on her date but she also has to spend time with her mom who has Alzheimer’s—bringing her gallivanting ways to a halt. Is it really a good idea to combine the two?

  • Scratch, Crackle & Pop!

    SCRATCH, CRACKLE & POP! by animator and filmmaker Steven Woloshen highlights 30 years of aesthetic discoveries made in the production of Super 8, 16mm and 35mm animated/experimental films. Written for aspiring animators and film lovers alike, SCRATCH, CRACKLE & POP! is a one-of-a-kind guidebook that explores the techniques, processes and tools of the trade through in-depth case studies of thirteen of Woloshen’s best-known films. A companion DVD and two 35mm filmstrips are included in the book. “A whole grains approach to making films without a camera.” – Steven Woloshen Foreword by Marco de Blois, animation curator and programmer at Montréal’s…

  • The Well

    When Anna arrives at Jane’s house for a date, she finds a quick high and kinky sex. But their sexual chemistry can’t quite overcome the class and race differences between them, and the encounter leaves Anna wanting more.

  • Overpass

    Beginning with an afternoon drive down a Los Angeles highway, Overpass weaves together intimate stories of histories of racial and domestic violence against the backdrop of the infamous OJ Simpson car chase in 1994. In this lyrical, experimental short, filmmaker Kami Chisholm draws from television news reports, archival footage, and her own family history to explore the gaps between celebrity spectacle and the mundane realities of interpersonal violence endemic to US society.

  • Femme Haiku

    A young femme contemplates love and loss in the heart of winter in “Femme Haiku.” The film explores the mystical ways in which memory, imagination, and desire haunt our lived realities, as well as specific sites in the world through which we move.

  • In the Hollow

    In May 1988, girlfriends Claudia Brenner and Rebecca Wight were attacked while hiking the Appalachian Trail by a ‘mountain man’ named Stephen Roy Carr. IN THE HOLLOW tells the story of the shooting, Wight’s death, and Brenner’s desperate survival (and later transformation into an advocate for hate crime legislation in the U.S.) as she returns to the trail for the first time since the shooting.  The film combines documentary and narrative film elements, using the actual locations on the trail and dramatizations written by Claudia Brenner and director/screenwriter Austin Bunn based on her testimony. The film follows Brenner as she…

  • The Transformable Moment: The Films of Stephen Broomer

    “The Transformable Moment” is a collection of essays on the films of Stephen Broomer, edited by Scott Birdwise and Tom McSorley. Contributors include R. Bruce Elder, Dan Browne, Clint Enns, Zoe Heyn-Jones, Brett Kashmere, Scott Miller Berry, Cameron Moneo, Andrea Picard, and Michael Sicinski. “Having devoted his life to the art of cinema in his various capacities as a filmmaker, scholar, preservationist, and poet, Stephen Broomer is on his way to establishing himself among the most aesthetically and historical engaged experimental filmmakers in Canada. His practice is indeed ‘experimental’ in the best sense of the term: his films are imbued…

  • Morning Light

    An experimental documentary following the narrative of George Griffiths and his son, Blair, in the early 1980s. The film is a triptych made up of three unique short films, each roughly corresponding to a section of a book written by George’s widow, Margaret, which details the very same narrative.

  • The Blacksmith

    Shot in a traditional blacksmith shop, where the blacksmith uses coal for his fire, we hear as much as we see how this art is executed. There are bumps and grating sounds, sounds of a very hot fire, hammer sounds…and the vivid reds, yellows, blues and white of a very hot fire, along with the earth colors of most of the tools and machines. Finally, from time to time, we hear the blacksmith himself explain the essentials of the process and near the end, we even catch a brief glimpse of his face.

  • Tone Poem with Hang Drum

    In this experimental narrative, we are in a world that moves more slowly than the one we are used to, allowing us to savour the sights and sounds. The pace also reminds us that in the place where the story unfolds (southern Spain), things move more at a more deliberate pace than, for example, in the United States. As the short progresses, we see that we are watching lamenco costume designer Adela on a very special day in her life. Adela’s life has a rhythm to it, and is filled with the beautiful colours of the cloth out of which…