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  • I Want Your Love

    In “I Want Your Love”, two best friends playfully negotiate their way toward having sex together for the first time. It’s a familiar scenario that most gay men can relate to, and one not as uncomplicated as these two friends would prefer.

  • LLOYD ____FEIN MUST DIE

    “LLOYD ____FEIN MUST DIE” is protest porn. Using appropriated imagery from the Internet and Sammy Davis Jr.’s classic signature song ” I’ve Gotta Be Me,” “LLOYD ____FEIN MUST DIE” is a choreographed sexual roundelay about the destructive greed and vanity of a vilified banker. Summoning an orgy of images to relieve anger sexually, the film’s cathartic Freudian release posits a retreat to private joy as a valid response for populations depressed by avaricious powerbrokers in capital economies.

  • Suck-A-Thumb

    Konrad is a bright young boy, kind of heart and full of joy, but…he has a terrible addiction that can only end in one painful and bloody way! See him SUCK! See his Mother SCREAM! See the terrible scissors go SNIP-SNAP! Filmed in frightening 2D Shad-O-Vision. Not for the faint hearted.

  • Recipes for Reconstruction: The Cookbook for the Frugal Filmmaker

    Special Book and DVD Set Veteran animator and filmmaker Steven Woloshen introduces a variety of simple artistic strategies to create decay and to re-assemble damaged film prints into new experimental visions. This book includes a special DVD (NTSC) with nine short films created specially for this do-it-yourself, “hands-on” manual. An excellent resource for film production courses and workshops. Featuring nine chapters & accompanying films: 1. Chronicle Reconstructions: Creating Reconstructions 2. Zero Visibility: Reproducing Decay and Damage 3. La Dolce Vita: Hasty Archaeology 4. Scrapbook: Correcting Correlations 5. Fleeing Rotland: Revitalizing Obsolete Gauges on 35mm Film 6. The Homestead Act: Using…

  • Trailing Arbutus

    It’s 1975 and Toronto horticulture enthusiasts are buzzing with excitement; Dr. Timothy Arbutus, the famous British flower arranger, makes his Canadian début at Toronto’s O’Keefe Centre. Onstage he thrills the audience with his colourful bouquets and delightful banter. But all is not as beautiful in Arbutus’ world as his bouquets would suggest. Backstage in his dressing room, a dark drama unfolds. His devoted manservant, Fitzrooy, has just learned that he has been replaced by Larry, the hot young stage manager – and Arbutus’ latest fling. Distraught, the straitlaced Fitzrooy secretly follows the two lovers into Toronto’s gay underworld, determined to…

  • Family Portrait #2

    An ultrasound recording of my first-born’s heartbeat…the intensity of childbirth…a family portrait. Form is altered through lens manipulation, optical printing and hand-processing to elicit the polarities and fragility of life.

  • Letters

    “Letters” is a poetic, reflective expression of the filmmaker’s rediscovery of her roots and coming out later in life as a Jewish lesbian. Although this is one person’s story, it poignantly touches the heart of what it means to be Jewish and gay. “Letters” was created as part of the Legacy Video Project, a special multi-generational mentoring program in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festival. Three seniors and four youth journeyed together for five months, learning the skills to create short videos that would both challenge and touch us. Selected Screenings:…

  • Still Life

    A loose narrative comprised of both found and shot footage derails conventional uses of familial images and forms the residue of a looming traumatic experience. The anxieties of parenthood feed an undertow of tension that heightens awareness to the vulnerabilities of the children we bring into this world.

  • Chute

    A hypnotic mass self-portrait from within the runners’ chute at the end of the 2009 Ottawa Marathon. The dramatic enactment of an endless final reward cycle in our inevitable tumble, together and alone, towards the unknown: connect, release, repeat.

  • Olivia

    Two girls, four strings and a bathroom are all it takes for a seduction. Official Selection Frameline LGBT Film Festival (2010)