Language: English
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Take Me To Prom
Featuring intimate, charming interviews with queer people ranging in age from 88 to 17, “Take Me To Prom” invites audiences to revisit an iconic adolescent milestone while telling a story of social change that spans more than 70 years. Image description: A smiling elderly person dressed in a white shirt and grey bowtie sits in a wheelchair, against a backdrop of frilled curtains. Rounds of sparkling light fall over the image.
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God Straightens Legs
Filmmaker Joële Walinga documents a moment of faith and waiting in the life of her Christian mother, a French-Canadian living in the Bible Belt who has opted to forgo cancer treatment.
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The Ritual of the Sex Magick Warriors
The Sex Magick Warriors are organizing, they reveal themselves to the city and risk it all to carry out an obscure objective. The colors pink and teal are the embodiment of Magick, Art and Sexuality and their use by the warriors -through empathy, telepathy and tactile care- spills the tea on their means for survival in these harsh urban environments. The ritual exposes the hardships of this army of lovers and reveals their sensual strategy for self preservation.
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Knowing
We are always seized with the exaltation of loving someone unknown, someone who will remain so forever: a mystic impulse: we know what we do not know.
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Gaming Fields
We are always playing with each other in different gaming fields.
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ENG Europe
In 1972, experimental dancer/choreographer Lily Eng and visual artist/filmmaker Peter Dudar created a partnership called Missing Associates. They initiated the first wave of experimental dance in Toronto galleries, then performed coast to coast in North America. And at a time when Europe was split by a physical and cultural “iron curtain,” Missing Associates showed in venues on both sides of that divide, establishing a vital, ongoing presence for Canadian experimental dance and performance art within the international scene. Eng Europe is Dudar’s chronicle of Lily Eng’s European performances. Lily Eng used deeply exploratory movement techniques, plus hardcore performance art concepts.…
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Contents
An old wallet, abandoned intact, kept for unknown reasons. Uncorroborated memories of a close (but distant) relation. How are these documents speaking to each other? What is the nature of their harmony? Official versus living memory: each useless, unstable, disintegrating. Is memory the bureaucracy of the self? How does it order our lives?
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The Shouting Flower
A work about collaboration and process, “The Shouting Flower” approaches political resistance from multiple subject positions–plant, child, filmmaker–in an attempt to model what Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing calls “work across difference.” Using images processed in plant material that was gathered at key locations throughout the city, as well as direct animation and audio recorded on a child’s toy, the film documents its own creation within a landscape of hostility and neglect. A collaboration against cooperation, it becomes as it refuses. Refusing, dispersing, it shouts, “No!”
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Livestock
“Livestock” is a documentary study of one stage in the production of motion picture film. Most of the animals at the Warren Livestock Auction will be sold for industrial meat production. Their bodies will be slaughtered and processed, their bones prepared for rendering into gelatin that might one day suspend silver halide on a strip of acetate.
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The Dandelion Club
A gang of queer kids stylishly loiter about town. Pollinating. A collective resistance that collects at the margins of society and develops even on its fringes. No patch of concrete too solid to bloom through. An existence as a pest. A nuisance. And a fabulous one at that. Negotiating identity as: weed or flower?
