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  • Saskatchewan Trilogy, The

    DVD Compilation Featuring: SASKATCHEWAN, PART 1 (5:40 min. 2002) Using home movies, vintage memorabilia, and the straight facts about Saskatchewan, the filmmaker creates an eccentric portrait of the first year of his life, and the province that shaped his identity. “Brian Stockton’s bittersweet tribute to the province he was born in perfectly captures the essence of life in the vast and lonely prairies.” – Nicole Cohen, EYE Weekly SASKATCHEWAN, PART 2 (12:40 min. 2003) Brian Stockton’s series of eccentric autobiographical short films continues with Part 2, “That’s My Wonderful Town,” an ode to Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada – past, present and…

  • Small, Stupid and Insignificant

    “Small, Stupid and Insignificant” is a film about a family’s struggle with choosing to live. Marie is a single mother, her sister is in a coma, and her Mama is a rosary clutching leave-it-to-God kind of woman. Marie is haunted by her sister, who has been in a coma for three years, to pull the plug. And yet neither of them feels like living. This all changes after one intoxicated night when Marie meets a wandering spirit that helps her realize not only her sister’s wish for freedom, but also her own. Winner, Experimental Drama Award, Female Eye Film Festival…

  • Spiral Transition

    “Spiral Transition” is a candid, compelling and interwoven documentary that explores the filmmaker’s relationship with his mother and how it is changing and evolving as he transitions genders.

  • Interview, The

    Two women meet at a crossroads… Ross Lipman’s one fiction film to date comes from a genre even more rare in the US than experimental work-adult drama. Printed in muted tones that conjure silent film handpainting, and merging theater-based naturalism with an elliptical psychological encounter, “The Interview” at once utilizes and destroys mainstream narrative expectations.

  • Cropping of the Spectacle, The

    “The Cropping of the Spectacle” began as a live cinema performance investigating the birth of the Television Spectacle in 1954 McCarthy’s America. Based loosely on the classic anarchist documentary “Point of Order” (Emile de Antonio/Dan Talbot, 1964); a film which at once deconstructed the hearings and re-invented documentary strategies – “The Cropping of the Spectacle” integrates archival movie and audio clips in chronicling the strange temporal evolution of our understandings of recent history. The original film and its many revisions ultimately reveal an odd continuation of a hegemonic framing process begun with the original Army-McCarthy hearings, which continues to the…

  • Swim

    Haunted by his role in the death of his childhood friend, a filmmaker reflects on regret and loss, Animorphs and bjs. Awards: Entertainment Partners Canada / Canada Film Capitol Award for Emerging Canadian Artist, Inside Out Film Festival, Toronto, 2011; ‘Best Experimental Narrative’ Award, Couch Fest, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2011.

  • Fish Don’t Talk

    I am sent to camp as a nine year old. I CANNOT SWIM! MY PARENTS HAVE GONE TO EUROPE FOR SIX WEEKS.!! IT IS 1954, and I have not been away from home much … so I refuse to swim and fish off the dock. My mother writes in her trip book. It is the only book she will write. I catch a big fish. The camp director takes my picture… They should have taken me to Europe with them.I would have behaved. (Rick RAXLEN)

  • Sex On Wheels (short)

    “Sex On Wheels” tells the secret history of San Francisco’s sex workers. Interweaving Super 8 footage of a living history bike tour/theater piece (think Colonial Williamsburg, with whores) with archival film and photographs, the film tells the story of a city’s forgotten residents: an ex-slave who became a wealthy procuress, a cross-dressing 1940s lesbian gigolo, a madam who became mayor, a gang of transgender teen hustlers who rioted for their rights, a radical feminist hooker/assassin, and a posse of anarchist strippers who took over a peep-show. 38-minute version also available, see “Sex on Wheels (demi-feature)”

  • Bol (Speak!)

    A cyclist meets a stranger in the market. A boy waits for his mother to return home. A man wakes up to find that his face is being stolen by shadows. Three separate encounters become the departure point for “Bol (Speak!),” a short dramatic experimental triptych on the nature of violence. Inspired by the Pakistani Marxist poet, Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poem Bol, and drawn from real events, the film uses still photographs, puppets and folk dance to comment on the increasing ubiquity and tenor of violence in South Asia. It is a gradually escalating experience of violence. All three chapters…

  • Sex On Wheels (demi-feature)

    “Sex On Wheels” tells the secret history of San Francisco’s sex workers. Interweaving Super 8 footage of a living history bike tour/theater piece (think Colonial Williamsburg, with whores) with archival film and photographs, the film tells the story of a city’s forgotten residents: an ex-slave who became a wealthy procuress, a cross-dressing 1940s lesbian gigolo, a madam who became mayor, a gang of transgender teen hustlers who rioted for their rights, a radical feminist hooker/assassin, and a posse of anarchist strippers who took over a peep-show. 12-minute version also available, see “Sex on Wheels (short)”