Language: English
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Teta, Opi & Me
Filmed entirely with an iPhone, Teta, Opi & Me is a tribute to conformity, tolerance and courage. It is a poetic, meditative, multilingual, and feeling-driven short film, documenting the intricacies of the artist’s playful process in capturing her grandparents’ enduring romance through social, political and racial adversity. He comes from Bethlehem, Palestine and she comes from Vienna, Austria. Incorporating poetic filmic scenarios, vérité scenes, interviews, and home movies, the work is an intergenerational dialogue that explores themes of family, love, and the intermingling of cultures.
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My Grandpa Ivan
A professional soccer player looks back on summers in a small Bulgarian town, recalling the deep bond he shared with his grandfather, who forever shaped his love for the game.
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A Heap of Broken Images
This is a film about dreams: analogue, machines, anima and reanimation, nature, decay, and, if we are lucky, something new. Shot on 16mm and 35mm film and hand processed using many different analogue techniques.
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A Semiotic Square for Violent Bear
What does our culture dream? How can we locate that dream within the logics which govern our lives? Half collage, half essay, half serious, “A Semiotic Square for Violent Bear” is a busy, referential riff on the political moment.
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The Gloria of Your Imagination
New York based film artist Jennifer Reeves, known for her 16mm experiments, revisits “Three Approaches to Psychotherapy” (1965), which portrays Gloria Szymanski in sessions with three male therapists. Through found footage and tactile interventions on film, Reeves reframes the material into an empowering portrait. By adding home movies, newsreels, and advertisements, she situates Gloria’s story in context, exposing the unequal power dynamics behind the original film. Gloria emerges not as a case study but as a complex, vivid woman whose openness about her fears, desires, and contradictions still resonates today.
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Exit & Arrival
There are places that we seek, and there are places that find us. One can never know for sure which comes first; the seeking or the finding. Often the unexpected moment occurs, the unforeseen discovery.
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Passing Shadows
Passing Shadows attempts the seeming impossible: to travel the inner pathways of poet Andrew Suknaski’s creative impulses. The film traces in detail the painstaking, methodical and happenstance search Suknaski undertakes to discover the images and the emotions that fill his poetry. He wanders along bookshelves, across faces and into shadows pursuing the moments and symbols of truth that Suknaski strives to translate into words.
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The Last Pogo
Grab some safety pins, practice your sneer and get ready to revisit Toronto’s thriving punk scene. THE LAST POGO documents the raucous 1978 punk concert held in Toronto’s legendary Horseshoe Tavern-a night of unhinged music and unbridled mayhem. On December 1, 1978, legendary Toronto concert promoters Gary Topp and Gary Cormier-better known as The Garys-presented The Last Pogo, a rollicking, riotous concert at the venerable Horseshoe Tavern. On the bill were seminal bands from Toronto’s punk rock scene: The Scenics, The Cardboard Brains, The Secrets, The Mods, The Ugly, The Viletones and Teenage Head. During the concert, the frenetic energy…
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The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada
A filmmaker searches for two Canadians who flew to the moon in 1959, but because they were Canadian, were too modest to tell anybody.
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A Trip Around Lake Ontario
Author David McFadden takes a trip around Lake Ontario to research a book and offers a “fact or fiction” comic narration on the people he meets. Shot prior to writing the novel of the same name, A Trip Around Lake Ontario is a film based on a book based on a film.
