Film Categories: art & artists

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Pocket Call

    Isolated in an old house, a man sees his daily life merge with that of a female presence that gradually invades his space. Trapped within his own home, he must confront this strangely familiar ghost.

  • Work(ing Together) in Process

    On a quest to obtain some misdelivered camera batteries, Sam Koopman finds himself in a Rotterdam-based sex shop. Here he meets Marty who works there, and this chance encounter turns into a cinematic project between the two. When Sam turns the camera towards this new stranger, the two end up embarking on a year-long journey to create a film together. Their shared process of self-discovery turns this playful desktop film into a profound meditation on the nature of non-fiction film.

  • Dear Moritz

    A short film essay that invites you to observe and reflect along a chance encounter between an artist, police and two friends in public space. A spontaneous moment attached to a loaded location, reflecting upon power, privilege, colonial pasts and present realities.

  • Let’s Rap

    “Women, speak your mind!” says one of the rappers in this collage of women of all ages and races who use the directness and power of rap music to express their views. These women, who rap in their own words about their own lives and beliefs present us with a lively, musical and often comical look at key issues facing women today. Let’s Rap! brims with energy, from its dynamic editing, witty set designs and colourful costumes right down to the pulsating beat which underlies its enthusiastic performances. Let by the powerful Montreal rap artist Freaky D, one of Quebec’s…

  • Navels I

    Artist Robin Riad talks about her relationship with her belly button. This is the first in a series of short film profiles about navels.