Film Categories: art & artists

  • Birds at Sunrise

    The film was originally photographed in 1972. Birds from my window were filmed during the winter, through to the spring, with the early morning light. I became caught up in their frozen world and their ability to survive the bitter cold. I welcomed their chirps and their songs which offered life and hope for spring. In 1984 I was part of a cultural exchange between Canada and Israel. During my visit my unfinished movie came to mind. A connection was established in my mind – so that the suffering of the birds became, in a sense, symbolic of the Jews…

  • Water Sark

    I decided to make a film at my kitchen table, there is nothing like knowing my table. The high art of the housewife. You take prisms, glass, lights and myself to it. “The Housewife is High.” “Water Sark” is a film sculpture, being made while you wait. (JW)

  • Wild Wheels

    A comic and revealing exploration of Art Cars, personally customized automobiles which reflect the individualistic spirit of their drivers. Traveling across the country in his own wildly decorate VW bug, Blank discovers a memorable cast of real-life characters who are obsessed with transforming their cars into mobile works of art.

  • X

    A profound and powerful experimental, personal film of one woman’s despair, rage and exhibitionism; a baroque fugue of identity chanting growing from women’s pain to a holistic, self-healing naming ritual.

  • 5 Cents a Copy

    This film explores the multitude of effects that can be achieved using nothing more than a photocopy machine.

  • Brakhage

    Stan Brakhage is a legend, possibly the most important filmmaker of the avant-garde, and one of the greatest artists of our time. Since 1952, at the age of nineteen, Brakhage has created over 300 films, ranging from several seconds to several hours, constantly and consistently redefining the shape of film art. “Brakhage” explores the depth and breadth of the filmmaker’s genius, the exquisite splendour of his films, his magical personal charm, his aesthetic fellow travellers, and the influence his work has had on generations of other creators. ‘“Excellent! A reverent, hagiographic, even mystical portrait of the canonical avant-gardist.” – Ed…

  • Limites

    In “Limites”, Peruvian photographer Carlos Quiroz unveils the artistic process behind capturing the male nude. This documentary visits Quiroz’s private photo sessions, permitting us to witness the intimate relationship between camera and subject.

  • Short Shave

    Vanity. Had a beard. Appearance (looks). Looking. Disappearance act. Hand-made fades and zooms but camera made shave. Camerazor. Handsome. Tired. Walking Woman. My worst film. (Michael Snow)

  • Photographer: An Artist’s Journey, The

    A documentary exploring the provocative images of the Jamaican-Canadian visual artist Michael Chambers. Reflecting the new multi-cultural youth culture emerging in large urban centers in Canada and internationally, Chambers photographs nude models in urban and natural settings to comment on the human condition, black identity and stereotypes, self-expression, perceptions of the human body, nudity, racism, sexual orientation and AIDS prevention. The photographer follows Chambers over a five-year period in Canada and Jamaica, and shows his images of nude models taken in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, London and Paris.

  • Hoolboom

    “Hoolboom” is a film that Arts Toronto commissioned local filmmaker Wrik Mead to make based on his impressions of fellow filmmaker Mike Hoolboom. With some collaboration from Mike, Wrik has produced a film about the body, self-awareness, and the art of film.