Film Categories: body

  • Are You Norma?

    “Are You Norma?” is an experimental animation exploring fashion restrictions placed on the female body.

  • Bonne mère

    Alfred leaves the north of France to find his estranged mother who’s become a prostitute in Marseille. He changes his identity and begins hooking in order to be close to her. “Bonne Mère” is a nostalgic poem of longing. Selected Screenings: 2008 Berlin International Film Festival

  • Clean

    A brief look at one man’s obsession with cleanliness.

  • Foodie

    Born into a murky world, jettisoned into flourescence, Foodie is all emotion, all merchandise, all pressure and all pleasure. Foodie waddles through emotional worlds that are hungry and stuffed, cozy-mean, cocooned and exposed. Foodie is the perfect consumer who is simultaneously socially conscious and suspect. Watch Foodie, struggling to stay within boundaries of good and proper, worrying all the time, trying to live forever with too much and not enough.

  • Rubb My Chubb

    If you’re a Torontonian, and hip to the fat revolution, you can’t have missed the recent explosion of the Fat Femme Mafia. Call them what you want. Large and in charge. Larger than life. These women have been hitting the city with the strong words of politics of size. During the inception of the Mafia, we could only gossip with possibilities. Soon there were rumours, whispers, and boisterous claims about the phenomenal event that was to be Chubb Rubb: A Fat Cabaret. This short documentary follows the Fat Femme Mafia, their fat co-conspirators and allies in the days leading up…

  • In Every Dream Home a Heartache

    Kids on TV and Johannes Zits have together created a music video art piece based on Johannes’ visual work and the song “In Every Dream Home a Heartache” performed by Kids on TV. The video takes the song’s plotline of a rich man falling in love with a rubber doll and uses it to critique queer consumerism and the advertising industry’s targeting of the gay-demographic — turning peoples desires into a fetishization of newly built condos and lavish funishings. The rubber doll is portrayed by KOTV member John Caffery is covered with green-screen paint and super-imposed with gay male pornography…

  • Mr. Edison’s Ear

    “An inventive exploration of the visceral nature of sound and how we learned to capture and reproduce it over time. Anchored by the discovery of the phonograph by the brilliant-and deaf-inventor Thomas Edison, this visual and conceptual collage of rich archival footage and animation playfully traces the birth of technological reproduction and the beginnings of our modern, audio-drenched world.” – Gisèle Gordon (Hot Docs Canadian Spectrum programmer) Selected Screenings: Canadian Spectrum, HotDocs, 2008; DOK Leipzig Festival, 2008

  • Young Prince, The

    The fifth film in THE BOOK OF ALL THE PRAISE cycle. “‘The Young Prince’ film is my current project, and is based on alchemical themes. The film is about transformations – about transformations of imagery, about history as transformation, about eros as a transformative power, about that old Eisensteinian idea of collage and montage as transformation, but most of all, about transformations of the self. “The film combines two sorts of transformations: electrical transformations, produced by digital image processing, and chemical transformations, produced by processing the film by hand, in small batches. Thus, it is a dialogue between two technologies,…

  • Autoplastic

    “Autoplastic” intimately explores perceived psychosis in store front manikins.

  • Hunt, The

    The intensity of an internal struggle manifests itself externally, as revealed through an intimate, fragmented view of dancer, Peter Trosztmer, as choreographed by Sharon Moore. “The Hunt” explores the anatomy of the hunter and the transformation that occurs inside – calmness, pressure, extreme tension, consequence of the hunt, calling up/manufacturing the condition of enemy in order to justify killing, delirium and gleefulness that denotes insanity, and enjoyment of such experience. This ultimately returns to calm and cascading back into the pleasure moments, attempts to return to sanity.