Film Categories: body

  • Sink or Swim

    Finally, straight out of the archives, this rare historical footage has been recovered from the National Synchronized Swimming vault. Ballet arms, jazz hands and strangely perfect routines make up the performances of six talented women, the “Sassy Synchronized Swimmers.” This team virtually walks on water during the Golden Cap Championship in the Banff National Park.

  • She was so young back then

    A rephotographed excerpt from “Fast Times at Ridgemount High” is reconstituted as seedy pornography.

  • Evanesce

    What happens when a filmmaker loses his sight? “Evanesce” is a collage of fading Super 8 footage shot during the past decade. Phelan confronts the possibility of never seeing again and tries to make sense of the memories trapped in pictures that are disappearing before his very eyes. Selected screenings: Retour d’images Paris, France, 2003; London Disability Arts Film Festival, London, England, 2003

  • Sunflower

    A little sunflower seeks the light but is battered by the elements. Will anyone come to the rescue?

  • Eat Cake

    The mysteries of milles-feuilles and the pleasures of pastry dolloped with whipped cream shall not come between us, nor shall custard tarts tear us apart. No, we will savour them together. Drizzled in chocolate sauce and jam-filled for eternity, we are brothers of a sweeter tooth.

  • Click

    In this powerful short, two men transcend time and space with just one click. Soon after Jake and Jonnie make contact in a virtual chat room, Jake finds Jonnie along the East River. Their sincere romance unfolds in the streets, coffee shops and bars of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It is only after they wake up the next morning that they feel compelled to reveal their secret identities, and are forced to confront the nature of their “true” selves.

  • P

    “P” explores a single theme: excrements. Babies, worms and flies guide us through a compilation of facts and theories, approaching a theme often regarded as disgusting in a meaningful and humorous way.

  • U

    Facts on farts. An intimate introduction to the fine art of the fart. Starts and departs with a fart, with great music from rears to ears.

  • Pain

    A woman speaks of her painful discovery of and subsequent survival from breast cancer in the 1970s, and celebrates over 25 years of life after her mastectomy.

  • Chronic

    “Chronic” explores the idea of body as machine. It is inspired by the work of Etienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge, who studied motion with photography before the advent of motion picture cameras. Copied on a photocopier, the images in the film have a high contrast, low-res look that refers to the developing technologies used by these photographic pioneers.