Film Categories: body

  • Something Else

    Fun things happen when you play with yourself. Change is one of them.

  • Ladies Room

    “Ladies Room” reveals young women in their most intimate environment – the bathroom. From sterile public schools to underground warehouse raves and glitzy hotel rooms, it takes an insightful, playful and provocative look at a group of NYC girls in a variety of situations and bathrooms. Seen through the lens of fiction, documentary and satire, the range of their experiences and emotions – straddling strength and vulnerability – defines growing up female. Special Jury Award, Arizona International Film Festival, 2004

  • Body Scares

    “Body Scares” is a journey through four generations of women. Generation after generation the body is printed with secrets and wears all the memories of the past.

  • Snack Pack

    “Snack Pack” plays with the tensions between the director’s Mexican and Canadian identities.

  • Scintillating Flesh

    In a dark room holding a flashlight in my hand, I paint with light. Each stroke of light unveils an image and permits it to spill over to the adjacent film frames, thus breaking out of its rectangular prison while at the same time being woven into the fluidity of moving body, the whiteness of light, and the redness of flesh. Using the photogram technique and my body as a tool and a means to inscribe myself into this film, “Scintillating Flesh” is a self-inscription, where the filmmaker is not so much its subject but becomes its form.

  • In Bobcaygeon

    A moving portrait of one boy’s strength of character in the face of challenges associated with having microtia, a birth defect that causes severe hearing loss. “John Morgan, the 10-year-old subject of the short, artful documentary In Bobcaygeon, has microtia, a birth defect that caused him to be born with only one fully developed ear. There’s nothing wrong with John’s mouth, though – he talks a lot, about his microtia, about playing minor hockey and about the camel his family keeps in the backyard. The film’s vaguely avant-garde construction may pose a challenge for younger viewers, but there’s an unpretentious…

  • Behind the Music: Destiny’s Neighbour

    A behind-the-scenes look into the smash sensation “Destiny’s Neighbour” – the dancing, the dreams and the donuts. “There just aren’t any sexy fat boys in girl drag on T.V.” – Behynde “Destiny’s Child is just a slimmed down version of us. They ripped off our moves, they ripped off our songs.” – Mass-Assey “We had to kick her out because she was eating all the donuts.” – K-Kremey

  • Make Me Smile

    Meet Daddy K, a dancin’ queen with a sparkling eye and a shaking booty. It would take a pretty tough guy to resist this charmer. Romeo might be just that strong – tune in and find out. Cruising has never looked this good.

  • Fallout Food

    “Fallout Food” is a collaboration between two working-class women, produced as a commissioned work for Trinity Square Video’s “Eat” themed program. With similar childhood histories – having both grown up with working-class, single mothers on a fixed budget – powdered milk and boxed mashed potatoes are just two of the memorable items from our “fallout food”-filled kitchen cupboards. As young adults leaving home, visits to local food banks and even shoplifting produce for dinner were regular fare. Today we have both become rather seasoned food geeks. Flavoured by the ideas of class, food access, nutrition and time, we interviewed ourselves…

  • Hate

    Using his own lumpy body as a template, artist RM Vaughan explores differing reactions by various audiences to the blunt reality of having a non-commodifiable body in the age of supermodels. Alternately scathing and self-deprecating, “Hate” dishes out (and takes) some unhappy truths about “beauty” and art.