Film Categories: comedy

  • So Far So

    A pencil portrait of the artist as a young woman. My Boyfriend Gave Me Peaches: Fleming utilizes her quirky, elegantly minimalistic style to superb effect in this film, a humorously nasty teenage girls’ ditty about a mean boyfriend who gets bumped down the stairs and carted off in an ambulance. I Love My Work: In the faux-naif stick-figure animation Fleming describes the plight of the modern woman who insists on trying to get to work, despite horoscope warnings that she should stay at home.

  • Big Key, The

    A comedy about a piano player who vents his creative frustrations in various ways, causing havoc. With Phil Shreibman, Len Udow and Mary Jane Card.

  • Where Does Mess Come From?

    “A hybrid of narrative and performance, film and video that uses a baroque train trip to suggest the eruption of chaos behind every stray desire. Loose enigma gets its due here, but it is when the tape is plainest – as in a sequence where a woman reveals fantasies of men that approach ‘Cosmo’ dimensions – that things get most fascinating.” – Cameron Bailey, NOW “Where Does Mess Come From?” is a story of chaos in its most pedestrian form. The constant breakdown of order in the universe is also the constant breakdown of order in our lives. The need…

  • Why I Hate Bees

    WHY I HATE BEES is a comedic journey into a young girl’s memories of near death, based on the short story by Canadian writer Nancy Jo Cullen. Awards: Best Canadian Lesbian Short, Inside Out Festival, Toronto, 1998; Grand Prize, Cabbagetown Film Festival, Toronto, 1999; Honourable Mention, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2000. DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT: When I discovered Nancy Jo Cullen’s short story “Why I Hate Bees” in the Saskatchewan quarterly literary magazine, Grain, it had just won an honourable mention in the publication’s writing contest. Nancy lives in Calgary, Alberta. The complete text of her story serves as the narration for…

  • Cowgirl’s Revenge, A

    When David tells Catherine he’s breaking up with her because he doesn’t find her that attractive, she is devastated. When her best friend hears what David has said, she convinces Catherine to get revenge – but who’s “doing” who here? Things aren’t always as they seem when it comes to affairs of the heart – especially in the 90s.

  • I Know a Place

    Producer: Jane Farrow Writer/Director: Roy Mitchell An intimate, funny, and completely engaging family photo album of a thriving little queer community buried in the heart of the rugged and isolated Ontario steeltown of Sault Ste. Marie. Bob Goddere is at the centre of this historic demi-monde. Director/writer Roy Mitchell accesses this intriguing story through his personal relationship with Bob and the community as someone who grew up in the Sault, and like so many young queers, came out at Bob’s parties in the 1970s and 80s. Conventional wisdom has it that good fences make good neighbours. But when you meet…

  • Death Threat

    A comic farce about Yasmeen Siddiqui, a young Muslim woman. She has just written her first novel and can’t understand why no less than fifty-nine publishers would reject a romantic epic like “The Unquenched Wench of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.”

  • Eve-olve!

    A short clay-animated film which takes a humorous look at the phenomenon of Social Darwinism. The arbitrariness of the selection process becomes evident as three different characters are selected for or against, on the basis of quite dubious criteria. The ubiquitous hand of Darwin deals summarily with each character.

  • Every Hour on the Hour

    A short physical comedy about four extreme characters living in a four-story manor. On the top floor, a fiery 10-year-old tap dancer practices her loudest and most annoying routine. Find out how her neighbours are affected in this hilarious short film about patience, revenge, chaos and relationships.

  • POM

    This documentary is the story (saga) of whiskey-swilling, chain-smoking Joanna, who tries out for the University of Texas pom pom squad. In her words, “I don’t want to stand on the sidelines doing nothing, I want to stand on the sidelines doing something!” This funny video explores the relationship between gender and performance.