Film Categories: Earth

  • Moving Violation

    Shot in Pixelvision and digital video, “Moving Violation” is an examination of the texture, rhythm and beauty that resides hidden within a community. It is a document of our disintegrating past, as a downtown area is slowly demolished to make room for parking. Selected screenings: Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2003; Viper International Film Festival, 2003; Reykjavik Short Film Festival, 2002 Awards: Best Experimental, Saskatchewan Showcase, Canada, 2002

  • Chicken Real

    A fascinating industrial documentary about an automated chicken-growing operation that produces 156 million chickens a year. It carries Les Blank’s inimitable humour with tongue-in-cheek narration and surreal imagery.

  • Icarus

    Shot on two hand-cranked Bolex cameras, this film captures segments from “Wind,” part of a performance cycle about the four elements choreographed by Bill James. Inspired by the Greek myth of Icarus, who fell from grace after flying too close to the sun, this work contrasts post-industrial waste with stunning images of artifice. Music by Tom Third. Performed by Yvonne Ng, Shannon Cooney and Robert Glumbek, with Fung Shui Tong and Dionysos Himel-Savopoulos.

  • Stolen Moment, A

    The world has fallen victim to viruses and diseases. There is no human touch, no eye contact, no socializing. It is not until Sophie catches the eye of a man who holds her gaze that her world opens up before her. How powerful can one look be?

  • Tran Scan

    A stunning cross-Canada journey. A sequence of 112 specially designed telescopic time-lapse scenes form a seamless “flight” across the continent from Pacific to Atlantic. A new way of seeing. A celebration and a memorial. “The telescope becomes a microscope… and a stethoscope.” – SXA “A hypnotic meditation on landscape and perspective.” – Seattle Weekly “Reminiscent of extreme IMAX films, Tran Scan has beautiful scenery and cinematography of the highest caliber. Undoubtedly the most labor-intensive travel film ever created. No still image can convey a sense of this film.” – POV Magazine Selected screenings & awards: Silver Remi Award in Cinematography,…

  • paradise falls, new mexico

    “The desert wind from America’s Southwestern ghost towns blows through the film’s emulsion, stripping away the myth behind the imagery of shoot-outs, outlaws and the lone gunmen from Hollywood Westerns.” – Images Festival, Toronto, 2004 Note: 16mm dual-projection Selected Screenings: Time Inside the Image [3], Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Jan. 31-March 31, 2007

  • Little Life, A

    Hatch, eat, fly, die. The life of “phaenicia sericata,” the green bottle fly. A little life, a short film. No dialogue. Suitable for all ages.

  • Bug Girl

    Part science movie, part storybook, “Bug Girl” is an ecological fable. While searching for her lost cat, a young girl accidentally swallows a bee. Macrocosmic and microcosmic worlds collide and the young girl enters the biotech garden. Here, innocence is lost and her journey transforms into a visual tumble through nature, biology and consciousness. “Bug Girl” is primarily intended to be an installation piece shown in a gallery context. However, it can also be screened as a single-channel work. For the installation, the image is projected onto a circular screen with surround sound. Contact the CFMDC for fees and technical…

  • Oh Me!

    “Oh Me!” is in the form of a diary written by the animator, who is trying to take an account of his life 20 years after his film “Oh Dad!” was created. As in all of Amitay’s films, the animation was done by using fine chains and coloured sand.

  • Rats and Welfare

    Set to a potent activist song by Zoe Chilco, “Rats and Welfare” takes aim at corporate greed and the rats in power.