Film Categories: Families

  • Family Outing

    Using home movies to depict the inner feelings of a closeted adolescent, “Family Outing” attempts to negotiate a queer position within the conventional family structure. Its ravishing, optically printed images form a haunting commentary on childhood, alienation, love and ultimately renewal. “Bradley re-edits his source material with clinical precision to produce a film of enormous strength which, through image alone, acts as a kind of early warning system for the tsunami of coming out.” – 2001 Antimatter Festival of Underground Short Film & Video, Victoria, BC Selected screenings: “Short Film from the Canadian Underground” International Touring Program, 2002; Yorkton Short…

  • Listen

    A daughter’s “coming out” to her mother falls on deaf ears. Sometimes people just don’t want to listen. Awards: Best Canadian Female Short Award & Audience Choice Award for Best Short, Inside Out Festival, Toronto, 2004; Best Short Film for the 2005 Brussels Lesbian & Gay Film Festival; First Prize Animation, Planet Out Short Movie Awards 2005 Also available on QUEERS ON THE VERGE.

  • Daddy-O

    A father sounds off about his love for fishing, fatherhood and his gay daughter on a weekend fishing trip together.

  • Farewell

    An elegy for my Jamaican grandfather, who lived for 98 years. Culled from hand-processed Super 8 memories and Kodachrome images of the heavens, family photographs, and an audio recording of his sweet voice discussing the secret of his long, healthy life, the film bids goodbye to an amazing soul.

  • 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.

  • The Holes Remained

    She stared out the window. The children hadn’t called for weeks. “Out of sight, out of mind…” she thought. Florence Hutton was a local newspaper advice columnist. Now she is dead and her daughters have returned to their childhood home to sort through the belongings.

  • Dead Time

    Innovative and challenging, “Dead Time” is an investigation into the lives of four young people who grapple with drugs, crime, prostitution, family and ultimately hope for their future. Beautifully hand-processed and with an incredible soundtrack, “Dead Time” combines documentary, narrative and experimental elements into a fascinating whole. Selected Screenings: 2006 Rotterdam International Film Festival

  • Kansas City Here I Come

    What secrets would you tell your mother if she’s had a stroke, is about to die, and cannot respond to you?

  • Walnut Grove, mon amour

    After the death of his mentally ill father, artist RM Vaughan attempts to come to terms with the event by reconstructing his father’s emotional responses to the maudlin 70’s television program “Little House on the Prairie.” A blackly humourous meditation on death and grief, punctuated by crying scenes from the famously teary, famously cheesy television classic.

  • you wash my skin with sunshine

    With few childhood memories of her mother’s affection, Mullen mines old home movies for evidence. When she doesn’t find exactly what she’s looking for, she sets out to create a new family movie of her own, starring her surprisingly willing mother. A reflection on memory, loss, reconciliation and love.