Film Categories: found footage

  • 3:48

    “‘3:48’ is a film about living and dying in Ontario. I reassembled newsfilm and other footage to write an allusive and associative history that suggests the laws of memory and the processes of dream. The images date from the late 1960s and early 1970s, and depict the everyday: garbage collection, a picket line, children playing in the snow, a building on fire. Most lack the age or resonance that might inject them with nostalgia. However, they do trace the outlines of the small ways we try to make life in this sad place better.” – Blaine Allan

  • Panic Bodies

    “Filmed in the shadow of AIDS, ‘Panic Bodies’ is Hoolboom’s testament to the permanent impermanence of the flesh. The film’s six parts show the range of Hoolboom’s engagement with mortality, from rage to reverie … Whether he’s remixing ‘Terminator 2’ or concocting a female paradise, Hoolboom finds a balance between razor-sharp intellect and palpable love for images and sounds. To watch ‘Panic Bodies’ is to see what it means to live and die in the cinema.” – Cameron Bailey, NOW “Paul Rioeur said the toughest things humans have to face are that we die and not everyone loves us. ‘Panic…

  • Where Lies the Homo?

    “Where Lies the Homo?” is a film diary that explores the construction of gay identities through an analysis of media clips and coming-out tales. The narrative’s focus is on demystifying stereotypical representations of queerness in film while offering a pesonal view of growing up queer in a heterosexist culture. From Disney to underground gay cinema, from Hollywood divas to grainy home movies, this experimental collage juxtaposes and reinterprets many of our iconographic images of sexuality and family.

  • Yesterday’s Wine

    “Yesterday’s Wine” is a found-footage film that explores the nature of filmmaking by deconstructing the violence common to commercial, narrative cinema. Constructed from old regular and Super 8mm films, with a dialogue created from language tapes, the film also examines the self-referential nature of filmmaking. Inspired surrealism and dadaism, disparate material is brought together through intuitive associations to create an absurd homage to old and obscure cinema.

  • Book of Lies

    An Air Canada commercial is broken into single frames and then reconstructed to show the movement of the body and the movement of the exotic coming together in a spectacular free fall.

  • Snap

    A collection of pictures and old autograph-book rhymes capture a particular glance at a life.

  • Babble on Palms, The

    The “Babble on Palms” is a lush and vibrant cameraless animation, combining found footage, scratch and inking techniques with the universal language of music. Individuality, censorship, shared experiences, and unseen auras are just some of the topics examined in this short experimental animation by Canadian filmmaker, Steven Woloshen. Perhaps, when our ears cease to listen, the “Babble on” palms, speak. Made on September 12th, 2001 in response to the previous day’s event. Suitable for all ages and audiences.

  • Silent Song

    “Silent Song” brings new life to a remarkable piece of 1945 footage found by chance in an archive. “Silent Song” completes a deeply personal trilogy on family history and Holocaust memory. The first two films of the trilogy, “Zyklon Portrait” (13min. 1999) and “The Walnut Tree” (11min. 2000) have been seen in 20 countries around the globe, garnering numerous awards. In the pandemonium of the liberation of Nazi concentration camp Dachau, a U.S. army cameraman filmed a young boy playing the accordian. This strangely poetic moment offers an unusual contrast to the all-too-familiar WWII liberation images of emaciated prisoners in…

  • Rodeo Rhododendron

    A queer, multi-layered, romantic film about cowboys that mixes TV footage of the Calgary Stampede (re-filmed on Super 8), still photos, and footage of rhododendrons and cowboy go-go dancers.

  • Camera People

    This multi-ethnic collage of home movies shows people’s various reactions when they realize they are “on camera.” Dancing kids upstage one another while bolder characters upstage the camera lens. “Camera People” provides upbeat insights into the meaning of home movies and people’s relationship to them. “This vibrant display of home movie conventions is as much about people as filmmaking.” – After Image