Film Categories: Mental Health

  • Self-Portrait in Hell

    Self-Portrait in Hell is a hybrid film that combines analog and digital film manipulation techniques. Multiple layers of 8mm films and disparate fragments are amalgamated to create a self-portrait of the director. A singular self-portrait, since ironically the subject of the film is not the director but the image found in abandoned film archives, the image of another, unknown woman. The first layer is from a 1970s 8mm home movie titled Woman Dancing with Dog and was found in an antique shop. The second layer is an 8mm film belonging to an unknown archive, which the artist buried for a…

  • Pieces Within

    A poets’ muse calls on his inner child to save their relationship.

  • Kiri and The Girl

    Based on the experiences of Tlingit artist Kiri Geen as she reconnected and reclaimed her Indigenous heritage after her adoption, “Kiri and The Girl” follows young Kiri as she navigates losing her mother and is guided to becoming her true self.

  • I’ve Heard a Siren Calling

    A Great Lake Surfer has recently began her transition as a Trans Woman. She now is having hesitations with putting her wetsuit back on, but something is calling her back. In the isolation of her cabin in a small fishing town, she seeks to find the courage to face her fears.

  • Wisemen, God, and Wednesday

    Within three diverse pairs of eyes are born three souls that converge. Samwise and Stevie grew up homeless in BC and Nova Scotia. Ianos is a gender-queer Greek. Kwaku is a single father who came from extreme poverty and famine. Featuring a juxtaposition of sound and imagery, “Wisemen, God, and Wednesday” is a sketch of these characters’ intimate commentaries on life as they see it.

  • WAR TIMES

    An exploration of two souls inhabiting bodies from 1940’s Hungary, and the beginning of the digital age. Adoring and loathing one another until full acknowledgment that it should always be this way.

  • Astrov at the Lemonade Stand

    In the aftermath of a medical malpractice trial, Dr. Astrov’s tragic day takes a bizarre turn when he encounters two 11-year old girlbosses running a lemonade stand.

  • Bodyrebuilding

    How diversity work led to chronic pain and my journey to healing through weightlifting (Commissioned by Polygon Gallery)

  • My Canada Train Journey

    50-plus years after a memorable overnight Canadian train ride, Sandy McLennan boards regional and remote lines, with main line and public transit between them. This time shooting Double 8mm film, the same format he fell in love with while screening family home movies just for himself. What was he thinking?

  • a tangled web drowning in honey

    a tangled web drowning in honey is an experiential and textural short film that invites viewers into the inner workings of a mind to ponder the ways in which we love and unlove ourselves.