Film Categories: Politics + Policy

  • Drawing A Blank

    A psychedelic B&E leaves a sketchbook open and results in a lot of questions. A paradoxical sacrifice is made when one is committed to the page. Does one make high art, for the main stream or low brow art?

  • Euphemism

    The death of the Id and the Ego of a hit man as he embraces nature. Inspired by Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil and applied into an imaginary world of a man with a gun and a pact with his tribe.

  • Going Very Steady

    Going Very Steady is a film about the Id, finding one’s identity in a world governed by authority, and society’s Super Ego as it appears as a menacing, marching work force.

  • One Foot In The Grave

    The questions of freedom and the cost of society’s overconsumption are raised in a graveyard where dead military men have been buried.

  • Process

    Experimental texture dictates the plot of Process, which explores male/female relationships in crisis.

  • Sarnia 1

    Lights dance to a beat filling the screen with colour and simile while travelling through Canada.

  • Shopping Cart

    Humankind’s penchant for overindulgence is explored through images of a shopping cart in a vast deserted parking lot.

  • ub2

    Listings on gay dating websites increasingly specify that the poster is “clean” or “disease-free” and requests of his potential matches, “ub2” (internet-speak for “you be, too”). Of course, people are free to specify anything that’s important to them, but how does the choice of these words impact the HIV+ men who read them? What image does it give of our community? Do words matter?

  • Trans Lives Matter! Justice for Islan Nettles

    A powerful and intensely moving document of a community vigil for Islan Nettles, a transgender Womyn of Colour, concerning her spirit and life. Because the personal is political. Because the brutal and increasing attacks on Trans Womyn of Color are outrageous and their victimization causes outrage. Because healing and action tighten our fists and boom our voices. Islan’s murder was a hate crime, she was only 21. Her vigil was held at Jackie Robinson Park in Harlem, steps away from where she was murdered. This endeavour captured the love and support that the community brought to sustain each other and…

  • Holy Mother My Mother

    A portrait of motherhood filmed during the Navratri celebrations (The Goddess Festival) in India.