Film Categories: Youth
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Desert Road
Sage hangs from a rear-view mirror to impart wisdom while a prayer for peace meets mysticism. All things that are left wild are better left untouched by the fingerprint of Man as he travels to a burning oasis in the desert only to find his vision cleansed as he looks further.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Process
Experimental texture dictates the plot of Process, which explores male/female relationships in crisis.
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Sarnia 1
Lights dance to a beat filling the screen with colour and simile while travelling through Canada.
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Shopping Cart
Humankind’s penchant for overindulgence is explored through images of a shopping cart in a vast deserted parking lot.
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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…
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Performing Girl
Performing Girl is a short documentary about D’Lo, a queer, transgender, Tamil Sri Lankan American actor, writer, director and comic who got his start at age 11, performing for his family and classmates in the desert town of Lancaster, CA. Animations, home movies, and family snapshots paint the portrait of his personality. In interviews and clips from his performances, D’Lo and his parents explain how his identity and their relationship has changed over the last twenty years.
