Film Format: 16mm

  • Nion

    This film shows the odyssey of a baby-like alien, Nion (performed by mime artist Ian Wallace), who lands on earth and discovers fame, fortune, love, and shopping. As a creature from outer space mimicking the behaviour of human beings, Nion conveys the arbitrary nature of gender roles, as well as the dangers of identifying too closely with these models, for instance when Nion explores the personae of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean. An inventive film dealing with stereotypes of gender and desire.

  • No Choice

    “No Choice” is a short documentary that deals with the abortion issue and how it relates to women living in poverty. Five women, ranging in age from twenty to forty-five, speak about the lack of choice available to poor people and how, because of their poverty, their reproductive capabilities are often controlled by extraneous factors. Part of “Five Feminist Minutes.”

  • No Mime Game

    An effective mime-skit showing the perils of drinking and driving. A mixture of mime, camera work, and special effects prepares us to expect the inevitable crash. An excellent film for use in driver and health education or dramatic arts classes.

  • No Sad Songs

    This is the director’s cut of the first Canadian film on the subject of AIDS. In 1985-86 it was featured in festivals and theatres around the world. “No Sad Songs” attracted much critical attention for its sardonic dramatic performances which are interwoven throughout the documentary footage. The film centres on Jim Black, 37, and his views on the premature death in store for him. Catherine Hunt, who has a brother in the U.S. with the illness, speaks with remarkable emotion of the values such a crisis brings out in families and friends. An important film to document the Toronto gay…

  • Nocturne

    A train passes by, a boy with a sparkler in his hand leads us into the world of night. A dark, haunting portrait of the urban landscape in a nocturnal fog. “An impressionistic portrait of Montreal in a nocturnal fog that is simultaneously beautiful and foreboding.” – John Dippong, Vancouver International Film Festival “A painterly vision of what happens in the city at night – beautiful and poetic.” – Stuart Poyntz, Street-Level Film Festival

  • Non-Zymase Pentathlon

    “Non-Zymase Pentathlon” makes use of the commercial imagery of post-war North America, culled from the pages of Life, Maclean’s, National Geographic, and their ilk, animating these pictures in absurd and arbitrary juxtapositions. Animals, people, consumer goods, military equipment, and other detritus float across different planes in an ambiguous film-space. The film is structured into five “events,” preceded by a brief introduction.

  • Atomic Dragons

    A film that examines the disposal of nuclear reactive waste in a story that seems both fantastic and, yet, all too real. The filmmaker exploits the animation genre to its fullest, using cut-out, live-action and photographic techniques to illustrate his satiric fable.

  • North on Evers

    “Practically all of this fascinating road movie by a master framer of landscapes, stretching from the west to the east coast and back again, is not only subtitled but subtitled in handwritten text that moves constantly across the bottom of the frame. Though the procession of shots and the procession of text offer different versions of the same narrative – Benning’s cross-country trip by motorcycle, with many personal stops and one-night stands along the way – they’re rarely in sync or mutually enhancing; sometimes the text precedes the illustration by several minutes, and sometimes the picture comes well before the…

  • Northbound Cairo

    “It’s no bag of pretzels!” Little does Max realize that it is a bag of pretzels, and much, much more. His planned trip to Georgian Bay to document a self-absorbed artist’s work is turned into a personal nightmare by the artist’s doting wife, indifferent children, and Mara, a young woman who has appeared out of an Egyptian dream to taunt him and to confront his neo-macho self-image. An idyllic drive into cottage country is transformed into a metaphorical journey through unfamiliar territory and cinematic absurdity. “Northbound Cairo” is a half-hour experimental comedy. Mara, a vivacious, young woman, has an inexplicable…

  • Not Death by Water Baptism by Fire

    Combining the lyrical tradition with more narrative forms, “Not Death…” weaves a web between different levels of psychic experience. Both visceral and conceptual, “Not Death…” challenges the viewer’s desire for simple narrative coherence, yielding a more complex and timely image of the human situation and film’s representation of it.