Film Format: 16mm

  • Passing Shadows

    Passing Shadows attempts the seeming impossible: to travel the inner pathways of poet Andrew Suknaski’s creative impulses. The film traces in detail the painstaking, methodical and happenstance search Suknaski undertakes to discover the images and the emotions that fill his poetry. He wanders along bookshelves, across faces and into shadows pursuing the moments and symbols of truth that Suknaski strives to translate into words.

  • The Last Pogo

    Grab some safety pins, practice your sneer and get ready to revisit Toronto’s thriving punk scene. THE LAST POGO documents the raucous 1978 punk concert held in Toronto’s legendary Horseshoe Tavern-a night of unhinged music and unbridled mayhem. On December 1, 1978, legendary Toronto concert promoters Gary Topp and Gary Cormier-better known as The Garys-presented The Last Pogo, a rollicking, riotous concert at the venerable Horseshoe Tavern. On the bill were seminal bands from Toronto’s punk rock scene: The Scenics, The Cardboard Brains, The Secrets, The Mods, The Ugly, The Viletones and Teenage Head. During the concert, the frenetic energy…

  • The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada

    A filmmaker searches for two Canadians who flew to the moon in 1959, but because they were Canadian, were too modest to tell anybody.

  • A Trip Around Lake Ontario

    Author David McFadden takes a trip around Lake Ontario to research a book and offers a “fact or fiction” comic narration on the people he meets. Shot prior to writing the novel of the same name, A Trip Around Lake Ontario is a film based on a book based on a film.

  • Granville: A Portrait

    Granville: A Portrait is a fictionalized story based on the real life experiences of a Black Male Stripper, Granville Johnston. While dancing in a strip club, Granville takes a fall, injures his leg and is taken to hospital, so the narrative unfolds in a series of flashbacks that illuminate his story.

  • Pocket Call

    Isolated in an old house, a man sees his daily life merge with that of a female presence that gradually invades his space. Trapped within his own home, he must confront this strangely familiar ghost.

  • Let’s Rap

    “Women, speak your mind!” says one of the rappers in this collage of women of all ages and races who use the directness and power of rap music to express their views. These women, who rap in their own words about their own lives and beliefs present us with a lively, musical and often comical look at key issues facing women today. Let’s Rap! brims with energy, from its dynamic editing, witty set designs and colourful costumes right down to the pulsating beat which underlies its enthusiastic performances. Let by the powerful Montreal rap artist Freaky D, one of Quebec’s…

  • Navels I

    Artist Robin Riad talks about her relationship with her belly button. This is the first in a series of short film profiles about navels.

  • Catch Up!

    A chubby man enters a surreal world as he tries to catch his cat.