Film Format: 16mm

  • Burning Down the Dream

    A funky examination of cultural appropriation, sweatshop labour and what you can do about it.

  • Venga!

    Butterflies in the stomach, boxing and babes on the brain.

  • Boxspring

    A woman at the end of a relationship wonders whether she should throw out her mattress.

  • Breath/Light/Birth

    Video transformations of documentary footage of a woman giving birth, assisted by members of a religious commune. Isolation confronts the communal, the gruesome confronts the holy, in this most mysterious of events.

  • Not Alone: A Hallowe’en Romance

    Mushroom soup, an anti-gay bashing march, and a surprise dinner guest are the background for this story about one young gay man, his semi-dream lover, and his mischievous dyke roommate. Set in Toronto, “Not Alone: A Hallowe’en Romance” is a comedic portrait of one man’s failed attempts to avoid a relationship before it even develops.

  • Fine Pain

    “This two-screen dual projector film extends Brown’s use of chemically tortured celluloid to the breaking point. A collaboration with his long-time sound colleague John Kamevaar, ‘Fine Pain’ is an extended dialogue between image and sound – like a prolonged riff of free jazz between two masters. The discordant tensions of this film will keep you on the very edge of your seat, astonish you with the mesmerizing range of colour and abstraction and the over-modulated sound vibrations.” – Pleasure Dome program notes, Toronto, March 2000

  • Sudden and Unexpected

    “Like the beginnings of his films, the endings too are halting. In ‘Plotzlich und Unerwartet (Sudden and Unexpected)’ Udo Kier shuts a door after saying goodbye to the camera, signaling the abrupt end to a maze-like plot which loops around itself, so that the order of events remains opaque (we see the same event from three different perspectives but they seem to occur sequentially).” – Alice Kuzniar, Audacious Allegories: The Queer German Cinema

  • Lost Heroes

    Francisco, the lead character, is a Portuguese-Canadian artist who has just been commissioned to work on a painting celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Portuguese revolution, which took place on April 25, 1974. His agent, upon realizing how distanced Francisco feels from his home, sends him to Portugal to rediscover it. Once there, he goes to meet Catarina, a childhood friend who lives with her family in a small village. Conflict arises when Catarina’s father discovers that Francisco has returned. An ex-captain of the notorious PIDE, the Portuguese equivalent to the KGB, he had Francisco’s father imprisoned, tortured, and killed…

  • Brick Wall

    On one level the film simply records the process of bricklaying and thus it conjoins both sides of Winkler’s life – his artisanal work as a bricklayer and his artistic pursuit as a filmmaker. On another level, however, the film is a highly abstract work that transforms the structure of a brick wall into a virtual canvas.

  • Walnut Tree, The

    As a follow-up to the award-winning “Zyklon Portrait,” “The Walnut Tree” offers a striking combination of documentary and experimental approaches to examine Holocaust memory, the family, and the role of photography in history. Three girls in Dutch costumes stand posing for their father. This fleeting moment, made static in a photograph, is contrasted with the moving imagery of railway tracks – tracks that carried the death transports – now blurred with memory and time. In a matter-of-fact tone, Schogt’s mother describes how her parents tore several pictures out of the family albums when they fled the Nazis in 1943. The…