Film Format: 16mm

  • lesbianfilm

    “lesbianfilm” is a hilarious performative documentary (mockumentary) that puts the spotlight on all the hype, PR, collaboration, love and bickering that goes into the making of an independent feature film. In the great homosexual tradition, “lesbianfilm” employs camp and humour to achieve a political aim. With tape rolling, the lesbianfilm collective askes the question: “Do you support lesbianfilm?” At the end of the day, the group has managed to debunk identity politics, pitch the festival programmers, and secure numerous donations from unsuspecting patrons of the arts – of props, wardrobe, a location and various in-kind service for the fictional project.…

  • Since Then

    After the love has gone, the mundane routines of everyday become the hope for a brighter tomorrow.

  • Self: (Portrait/Fulfillment) A Film by the Blob Thing

    After starring in several clay-animated shorts for filmmaker Brian Stockton, the perpetually depressed Blob Thing takes a turn behind the camera to direct this revealing self-portrait. Filmed in glorious wide-screen anamorphic 16mm.

  • Bus Station Film

    An affectionate and eclectic view of the relationship between the camera-eye and the Toronto bus station. Who are these people who move like shadows on a wall; move in, move out, pass through or wait around; sometimes all day, sometimes all winter? How does the camera see; how do we look at things or listen to things when silver and glass and electricity guide our vision and filter our hearing? This film is a poem dedicated to the camera and more importantly to the different Bus Station People you can see any day or any minute.

  • Machine Machine Machine Machine

    Consumed by toaster experiments and the lure of the switching yard, a pale mad scientist (Julian Doucet) dresses up like a slightly automated Hugo Ball to enter the late winter landscape and bear witness to man’s inhumanity to machines.

  • TV Stories

    “TV Stories” chronicles the simple story of a man who lives alone and spends most of his time interacting with other people’s answering machines. The story is told using a structural film technique in which the room was shot from eight camera angles. The film was then edited so that each shot lasts exactly two seconds. We see the shots in the same repeated sequence, giving us a 360 degree view of the room every 16 seconds.

  • Passing Through

    “Passing Through” is haunted by a song about love and marriage that can’t be fully recalled – or completely forgotten. In this beautifully hand-processed film nothing seems to fit properly. The streets of a small, Ontario town become associative paths for memory when desire stretches the seams of expectation.

  • Still Here

    Made for the filmmaker’s uncle, a painter and a gay man who died violently in 2001, this silent, hand-processed film marks an enduring presence with bold brush strokes. When the body is absent the shadows remain. “Still Here” consists of a series of spontaneous, single-take performances that have been edited in-camera. It is at once a eulogy and an act of defiance against the crime that ended Davis Buller’s life.

  • Busk

    Life is hard when you live on Gerrard … especially when you’re a white French-Canadian rapper trying to make it on the streets of Toronto. “Busk” is a fish-out-of-water comedy about a guy with a dream who doesn’t give up even when his whole ‘hood is against him. “Busk” is based on a skit performed by the comedy troupe Sweet Potato. Eric Marier acted out his nerdy white rapper character for filmmaker Paula Tiberius over wine one evening, and she wrote the script the next day. Eric added his own raps, and they geard up to shoot the film four…

  • Flabs in Anti Panti

    Flabs, the Y-front wearing anti-panti crusader, is pursued by the pants police.