Film Format: 16mm

  • Children’s Voice, The (short version)

    “The Children’s Voice” is 30-minute documentary about an innovative children’s theatre that celebrates the heroic efforts of abused children and child witnesses of wife assault, to break the cycle of violence in their young lives. The courageous troupe of children, aged 9-12, banded together to collectively write and perform a play “TELL IT-Speak Your Peace on Violence,” based on their life stories and concerns. The film captures the children’s process of growth and empowerment that culminates with excerpts from their triumphant live performance for school groups and the general public. A 60-minute version also available.

  • Chimera

    “Chimera” is a patchwork picture of several places, peoples and spaces. The splayed visual ‘documents’ inner fluctuations and explosive exteriors during the time of terrific change. ‘Chimera’ is ‘a multi-headed beast,’ ‘a fish of remarkable appearance,’ ‘illusion.’ ‘Chimera’ is a collective chant. “The film consists of collected, diaristic images amassed through Hoffman’s travels. Uluru,… Russian shoppers, a Cairo market, and day to day images from home and away…. make floating appearances. These have been gathered on the run, and then reconstituted with an uncanny ephemeral floating rhythm, a dance of light, and replaying, with commendable control, the idea of visual…

  • Top of the World

    In the American Southwest, the new girl in town falls for the resident dark and dangerous butch over coffee, motorbikes and psycho ex-girlfriends.

  • Rats and Welfare

    Set to a potent activist song by Zoe Chilco, “Rats and Welfare” takes aim at corporate greed and the rats in power.

  • Redemption of Ogum, The (Redenção de Ogum)

    A haunting, poetic vision from the streets of Brazil. “Today you can find yourself, but soon you will end up getting lost.”

  • Amazing Amazons, The

    A campy combo of live action and animation, “The Amazing Amazons” follows a day in the life of a contemporary female super hero. Aimee is in the midst of a typical Amazon day – fighting censorship, taking out macho attitudes and exposing lies – when her fellow Amazon Amanda rattles her to the very foundation of her Amazon soul.

  • Chronic

    “Chronic” explores the idea of body as machine. It is inspired by the work of Etienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge, who studied motion with photography before the advent of motion picture cameras. Copied on a photocopier, the images in the film have a high contrast, low-res look that refers to the developing technologies used by these photographic pioneers.

  • Fine Romance (In Three Parts), A

    A fine, if undefined, romance – told with lots of kissing, vivid colours and Ella on the soundtrack.

  • Choice Chance Women Dance

    A film-poem by a man who attempts to understand and express some of the concerns of women in the early ’70s: woman with woman, woman alone, woman as mother, woman as scientist, woman as dancer. An impressionistic documentary, using pixillation, superimposition, interview and dance-film techniques.

  • Sea Horses and Flying Fish

    A one-minute animation treat that celebrates the art of sound poetry as Christian Bök recites words from Hugo Ball, one of the leading pioneers of phonetic poetry.