Film Format: 35mm

  • Two Eastern Hair Lines

    Sometimes, rifts between us are as wide as rivers, and sometimes, as small as hair lines. Using bleaching and painting techniques on found footage, “Two Eastern Hair Lines” explores communication, conflict and isolation. “West of the pass you will meet no more old friends.” – Tang Dynasty poem Awards: Jutra Nomination for Best Animation, 2004

  • Animal Nightmares

    “Animal Nightmares” is a conceptual music film which explores the spiritual connection between man and nature. The conflict between man and animal states, extinction and existence, conjures the sad truth that our survival in the modern world is not a given. Featuring music and animation by Paul Watson.

  • Street Sweeper Suite

    A night in the life of a street-sweeping machine as it roams from one street to the next in its endless search for litter. With an original score by Legion of Green Men.

  • Collage d’Hollywood

    “Assembled from a shoebox of movie trailers found at a dilapidated Saskatchewan drive-in… ‘Collage d’Hollywood’ unravels and reorganizes the tight grammar of Hollywood cinema into a multi-formed pastiche that fuses film and visual art sensibilities.” – Brett Kashmere “A mesmerizing film that demands to be watched again and again.” – Matthew Hays, Montreal Mirror “…histrionic horror and action movie trailers distilled into pure panic.” – Jason Anderson, Eye Weekly Selected screenings: Festival du nouveau cinéma, nouveaux médias, Montreal, QC, 2003; Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporaneo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, 2004; Nemo Festival, Paris, France, 2004; Images Festival,…

  • Johnny Greyeyes

    The eyes of Johnny (Gail Maurice) have seen more of the world than most. A resilient and brave woman, Johnny has spent the last seven years in the maximum-security Prison for Women, where she has fallen in love with fellow inmate Lana (Columpa C. Bobb). With her release date near, Johnny struggles with her devotion to Lana, the demands of her fractured family, and the difficulties that come with “freedom.” “’Johnny Greyeyes’ movingly renders the broken threads of a family torn by abuse and murder.” – Chicago Reader (November 10, 2000) “A rare glimpse into the life of First Nations…

  • Chinese Series

    “This film was made on 35mm whereby Stan scratched off the emulsion of the film using his fingernail. The original was step-printed by Mary Beth Reed. This film is available is both 16mm and 35mm and is in black and white.”-Dominic Angerame Scratching on spit-softened emulsion “with bare fingernails,” Stan completed this work — all that he could manage of his long dreamed-of “Chinese Series” — in his bed, a couple of months before his death. Printed by Courtney Hoskins, who has written that: “On the negative, it seemed to have the essence of Chinese characters — “strokes” and blocks,…

  • Stolen Moment, A

    The world has fallen victim to viruses and diseases. There is no human touch, no eye contact, no socializing. It is not until Sophie catches the eye of a man who holds her gaze that her world opens up before her. How powerful can one look be?

  • Still Life

    Unlike the mediated images of current warfare, director Cynthia Madansky examines the effects of the destruction of Occupation through the details of cinematic landscapes and its inherent inhabitants. Through sound and image “Still Life” lays devastation at our doorstep. In its relentless questioning reaffirmed with a unique and unremitting soundtrack by composer Zeena Parkins, “Still Life” forces us to focus on the details of present-day Palestine. Selected screenings: Berlin Film Festival, 2005; Split Festival of New Film, Croatia, 2005; Winner, Youth Award, Festival de Cine de Huesca, Spain, 2005; Human Rights Film Festival, New York, 2005; Museum of Modern Art,…

  • Don’t You Worry, It Will Probably Pass

    “Are you there? A girl who is attracted to both boys and girls?” “Don’t You Worry, It Will Probably Pass” is an unencumbered look at three girls who responded to this ad in an internet chat room. This was the same classified ad the filmmaker, Cecilia Neant-Falk, had placed in a magazine some 15 years earlier when she too was a lonely and confused teenager. Using the internet this time, she begins her exploration of the coming out experience for a new generation of queer girls. From the overwhelming response to her ad, she found three young women, My, Natalie…

  • Styx

    Mark works on a ferryboat. One night his boyfriend Adrien drives aboard, only to tell him that he is leaving the lake forever. The trip across the dark lake turns into a desperate fight for their love and their incompatible dreams. German with English sub-titles.