Film Format: 35mm

  • ZERO the inside story

    On a journey to find the origins of the number zero, a woman discovers more than she was expecting. The journey begins as a quest for the cultural roots of zero and how this concept touches human consciousness in unexpected ways. The search leads her to India, said to be the birthplace of the mysterious number, and the ancient city of Varanasi. There she maps her inner world onto the powerful mix of Hindu ritual and spirituality she encounters, finally confronting a traumatic event in her past. More than a film about the number that is not, “ZERO the inside…

  • Mercury in Retrograde

    Betsy Brick is having a bad day. On the eve of her 40th birthday, the compulsive poker player crosses the point of no return – and all debts, spiritual and earthly, demand repayment. Starring Lea De Laria as the main character.

  • Seed of a Thought

    Pearl lives a solitary life. Her time is divided between paperback romances and gardening. While weeding in her back yard, she unearths a large seed wrapped in the roots of a particularly stubborn plant. Puzzled, she takes the seed into her little house where she hopes it will sprout. What develops is a surprising story of horror, discovery and romance.

  • Snip

    Shards of film fly off the screen while the music of Fats Waller plays on! In this short abstract film, coloured ink and small pieces of film stock are heaped directly on the film’s surface. “This film was made in the weeks preceding the birth of my first child. It was my intention to create a fast-moving, colourful style that a very young child could respond to. I’ll see in the years that follow if I was right or not,” Steven Woloshen.

  • sea-ing

    This film playfully engages with the act of seeing and with every other sense that the phrase might prompt. “sea-ing” takes the viewer through the world of representations (magazine articles, texts and photographs on the topic of aquatic beings, the “sea”) to the world of presentations, where the actual beings (the starfish) light up our eyes and thus present themselves to our senses in their immediacy. The visual rhythms echo the experience of submerging under water: the initial shock to the sensory system, the rush of bodily reactions to the new environment, and then the subsequent calmness and engagement with…

  • Daisy

    It all begins with a kiss… “An extremely sensitive, intimate, female’s view on an exciting moment.” – Special Award, Splitski Filmski Festival, Split Croatia 2000 Golden Sheaf Award, Best of Saskatchewan, Yorkton International Film Festival 2000

  • Bitten

    A mysterious man (Sebastian Spence) arrives at a B&B managed by Natasha (Babz Chula) and her beautiful daughter Alvy (Jane McGregor), who find themselves vying for his attention. Alvy is ready to assume her womanhood, her mother is not yet ready to relinquish her waning sexual power. This is a coming-of-age battle between delicious youth and delectable experience. Awards: Audience Award, Best Short Film, NY International Film & Video Festival, 2003; Best Director of a Short Film, NY International Film & Video Festival, 2003; Best Supporting Actress in a Short Film – Babz Chula, NY International Film & Video Festival,…

  • ALL YOU CAN EAT

    A collage of Super 8mm 70’s porn that is bigger than life in 35mm. A sexy and fun smorgasbord – all you can eat in five minutes.

  • Good Stuff

    “Good Stuff” is a dark comedy about an alienated, gothic private school girl who discovers that she has a terminal illness. The film finds irony and humour in dealing with the cards fate has dealt you. Awards: Best Short Film, Chicago International Film Festival; Bronze Award, Houston WorldFest

  • Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf

    An Arab-American girl tries to come to terms with her sexuality while balancing the mores of two different cultures. As she faces a series of trials on confrontations, will she shed her passivity, or will her spirit be broken? Arabic/Hebrew with English sub-titles. Selected Screenings: 2006 Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah