Film Format: 35mm
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Locus
A boyhood trauma takes form.
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Curse of the Voodoo Child, The
Sex, birth, fire and fingerprints. A passion play and the events of conception that result in mayhem. A rock’n’roll theme, in Cinemascope! Nominated for Best Animation at the 2006 Jutra Awards.
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Element of Light
Inspired by the elements of nature on a journey through light and sound. Painted directly onto the film and accompanied by scratched optical sounds. A stream-of-consciousness motion painting. “A work of pure delight. A master of scratch animation, Reeves extends the tradition of visual music first explored in Canada by Norman McLaren. This is sublime work of cinematic dexterity.” – Philip Hoffman (Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film, 2005)
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What Grown-Ups Know
Despairing of life on the run with his ailing and flamboyant mum, teenage Roy seeks solace in seducing the lonely manager of a desolate trailer park. “Not to be missed.” – Pasadena Weekly “Engaging and intelligent…heavy on heart, tinged with humor.” – Palm Springs Desert Sun Selected screenings & awards: Jury Award, Best Short, Mardi Gras Film Festival, Australia, 2004; 2nd Prize, Nextframe Film Festival, 2004; London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 2005; Slamdance, Park City Utah, 2005; Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 2004; Palm Springs International Short Film Festival; Inside Out Toronto Lesbian & Gay Film & Video…
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Moustache
Sometimes it doesn’t pay to change your true self for the person you love. Selected Awards (2005): Best Narrative Short Film, Cinekink Film Festival, New York, USA; Ursula Award for Best Transgender Short, Hamburg International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Germany; Audience Award Winner, Palm Springs International Film Festival, USA; Best Female Short, Pike’s Peak Lavender Film Festival, Colorado, USA; Best Foreign Film, Créteil International Film Festival, Paris, France; Best Screenplay, Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival.
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Donnie & Clyde
Two ex-prisoners are forced to go on the run in this dark and humourous re-telling of “Bonnie and Clyde”.
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Fidanzata, La
Just as Lolo, a gay Italian-Secondo, is getting ready to spend a romantic evening with his lover, his Italian Nonna makes an unexpected appearance. Un homosexuel d’origine italienne, Lolo, s’apprête à passer la soirée avec son amant. Or, voice que Mémé passe à l’improviste et met Lolo dans une situation épineuse.
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Bombardement le port des perles, le
A reworking of the trailer for the movie “Pearl Harbor,” using both handmade and digital techniques. Formally, “Le bombardement le port des perles” explores collage and found sound as voice-over.
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Multiple Selves of Hannah Maynard, The
A glimpse into the unique, eccentric mind of a pioneering Canadian photographer, Hannah Maynard (1834-1918). Born in England, Maynard immigrated with her family to Vancouver Island in 1862, where she set up her own portrait studio. After the sudden death of her youngest daughter, she produced a troubling series of experimental images that reflected her haunted state – an attempt to contact her beloved daughter’s spirit. Considered overly bold and unconventional, Maynard experimented with such techniques as collage, multiple exposure and photo-sculpture. She developed a surreal vision, a world obsessed with children and death, but also the spiritual possibilities of…
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One Day I Stood Still
As a woman stands at a subway stop, she dreams of arresting time and moving through it more gracefully. In this moment of pause, we dive into the whirlwind of her thoughts about both the beauties and horrors of life. “An arrestingly beautiful, stunningly assured journey into the psychic depths of one moment in a woman’s life. By turns ominous, humorous and romantic, it reveals the magic hidden behind the veil of time.” – Toronto International Film Festival, 1996 “Within its allusive narrative strands of feminine fantasy and power, ‘One Day I Stood Still’ is a poetic, romantic and engaging…
