Film Format: Super 8

  • Two/Doh

    “Two/Doh” is an evocative poetic pastiche exploring the public and private spaces of desire, and its intersection with the cultural and erotic connections between two women of different origins: Persian/Armenian and South Asian/Sri Lankan.

  • UR Lucky

    I placed a medallion on the sidewalk and filmed whoever happened along to pick it up. The film is about not being able to have control over the event, and the acceptance of this fact. This is the first film in my Performance Trilogy, a series of films which also include “Snow Search” and “Making a Scene.” (MD)

  • Black Cat White Cat It’s a Good Cat if It Catches the Mouse

    “Taking its title from a quote from Deng Xiaoping, ‘Black cat white cat – it’s a good cat if it catches the mouse’, this film was shot during a visit to the People’s Republic of China. Rimmer’s impressionistic, experimental travelogue is a dizzying dialectical portrait of the enigma that is modern China: an ancient society of a billion souls rushing headlong into modernity. “The measured, quiet grace of the traditional art of T’ai Chi gives way in Rimmer’s film to increasingly rapid sound and image montages. Western movie posters, ‘Surfin’ USA,’ burger stands, pre-recorded English lessons, Scientology advertisements, and modern…

  • Weather Building

    The first half of “Weather Building” shows an empty room. Through the window is seen the film’s central emblem, the lighted tower at the top of an office building. A series of lighting and camera manipulations causes the planes of light in the room to shift and dissolve into one another. This and the soundtrack of footsteps (of someone who never appears) open for consideration a range of conceptions of filmic space. Part two repeats the “script” of the first half of the film – using a video playback of part one in the “role” of the weather building. There…

  • What Isabelle Wants

    Utilizing human pixillation, Isabelle’s demand to nurture conjures a variety of sensations… perverse, kitsch, sweet witch voodoo?

  • Window

    “The tensions between containment and expansion, inner and outer, surface and depth, reflections and projections, implicit in any window, are felt as rhythmic movements of colour and light within the projected frame.” – M.J.

  • Yearbook

    The length of a pop song, because it’s about the insidious way pop music begins to describe the moments of four lives. Romping through high school in four kilts and kisses, these girls truncate a feature film into the length of a pop song. Starring Janine Fung, Louise Liliefeldt, Nicole Pena and Christina Zeidler.

  • First Comes Love

    Two best friends in their early twenties gaze into each other’s eyes and recollect their sexcapades with a stupefying succession of boyfriends. The only true love here is their mutual adoration.

  • I Know a Place

    Producer: Jane Farrow Writer/Director: Roy Mitchell An intimate, funny, and completely engaging family photo album of a thriving little queer community buried in the heart of the rugged and isolated Ontario steeltown of Sault Ste. Marie. Bob Goddere is at the centre of this historic demi-monde. Director/writer Roy Mitchell accesses this intriguing story through his personal relationship with Bob and the community as someone who grew up in the Sault, and like so many young queers, came out at Bob’s parties in the 1970s and 80s. Conventional wisdom has it that good fences make good neighbours. But when you meet…

  • Roadside Attraction

    Pull over at the next exit and you’re gonna find sexy cowboys, donut eating, and black velvet paintings. The dreamy Super 8 landscape attests to how weird and alluring roadside America can be.