Film Format: Super 8

  • bed

    “bed” offers a playful new look at female desire and queer sexuality. Raw, edgy and sexy. Stunning black-and-white images of two women making love are juxtaposed with dreamy scenes of city life, illuminating the contrast between public and private life that many women, lesbian in particular, share. A rich soundtrack incorporates original vocals and ambient elements with sexy, funky trip-hop music. “This well-crafted work of art turned me on, made me wet and stimulated my good taste in art.” – Annie Sprinkle

  • After Morning

    Things the filmmaker forgot and learned about birth control on her trip to America.

  • Larry’s Recent Behaviour

    One of Joyce Wieland’s earliest works, shot in 8mm and finally blown-up to 16mm, “Larry’s Recent Behaviour” has been described by Simon Field as an “irreverent and wilfully juvenile examination” of a nasty habit that Larry has recently acquired.

  • Yesterday’s Wine

    “Yesterday’s Wine” is a found-footage film that explores the nature of filmmaking by deconstructing the violence common to commercial, narrative cinema. Constructed from old regular and Super 8mm films, with a dialogue created from language tapes, the film also examines the self-referential nature of filmmaking. Inspired surrealism and dadaism, disparate material is brought together through intuitive associations to create an absurd homage to old and obscure cinema.

  • Hi I’m Steve

    Dissatisfied with his sex life, Steve decides he’ll give gay telephone dating a try. Although he never seems to find the right person, he does discover a new fetish at the core of his sexual being.

  • Electrical Discharge

    This is the shocking short coming-out film made by Harmsen and Woodbury for the 1999 SPLICE THIS! Super 8 film festival. It involves grown men shuffling up an electrical charge on an acrylic carpet and says more about being a homo than we would normally care to admit.

  • Street Musicians & LL Cool J

    A comparison of a day in the life of two different musical artists who both appear on the same street at the same time.

  • Tolerance

    At a Toronto vigil to commemorate the life of slain Wyoming student, Matthew Sheppard, a gay man reflects on his own tragic experience.

  • Marshmallow

    A sexual predator entices a four-year-old girl into his car and goes to an abandoned rail station. Soon after, a jogger follows an eerie hunch to search the rail station. The musical score and a train are the only sounds in this short, emotional drama about pure wounding. The use of Super 8 gives the feeling of memory.

  • Notebook on Lightning Bolts & Turntables

    “Notebook on Lightning Bolts & Turntables” is an animated adventure that moves through the city in search of safe havens, house music, romantic boys in record stores, distracting images from childhood, and finally into the place where we all want to be…all in the attempt to find a place of least-anxiety. Shot on Super 8 and blown up to 16mm, “Notebook on Lightning Bolts & Turntables” is an animation film that encompasses clay-mation, cell animation, and live action.