Genres: documentary

  • Quiver

    A requiem for death and a memoir of pain, where the line between consent and assault is as blurred as the line between the characters’ past and present. “Quiver” is a disturbing journey into the psyche of one man’s memory. It is a mirage of sexual violence in the midst of AIDS, love, regret and exoneration.

  • Both Sides of the Wire

    A documentary which chronicles the experiences of German and Austrian refugees, the majority of whom were Jewish. They came to England to escape Nazi oppression, only to be deported and interned in Canada as “dangerous aliens” in 1940. What has become of them 50 years later?

  • Limites

    In “Limites”, Peruvian photographer Carlos Quiroz unveils the artistic process behind capturing the male nude. This documentary visits Quiroz’s private photo sessions, permitting us to witness the intimate relationship between camera and subject.

  • Eulogy / Obverse

    A filmmaker confronts his own sense of responsibility based on images he has created. AWARDS 1999 Regina Film and Video Competition: Best Experimental, Best Critical Thought, Best Overall 1999 Niagara Film and Video Competition: Best Experimental 1999 Montreal World Film Festival: Best Experimental 1999 TVO Telefest Competition: Jay Scott Award for Best Overall Production, Best Experimental 2000 Ann Arbor Film Festival: Honorable Mention 2000 Black Maria Film Festival: Honorable Mention ADDITIONAL SCREENINGS 2000 Cinematheque Ontario, Jackman Hall 2000 Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival 2000 Images Festival of Independent Film and Video 2000 Millennium Film Workshop 2000 BBC British Short…

  • Feet

    A portrait of an intimate friend of the artist – Susan Weisser – and her relationships with her 13-year-old son Billy, and 17-year-old daughter, Amanda. The author asked them to reconstruct their daily rituals. The results were enactments, accounts, confidences and arguments that freely crisscross each other with the dynamic created by the presence of the video artist and his “unobtrusive” Hi-8 camera. Surprising events ensue within evocative framings of sounds and images, and the enchanted constructions from the fanciful revelations of the everyday. Part of the TALKING PORTRAITS series. Second prize, Black Maria Film & Video Festival, 1996

  • Miracle Grow

    “Miracle Grow” is a personal piece with elements of a home movie. Originally shot in Mini DV, edited and transferred to film without leaving the digital realm, the film is an inventory of a growing baby as he struggles to gain mastery of his limbs. As the father, the filmmaker attempts to insert himself within this well-worn and taboo subject and redefine it. As in his other works, the images are composed and structured to lead us within other realms of thought. With Etienne Z. Grenier and Mary Zebell.

  • 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.

  • Latin Queens: Unfinished Stories of Our Lives

    Latino drag queens fleeing persecution in South America struggle for survival in the gay community in Toronto. There is little legal protection for homosexuals in many Latin American countries. Several gays, transgendered persons, and drag queens featured in this documentary were subject to police brutality in their countries and have been granted refugee status in Canada on the basis of their sexual orientation.

  • Forbidden Fruit: Unfinished Stories of Our Lives

    A moving and entertaining video documentary on the gay community in Toronto, as seen through the life stories and performances of female impersonators/drag queens from the 1940s to the present.

  • Photographer: An Artist’s Journey, The

    A documentary exploring the provocative images of the Jamaican-Canadian visual artist Michael Chambers. Reflecting the new multi-cultural youth culture emerging in large urban centers in Canada and internationally, Chambers photographs nude models in urban and natural settings to comment on the human condition, black identity and stereotypes, self-expression, perceptions of the human body, nudity, racism, sexual orientation and AIDS prevention. The photographer follows Chambers over a five-year period in Canada and Jamaica, and shows his images of nude models taken in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, London and Paris.