Genres: documentary

  • AIDE MÉMOIRE – ein schwules Gedächtnisprotokoll | AIDE MÉMOIRE – Gay Document For Remembering

    A private discourse between photographer Jurgen Baldiga (1959-1993) and filmmaker Michael Brynntrup; a personal investigation into how to deal with images of life and death.

  • Vesta Lunch (Cookin’ at the Vesta)

    A continuous-take, cinema-verité study of Toronto’s famous all-night diner. A film that studies the pulse of the after-hours urban environment, in real time.

  • Villanelle

    Elizabeth Lewis’s “Villanelle” is based on a poem of the same name by Earle Birney, one of Canada’s best-known poets. In a live action segment preceding the animation, Birney introduces the poem, describing the circumstances that led him to write it. He tells of how he spent one summer of the 1960s at Bowen island, north of Vancouver. During the week he was alone. But on the week-ends, friends and students would join him. Only one of those friends, a promising young student named Betty Lamert, was able to join him on his two-mile swims in the icy bay water.…

  • Visions of Carmanah

    In soothing silence and life-giving mist, the wilderness is re-born in a new form. Fresh colours are prepared, new brushes unwrapped, and virgin canvas gives itself up to the glorious vision of an ancient rainforest. Over 100 Canadian artists hiked into the Carmanah Valley, their common mission to experience and portray the majesty and mystique of a primordial forest before it is destroyed by logging. On the river banks of Carmmanah Creek gathered some of Canada’a pre-eminent artists: Robert Bateman, Audrey Capel Doray, Jack Shadbolt and Roy Henry Vickers. “Visions of Carmanah” is a documentary film of the painters and…

  • Voices

    “Voices” is a re-construction of historical events leading to today’s villages in Northern Labrador, Canada. Using archival films, stills, video interviews with Inuit elders, new leaders, former Moravian missionaries and provincial health workers, “Voices” documents the dramatic impact of white contact on Labrador’s Inuit from the Moravian presence in the late 1700s, Newfoundland’s resettlement program in the 1950s, to present-day Labrador.

  • Walls Below the Pavement: Archaeology at Fort Frontenac

    Fort Frontenac was established as a French trading and military post in 1673 but after the British takeover in 1758, the city of Kingston was built around and over the fort. “Walls Below the Pavement” follows the activity at the Fort Frontenac dig during the summer of 1984 as an archaeological team investigates the complex, multi-layered site. The videotape provides a useful introduction to basic archaeological procedures.

  • Water Power

    This film uses archival footage and still photographs to trace the history of water power and visits operating units of various small sizes. Manufacturers and consultants are interviewed. The filmmaker speaks from personal experience. We watch the development pf his own micro-hydro unit in rural Nova Scotia from conception to production of power. This is a warm, evocative film full of useful information that matches its subject matter beautifully. “An excellent overview of the history and urrent uses of hydropower.” – Southeast Small Scale Hydropower Bulletin “An interstesting film which makes a good argument for the development of alternate energy…

  • Black Earth

    A film-essay on the earth’s body, “Black Earth” follows a woman’s journey through time and space. The film’s images and utterances and sounds poetically resonate a world as woman, a woman suffering the fate of humanity. “Black Earth” was filmed on location in India.

  • We’re Talking Vulva

    A five-foot, six-inch rappin’ vulva, in an unexpected parody of the music video genre, leads the viewer on a complete description of female genitalia.

  • Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

    Yes, German film director Werner Herzog really does eat his shoe to fulfill a vow to fellow filmmaker Errol Morris – boldly exemplifying his belief that people must have the guts to attempt what they dream of. Inspiring.