Genres: short

  • Extractions

    A personal film about Canada’s extraction industry and its detrimental effects on the land and Indigenous peoples. This film parallels resource extraction with the booming child apprehension Industry currently operating in Canada which is responsible for putting more Indigenous children into foster care than were in Residential Schools. As the filmmaker reviews his life and how these Industries have affected him, he also reflects on having his own eggs retrieved and frozen to make an Indigenous baby.

  • War Movie

    Two close friends leave a movie theatre after having seen a war movie. One is set off by it, and the other is ambivalent. This seemingly innocuous disagreement spirals into a larger point of contention between the two, unearthing deeper truths.

  • Scottish Concert

    Scottish Concert is an experimental concert film observing traditional music, dance, language and culture of Cape Breton Island. The hand processed black & white and color footage has seen many variations of encouraged decay.

  • Gregueria

    After losing a child, a man and woman try to establish communication. Each of them passes through the barrier differently. As their attempts do not go anywhere, each of them decides to give it a one more chance.

  • GIK:SKWOD: How I lost My Indian Name

    In this experimental short film, a Seneca filmmaker shares how he lost his Native American “Indian” name. BACKGROUND: This is storytelling told through narration, images and text. In “Gik:skwod,” the filmmaker made cuts according to his eye blinks. During his film studies at Syracuse University, he read an excerpt from Walter Murch’s “In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing.” In the excerpt, Murch explains how we naturally edit what we see through our eye blinks. The filmmaker created “Gik:Skwod” by experimenting with Murch’s editing concept.

  • darg: construction

    A day’s work. A construction site in Montréal.

  • Island Story

    “I know nothing about the filmmaker, but with a short film as odd and strangely poignant as this one, the mystery makes it all the better. The blindingly and like a Martian horizon, the sun plays with the viewer’s stability. A narrator gives the account of a strange tale of a couple on a transformative journey into a world of paradise with no language. Animalistic gesticulations and instinctive expression emanate from the body until both of them grow apart and then into other versions of themselves, never to be the same again. A grainy vintage-like feel permeates the alien world…

  • Lost Cat

    At a turning point in her life, Nathalie tries to overcome her failure and come to peace with her inability to connect with herself and others.

  • Yuko

    After Yuko’s death in the 2011 tsunami, her husband reflects on her absence, the nature of grief and the search for closure.

  • TERMINALLY IN LOVE

    TERMINALLY IN LOVE is a first-person journey through a haze of heartbreak, pot smoke, heroic delusions, failed connections, wistful fantasies and cringeworthy dreams.