Isabelle is a thirty-three year old female boxer from the south shore of Montreal. As an athlete, she inevitably relies on her body. The body is like a mechanical engine. Her gym, a cold building made of steel and concrete, is located in the industrial area of an anonymous and typical suburban town. Her body, made of flesh and muscles, is continually pushed to its limits. French with English subtitles.
Filter Films
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In the summer of 2008 my father butted heads with hospital bureaucracy. Using found footage loops, mechanized sounds and photograms, “Editorial” tells the story of redundancy, repetition and fighting for your life.
Editorial
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The story of a family and their friend Paco who fled Spain after the Civil War and the threat of imprisonment under Franco’s regime. Told by an English voice-over of the grown daughter of the same family whose photo album we peruse as she recounts their harrowing escape to France and Montreal as a five year old child. The collision of cultures, the clash of beliefs, an idealist’s exile and how the shadow of the past interferes on subsequent events.
Spanish Tale, A
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Photographer John Ashby lived and worked on Cape Breton Island for ten years. Struggling to keep ahead, photography has to take a back seat to the day-to-day realities of survival. Then one day John Ashby disappeared. Rumours of his whereabouts began to filter amongst his friends and neighbours. This video searches out John Ashby through the words and images of the Cape Breton community he had become an integral part of. Meanwhile, we catch up to John Ashby on the streets of New York City, musing on life, his past and his future.
Disappearance of John Ashby, The
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Over close – ups of cutlery in drawers and drying racks a reading of a short poem of the same title is read by the poet. In it is a lament for a past not fully recognized and a tradition that escapes the reader’s present situation…the longed for marriage groom which he will never be. Humorous and poignant at the same time, the past coincides in the present like a knife.
Cutlery
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Billy, the son of the preacher, secretly falls for a mysterious and pretty new parishioner. Constrained only to be able to look at her during Mass, he slowly lets himself punctuate the ceremonies with bits of his fantasies, giving rise to a succession of eclectic, often romantic, but sometimes naughty thoughts.
Son of the Preacher
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Add one part interpretation, 2 parts intent, stir and let simmer. Caution, results may vary: one woman discovers that a recipe is not necessarily the sum of its ingredients. The theme of RECIPE is communication. The project explores the nature of language and the possibility for miscommunication between the speaker and the listener. Recipe tells the story of a woman following a recipe and uses cooking as an allegory for speech. The film uses symbols as elements of language. Each ingredient is paired with a sound that gets mixed into a bowl. When the woman ingests the mixture, she distorts the sound and creates a cacophony unreflective of her original intention. RECIPE highlights the gap between intention and understanding, and leaves the viewer to construct his/her own meaning from the mixture of sounds and symbols.
Recipe
