Poet RM Vaughan muses on his relationship to 50s film noir tough guy hunk Sterling Hayden, and why he cannot make his life more like a 50s film noir masterpiece. Created by video/internet artist Jared Mitchell, the film inserts Vaughan into the rain-dappled, shadowed and dreamy world of film noir – turning the poet into Hayden’s moll, lover, and dumb broad. A film about living your life “in the right movie,” queer projection onto mainstream cinema, and the collision of fantasy and reality.
Filter Films
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Long, a young Vietnamese-Canadian swimmer, finds himself struggling between the expectations of his family and the demands of his heart. His father wants him to marry soon, but his mother, haunted by a past romance, hopes her son will stand up for what he believes. English & Vietnamese with English subtitles Awards: Colin Campbell Award for Best Canadian Short, Toronto Inside Out Festival 2009; 2nd Place, National Film Board Award for Best Canadian Short, 2009
Golden Pin, The
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Toronto’s diverse culture and heritage are explored through a couple’s belongings, juxtaposed with the neighborhood in which they live.
Belonging
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A short animation that unveils the mysteries of lesbians through the occult arts. NUMEROLOGY is a humorous critique of attempts to stereotype the lesbian community. Using the clean, minimal aesthetic of vector animation, numbers and letters become small characters whose actions subvert the expected course of the narrative. The content of the piece migrates from external to internal stereotypes and promotes the perception of individuals within a category. Selected Screenings: Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg, 2009 (Germany); Pittsburgh Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 2009 (Pittsburgh, USA); image + nation Festival, 2009 (Montreal, Canada)
Numerology
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Four minutes in the day that I went to meet a man at sunset in the park. “Lucky Girl” recalls a seemingly insignificant moment that could have turned out very differently. – AG CALQ Award for Best Film in Art & Experimentation, Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois (2009); Spirit Award, Brooklyn International Film Festival (2010)
Lucky Girl
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English Title: Engineering Memory Bridges Formal proof through pregnant experiments on one’s own body. Rests and tests from the inquiry into prototypes. Even today birthmarks are attributed to sudden shock during pregnancy. Some people see them as prophetic signs. Experiments with rats have shown that prenatal stress is a possible cause for male homosexuality. I am Michael Brynntrup. Born 7th of February, 1959. Identical twin brother still born.
Statik der Eselsbrucken, Die
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Retrato Oficial 2 | Official Portrait 2 animates the dissimulation and reconstruction of the great liberator of Chile, 19th-century revolutionary and republican Bernardo O’Higgins, and the historical reach of the late-20th-century dictator Augusto Pinochet. Based in part on a conceit borrowed from Raul Ruiz’s essay Images of Images and original footage shot by Patricio Guzman on September 11, 1973, the short video is an exploration of the mediated image and the mnemonic possibilities of video and still image technologies.
Retrato Oficial 2 | Official Portrait 2
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In 1914, a man abandoned his horse and escaped the impending disaster that loomed overhead. Man, horse and barn. They are all either dead or destroyed – but their life on film exists forever. (Note: First two minutes are silent)
Fleeing Rotland
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“La Dolce Vita” is a short, fragmented film diary that explores the Saturday morning mayhem of a filmmaker and his family. This film recalls the cacophony of young children, cats, visitors and noisy neighbours. Is this the “sweet life”?
Dolce Vita, La
