To win the girl of her dreams, a klutzy young woman must overcome a wardrobe malfunction and her own insecurities. Movie buff and hopeless romantic Darcy meets and falls in love with Caroline while fighting over a Sarah Waters DVD at a video rental store. With the help of her best friend Tia, Darcy sets out on her quest to woo and win the girl of her dreams. However, she must first overcome a wardrobe malfunction, her own extreme klutziness whenever she’s around Caroline and, most challenging of all, the very bad lesbian habit of overprocessing a good thing. “Sharply written and winningly performed.” – Sean Bugg, Washington Metro Weekly Awards: Audience Award for Best Short, ImageOut, 2009 (Rochester, NY); Audience Choice Award for Short Film at image + nation, Montreal, 2009; Best Short Film, Queersicht Festival Bern, Switzerland, 2009; Rosa Brille Prize, Queersicht Festival Bern, Switzerland, 2009
Filter Films
-
A wonderful concert by CCMC at Kunstwerke, Berlin, June 27, 2002 with a digital moving image composition by Michael Snow. Technical Assistance by Paul Cormack. Using images by Dan Browne, Lee Brunet, Teri Wehn Damisch, Pierre Tremblay, Mani Mazinani, Aleck Snow, Michael Snow. CCMC: Paul Dutton – soundsinging, harmonica John Oswald – alto saxophone, saxo-voice Michael Snow – piano, radio Music un-edited, un-modified as it was played. Concert sponsored by Freunde Guter Musik, Berlin
Reverberlin
-
“All Fall Down” is an experimental documentary that takes as its starting point a nineteenth century farmhouse in Southern Ontario, Canada, and asks the question “what has been here before?” The film weaves together a complex temporal structure that juxtaposes the lives of two figures, one historical (Nahneebahweequa: a nineteenth century aboriginal woman and land rights activist) and the other contemporary (an ex-pat drifter and father of the filmmaker’s step-daughter) across two hundred years. “All Fall Down” explores these characters through a variety of archival materials: diaries, landscape paintings, photographs, heritage films, poems, phone messages, maps, historical reenactments, songs) that express the complexity of time and the politics of land. The film is structured through Hoffman’s extraordinary landscapes of Southern Ontario which make the temporal fabric shimmer, bringing us a meditation on childhood, property, colonialism, ecology, and love.
All Fall Down
-
Chris Wong takes his French-Canadian boyfriend “homo” for Christmas, despite his traditional Chinese parents’ disapproval. With the dramatics of three languages (English, French, and Chinese) swirling around the table, Pierre tries to make a bond with Chris’ parents and find the approval he wants. Audience Award for Best Short at the Sacramento Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival, 2009
Peking Turkey
-
Daniel and Eli are about to have their five-year anniversary, but little does Eli know that Daniel has been hiding a dark secret all those years. Meanwhile, an FBI agent has been put into a coma under mysterious circumstances. Evidence leads Agent Mueller and Dina Pendrell to investigate the presence of “Extra Queerestrials,” but are they chasing after the wrong suspect? Will Eli and Daniel get their Happy Anniversary? Selected Screenings: Out on Screen, 2009 (Vancouver, Canada); Reeling Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 2009 (Chicago, USA); Pittsburgh Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (Pittsburgh, USA)
Q – Case
-
“Glide” is a short experimental animation depicting ice skating. A lone skater appears on the crisp white ice, making her way around the oval of the rink and the loop of the film. Drawn with India ink on watercolour paper, the fluid strokes of the skater’s motion is echoed in the watery brush strokes and the pools of dark glistening ink. Each time around the rink/loop, the frame rate of the animation is slowed down thus extending the skater’s motions and revealing more details in the drawings. Calming and meditative, “Glide” celebrates in the simple magic of ice skating as a personal experience of alchemy.
Glide
-
An exploration into perceptual processes in the act of seeing and listening, “Chiasmus” takes film as a metaphor for the breathing body, through the intercrossing of the medium and the fragmented images of the body in movement. The rhythm and tension created by the interplay between sound and image, and their disjunction and conjunction, aspire to an organic and sensual moment where inside becomes outside, and outside inside.
Chiasmus
-
A visual metaphor for creative process as a sustained state of flux, whereby the deconstruction and reconfiguration of source material manifest themselves as a series of rapid abstract movements. Alluding to the cosmic dance of Shiva, the film is an expression of primal rhythmic energy, moving dialectically but without sublimation. Regeneration ignites destruction, and transformation invites mutation, through clashes of opposing modes such as video/film, surface/depth, and light/darkness.
Chasmic Dance
-
Juxtaposition of seeing and sounding, sky and stone and all that’s in between. A short walk in an alleyway, to hear vision sounding images, blessed with light and darkness.
All That Rises
-
“Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis” is Saïto’s second collaboration with musician Malcolm Goldstein, who composed and performed the original structured improvisation score for the film. The film explores familiar landscape imagery Saïto and Goldstein share in their neighbourhood at the foot of Mount-Royal Park in Montréal. Using images of maple trees in the park as the main visual motif, Saïto creates a film in which the formations of the trees and their subtle interrelation with the space around them act as an agent to transform viewer’s sensorial perception. Richly colored and entirely hand-processed, “Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis” is a poem of vision and sound that seeks perceptual insight and revelation through a syntactical structure based on patterns, variations and repetition. Jury Grand Prize, 16th Annual Media City Film Festival, 2010
Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis
