A mother who has recently been incarcerated refuses to give up on her young son, no matter how fragile their connection may now be.
Filter Films
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“Vegetable or Fruit, Weed, Stalk or Root?” is a 16-minute documentary about the 28th Rhubarb! Theatre Festival at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.
Vegetable or Fruit, Weed, Stalk or Root?
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After a tragic event that destroyed human civilization, two survivors wander around a destroyed building. The younger one, full of hope, thinks he can arrange the situation by finding other possible survivors, while the elder waits for his hour to come by making art with the debris of the late Civilization.
Shelter, The
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“Lyrical and full of mirth, this filmmaker wonders out loud in her first film: ‘How do I make myself at home in a landscape made foreign to me?’ Wilkinson looks at her self – black – and ponders in the white landscape called Canada how can she ‘enjoy the flowers’ as she cartwheels with great panache through fields of them. What kind of relationship to the land can she have in a place where she sees herself but where others constantly ask: Where are you from? Wilkinson’s existence vis a vis the land seems to lie somewhere in between the extreme long shots and the close-ups that make up the film, giving at once the feelings of intimacy and estrangement.” – Marian McMahon
Dandelions
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A celebration of the filmmaker’s daughter’s birth. The blazing garden as a metaphor for the cycle of life.
Hymn in Praise of the Sun
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What do the religious right and the gay liberation movement have in common? Both were fortified by the efforts of one woman – Anita Bryant. Part document and part poem, “I Just Wanted To Be Somebody” brings us back to the late 1970s and reflects on Bryant’s life and the impact she had. The film is comprised of news footage, commercials and Bryant’s own home movies.
I Just Wanted To Be Somebody
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Animation, also of a new order in the recent series of short works. Mostly on black space, the figures in blue perform a very compact and jewel-like opera in surreal form, again to Satie’s piano music. Ideally, the film should be projected on a 30″ wide white card sitting on a music stand, center stage of a large auditorium or music hall, with sound from the projector piped into the big speaker system. The film is most effective this way, but can be shown normal-size also.
Carabosse
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A dance of eclectic objects. A play of demented dolls, wheels and geriatric clocks.
Dream Merchant, The
