Steve, the leader of a local gang apprehends a neo-Nazi skinhead in a park,because he has attacked two of his black teenage friends in a nearby alley. The police arrive and take statements from Steve and the two teenage boys. Malcolm, the skinhead, lies unconscious. As we are taken backwards through the story we realise that perhaps the boys aren’t telling the whole truth and things may not be as ‘black & white’ as they appear.
Filter Films
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In a gender-swapping adaptation of philosopher Mark Kingwell’s essay “Who is the Suspect?”, Rozema questions our comforting tradition of creating tidy fictional chains of cause and effect that provide the libidinal release of a puzzle solved. Life just ain’t like that.
Suspect
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An allegory about love, loneliness and the healing power of acceptance, “Rock Garden: a love story” is the tale of two neighbors who struggle and toil with everyday existence and how the most unlikely of objects changes them both. Described as “absolutely beautiful” by director Atom Egoyan, “Rock Garden: a love story” is seemingly a tale about two warring neighbours, but reveals itself as a social commentary on sexual and gender identity. Its unexpected plot twist illustrates how in the most unlikely of ways, we can be freed from our selves. With no dialogue, the film features deeply textured music and layered visuals. Gloria Kim uses magical realism to give a unique spin on the human experience.
Rock Garden: a love story
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A new DVD compilation of four short dance films produced by the Moving Pictures Dancefilm Art Society. ICARUS Dir. Curtis Wehrfritz, 6 min., 2001 Shot on two hand-cranked cameras, this film captures segments from “Wind,” part of a performance cycle about the four elements choreographed by Bill James. Inspired by the Greek myth of Icarus, who fell from grace after flying too close to the sun, this work contrast post-industrial waste with stunning images of artifice. Performed by Yvonne Ng, Shannon Cooney and Robert Glumbek, with music by Tom Third. GARDEN OF STONE Dir. Gregory Nixon, 5 min. 1999 Kathak dancer Joanna Das performs this tale of the journey to the mythical Garden of Stone, a sacred landscape that is at once barren and deeply contemplative. The film is an exploration of colour, form and movement within a constantly changing environment. “Garden of Stone” is a story of transformation and spiritual epiphany performed in one of the most beautiful and dynamic forms of classical Indian dance. Music by Eric Cadesky with Ed Hanley and Kurt Swinghammer. SILO Dir. Laura Taler, 6 min. ,1999 In the restrictive confines of a circular room, five beautiful women communicate through sound – cackles, hisses, whispers, giggles and hushes. Intercut with quick, intimate shots of eyes, lips and hands, the film focuses on the women of Urge (Linda Catlin Smith, Fides Krucker, Marie-Josée Chartier, Katherine Duncanson and Anita La Selva) as they use a broad range of movements, gestures and vocal techniques to suggest a slightly sinister lullaby. RED BRICK Dir. Gariné Torossian, 6 min., 1999 “Red Brick” takes place in a psychic netherworld in which things take place paradoxically. Dancers, singers and other performers appear – pixilated, freeze-framed and swish-panned – while an artist constructs visual pieces in real time. A montage of constantly shifting images that refer to the score creates a pastiche of memories and archetypes. Choreographed by Bill James. Music by Michael J. Baker, performed by Arraymusic. Featuring Marie-Josée Chartier, Marc Richard and Barbara Hannigan.
Moving Pictures Quartet
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Virtually unknown “Pop-Diva-Superstars” INA UNT INA sing a love song to their hero, American cartoonist Lynda Barry, in their second music video. Set inside Canadian visual artist Allyson Mitchell’s infamous “Hungry Purse” installation.
Lynda Barry
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A hypothesis on how to create stability: have a good sense of where you are anchored now, a sense of why you’re staying/where you want to be in the future and establish a routine to get you through. This is a document of routinely hoping and planning for the future, edited to describe – in exclusively descriptive terms – where I am anchored now.
In Four Years (adjectives and adverbs)
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“Knee for All” features gender-free knees for the new generation. Remodelling the seedy-super-eight-basement-porn aesthetic, “Knee for All” displaces the focus on genital- and gender-based-sexuality with universal body parts: the knees. Get what you kneed from “Knee for All”!
Knee for All
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The final night of Mark and Jeremy’s relationship. They wait it out… drinking, fucking and fighting their way around each other, trying to find a way to say goodbye.
My Last Ten Hours With You
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“50/fifty“ uses old home movies and hand-processed film to pay homage to the memory of the filmmaker’s father, who passed away when she was young.
50/fifty
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Using found and manipulated Super 8 footage from his family archives, RM Vaughan explores his late father’s bizarre HAM radio hobby.
My Father’s Idea of Heaven
