As Veronica ponders her current relationship, a psychic appears out of nowhere and gives her an answer she never expected.
Filter Films
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Newly available on DVD, this trilogy from award-winning filmmaker Elida Schogt examines Holocaust memory, the family and the role of photography in history. (For purchase only. For rentals, see individual titles.) ZYKLON PORTRAIT “Zyklon Portrait” is about Zyklon B – the pesticide transformed into a genocidal weapon by the Nazis in the 1940s. It is also an elegy for the filmmaker’s grandparents; after years of silence, the filmmaker’s mother finally talks about her parents’ horrific fate. A Holocaust film without Holocaust imagery, “Zyklon Portrait “ uses family photographs, underwater photography and hand-painted imagery to draw a personal story out of historical minutiae. THE WALNUT TREE Using a striking combination of documentary and experimental approaches, “The Walnut Tree” explores memories centred on a few family pictures saved when Schogt’s grandparents fled the Nazis in 1943. “In a mere 11 minutes, “The Walnut Tree” provides considerable amount of food for thought. It should be good for generating class discussion about family photos and memories, as well as about the Holocaust. Recommended” (Barb Bergman, Educational Media Reviews Online). SILENT SONG “Silent Song” brings new life to a remarkable piece of 1945 archival footage. In the pandemonium of the liberation of Nazi concentration camp Dachau, a U.S. army cameraman filmed a young boy playing the accordion. This strangely poetic moment offers a contrast to the all-too-familiar WWII liberation images of emaciated prisoners. “Silent Song” is a contemplation of the ephemeral nature of life, images and history.
Schogt, Elida: A Film Trilogy
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“Men’s Boutique” contemplates what to do (and where to do it) as a gay man gets older.
Men’s Boutique
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“A regular under my Vancouver window for 6 months shown here at her most tragic… a child soliciting herself while under the influence of crack. It is an excerpt from an earlier film ‘After Eden’ completed in 2000. “ – John Price Selected screenings: Evolution, Leeds, U.K., 2007; Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2006; Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film, Durham, ON, 2006
Eve
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A husband’s fantasies about his wife are stimulated with a bizarre fashion magazine. Both amusing and disquieting, the photographs in this magazine are those of the highly acclaimed Canadian photographer Janieta Eyre.
Red Like Meat
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“You Be Mother” uses stop-frame animation to disrupt the traditional orders of animate and inanimate, the fluid and the solid. An hallucinatory space is set up when a frozen image of the artist’s face is projected onto weighty pieces of crockery atop a table. Ears, eyes, nose and mouth, all become spatially dislocated as a determined hand begins to reposition, decant and mix. Events unfold to the amplified sounds of grinding, pouring and stirring.
You Be Mother
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In this film an interior landscape is scrutinised, and an apparent rational calm is revealed as suffocating. “Milk and Glass” is an evocative journey from surface to interior – a black-coated mirror, the hollow of a bowl, a cavernous throat; a brush demarcates a line of lip on a flat surface, a mouth doubles up with the bowl and is virtually spoon-fed till it chokes.
Milk and Glass
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In “Backcomb” the demonic is unleashed on domestic space. It takes the form of two of femininity’s mildest tokens, hair and embroidery, that serve here in the creation of a sexualised surrealist experience. Within the claustrophobic space of a table-lay, a forceful and erectile mass of hair comes alive and slithers across its surface. The hair probes into vessels and punches through the cloth till finally order overturns and all smashes to the ground.
Backcomb
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“Damaged Roses” is a short drama which features two street people, the Man and the Woman. In it we have a catalyst (a damaged rose) that seems to bring these two together, unlocking buried dreams and faded beauty. Reality is not what it seems, the fantasy is cut short and all returns to what is real – isolation and loneliness for both. A film about lost dreams and missed moments. Available on VHS only.
Damaged Roses
