What secrets would you tell your mother if she’s had a stroke, is about to die, and cannot respond to you?
Filter Films
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Brian Stockton’s series of autobiographical short films continues with this two-minute diversion, which is subtitled “The Epic Story of My Life, Appendix A.” This segment is a tribute to all the teachers Brian has known from kindergarten to university, including cinema legend Jean Oser.
All the Teachers I Have Known
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“A Few Good Dykes” is an unconventional documentary about the Dyke Uniform Corps, a highly selective organization of women united by their common fetish for uniforms and dedicated to the principles of honour, integrity and discipline. What is behind the desire to make it into the Dyke Uniform Corps: the control? the comraderie? the shiny buttons? This documentary goes behind the scenes to show the surprising, endearing and sometimes troubling reasons why the women of the Corps want to wear the uniform and belong to this cult of masculinity. Special Audience Award, SXSW Festival
Few Good Dykes, A
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“Fallout Food” is a collaboration between two working-class women, produced as a commissioned work for Trinity Square Video’s “Eat” themed program. With similar childhood histories – having both grown up with working-class, single mothers on a fixed budget – powdered milk and boxed mashed potatoes are just two of the memorable items from our “fallout food”-filled kitchen cupboards. As young adults leaving home, visits to local food banks and even shoplifting produce for dinner were regular fare. Today we have both become rather seasoned food geeks. Flavoured by the ideas of class, food access, nutrition and time, we interviewed ourselves and our mothers and came up with some interesting similarities and lots of differences in how we all relate to food.
Fallout Food
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Meet Daddy K, a dancin’ queen with a sparkling eye and a shaking booty. It would take a pretty tough guy to resist this charmer. Romeo might be just that strong – tune in and find out. Cruising has never looked this good.
Make Me Smile
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A behind-the-scenes look into the smash sensation “Destiny’s Neighbour” – the dancing, the dreams and the donuts. “There just aren’t any sexy fat boys in girl drag on T.V.” – Behynde “Destiny’s Child is just a slimmed down version of us. They ripped off our moves, they ripped off our songs.” – Mass-Assey “We had to kick her out because she was eating all the donuts.” – K-Kremey
Behind the Music: Destiny’s Neighbour
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A moving portrait of one boy’s strength of character in the face of challenges associated with having microtia, a birth defect that causes severe hearing loss. “John Morgan, the 10-year-old subject of the short, artful documentary In Bobcaygeon, has microtia, a birth defect that caused him to be born with only one fully developed ear. There’s nothing wrong with John’s mouth, though – he talks a lot, about his microtia, about playing minor hockey and about the camel his family keeps in the backyard. The film’s vaguely avant-garde construction may pose a challenge for younger viewers, but there’s an unpretentious directness to its handling of sensitive material.” – Adam Nayman, Eye Weekly Selected screenings: Sprockets Toronto International Festival for Children, 2005
In Bobcaygeon
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“Cigarette Blues” is a little film with a big message – that smoking cigarettes causes cancer and cancer will kill you. The pain and sorrow of this fact is demonstrated through the work of two very different artists. A sculpture, composed entirely of cigarerette butts smoked by prominent West Coast artist Louis Bunce, completed shortly before his death of lung cancer, opens the film. Oakland Blues singer Sonny Rhodes follows, singing the title song, a mournful tale of his lover whose refusal to stop smoking led to her death. “‘Cigarette Blues’ is a beaut!… you take people right up to the brunt of smoking without ever any sense of preachin’, never anything to cause the defenses to harden, and show’em (with unusually delicate balance-even for you! and in celebration, as is your usual) this ‘view.’ Bravo!” – Stan Brakhage
Cigarette Blues
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This film is a lyrical journey that captures the major stages of making a western saddle. Beautifully filmed, it follows renowned saddlemaker Chuck Stormes as he transforms wood, leather and silver into an elegant balance of form and function. Shot on location at Stormes Saddlery in Calgary and Longview, Alberta, “Saddle” is a slice of Canada’s western culture and heritage. Honorable Mention, Columbus International Film and Video Festival “Chris Awards,” 1995
Saddle: The Making of a Western Saddle
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Innovative and challenging, “Dead Time” is an investigation into the lives of four young people who grapple with drugs, crime, prostitution, family and ultimately hope for their future. Beautifully hand-processed and with an incredible soundtrack, “Dead Time” combines documentary, narrative and experimental elements into a fascinating whole. Selected Screenings: 2006 Rotterdam International Film Festival
Dead Time
