The Blob Thing returns in this long-awaited sequel! Even more depressed than usual, the Blob Thing tries to forget his long-lost love and carry on, but not before trying to off himself a few times.
Filter Films
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The year is 1986, the camcorder has just been invented, and the documentary will never be the same! Filmmaker Brian Stockton follows eccentric Regina broadcaster Mike Benny as he spends his last days in Regina before moving to BC. The camera is traded back and forth between the filmmaker and the subject, bringing a new, fresh, casual approach to the documentary form.
Floting of Mike, The
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A collaboration between the filmmaker and his grandmother, Edythe Stockton. Shot in a single five-minute take, Edythe reads a poignant short story she wrote, based on her time as a minister in a small prairie town. Filmed in Maryfield, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Final Gift, The
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Before there was “Clerks,” there was this low-budget comedy from Regina about Phil’s Confectionery. The store is being put out of business by a franchise convenience store down the street. Filmmaker Brian Stockton leads a cast of other filmmakers in this charming, low-key comedy about city life on the prairies.
24 Store, The
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A witty exploration of the mid-1980’s trend of excessive film techniques that seem to add very little substance to a film.
All Form, No Substance
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“One Stop Shopping” is a Dante’s Inferno-style descent into a modern day upscale supermarket. It follows two consumers on their journey through a supermarket, from their initial infatuation with its “fabulousness,” through various horrific shopping experiences, until the point where the supermarket itself devours them and they become proud pieces of meat in the meat section. Music provided by Robert MacDonald.
One Stop Shopping
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Someone returns, supposedly: but who? A hero? A lover? A father? Some adventurer, or just an errant soul? A mere nobody? A plotter? A thief? And returns to what? What can this “Ithaca” be, if indeed it can be something more than mere nostalgia, the wounds of returning? A piece about loss, and finding, and founding. Setting keel to breakers, forth on the winedark sea. In the sinking whalebrow. (MC)
Ithaca
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A tongue-in-cheek look at Toronto’s annual Gay Pride March and the city of Toronto’s gay tourism promotion.
Toronto Gay Pride
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Three city sketches: The mindless, Triumph of the Willie, they come from outer space. With my video camera I traveled inside the Greater Toronto Area and documented the ugliness and insanity I saw. Live footage combined with animation to give a sense of this horror.
Triumph of the Willie
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This multi-ethnic collage of home movies shows people’s various reactions when they realize they are “on camera.” Dancing kids upstage one another while bolder characters upstage the camera lens. “Camera People” provides upbeat insights into the meaning of home movies and people’s relationship to them. “This vibrant display of home movie conventions is as much about people as filmmaking.” – After Image
Camera People
