“Film is no longer what it should have been.” Rhythm in the age of its digital producability – an oscilloscope loosely based on Eadweard Muybridge.
Filter Films
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“Like the beginnings of his films, the endings too are halting. In ‘Plotzlich und Unerwartet (Sudden and Unexpected)’ Udo Kier shuts a door after saying goodbye to the camera, signaling the abrupt end to a maze-like plot which loops around itself, so that the order of events remains opaque (we see the same event from three different perspectives but they seem to occur sequentially).” – Alice Kuzniar, Audacious Allegories: The Queer German Cinema
Sudden and Unexpected
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When the Saskatchewan Opposition party whipped Regina into a frenzy over the spending of tax dollars on screening gay porn, all hell broke lose. To overcome the uproar and win the hearts of the Christians, in steps BROTHER LOVE.
Christian Porn
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“This two-screen dual projector film extends Brown’s use of chemically tortured celluloid to the breaking point. A collaboration with his long-time sound colleague John Kamevaar, ‘Fine Pain’ is an extended dialogue between image and sound – like a prolonged riff of free jazz between two masters. The discordant tensions of this film will keep you on the very edge of your seat, astonish you with the mesmerizing range of colour and abstraction and the over-modulated sound vibrations.” – Pleasure Dome program notes, Toronto, March 2000
Fine Pain
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“Suck” is ten short stories about a girl who playfully, and sometimes painfully, learns that the simple act of nail-biting is a radical and rebellious act. American women spend over 4 billion dollars a year on their nails, but this gal has been biting since childhood and shows no signs of slowing down. A nail-biting neurotic tale about beauty for all the REAL ladies out there!
Suck
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Mushroom soup, an anti-gay bashing march, and a surprise dinner guest are the background for this story about one young gay man, his semi-dream lover, and his mischievous dyke roommate. Set in Toronto, “Not Alone: A Hallowe’en Romance” is a comedic portrait of one man’s failed attempts to avoid a relationship before it even develops.
Not Alone: A Hallowe’en Romance
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Video transformations of documentary footage of a woman giving birth, assisted by members of a religious commune. Isolation confronts the communal, the gruesome confronts the holy, in this most mysterious of events.
Breath/Light/Birth
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A documentary about Palestinian refugees, Israelis, and dreams of homes beyond borders. This film deals with the seemingly intractable problem of Palestinian refugees.
On the Borders of Gardens (Part 2)
