Three camcorders are given to selected groups of actors who are asked to make films after their own desires. During the shooting of the film, the real director constantly interferes from behind the camera. He manipulates the actors and their stories to the point where the actors become angry and begin to protest.
Filter Films
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Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow, a relentless campaigner for peace, sets the tone of “Our Hiroshima”. She was thirteen when the first atomic bomb destroyed her city and killed several members of her family. By interspersing Setsuko’s vivid, eyewitness testimony with archival footage from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Anton Wagner brings alive the reality of an unimaginable horror. This film also takes a long look at the US Army’s determination to test the new weapon before the end of the war, and delves deeply into the essential roles played by the Canadian government, uranium industry, and scientists in the Manhattan Project. In the words of one critic: “The Canadian perspective has always seemed rather smug to me. We didn’t have anything to do with the bomb, so we can cluck appropriately. ‘Our Hiroshima’ gets it right by identifying the Canadian components of the bomb” (Jim Bawden, Toronto Star). “Our Hiroshima” is not comfortable viewing, but it clearly shows that the responsibility for nuclear weapons lies with everyone – both in the past and in the present. Indifference, it tells us, is not an option.
Our Hiroshima
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A cat’s eye view of Gus’ attempt to get attention, and, most importantly, breakfast, from his busy humans. Eventually Gus does what any self respecting cat would do and takes matters into his own paws.
Breakfast with Gus
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Exploring the perils of combining moving day stress with relationship anxiety, this delightful comedy wonders whether the day of the move isn’t the best time to be considering the future of your relationship. And then again, maybe it is.
Moving Day
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A short film inspired by the flawed love for politically incorrect deep fried chicken.You can smell the chicken. You want the chicken. But, you can’t admit it to the rest of the world.
Colonel, The
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A short documentary that explores love after 80. When Verna met Patrick, she was a 70-year-old widow and he was a 73-year-old separated Irish man. All it took was a spot dance, a bottle of wine, and one year to bring them together. Eleven years of happiness in eleven minutes.
My Grandma’s Boyfriend
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Aerodynamics, suspension, and non-linearity are some of the phenomena which the protagonists and spectators of this film will question in an obvious terror of the mysterious and the unknown. “‘Full Throttle Engine Component’ forges with violence and humour a narrative plot which oscillates under its author’s eccentric gaze.” – George Tampai, 1999
Full Throttle Engine Component
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May 4 1997. The first international poetry festival in South Africa. At the seaport of Durban, Natal province, chaired by Breyten Breytenbach, painter/poet/writer. Thirteen poets came from all over the world to meet, speak with, and listen to their South African counterparts. To see for themselves the “New South Africa” with its freshly-found freedom and its deeply-rooted inequalities. Between readings and excursions, discoveries and exchanges, the film weaves a collective visual journal of a land haunted by painful memories and uncertain of promised future. All the while, a reflection on exile, censorship, unfinished struggles and the absolute necessity of poetic expression as refuge and protest.
Poem from South Africa
