Lisa, Steven and Linus are in love with the same person, Ian. They live on three different floors of the same building. They all have the same furniture, the same blankets on the bed, and the same carpets. The “silence” is a metaphor for loveliness.
Filter Films
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“Yesterday’s Wine” is a found-footage film that explores the nature of filmmaking by deconstructing the violence common to commercial, narrative cinema. Constructed from old regular and Super 8mm films, with a dialogue created from language tapes, the film also examines the self-referential nature of filmmaking. Inspired surrealism and dadaism, disparate material is brought together through intuitive associations to create an absurd homage to old and obscure cinema.
Yesterday’s Wine
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One of Joyce Wieland’s earliest works, shot in 8mm and finally blown-up to 16mm, “Larry’s Recent Behaviour” has been described by Simon Field as an “irreverent and wilfully juvenile examination” of a nasty habit that Larry has recently acquired.
Larry’s Recent Behaviour
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To meet an ever-growing demand for pulp and paper products, much of Canada’s forest land is being clear-cut. To redress this loss, every year one billion seedlings are planted. Each year as the snow melts and the ground thaws, thousands of young Canadians head into the northern bush to work in tree planting camps. For the next two months, these tree planters bare the physical brunt of sustaining the resource, working ten hours a day, day after day, to rebuild the forest. This is a story of challenge and triumph. It is about the relationships between people living and working under trying conditions. A sense of accomplishment, a sense of humour and a sense of the absurd is common among the young tree-planters. This film celebrates the Canadian spirit of adventure.
Tree Tales
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Set in 1949 Toronto, this film tells the story of Isabelle, a telephone operator who is leading a double life. She is having a clandestine affair with another operator, Alice, while her boyfriend Ricky is secretly making plans to elope with her to Niagara Falls. “Switch” is a camp forties-style thriller in which the desires of a lusty femme fatale lead to double-crossing, broken hearts and murder.
Switch
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A Canadian road movie that gets stuck at the American border. Alerted by four men’s flamboyance, fashion sense and ethnicity, border guards interrogate the travelers. As the questioning develops, the setting becomes increasingly surreal. The room becomes a dungeon and the main characters transform themselves from simple, everyday faggots, to raging Drag Queens. The immigration officers take on the roles of Dominator and Dominatrix. In this fantastic state, the dominating duo begins to torture the foursome in order to extract “Queer Academy” confessions.
Out and About
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The curtains are drawn, a clown stands in the spotlight, the reception is dismal. Before s/he can even begin to perform, debilitating fear takes over. Both sad and humorous, this film explores how one can be manipulated by the depths of fear.
stage fright
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“Book of Knives” is based on seven psychiatric case histories dating from 1905 up to the present. These stories are linked through the interrogation of a modern day woman, Iris, who has murdered her plastic surgeon. “Book of Knives” is a short history of women, technology & madness in the twentieth century, and calls into question both the ethics and methodologies of western scientific enquiry.
Book of Knives
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This documentary film offers a glimpse into the life of an ordinary housewife, the filmmaker’s grandmother, Sally Strauss, who 40 years ago was suddenly catapulted into a media hero by tripping a runaway bank robber. The film laces elements of another era, the sights and sounds of a tight Jewish community and the naiveté of good intent. A woman who reacts instinctually to the “just” way ultimately discovers that her heroic act unexpectedly creates an overwhelming tension in the family.
Struck While the Iron Was Hot
