I sat in the shade of a willow tree at the farm. A quiet place washed with iridescent cracks of light through leaves. A place supercharged by our shared past. Microstructures in the light identified with my memories of this place, the people, the events and their connection to the present. Sounds of the wind. The gentle foraging of chickens. Playful guitar practicing by my daughter Lexie sitting beside me. If this place and memory and time have an iridescence, could I find a way to preserve it? Eyes left: the garden. Eyes right: the chickens. Eyes forward: Lexie and the guitar. “It’s a film!,” I exclaimed and I leapt to my feet to find my Bolex camera. Wind the camera, shoot left. Wind the camera, shoot right. Wind the camera, shoot forward. A single 100ft roll shot in that moment. Hand-processed and toned on that afternoon. A bright moment that could have been lost forever brought back to life by a projector bulb in the barn that evening. A moment I can hold in my hand. A moment needing only to be held up to the light to be shared.
Filter Films
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24.24.24. is a view of a day in concurrent time. All of the day’s twenty-four hours are presented at once. In the minutia of time, banal events unfold and are made extraordinary through the camera’s gaze. People go to work and to school, time is stretched and skewed, the act of taking a walk or watering a lawn develops a magical quality. Light gains character, shadow reshapes objects, and time becomes palpable. Take a look.
24.24.24
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“Torrey Pines” is a stop-motion animated feature film by director Clyde Petersen. Based on a true story, the film is a queer punk coming-of-age tale, taking place in Southern California in the early 1990’s. Raised by a schizophrenic single mother, Petersen’s life story unfolds in a series of baffling and hallucinated events. With a mother fuelled by hallucinations of political conspiracy and family dysfunction, twelve-year-old Petersen is taken on a cross-country adventure that will forever alter the family as they know it.
Torrey Pines
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During the Lunar Year, Yong talks to his family living in Korea from Canada on Skype and partakes in the new year ceremony online. Later on, Yong has a serious conversation on topics ranging from marriage to religion with his 9-year-old sister Hana whose only wish is to see her brother someday.
A Conversation With Hana
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Claudia is a 16 year old Korean girl who takes care of his disabled older brother in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Abandoned by their parents, they find strength in each other to get by.
Julio
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“Handsome & Majestic” follows the story of Milan Halikowski, a teenager from the rural city of Prince George, BC. As a recently transitioned transgender boy, Milan deals with discrimination and abuse from his peers and teachers at school, as he seeks to find other kids like himself. Throughout these hardships, he becomes a role model and an advocate for trans people in his small community and beyond. OutTV People’s Choice Award, Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2016
Handsome & Majestic
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How to Make Your Cartoons Move! Author of the book “Flipbook Animation and Other Ways to Make Cartoons Move” and maker of the film “The Flipbook Movie,” Patrick Jenkins introduces his newest video which will inspire and motivate youngsters to create their own animated movies. Using easily available materials such as paper, scissors, string and pencils, kids will explore the art of animation, the science of optics, as well as several simple motion picture devices such as the thaumatrope, zoetrope, and of course the flipbook.
Animation for Kids
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Alex, a hopeless romantic, drives for a ride-booking company in hopes of a love connection in the big city. His trials and tribulations lead him to lose his way until fate stops by.
Two-Sided Ride
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In the province of the mind there are no limits. However, in the province of the body there are definite limits not to be transcended.” John C Lilly An invocation for the transcendence between the corporal and metaphysical, the passage is guided by marooned sailors, a moment of celestial chance, demolition derbies, and a slipping into the ether
Centre of the Cyclone
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Mystic animalistic forces spark a mass exodus before the planet implodes. Made for an invitation to take part in a weekly pakete* in Cuba – curated by Peter Kingstone & Nestor Siré. *The weekly pakete is terabyte of information that can be downloaded onto a drive – mostly of stolen material from the internet, movies, tv shows, sporting events, music and youtube clips – available all over Cuba.
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