Five short dance works by a senior dance artist. An exploration of the body in mid-life and confined spaces.
Filter Films
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An aging junkie (the filmmaker’s uncle) reflects upon the glories of smack, his rebel / criminal past and getting ‘clean’.
Truck
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An investigation of time and memory seen from the perspective of a mysterious space. Shadowy images through opaque glass-brick obscure familiarity as distant sounds complete a haunting remembrance of a city. As the mystery unfolds, a solitary exploration is revealed.
Overview
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Moves toward the vision of time when Heaven descends to earth and makes all earth one with Heaven…when the outside becomes as the inside, and the inside as the outside; when the male and the female become one and the same…when the end returns to the beginning and the beginning finds completion in the end. (RBE)
Exultations: In the Light of the Great Giving
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A scrambled satellite signal sets the tone for the mixed messages of fundamentalism and politics. A digitally scrambled broadcast, blurs televised images into a kaleidoscope of sound and color, starkly portraying the co-option of religious dogma for profit and political gain.
Mixed Signals
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Part 1 of series pays homage to conventions of cinema. Three short pieces re-present a Transitional moment of an old film / A Desperate Couple searching / A painterly view of an old Horizon
Cinematic Conventions
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An atmospheric meditation marries fluid visuals and views of the world through tracks of raindrops on glass with a powerful yet subtle sound design to created a cinematic poem on rain and passing. The scenes captured draw a haunting and tenuous connection to the world
Apart
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A man getting by on his charm, Steve is a young adult living in a trailer park. When he sees the person who stole his girlfriend, he’s challenged to be more open and accepting of the world beyond his community.
Caravan Park
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“Exposure” is an experimental documentary that explores issues of race, sexuality and cultural identity. A dialogue between two lesbians of colour (Japanese-Canadian and Afro-Caribbean women) is intercut with photographs, texts, paintings and voice-over. Available on DVD on the compilation “Artist Spotlight Series: Michelle Mohabeer.”
Exposure
