Today is Chad’s birthday and his out-of-town boyfriend has sent him a gift in the mail. Soon after Chad receives the gift, Billy arrives to deliver a package of his own. Chad soon discovers that this birthday may not have the happy ending that he was expecting and that his cheating ways may finally come back to bite him!
Filter Films
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In this utterly endearing animation by Iris Moore, a couple gets to know themselves and each other by exchanging their eyes, genitalia and facial features with different ones. The exchange of body parts (with the biology and playfulness of Potatohead toys) for the sole sake of new corporeal experiences, has us question our own preconceptions about the body’s rigid immutability. — Mix New York Queer Experimental Film Festival (2013)
Beyond the Mirror’s Gaze
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INTER-MEZZO is a documentary of performance as well as a performance of documentary. Through a triptych, which treats the voice as a metaphor for political voice, Stephen Chen traces his journey as a male mezzo, faced with prejudice and marginalization back in Singapore, and later in North America. The schooling and suppression of his voice becomes interwoven with his experiences of colonialism and exile. DOH! OH DEAR, A FEMALE TEAR! plays with the biography documentary form, dealing with issues of voice / gender / representation as Stephen traces his westernization, the discovery and silencing of his voice, and people’s reactions in Singapore and North America. WHAT THE FACH? exploits the “talking heads” documentary genre, and uses the classification of the Western voice into categories (or fachs) to parallel other formalized or “natural” boundaries to illustrate how such categories are exclusionary and defined by systems of power. DEEP THROAT, HIGH PALATE utilizes “experimental” documentary techniques to reflect on critical artistic praxis. Stephen traces the rediscovery of his voice through biases of colonialism and repression, to ultimately transform and transcend the degraded material and past. Deliberately and revelling in its low budget, INTER-MEZZO posits itself against the increasing clamour of superficial style and production values vs. content and commentary. Ultimately, INTER-MEZZO is about questioning norms and boundaries others accept as “natural,” and finding one’s voice amidst suppression and exclusion.
INTER-MEZZO
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It’s a journey most of us are familiar with. One that starts with lust, passion, intense love and joy and eventually dwindles down the road of routine, familiarity and day to day banalities. Once flirtatious and sexually charged exchanges give way to grocery list reminders and ‘honey, do you have to chew like that?’ type requests. But what happens when a couple of bunnies, who started off their relationship shagging like… well, bunnies… find themselves in the same bind? ‘Stop Calling Me Honey Bunny’ follows our bunny couple on their dedicated journey to revive their sex life. From role play, to sex toys, to sex therapy, the roller coaster sexploration these bunnies endure is exciting, thrilling, humiliating, exhausting and, at times, quite touching. In the end, the bunnies face a reality that most longtime lovers confront at one point or another in their relationship: that while something might get lost over the years together, something else, equally important, grows in its place.
Stop Calling Me Honey Bunny
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A study of St. Ignace, in Huronia, where the ethnographers and Jesuit missionaries, later saints, Jean de Brébeuf and Gabriel Lalemant, were killed in 1649.
Brébeuf
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Lily Dale is a spiritualist community in Chautauqua County, New York. Pilgrims and tourists swarm the hamlet in summer, but in the fall, Lily Dale becomes a more intimate setting for spectral communions. This film explores the town’s Leolyn Woods, pet cemetery, Inspiration Stump, and Fairy Trail. Music by Nate Wooley.
Spirits In Season
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How we may see in a Chamber things that are not! Here, mutations of light, through fabric, glass, and colored gel, make bodies and objects transparent. Let there be a chamber wherein no other light comes but by the door or window. Let pictures be set over against this window. For what is without will seem to be within, and what is behind the spectator’s back, he will think to be in the middle of the room, as far from the glass inward as they stand from it outwardly. Clearly and certainly, he will think he sees nothing but truth.
Pepper’s Ghost
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At a wrestling tournament, a young competitor faces match upon match. Referees converge on the scene. The crowd’s attention wanes and focuses with the intensity of the bout. Sounds drift in: a psychic piano enters over fast and short breaths. This is a contest of past and future. It will be decided in the ring.
Championship
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Five storytellers take off from a physical characteristic of the elephant, much like the fable of the blind men, where each constructs a different whole from a fragment. Elephant-related images are then inserted into their stories, subjectively and associatively. “Elephant Dreams” is essentially about the action of memory and the imagination at work. Everyone makes his or her own story. “Davis plays with the power of suggestion and our knowledge of filmic language to undermine a simple relationship with story and image, and to create a collage of simple pieces that add up to a complex and allusive whole. This postmodern film text is a multi- voiced, disjunctive deconstruction of narratives which doesn’t presume a single reading, but invites the viewer to construct his/her own collage from the puzzle presented.” Don Terry, Cinema Canada
Elephant Dreams
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A grieving woman who spends too much time in her car starts to think that it might be haunted.
Dispatches From The Future
