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- One of most influential films in avant-garde cinema, this experimental film by Michael Snow was shot over a period of 24 hours using a robotic arm, and consists entirely of preprogrammed movements. Snow programmed all the robotic movements so that they never moved the same way twice, so there are differences in every motion of the camera.
- "Damned If You Don't is a real prize. Beautifully shot in black and white, it blends conventional narrative technique with impressionistic camerawork, symbols and voicovers to create an intimate study of sexual expression and repression. It begins with footage from a stylish old potboiler about an isolated convent, whose tale of passions leashed and unleashed provides the leitmotif for a young lesbian who watches it and the lonely nun she pursues and seduces. As the two women's lives come closer to joining, voiceovers from the biography of a 16th century lesbian nun and the reminiscences of a woman's closeted romances at a Catholic school flesh out the theme. When the two women finally meet and make love, the woman's careful unwrapping of the nun's complicated prison of clothing is both foreplay and liberating metaphor. The film is as hypnotic as a dream."
- A stylish, in depth look at the renaissance in psychedelic drug research in light of current scientific, medical and cultural knowledge.
- Edward Porris attends an appointment at a spa that caters to his specific tastes.
- Snow's ambitious attempt at exploring the formal intricacies and artificialities of the sound cinema.
- In a series of 26 short autobiographical vignettes, Su Friedrich methodically analyzes and reflects on her childhood and the emotional scars left by her detached and self-involved father.
- TV: transformational vibrations. Images transform into sound vibrations. Inspirational mark making as a visual representation of sound. Experimental abstract animation created by applying both sound and picture directly onto film. Once the soundtrack was created each individual sound was assigned a specific shape and colour that repeats through out the entire composition. Visual shapes were airbrushed and hand painted onto orange mask (negative film), then printed positive for further rendering by bleaching or scratching into the films emulsion before the final print copy was made. Sounds are made by hand from drawing Spirograph moire patterns onto clear mylar sheets, cut out and stuck on 35mm film optical sound area, played through a moviola and recorded into a computer for composition. Many sounds are just one to twelve frames long. The tempo gradually increases until the entire optical sound area of the film is full of individual sounds.
- A mischievous disabled girl absconds to London to find love and opportunity, but finds an unlikely outcome in her life when she hooks up-with a washed up male escort.
- Skin, eyes, knees, horses, hair, sun, earth. Old song of Mexican hero, Valentin, sung by blind Jose Santollo Nadiso en Santa Cruz de la Soledad.
- Reading the replies to a personal ad she has placed, a woman imagines herself in relationships with three different men. The first man is young, domestic and likable, the second rich exciting and arrogant and the third older, exuberant and vulnerable. (The late clown and mime artist Richard Pochinko plays the third man in his only film role.) The classic dating scenarios, differently imagined, are repeated with each of the men: the dinner, the dance, the gift, the bath, the bed. A hybrid of the documentary and drama form, layering techniques are used to weave a web of associations and create a dynamic and fast-moving flow of images and events. The film was originally shot in 16mm in 1989 but has been re-released in digital format in 2017.
- Adam (Kevin Mertz), a gay goth teen is returning to high school un-enthusiastically, but things get interesting when he sees Matt.
- An average gay guy discovers a magic website that can change him into the fantasy man he desires, but there is a price to pay.
- In an effort to make friends in high school, Lucas finds himself in a position that compromises his safety. In the aftermath, he realizes that the support he seeks is not guaranteed.
- "Difficult Love" is an intimate, thought-provoking portrait of internationally celebrated South African lesbian photographer, Zanele Muholi, and her highly personal take on the challenges facing black lesbians in South Africa today. The film features interviews with Muholi as well as with her friends, colleagues and peers, and provides a compelling overview of the artist, her life and her work. This poignant documentary takes us behind the façade of art making and shares with us the highly political environment Muholi must navigate in order to bring her lush photographs to light.
- O Panama's elegant montage denotes a subject that is always on the verge of collapse. This episodic narrative 'opens spaces in the film where the audience can enter into the story with its own experiences.'
- A light sleeper struggles one night to get some rest amid his man's loud snores.
- Short film shown incorporating 4 separate frames simultaneously about a gay man who reminisces about his deceased lover, Frank.
- A young woman bored of life with her parents falls for a slightly older man. When she finds that he doesn't fulfill her needs she falls for a free-spirited friend of his.
- The chronicle of a typical pharmacy of the Vancouver Downtown Eastside, where most clients are on a treatment that requires taking daily doses of methadone witnessed by the pharmacist.
- One of most widely praised American avant-garde films in recent years, James Benning's 1977 feature is a laconic mosaic of single-shot sequences.
- Trinidad uncovers Trinidad, Colorado's transformation from Wild West outpost to "sex-change capital of the world," and follows three transgender women who may steer the rural ranching town toward becoming the "transsexual mecca."
- A 3 minute pan to the left.
- Performance artist/apartment cleaner David Roche looks at life and love as it impacts all the sexes.
- When writer and director Joseph Chu puts out an open casting call for his new film based on his family, he never expects his own father to audition for the lead role. Caught somewhere between his real memories of his father and the fictional character he's created, Joseph is forced to confront his own fears, hypocrisies, and realizations.
- "Him And Me" has Benning's hallmarks: pristine cinematography, a quasi-autobiographical stance, and a minimalist structure that juxtaposes concrete realities with off-screen mysteries. This is one man's journey through the American landscape as he has experienced it since the 1950's: a richly hued vision punctuated by the sexual, musical, and political mores of three decades.
- Hanna, an artist, migrated to Canada a few years ago. She soon found herself struggling with depression and finding her place as an artist in the new context. In her quest to rediscover herself anew, Hanna finds the lives and inspirational works of other artists the best motivation to create art and combat depression. This film tells a story about how art comes to save an artist, to save Hanna.
- MAMA AND PAPA is about how the filmmaker's parents met on a train in Germany, thirty years ago.
- Images of Hank Aaron memorabilia are displayed over the handwritten diaries of would be assassin Arthur Bremer, set to a soundtrack of alternating political news clips and popular songs from Aaron's career.
- A surreal sequence of images of nature and London, Ontario, life and death.
- In 1972, a group of actors go into an Ontario farming community and then build a play about what they saw and learned.
- Sixty one-minute shots with no camera movement. This tension between painterly and cinematic space is not only experienced as an intellectual contrast but is also felt as a dialectic between permanence and impermanence.
- "It was in the summer of 1964 that I made my first movie, Mosaic. I shot literally miles of film since I was also learning to use the camera. The film finally ended up nine minutes long..."- Jack Chambers
- A student takes up sex camming as a means to pay his rent; he becomes good at it until one of his sex toys, whom he is friends with, wants to go to the next level.
- The Ties That Bind is an experimental documentary about the filmmaker's mother, who was born and lived in southern Germany from 1920-1950. Through a mixture of personal anecdote and social history, she describes the rise of Nazism, the war years, and the Allied occupation, during which she met her future husband, an American soldier. The Ties That Bind breaks with the usual format of war documentaries, thus allowing a different portrait of the individual to emerge, while it reflects on the current political situation in America and the filmmaker's activities in relation to those issues.
- GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM is constructed from fourteen dreams taken from eight years' worth of my journals. The text is scratched directly on to the film so that you hear your own voice as you read. The accompanying images of women, water, animals and saints were chosen for their indirect but potent correspondence to the text.
- Fraser is a shy and introverted only child, but he speaks volumes on the court through his passion for basketball. Fraser has a chance to prove himself when the coach catches him practicing after school hours.
- "I Am My Own Laboratory" is an experimental documentary on a remarkable woman. Amanda Feilding, Countess of Wemyss and March, is an English scientist, drug policy reformer, artist and penetrative cultural provocateur. In 1998, she founded the Beckley Foundation, a charitable trust that promotes a rational, evidence-based approach to global drug policy policies and initiates, directs and supports pioneering neuroscientific and clinical research into the effects of psychoactive substances on the brain and cognition. The central aim of her research is to investigate new avenues of treatment for such mental illnesses as depression, anxiety and addiction, as well as to explore methods of enhancing well-being and creativity. Feilding learned about the ancient practice of trepanation from Bart Huges, whom she met in 1966, and who published a scroll on the topic. She trepanned herself in 1970.
- In the early 1970s, Toronto filmmaker Keith Lock moved to Buck Lake, where members of the Toronto art scene were undertaking an experiment in communal living. Lock filmed the achievements.
- I wanted to make a self-sufficient film, photographing myself in those mirrors on the table with all that water and prisms, and glasses and cups. In a way I was saying I can do a film that needs no people, no outside world, no glamour, no money, and do it all in the kitchen.
- A visual documentary inspired by Erik Satie, showcasing the sights and sounds of the industrialized Castro Street in Richmond, California.