Films

Experimentations in motion.

Belt Buckle / Quonset Hut

Terry Mialkowsky | Canada | 2 min | 2009 A love poem to Saskatchewan.

The Value of Nothing

Clint Enns | Manitoba | 1:30 min | 2010 A demonstration / explanation of Camus' Absurd using found Super-8 footage of circus bears.

Alone

Gerard Freixes Ribera | Spain | 3 min | 2008 The heroic characters in mainstream fiction always show individualist attitudes; here, a hero's individualism is taken to its complete extreme.

Eidola

Giuseppe Boccassini | Italy | 6:30 min | 2010 The air is constantly crossed by ghosts.

Aerial Artistry

Talia Pura | Manitoba | 2 min | 2010 Silk is the apparatus of choice for aerial artist Talia Pura as she soars, twirls and dives high in the air.

Black Chalk

Irene Bindi | Manitoba | 6 min | 2010 A group of uniformed students receive tutelage while a presence moves around and through them. Hand-painted 16mm film.

Close Up on Sound

Stefano Patarino | UK / Italy | 20 min | 2009 A sonorous trip.

Revival

Heidi Phillips | Manitoba | 8 min | 2009 A film about isolation, risk and rescue, derived from Super-8 films found in a Montreal thrift store.

Static

Tyler Funk | Manitoba | 2:30 min | 2009 A tortured musician trying to cope with the need to create.

Courage, My Love

Stefanie Johnson | Manitoba | 7:30 min | 2010 A story of love, with French new wave flirtations.

Good Stuff

Niina Suominen | Finland | 8:30 min | 2009 In this game another one's loss is no one's gain. In the realm of losers, different laws are obeyed and there's always plenty of good stuff around. All animated food was collected from waste bins.

The Moment

Wong Men-hoi | China | 12 min | 2009 This experimental documentary captures the moment when the city of Guang Zhen conducts an air defence exercise and a young woman contemplates suicide.

Borders

Gyorgy Kristof | Czech Republic | 5 min | 2009 An uneasy situation; maternal self-sacrifice set in a raw, real but metaphorical environment.

North Horizon

Thomas Freundlich & Valtteri Raekallio | Finland | 22 min | 2010 Shot on location in Spitsbergen, Svalbard, North Horizon combines contemporary dance with the spectacular natural vistas of the high Arctic.

Aanaat

Max Hattler | UK | 4:30 min | 2008 The ever-shifting shape of analogue futurism.