Island Media Arts Cooperative (IMAC)

Set in the woods, somewhere in Bangor, PEI, this short work, starring Michael Gaudet, illustrates a well known frustration in this rural based community - a chainsaw that breaks down and doesn't start, no matter what you fiddle with, or, how many, many times you pull the cord. This incident ends in the ultimate demise of the offending device and serves as a warning to all chainsaws in the future.

This short film takes place on Prince Edward Island, an island that is slowly changing and disappearing, as it is carved by weather and the elements. Sculptor, Don Tryhurn returns after being away for five years, to retrieve an unfinished sandstone sculpture from the vacant land he once inhabited.

In Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, there occurs a daily natural phenomenon. At dusk thousands of crows appear, as if out of no where, in the sky over the city, and flock to Victoria Park at the water’s edge. They amass in such numbers that they turn entire trees black and fill the sky with a symphony of haunting cries.

If there were a biblical parable of "the latte", this would be it. This animation, using cut-outs, creates a colourful and mythic world story of men with ties, from space, creating a land of coffee shops, golfcourses and condo's. All is wonderful in the consuming population until pestilence strikes all. It is the oracles and oracle sub-committees that are consulted until the prophet tells the people to cast off their ties. And they do, along with their golf clubs, coffee cups, etc. - and once again all is in harmony...

It's a cold day in Charlottetown and an old lady is feeling the blahs. Even the cat looks bored. As she figures out what day of the week it is, she realizes it's bath day. So, off she goes down the hall of the boarding house to the communal bathroom. Once in the tub, she is transported into the mythical dreamland of reverie and the exotic. At the end she is interrupted, someone is clamouring to get in. It matters not, the old gal has been rejuvenated and with that extra spring in her dance back to her room, she proves that a bath is all you need to refresh your psyche.

Sitting at the dining-room table, Janet and Laurel talk to us about their friendship's evolution in the midst of a threatening situation; Janet is an abused woman. They tell the story of Janet's isolation, the fear that even Laurel felt, and the process of Laurel dealing with this new, scary and intolerable circumstance. Janet and Laurel had reached an alien frontier in their relationship. And Laurel set new boundaries, in support of a friend in danger. When all is said and done, she's there for Janet.

A salt-of-the-earth Prince Edward Islander talks about the way things were, the way things are, and the way he sees it all.

A drug encounter between a P.E.I. farmer and a hippie from "Upper Canada" who thinks he's Christ.