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This film is the result of conversations between Blackfoot artists, youth and Elders and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery to stand as a visualization of the Gallery's Blackfoot name, Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin, the new making of images, related to the telling of Blackfoot peoples' stories.
In a future where nature exists only in dreams and cinema, a woman takes mind-altering pills to experience a lost world.
This short depicts using the Chinese ritual of burning joss paper to reflect of questions of death and diaspora.
Since the death of his wife, Marla, Henry just can’t seem to find life funny anymore. And yet, he must come to terms with the reality of a life even God himself seems to be laughing at.
A short abstract visual poem of a film about the grief a guy experiences driving through the road his best friend lived on before committing suicide.
Inspired by the surrealist game of "exquisite corpse," the film pieces together the story of a Harris mud crab who is a new species in the waters of the Baltic Sea since 2011. The film unfolds a layered story of "invasive species," disrupted ecosystems, and the questions they raise about human values in a world of constant environmental flux.
Will the siren sound? This agitprop piece featuring banned words and phrases is necessary pushback against oppressive forces attacking human rights, personhood, economic inequality, and environmental advocacy in the United States.
Thematically prompted by the word "trouble," the author of this video-diary frolics throughout the city relieving himself via windows and staircases with some Hi8 observations in-between.
YLOD [video for a bricked ps3] imagines a faulty character creation menu still haunting the interior of a useless PlayStation 3. Created using the Dark Souls debug menu mod by Lance McDonald, YLOD is an amalgamation of glitched imagery and character skins, illuminating moments where video game space breaks down, destroying the implied fantasy, creating something new through something broken.
Bang [Ding Dong] is a new video artwork by Meggy Rustamova, created at the invitation of the FOMU. The film tells the story of a group of children who learn the Dutch language. Rustamova starts from her personal memories as an eight-year-old refugee in Europe. Just like other newcomers, she stumbled over the word 'afraid'. She practiced her pronunciation with similar sounds: Ding Dong! Bang Bang!
A semantically unstable encounter with objects, images, and words.
Paulie Bianci, employed by a company to carry out assassinations, is confronted with the discovery that someone from within is trying to undermine the operation. Will she manage to catch the culprit in time before it’s too late?
"We're Not Friends" is the debut comedy special and album from Canadian stand-up comedian Renee Groux. Her debut special has her celebrating and shaking her fist at the ups and downs of parenting and marriage. Seen at the Guelph Comedy Festival, Don't Tell Comedy, Fever Dream Comedy and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Renee's comedy is smart, upbeat and raunchy as she takes you through her first years of parenting her toddler while trying to stay cool/relevant/feminist/sane!
After a steamy (and slightly ill-advised) fling with her charming neighbour Zeek, Gladys decides the only way to move on is to sell the couch where it all went down. Armed with a questionable CouchFinder™ ad, she sets out to banish both the furniture and the feelings tied to it.
RADIOHEART: The Drive and Times of DJ Kevin Cole explores the life and career of DJ Kevin Cole, tracing his path from the club dance floors of Minneapolis’ First Avenue to the digital halls of Amazon.com, to the global stage of Seattle’s KEXP. Through intimate interviews, archival footage, and the music that defined his career, the film tells the story of a man who revolutionized radio, faced personal demons, and ultimately, used his passion for music to create a lasting legacy of community, healing, and innovation.