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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A stylish, in depth look at the renaissance in psychedelic drug research in light of current scientific, medical and cultural knowledge.
- 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.
- Edward Porris attends an appointment at a spa that caters to his specific tastes.
- 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.
- E V O is a visually daring documentary look at evolutionary theory that comes off like a university course in paleobiology as taught by Marshall McLuhan." Monday Magazine Festival Screenings: - The International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam - 2002 - European Media Arts Festival, Germany -2003 - The Hot Docs ! International Documentary Festival - 2003 - The Vancouver International Film Festival - 2002 - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. - 2003 E V O is a feature digital essay on questions of Evolution and Consciousness and features eminent Evolutionist/Oxford Professor/Author Dr. Richard Dawkins. "A playful, fiercely intelligent exploration of the history and future of evolutionary theory and its impact on human society...Packed with striking concepts and intricately composed imagery, E V O, hums with energy and insight." Vancouver International Film Festival - Elan Mastai E V O - a philosophical, whimsical, radical investigation. Including imagery created with hacked C.G. software, inflections of artificial life algorithms and fractal generators. E V O - a study and reflection on the history and future of evolutionary theory, its meaning to humans, with a focus on the question of contingency as argued by Naturalist Stephen J. Gould in his best seller "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History".
- 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.
- A surreal sequence of images of nature and London, Ontario, life and death.
- A post-punk gonzo doco from the 1980's refreshed in 2023. The Squamish Five - a significant historical Canadian recollection, a refreshment of memory in a time of ever increasing environmental suicidal somnambulism and political dementia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- "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."
- 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.
- "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.
- Snow's ambitious attempt at exploring the formal intricacies and artificialities of the sound cinema.
- 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."
- Adam (Kevin Mertz), a gay goth teen is returning to high school un-enthusiastically, but things get interesting when he sees Matt.
- Short film shown incorporating 4 separate frames simultaneously about a gay man who reminisces about his deceased lover, Frank.
- A satirical parable on non-conformity and the rat race.