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- "Provocative... winningly goofy work in which paradox is paramount and truth is always around the bend." Ken Eisner, The Georgia Straight. A digital video comedy about religious ecstasy.
- 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".
- Forever lonely, homely Deborah Dyer tries everything she can to "suicide herself" when she finds herself still single on her 40th birthday. All attempts fail as fate sends her car swerving right into Sisi Sickles, a recently evicted 40-something promiscuous waitress. Seeing an opportunity for a quick buck, Sisi hastily begins to take advantage of naive Deb and is soon at Deb's doorstep with a "broken umbilical cord or two." Stricken with guilt, a clueless and lonely Deb postpones her self-destructive plans to take care of Sisi. Things run hilariously amok when the two women grow closer and develop the only real friendship either of them has ever had. Who needs a man anyways, right?
- "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.
- Pure Difference asks us "What is a number?" It is the debut episode in Anti-Racist Mathematics and Other Stories, a series of learning tools towards a post-capitalist education system. Using the visual tropes of a tech-conference presentation, trashy YouTube video and film essay, Peters sifts the foundations of science and mathematics, to disclose how these languages buttress power and galvanize authority.
- A comedy drama about the lives of two women. Linda DuMaurier, an independent but lonely woman and Mary, a disabled woman. Linda's life is in turmoil when she discovers that normally bedridden Mary is Pregnant.
- A critical reading of the events of the Canadian Rebellions of 1837 and 1838 and the true story of the banishment of a political prisoner of the Lower Canada Rebellion to the Australian penal colonies. Based in part on the actual Australian 1840-42 prison journal of the exiled François Maurice Lepailleur, the film uses strategies of collage to speak of the crises in the Canadian national identity. And with a Governor-General who has tea with pigs, balances on a circus ball; a revolutionary who literally spits fire; an executioner with a poor memory; and a person of indeterminate sex named Jesus de New York, this film is a uniquely extravagant vision of some crucially important events in the life of 'an improbable and yet ridiculously fortunate country'.
- Doktor Ovakozminsky lives alone in his small apartment "channeling" symbols from beyond. While immersed in his activity, he discovers a few more clues as to the source of these symbols and the secret that links the Bessborough Hotel and a cup of coffee to a mysterious creature that is not of this world.
- Inspired by witnessing the 'Aurora Borealis' over Vancouver in the early 1970's, this is an early example of 'visual music' combining film sources (time lapse clouds, slow motion volcanic eruptions, water reflections) and video-synthesis.
- VestAndPage's first film trilogy, "sin fin", presents three medium-length art films of collaborative performances co-created with epic environments worldwide. Teetering between the real and the visionary, these films feature the artists undertaking surreal and ephemeral acts. Amplified by the unfamiliar environments, the performances reflect on universal human experiences such as altruism, partnership and the transient nature of existence. The second episode is located in Northern India and Kashmir, highlighting the topic of society and religion. The two characters move through the lanes of an imaginary city, encountering visions and memories of excess and absence, loss and overflow, surrender and hope. In the quest for their personal definition of what is the holy center, they confront themselves with the prosaic realities of India. It is as if there was neither inside nor outside, but textures and edges. Their acts are centrifugal, remembrances splint all over the ground, waiting to be picked up after having travelled so far. The characters circulate and watch at themselves as strangers who are drawn to stop by in the process of adding their stories to others. Unrevealing and revealing are accretive. Meanings and signs, which are layered over ruins and the history dust, are peeled off one by one to be connected and set forth in a map of fragmented time.
- Bill Pusztai is a photographer who does portraiture and plants. He talks about his interest in botany, the relationship between his photography and feminism and his process of portraiture.
- Framed as an episode from a "futuristic" soap-opera, this video takes the viewer to various tacky locations throughout the world of pathetic espionage, scrawny go-gos and irrelevant gossip. this video presents a world of shallow characters and deconstructivist scenes.
- VestAndPage's first film trilogy, "sin fin", presents three medium-length art films of collaborative performances co-created with epic environments worldwide. Teetering between the real and the visionary, these films feature the artists undertaking surreal and ephemeral acts. Amplified by the unfamiliar environments, the performances reflect on universal human experiences such as altruism, partnership and the transient nature of existence. The concluding episode, filmed in Antarctica, engages with narratives on nature and the universe. Here, the two characters move through the deserted, icy vastness of a oneiric land. They find themselves creatures being torn between life and death, absence and misleading mirages, fortune and emptiness. The flux of nature is mercilessly immense, where the wind sings its laments and silence its lullaby. All paradises are merciless in a search for Beauty where anything is a Mirror. Is there any game left to be played? Is there someone left to call for when clocks don't display time anymore, and no compass is guiding one's way? Who's the player and who's the pawn, and whose turn is it when civilisation has lost its quotidian schemes, and just basic rules count? In the backdrop of Antarctica, a place where humans have neither roots nor a future but only a frail and temporary presence always at risk, all questions inevitably lead to humbleness.
- A little girl imagines a monster named Kudok.
- Neither exclusively 'film' nor 'video', these groundbreaking works represented the first Canadian experimental film-videos that challenged the oppressive critical orthodoxies of (what is) 'film' or 'video' art that were rampant in their respective 'scenes' at that time.
- Ever have one of those sleepless nights? While drifting off to sleep, thoughts turn to ones where social anxiety can be related to the effects of social media. Rethinking the meaning of social networking and questioning the meanings of community, friendship and communication.