LOCATION: Cinematheque

Volta
Director: Ryan Mullins (13 mins, 2009)
Former projectionist Emmanual Agboyame and others tell the story of this cinema and look back on the sense of community it brought out in everyone, every night at dusk.

Overburden
Director: Neil McArthur and Warren Cariou (15 mins, 2009)
Native communities in Alberta, Canada have been living with oil sands development for decades. This film explores the cultural, economic, environmental, and health effects of the oil sands on these Cree and Dene people by asking them to tell their own stories.

Ghost and Gravel Roads
Director: Mike Rollo (13 mins, 2008)
An inventory of lost memories and places, the sun bleached landscape of Saskatchewan serves as a metaphor for displacement, a framing of emptiness and absence.

Dog Stories
Director: Shereen Jerrett (24 mins, 1992)
Dogs featured in the stories include Sunny the lucky dog, whose owner has won a prize a week since she got him; Blitz, the world’s smartest dog (sort of); border collie Jenny the baseball fanatic; and Ivana the dancing poodle.