Historical

  • Souvenirs

    Souvenirs is a trio of short films about the city of Winnipeg, which sift through the accumulated layers of history, experience and identity of a place which we, collectively, call home.

    · Sand and Stone digs up the history of hard labour and the urban landscape—the workers who sweated its surfaces and shapes, and the primary materials they used to construct a city. 

    · Watermarks travels the emotional currents evoked by the experience of flooding in the lives of city dwellers, and looks for the imprints left behind after the waters recede.

    · Waiting for the Parade transforms the 75th anniversary celebration of Winnipeg in 1948 into a discourse on the city's shifting identities through decades of progress and regress, cynicism and hope.

    Biography

    Filmmaker Paula Kelly created Souvenirs as Artist-in-Residence at the City of Winnipeg Archives with support from the Winnipeg Arts Council’s Public Art Program.  Her documentary films and dramatic shorts have received various awards and nominations, including the feature documentary Appassionata, winner of a Chris Award at the Columbus Film & Video Festival, as well the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Gimli Film Festival.  Her film, The Notorious Mrs. Armstrong, won three Blizzard Awards for best writing, directing and editing.
  • Negativipeg

    Negativipeg tells the story of Rory Lepine, who shot to Herostratic fame in 1985 when he attacked Winnipeg rock legend Burton Cummings with a beer bottle in a North End 7-Eleven. Narrated by Lepine himself, the film meditates on this mysterious act of destruction and suggests that Winnipeg might have an attitude problem. 

    Biography

    Matthew Rankin was born in Winnipeg and educated in Montréal and Québec City. A graduate of l’Université Laval and l’Institut national de l’image et du son, Rankin returned to Winnipeg in 2005 to work more directly with the imagery of his native province. His films include Oú est Maurice? (2006), which won the CanWest Global Prize for best short film, and, with Mike Maryniuk, the underground collage opera Death by Popcorn (2005) which was temporarily banned in his native Manitoba. An alumnus of the Toronto International Film Festival's Talent Lab in 2007, Rankin completed his experimental drama, Hydro-Lévesque, in 2008 and Negativipeg in 2010.
  • The Red Hood
    Set in the Canadian prairies during the Great Depression, The Red Hood is a dark re-telling of the traditional fable Little Red Riding Hood.
  • Infectious

    A lonely nurse develops an unexpected passion for her unconscious patient in a 1930s tuberculosis sanatorium.

    Set in a 1930’s Canadian tuberculosis sanatorium, Infectious tells the story of Anne, a lonely nurse who longs for human connection. When Anne is assigned to care for a beautiful and unconscious patient, her imagination is awakened and her daydreams lead to unexpected revelations.