Primiti Too Taa
by Colin Morton and Ed Ackerman
16mm | Colour | animation | 3 minutes | 1986
Primiti Too Taa - A delightful animated poem made with only a typewriter and simple vocal messages, based on the 1920s sound poem Ursonate (Sonata in Primitive Sounds) by the German avant-garde artist Kurt Schwitters. The human voice provides the music while words and syllables dance in this short film, which has won several international awards, including a Bronze Apple from the National Educational Film and Video Festival. Primiti Too Taa was a six-week collaboration between filmmaker and artist Ed Ackerman, and writer and poet Colin Morton.
Dog Stories
by Shereen Jerrett
16mm | Colour | Documentary | 24 minutes | 1991
It starts with a simple premise: tell me a story about your dog. In a series of anecdotes, Dog Stories reveals as much about the people telling the stories as the dogs they are describing. The dog owners are more honest about their feelings about a dog than almost any other aspect of their lives, and in the process they reveal a lot about themselves.
Joe 90
by rus.tik
16mm | Colour | Comedy | 12 minutes | 1991
On the hot and dusty prairies stands the Oasis Bar & Grill. Within, Joe 90, a crop insurance claims adjuster, is quickly persuaded by the annoying paranoid Dick Rotundo to conspire in a false insurance claim. They almost close the deal when Dick's uncontrollable paranoia forces him to run into a burning field.
Believing Dick is dead, Joe 90 is left to face his supervisor without a claimant. He avoids her for fear of being caught in the process of a false claim. Much to his surprise, Joe 90 discovers that dick is alive. The two conspirators can now complete the fraudulent claim. This time Dick cannot free himself from the guilt and his fate blows in the wind. He helplessly watches as Joe offers him a place in a corrupt future.
Dory
by John Kozak
16mm | Colour | Drama | 48 Minutes | 1990
In an isolated prairie farmhouse, on a sweltering summer night, two sisters are locked in a battle of wills. Tension, frustration, anger and hatred seethe between Robin and Dory as the mystery behind their struggle deepens. At first, Robin seems in control of the fragile Dory, but Dory's weakness is an illusion and gradually Robin's physical domination surrenders under Dory's barrage of cruel mind-games as the confrontation slowly descends into a night of madness.