Short Film

  • Return to You

    A pair of lovers are separated by a war that is taking place just 4km from their home.  The young woman, strained by isolation, finally has her fiancé return home, but he is bleeding from fatal gunshot wounds.  As his breathing fades, the young woman decides to join her love in death by poisoning herself.

    Biogrpahy

    Born in Calgary, Alberta, Cam Woykin graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Lethbridge in 2003. He has since completed numerous short films, screening his work throughout Canada and internationally. Woykin currently resides in Toronto, where he is completing his Master’s of Fine Arts in film production at York University.
  • Canoe
    The film traces the anguish a middle-aged woman endures as she contemplates a decision on a summer day that might end her own life and that of her husband who suffers a long term and incurable illness.
  • Tashina

    A young Aboriginal girl's hopes and dreams are re-negotiated within the walls and tunnels of the institution of education.

    Biography

    Caroline Monnet (Algonquin/French), born in Ottawa, Canada, is a self-taught award winning filmmaker and artist. She completed a B.A in Communication and Sociology at the University of Ottawa and Granada, Spain. She uses video, photography, and installation to explore the dualities of her social, political, and spiritual identity, developing a critical framework influenced by history, community, and unconventional memory. Monnet’s work has been exhibited across Europe, Canada and the US. She is currently based in Winnipeg where she is an active member of ITWÉ, a trans-disciplinary collective dedicated to research, creation, production and education in the field of Aboriginal digital culture. 
  • 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.
  • Spider Antarctica

    A fictional scientific documentary about a brilliantly colored and choreographed ice skating spider. The spider has emerged from the melting Antarctica ice as a result of global warming.

    Biography

    Daniel S. Hrishkewich has worked as a fine artist for over 25 years with sculpture, painting, and photography being his main artistic practices. Utilizing the skills he acquired through these mediums, animation became a natural extension of his artistic direction. Spider Antarctica is his first film.
  • yaya/ayat

    yaya/ayat explores identities, being lost in translation and distance. But at its core it’s about Shimby longing for a relationship with her geographically distant grandma and her journey to Greece to find her. This is an experimental documentary about how being a part of any diaspora shapes a person’s identity.

    Biography

    Shimby Zegeye-Gebrehiwot was the first in her family to be born and raised in Winnipeg, Canada. In February 2010 she went to Greece to be with and film her maternal grandmother. The result of this trip was the experimental documentary yaya/ayat, which is her first film.
  • Kidnappé
    A 17 year old suburban girl finds the mutilated body of her best friend in a park resulting in her becoming complacent and paranoid.
  • Sonata for Christian
    Christian is a young suburban boy who learns more about himself than he expects every time he goes to his piano lesson.
  • Sorrow's Companion

    A drama about a young Aboriginal man who just gets released from jail.  He wants to make changes in his life but the bad choices he makes get in the way.  We discover how these bad choices affect his life.
  • 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.
  • Open Window

    A backyard birthday party is consumed with tension when an abusive relationship between the birthday boy’s parents is revealed.

    Biography

    Born in Calgary, Alberta, Cam Woykin graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Lethbridge in 2003. He has since completed numerous short films, screening his work throughout Canada and internationally. Woykin currently resides in Toronto, where he is completing his Master’s of Fine Arts in film production at York University.
  • Light

    Light follows an elderly artist whose frustration sees him reborn in the pursuit of a fleeting dream.

  • The Scared Seven
    One young foster child defies all odds to establish balance through routine and spiritual enlightenment.
  • Chinatown
    A multi-layered epic set in the heart of Winnipeg’s historic Chinatown. It is the story of a half-baked opium addict, fighting to preserve Chinatown in the face of “progress.” Photographed on old 16mm color film stocks, combined with found footage, and using a collage technique, Chinatown is a poppy-perfumed protest against the faceless/sameness identity smaller cities get bullied into accepting, often at the expense of real history and identity.
  • Black Chalk
    A group of uniformed students receive tutelage while a presence moves around and through them.
  • ZOOROOKS

    The rooks in the Assiniboine Park Zoo photographed frame by frame from the exterior of their enclosure. Their intense social behavior creates a flurry within the frame, which dissipates in a final shot - of a broad park landscape in Neuhardenberg Germany.

    The bulk of this film was shot using old stock and a hand-wind camera donated by John Nesbitt and won in a Winnipeg Film Group draw. ZOOROOKS was created in admiration of Bruce Baille's All My Life.
  • Devil on Commission
    After succumbing to a fatal fall while 'changing a shower curtain', Hugh really wants to get to Heaven. Unfortunately, the wait might simply be too long. The officious operator on the other end of the line has too many forms for Hugh to fill out before he can be allowed in. And, adding insult to injury, the sight of his own corpse is really starting to get to him. Luckily, the road to Hell is easy and sounds like a lot more fun. All Hugh has to do is say OK. But at what price...and who's this Darryl guy, anyway?
  • Hirsch

    Objects found by children in an attic tell the story of the father of Canadian theatre, John Hirsch. A ten year-old boy watching his friends and babysitter play video games and unearth Hirsch’s belongings listens to Hirsch’s deathbed interview on an old reel-to-reel player.

    As a teenaged World War II orphan, Hirsch came to Winnipeg from Europe, his only possession a suitcase puppet show. He became an agitator for culture on the Canadian prairies, co-founding the Manitoba Theatre Centre and going to direct on New York's Lincoln Center stage. He died in Toronto in 1989 at age 59 from complications due to AIDS.
  • Warchild

    Warchild is part of a trilogy of experimental documentaries done on students from South East Collegiate, a boarding school in Winnipeg for Aboriginal youth coming from Northern Manitoba.

    Recalling the esthetic of traditional Japanese cinema this short film portrays a young solitary figure seeking his place in society. His journey from the North to the city encapsulates his struggle to become a responsible adult and seek serenity.

    Biography

    Caroline Monnet (Algonquin/French), born in Ottawa, Canada, is a self-taught award winning filmmaker and artist. She completed a B.A in Communication and Sociology at the University of Ottawa and Granada, Spain. She uses video, photography, and installation to explore the dualities of her social, political, and spiritual identity, developing a critical framework influenced by history, community, and unconventional memory. Monnet’s work has been exhibited across Europe, Canada and the US. She is currently based in Winnipeg where she is an active member of ITWÉ, a trans-disciplinary collective dedicated to research, creation, production and education in the field of Aboriginal digital culture. 
  • fish in barrel
    A live action experimental drama focused on a young man's psychological struggle that combines elements of sculpture, photography, and video to slow time and visually explore the idea of internal conflict. This struggle erupts into visions that question what lies below the surface and is extended into an underwater environment that can be seen as nurturing, dangerous, inhospitable, safe, or distant.
  • Machine with Wishbone
    Featuring the artwork of internationally celebrated artist Arthur Ganson this remarkable journey follows a stoic, determined wishbone on its explorative journey through an imaginative miniature world of snoring beds, paper birds, clouds that come in a box, and delightfully bewitching landscapes.
  • Score for a Duel
    Swing, you coward! Swing!
  • Score for a Duel
    Swing, you coward! Swing!
  • 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.
  • Point de mémoire: les sports d'hiver
    Point de mémoire: les sports d'hiver is a mixed-media installation that seeks to investigate technology's effect on the active process of making history.  Jacquelyn explores this through a juxtaposition of reconfigured found footage from the 1930's and newly created Super 8 films that were inspired by those archival images.  These non-linear short narratives are synchronized and edited in such a way that the stories respond to each other and are intended to be projected onto opposite-facing handmade screens.  Both films are united by a single overarching soundtrack created from ambient audio gathered while shooting in Manitoba. Point de mémoire explores the spirit of nostalgia, playfulness, and the “re-creation" of memory and was recently shown at La maison des artistes visuels francophones (MAVF) from Nov. 2009 to Jan. 2010.
  • Singh

    Singh is an intimate look into the morning of a Sikh priest.

  • Dead Ringer

    Shot in 3DIY. A tsunami of magnetic rays disrupts the primitive cell-phone broadcast of a Horseshoe Match. The Moral: Never mount a satellite dish on your microwave!
  • Truce
    Truce eloquently depicts the fine line between soldier and human being; at what point do we see the person and not an enemy.
  • A Good Indian

    A fair skinned First Nations person has his pride and identity put to the test when two bar patrons involve him in a discussion.
  • The Stranger
    A cinematic poem about dreams and realities, The Strangers is an experimental film that depicts one man’s metaphoric melt down after a brief romantic encounter.
  • IKWÉ

    The re-imagination of the generational passage of traditional knowledge between a woman and her grandmother moon.

    IKWÉ is an experimental film that weaves the narrative of one woman’s (IKWÉ) intimate thoughts with the teachings of her grandmother, the Moon, creating a surreal narrative experience that communicates the power of thoughts and personal reflection.

    Biography

    Caroline Monnet (Algonquin/French), born in Ottawa, Canada, is a self-taught award winning filmmaker and artist. She completed a B.A in Communication and Sociology at the University of Ottawa and Granada, Spain. She uses video, photography, and installation to explore the dualities of her social, political, and spiritual identity, developing a critical framework influenced by history, community, and unconventional memory. Monnet’s work has been exhibited across Europe, Canada and the US. She is currently based in Winnipeg where she is an active member of ITWÉ, a trans-disciplinary collective dedicated to research, creation, production and education in the field of Aboriginal digital culture. 
  • La Revue
    Art forms have been killing each other off for centuries. In an artistic autopsy, Aiken and Majzels examine the death of vaudeville. Through dance, performance and music, this film uses the trappings of vaudeville to tell the story of its demise. With a cabaret of sad double acts, aging burlesque dancers and tired magicians, the film takes a humorous and macabre look into the forgotten arts.
  • La Revue
    Art forms have been killing each other off for centuries. In an artistic autopsy, Aiken and Majzels examine the death of vaudeville. Through dance, performance and music, this film uses the trappings of vaudeville to tell the story of its demise. With a cabaret of sad double acts, aging burlesque dancers and tired magicians, the film takes a humorous and macabre look into the forgotten arts.
  • Fabric
    Fabric is an experimental narrative about a woman's attempts to reconnect with her family. The film uses magical realism to visualize a physical process of grief, exploring both real and imagined spaces.
  • Cinema Etiquette: A How to Guide
  • The Lobby
  • Robert's Walk
    An adaptation of an adaptation. After failing to complete a long format film adapted from a short prose poem by Robert Walser, Eskin and Gerson found themselves with a vestige of a story. Working backwards they adapted the footage from their incomplete film into a film poem that examines the eccentricity of Walser and his lifelong dialogue with the natural world.
  • Marriage
  • win'e-peg' sin'e-me-tek'
  • Smoked Lizard Lips
  • Arm Wrestling Bear Movie
  • Two Men in Search of a Plot
    Two men attempt to accomplish a simple task - the disposing of a body. Unfortunately, every time they try to dump it somewhere, they get caught and are forced to dispose of yet another hapless victim. The body count escalates while our heroes desperately try to stay calm. Morality, the impossibility of accomplishing our goals and four or five good belly laughs, all in one short package.
  • Tutulungan Kita - I'll Help You
    A Filipino man new in Canada fumbles helping a Filipino-Canadian woman at a bus stop. What happens next is a connection they soon develop that goes beyond their cultural ties.
  • Lifetime
    A 1960's angel helps a 1990's teenage boy in a struggle over life and death.
  • Subterranean Passage
  • Did Jesus Ever Laugh?
  • Basillica
    A visual essay on the stately St. Boniface Basillica.
  • My Relationship with Film and Why I Love Him
  • Keeping Quiet

    Bob tries out the world of classified dating to disastrous results.

    Biography

    Shane Belcourt is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and musician based in Toronto. His feature film, Tkaronto, has played many international film festivals, most recently winning the Best Director prize at the 2008 Dreamspeakers Film Festival and 2008 Talking Stick Film Festival. Shane was the recipient of the 2007 IFC Mentorship Award and one of 22 filmmakers chosen for the 2007 TIFF Talent Lab. Most recently Shane co-wrote and directed Boxed In, a short film produced by the NFB that was included in the Canadian Pavilion at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Currently, Shane is working as the writer-director for two animation projects, a half-hour animation on problem gambling in Aboriginal communities and a personal short animated documentary about growing up the son of a Metis rights leader, Red Car, Blue Hood. Shane has also been selected to Telefilm's Feature Aboriginal Storytellers Program to further develop his next dramatic feature film, Better Place and was selected to be the Filmmaker in Residence by the Winnipeg Film Group in January 2010.
  • Getting Warmer
  • Phantom of the Cinematheque
  • Nocturne
  • Shot With Your Own Guns
    A rock video with a difference.
  • I'm Alright Ma
    A disturbing, frightening film about the frequently callous and unthinking exchanges between an adolescent and parent, and their horrific consequences.
  • If
    A timid man longs to speak to the woman he's been secretly photographing for years.
  • Praying Mantis Up Skirt
    A band of insects wreak havoc over the prairies and silly praying mantis can’t seem to keep up.
  • Blow Me

    Blow Me is the metaphorical story of news columnist Ashley Tray, who struggles to write for a local newspaper, nicotine-free. He is under constant stress by his boss, Mr. Cornflower, to meet his deadlines but it just isn’t the same without his sacred muse: Nicotine.

    Throughout the film, he is constantly taunted by cigarette smoking characters, which are meant to represent the various brands of the cigarettes themselves. He is eventually drawn back into the world of smoking, and as result, he is able to write again. However, this causes him to lose control of his life, along with his job and his girlfriend, and in the end all he has left is addiction.

    This film is a social satire on cigarette advertising that presents smoking as sexually appealing rather than the disgusting reality.
  • Snapperdoodle

    SNAPPERDOODLE was conceived by Arlea Ashcroft and Andrea von Wichert, in the summer of 2006, as a way to harness the power of the puss and discover a way to create art without resorting to becoming escorts, prostitutes, or kept women. They realized they could paint with their pinks and pave their own way.

    SNAPPERDOODLE is a statement about the role women's sexuality plays in the art world and society. Are we just vaginas? Is a painting of a vagina worth more than a painting created with a vagina or vice versa? How strong is the need of an artist to create and to what lengths will she go?

    A woman paints with her vagina to please the art hungry masses that crowd her gallery and her life.
  • Iris & Nathan
    A short drama about romance and identity, intended for urban adult audiences.
  • Sitka
    Sitka ("net" in Ukrainian) is composed of threads and ruptures into the folds of memory, love, and loss. Body, skin, touch, movement, man and woman, mother and son, memories are awash in a haptic eroticism of film grain. With use of overexposure, vaseline, hand-processing, and flashes of light, this film asks for a close, haptic viewing.
  • The Obsession of Billy Botski
    A young man meets his obsession, a ghostly '60's Playboy-bunny styled "Connie," and is never the same!
  • Baggage

    What percentage of Americans pretend to be Canadian while traveling abroad?
  • Wanderlust 2: Thunder on the Track
    Inspired by 1990s Stock Car crash videos, this micro-documentary gives a glance into the sensational Saskatchewan Lawnmower Racing Circuit. In the hallowed Winnipeg tradition of image degradation, this work demeans cinematic imagery into a bygone videoscopic era of the movies. VHS nostalgia!
  • The Key
    The Key deals with the struggles for personal, uncompromised freedom in the face of responsibilities to others.  The story follows, Satan, the representation of the uncontrolled side of the psyche, striving to escape from his imprisonment in Hell.  Between him and the way out is Sin, a figure from his past who holds the key to his desires.  The film explores the humanity and the desperation of the two characters, asking, can we survive without a dark side?
  • Without Arms
    Without Arms is the story of four women who became friends and formed a political group during college. They decided, collectively, to make a statement by cutting off their right arms. Moments after, one member (Diane), decided to have her arm surgically sewn back on. As a result, she becomes alienated by the group and is forced to return to isolation. The film is a mock documentary, tracing the group’s story through interviews with each member.
  • Playing Dead
    In Playing Dead the character speaks about “fake suicide” as though it is a productive and fulfilling part of her life. Her dialogue has been modeled loosely around artist interviews, using self-assurance and confidence to talk about a ridiculous and disconcerting subject.
  • Killing Time (St. James Still Life Project)
    Regression and nostalgia necessitate a recapturing of a lost time killed in the fleeting ignorance of youth. This piece recaptures the dead time of suburban youth by exploring and the radical potential of new sense of pseudo-cinematic realism offered by video. Everything happens/nothing is happening.
  • Conversations
    Both a tender portrait of the filmmaker's grandfather and a remarkable look at hopes and fears of any person growing older.
  • The Snow Queen
    When the real world turns sour, ten-year old Talia finds shelter in a fantasy world of ice and snow. But as life becomes more and more difficult, Talia's daydreams become less protective and more menacing.
  • Threefold

    Three stories, three colours, three stages in a woman’s life. In this lush and ethereal short film, tales from classical mythology are turned upside-down to celebrate three powerful women.  These ancient world ‘bad girls’ were punished for their curiosity, sexuality and knowledge, but in this film they are rewarded for their desire to understand and actively participate in the world around them. Expect the unexpected in Threefold.
  • The Reason Why
    David and Corrie are two people struggling to understand the situations they are in. Each has questions to ask the other, but neither is ready-or willing-to give answers.
  • Weave

    After pulling off a flawless heist, three friends rush to an undisclosed location to pay a ruthless loan shark an old gambling debt. But between the robbery and the meeting, something unimaginable happens. Now, with the wheels set in motion, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues. And as the truth of the story unfolds, the question remains: who is really the hunter and the hunted?
  • rifting/blue
    This film explores women and madness. It is devoted to breakages- to what they look like, what they feel like, and who those humans are who have been asked to hold them –in their pieces, as they disintegrate.

    Through superimpositions and dissolves, and mixing formats of 16mm, stills and video, the film constructs, in cinematic collage, the “push/pull of appearance as expression and concealment” that madness is. The highly coded yet emotionally naked images become the multi-layered capacity to endure watching-that is the film.
  • Hope
    a haven

    a desire of some good, accompanied with an expectation of obtaining it

    one who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good
  • Protection
    Two sisters, Snow White and Rose Red, face an unforgiving and alienating modern world. How do they find protection when the world is designed to tear them apart?
  • 504938C
    This film is about rebirth - a young man coming to grips with his past and trying to change the future. This film takes place mostly in his jail cell as he burns Indian medicine for strength. While the medicine burns and smoke comes up from a wooden smudge bowl he reflects on his past. As he leaves prison, and the experience of rebirth, he has to decide between his family and his gang life.     
  • Panic Attack
    An interpretation of the internal struggle of anxiety.
  • Robert's Walk
    An adaptation of an adaptation. After failing to complete a long format film adapted from a short prose poem by Robert Walser, Eskin and Gerson found themselves with a vestige of a story. Working backwards they adapted the footage from their incomplete film into a film poem that examines the eccentricity of Walser and his lifelong dialogue with the natural world.
  • Inland
    Two lovers, a beach, a little girl and the secret that pulls them apart.
  • Red Men Rising
    After toxic waste is carelessly dumped into the river, it flows down stream and finds its way into the ground of “Northern Pines Communist Graveyard”, disturbing the dead and causing them to re-animate and rip free of their graves. 
  • une femme n'est pas une île
    A musical exploration of the pain of unrequited love. A young woman sings of her struggle with her in-obedient heart.
  • The Snow Fort
    William, a 10-year-old wise beyond his years, watches over his young friends as they build their first snow fort. Once the final blocks are in place, a group of teenagers show up to cast a shadow on their perfect day.
  • Parasite
    Jock Van Rysell is a middle age psychiatrist on the verge of a nervous breakdown. His sanity is put to the ultimate test when he is stalked by a male patient of his, leading to Jock’s breakdown of his sanity. 
    It ends in tragedy as Jock dies a horrible death before being able to watch Lawrence Welk that evening.
  • Monument

    A boy embarks on an odyssey in what appears to be a bleak and destitute landscape. It is, however, the very journey that leads him to discover not only the hidden meaning of his environment but also his own identity and ultimately, his very destiny.

    “MONUMENT” is a hand drawn animated film written, directed, animated and produced by Alain Delannoy. This independent production was inspired by thematic elements found in the filmmaker's French Canadian heritage and has proven to be his most challenging and ambitious projects to date. Produced over a span of five years, four thousand handcrafted drawings were created to compose and ultimately complete this twelve minute long film. Without spoken language, MONUMENT follows the adventure of a young boy living within a large scale and imposing environment. He is propelled on a journey that consumes his life but in the end grants him a perspective in which he can find peace (or solace).

  • Cleaner
    A reclusive drycleaner, living vicariously through his customers' clothes, gets the opportunity of a lifetime when a hit man hands over his bloodied suit for cleaning.
  • TOURISMTORONTO (A Hay Seed in Hogtown)
    TOURISMTORONTO is a Super 8 one take experiment shot with the intentions of generating audio from the film by capturing geometric imagery (shot frame by frame) and lights utilizing a long exposure.
  • Destiny Green
    Destiny Green is a mock documentary about the life of a fictional beauty queen whose story is inspired by both Jonbenet Ramsey and Jocelyne Wildenstein. The film traces the child's history through interviews with family, friends and professional relations, discussing her rise to fame, her disappearance and shocking reappearance after having her face surgically removed.
  • Jenny Johnson
    Jenny Johnson is the story of a girl who's only desire is to have her ears pierced just like her nemesis, Jenny Johnson's. The character begs her mother relentlessly to let her pierce her ears. When this method fails again and again, it forces the girl to seek another path.
  • Baby Marleena
    Baby Marleena documents a day in the life of Tamarra and her daughter, Baby Marleena. The Baby Marleena is, what is commonly known as, a mermaid, and therefore must be kept in water at all times. For this reason, Tamarra has kept Baby Marleena in a full bathtub for her whole life, preventing her from suffocating and dying.
  • Purgatory (2006)
    Purgatory is an atmospheric picture about self-hating, through graphic auto-mutilations, of a man facing his own purgatory.
  • Color Me Beautiful
    Obsessed with beauty, Christie resorts to desperate measures to achieve a golden tan. Following a series of unsuccessful attempts, Christie finally believes she has found the answer in a drug called Tan-Adril. The results are short lived, and Christie once again finds herself searching in vain for a quick solution.
  • The Last Moment
    The Last Moment is a multi-fractured, multi-genred narrative that uses five styles of film history; Film Noir, Dogme 95, late Era Hitchcock, Tarantino and 60's New Wave, to explore the final moments of a man's life and the ill fated relationship woes leading up to his death.
  • Fish + Loaf
    Fervent and reverent, David and Kim have a couple of passions: wrestling and God. Fish + Loaf presents their take on how these seemingly incongruous interests can “tag-team” together to help spread the gospel.
  • The Claw
    Remembering a bogeyman. Art-noir for kids aged 6 to 106
  • Sister

    A young boy curious about where his older sister goes at night ventures out with a friend late one evening to uncover the truth.
  • ReOrder

    Stunned by his fiancée’s admission of adultery, Kyle obsessively attempts to rebuild his life, piece by piece.  As Kyle withdraws into himself, filmmaker Sean Garrity’s brilliantly structured mise en scène provides insight into a man reckoning with his lover’s betrayal. (Toronto International Film Festival)
  • Commercials
    Commercials is a series of mock advertisements for products and services, such as a fake family pet, self-confidence building tapes, and a dating hotline. As the video progresses, the commercials become more surreal and abstract, often unclear as to what they are selling, so that the products and the life changes they promise become less attainable.
  • The End of Everything
    Many times Chris has fantasized about proposing to his girlfriend. He has it all planned out when a simple little gesture from his girlfriend changes everything.
  • Courtship
    When my grandmother died I inherited her old photos - pictures that my grandfather took in the early stages of their relationship. This watercolour animation is based on those pictures and the decline they foreshadow.
  • The Bicycle Lesson

    A five year old boy's first bicycle lesson, given to him by his older brother and sister, goes terribly wrong. It is based on the true story of a childhood friend's disastrous first bicycle lesson.
  • Welcome

    Scuttling through the decrepit and impoverished city streets that comprise his only playground, a young boy lives in social peril.

    The stark, vérité, imagery reveals the alienating effects of urban neglect; places where nature has started to reclaim what society has squandered. Welcome was filmed on location in Winnipeg's crumbling and disenfranchised Chinatown district.
  • 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.
  • Imaginary Girlfriend
    In Imaginary Girlfriend, artist Erica Eyres borrows from the aesthetic and artificiality of low budget television; casting herself in each of the characters roles this video investigates the exploitative relationship between parent and child and the vulnerability of growing up in a media saturated world.
  • My Life in Dreams
    In the depths of sleep, a man eludes shadows and time as he explores the recesses of his subconscious. Struck by the hypnotic melody of the sea, a vision of an unfamiliar love leads him to rapture, and into the dark waters of uncertainty.  Shot on 16mm, Super8 and miniDV, My Life in Dreams follows a man’s trance-like recollection of a reoccurring dream he has had since childhood. Of, and through the subject’s eye, surreal black and white images are woven throughout the man’s narration as he moves through states of consciousness, memory and observation.
  • The Lady of the House

    Damien discovers that an elderly woman who once owned his family’s house had passed away in his bedroom. That night, she returns for her bed!

  • Saturday
    Damien finally has a Saturday night off to spend time with his friends.  However no one seems to be interested.  Every last phone call leads him into a more and more desperate situation than the last in his battle against boredom.
  • Loving the Bomb

    Atomic positive propaganda and historical accounts of nuclear explosions infiltrate the daily existence of a family living in a town supported by atomic bomb production.

    Loving the Bomb interweaves the accounts of scientists and soldiers involved in nuclear weapons testing and atomic positive propaganda with the lives of a family living in a town supported by the production of nuclear arms, to create a portrait of a community that is harmed by, yet reliant upon, this contentious industry.
  • Static
    A tortured musician trying to cope with the need to create.
  • The Devil Wears a Paper Hat
    An imaginative young girl is pursued by a paper-clad gunslinger through a wintery world inhabited by living paper-birds and a moving, mysterious tree-man.
  • Ok, Now What?
    A happy-go-lucky guy is out for an evening stroll when trouble finds him. Will evil prevail or will the good guy win?
  • Basillica
    A visual essay on the stately St. Boniface Basillica.
  • ...life happens
    A street poet comes back to his home city to look for a job.
  • Insanitor vs Energy Sucker
    The battle between good and evil wages on in one man’s mind.
  • Praying Mantis Upskirt
    A band of insects wreak havoc over the prairies and silly praying mantis can’t seem to keep up.
  • Afternoon

    A woman’s struggle and fight with the demons in her head come to play with tormentor.

  • January
    January seeks to capture the essence of winter via an experimental/intuitive perspective.
    Much of this piece was shot without my looking threw the viewfinder utilizing a frame by frame exposure to build a landscape with snow banks, icy sidewalks and various tire tracks and trees along a Winnipeg walking trail. A process oriented work, january, carried with it the intention of generating audio with the digitized film, a dynamic drone that sits beneath the audio track from start to finish. The use of negative space illustrates the importance of what is there as much as what is not there, the dimension of dream, or the space between the space.
  • The Great Divide
    The Great Divide was created for collaboration with Japanese artist Katsuyuki Hattori which was performed live as part of a video concert.
    The work is composed of video footage of the Arlington Bridge which sprawls over the often debated train yard and grain transportation depot which segregates the North End of Winnipeg to the inner city.
    This work, Besant’s first attempt at generating audio from video, was inspired by the geometric form of the bridge and essentially this work has become something of a tutorial on the sounds generated by contrast and movement, and yet the overall feel of the piece seems to reflect the uncertainty of the politics and disjointed debate to move the train yard out if the city.
  • My Indian Bum
    The film is a humorous examination of how we all fall victim to racial prejudice sometimes…
  • How Spoony B Got His Ho Back
    It’s not easy being the Pimp King of Winnipeg! In an attempt to bankrupt him, an evil villain kidnaps Spoony B’s best ho, forcing Spoony to save the girl before the bank forecloses on his Cadillac. A silent Chaplinesque comedy with a dash of Dolemite. Check your sense of moral decency at the door!
  • The Stork
    Want to hear something really scary? In the dead of night, a young girl wakes to the sound of thunder, rain... and a crying baby right outside her window. Her first instinct is to report it to the police, but as the cries move closer and closer to the busy street, she realizes police will not get there in time. Disobeying their orders to stay inside, the girl takes matters into her own hands and comes face to face with the legend known only as The Stork.
  • Time Away
    Three guides accompany us on a road trip away from time... and towards the transformative end of the road, space...
  • Home Body
    A dream about falling through ice inspires a woman`s search for home, only to find it in her own body.
  • Checkers
    A couple of slackers spend the afternoon at home, playing a paranoid game of checkers, while in a drug-induced haze.
  • Kanashibara
    Following the death of his girlfriend in a car accident, a man suffers from post-trauma and attempts to maintain his grip on sanity. Now renting a dingy basement suite, he is plagued with constant interruptions from his landlady and terrifying bouts of sleep paralysis. His sense of the real and the illusory world begins to blur when he is visited nightly by hallucinatory representations of his depression in the form of a Succubus.
  • Drawing Genesis

    Drawing Genesis is a saturated visual compendium, which traces C. Graham Asmundson's performative gestures and visual residue. With the use of time lapse, still frames, lens obstruction, occult symbolism, subliminal imagery and blatant queer references the film presents a ritual of artistic inspiration that invokes man's primal forces.

    The soundtrack was created by converting a photograph of one of the paintings to a MIDI music file. This was subsequently entered into various synthesizers and sound programs and ultimately performed live by electronic artist, Cake Builder, adding a lush sound sigil to the frenetic magical imagery.

    This film was created during the One Take Super 8 Event at the first annual WNDX Festival of Avant Garde & Underground Film.
  • Snapperdoodle

    SNAPPERDOODLE was conceived by Arlea Ashcroft and Andrea von Wichert, in the summer of 2006, as a way to harness the power of the puss and discover a way to create art without resorting to becoming escorts, prostitutes, or kept women. They realized they could paint with their pinks and pave their own way.

    SNAPPERDOODLE is a statement about the role women's sexuality plays in the art world and society. Are we just vaginas? Is a painting of a vagina worth more than a painting created with a vagina or vice versa? How strong is the need of an artist to create and to what lengths will she go?

    A woman paints with her vagina to please the art hungry masses that crowd her gallery and her life.
  • Dead Mothers Kitchen Floors
    A woman deals with the death of her mother through self-annihilating tendencies.
  • In Reflection
    The light, it was always up above me.... In Reflection is a memory prose poem on moving picture, shot on S8 and in one take.
  • What Comes Between
    What Comes Between is an examination of personal memory and loss rooted in the filmmaker's birthplace – Chile – and her departure from that country long ago. The work is a collage film created with found footage from personal and historic sources, and original hand printed and tinted footage.
  • Halley's Comet

    As she moves through the fragments of her life, a woman recalls a dying childhood friend's dream to watch Halley's comet pass by the Earth.

    Halley's Comet is the third in a triptych of short films titled “She: Nameless & Separate”, and represents connection.
  • Chile: A History in Exile
    Having traveled back to Chile in 1995, filmmaker Cecilia Araneda was shocked to discover Pinochet supporters even among her own extended family. Shaken out of her naïve belief that everybody knew the horrors of Chile's military regime, Chile: A History in Exile is Araneda's very personal response to those who would argue that the events of September 11, 1973 were the best thing that ever happened to Chile.
  • I Have Lived
    I have lived is an experimental video captured from a wireless camera that was imbedded into the centre of a stethoscope. Moving images and emotions are captured as the doctor delivers news of new life to tragedy as the doctor goes about his day in a busy medical clinic. i have lived offers the viewer insight to the fragile and delicate doctor/patient relationship from the POV of an unlikely, unique inanimate object. With a soundtrack by the talented Winnipeg duo The Absent Sound.
  • She Drifts

    A woman contemplates an unusual dilemma as she drifts. Shot on Super 8 film, She Drifts examines the borders of a difficult choice. 

  • A Common Denominator
  • Photograph
    A four part series exploring a photographer and the soundscape she inhabits. Shot in sequence on super 8.
  • Surfacing
    An experiment dance piece investigating the concept of surface. Shot in London, England. In camera editing.
  • Cattle Call
    Cattle Call is a high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering. Structured around the mesmerizing talents of 2007 Manitoba /Saskatchewan Auctioneer Champion, Tim Dowler, and using a variety of classic and avant-garde animation techniques (including stop-motion, cut-outs, open-exposures, hole-punching and rubbing lettraset directly on the celluloid) filmmakers Maryniuk and Rankin have tried to create images as dazzlingly abstract, absurd and adrenalizing as the incredible language of auctioneering itself. It is their hope that the film will induce near-bovine levels of dumbfoundedness in all those who gaze upon it.
  • Imprint
    The transient connection of two, leaves a lingering memory on one. Imprint is a hand-crafted film, with many sections processed, printed and coloured by hand.
  • A Quiet Moment with Richard
    A Quiet Moment with Richard spends a peaceful, nocturnal drive with Richard Kellie, writer, filmmaker, and taxi cab driver. Richard recounts an intense evening in Amsterdam while driving the vacant streets of Winnipeg.
  • Amnesia
    As people in her life start disappearing one by one, a woman begins to understand that her own life is vanishing from around her. Wounded by memories of all that she has lost, she is unable to connect to the one person she needs the most.
  • Apraxia
    aprax-ia \(‘)a-’prak-se- \n [NL, fr. Gk, inaction, fr. a-+ praxis action, fr. prassein to do -- more at PRACTICAL] : loss or impairment of the ability to execute complex coordinated movements - aprac-tic \-’prak-tik\ or apraxic \-’prak-sik\ adj.
  • auto disintegrate
    Dora walks alone through an impersonal city that moves to the beat of traffic lights and the ring of isolating cell phones. A flirtation with death results in a campy musical dream where perfect strangers offer advice to reconnect with a personal reality.
  • Belly Button
    After needing to wash himself rather thoroughly, Sean discovers he has a golden screw for a belly button. He questions his parents, gets examined by his doctor and confides in his priest -- all to no avail. Having driven around so much, his car needs gas. While in the gas station paying for it, he notices an award plaque. It's a golden screwdriver! In a fit of revelation, his breaks it free and unscrews his belly button. Of course, his bum falls off.
  • Blue Waterfall
    Blue Waterfall is about the classic problem of jealousy, and does not have a clear beginning or ending. A man tries to distract a woman with sweet fantasies, while other misnomers come into play and lead her down dark pathways.
  • Bridge
    People walk across a bridge...
  • Buenos Aires Souvenir
    A woman ruminates about an episode where she was backpacking through South America, and had a brief sexual affair with an Argentinean man. An exploration of memory and objectivity.
  • Canadian Booty
    Booty what does it really mean, are they only mere cheeks on our lower backside or more? This revealing documentary gives you the straight hard facts about booty. Starting from what a monstrous effect that Booty had on two World War two veterans to what the youth of today think about Booty. You will be touched, bedazzled, confused, horny, and a bit sleepy all at the same time upon viewing CANADIAN BOOTY!
  • Cannibalism: A New Taste in Style
    In the near future, ceilings have been replaced by omnipresent TVs. In the mass media, cannibalism is being hyped as the latest trend in people's day-to-day lives. Ma, Pa, and Wilberforce are your typical North American family. They are obese over-consuming and have a big screen TV on their kitchen ceiling. Life doesn't change much for this family unit. Pa goes to his job at the meat shop, Ma works her dead end job, and lately, Wilberforce has been staying home sick. When Wilberforce suggests to eat Pa for dinner, ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE!
  • Come In The Raw 3!!!
    Max finds himself on a gravel road in the middle of nowhere. He loses consciousness after being hit by anautomobile. When he awakens he encounters several unique characters who do not follow the same rules oftime that we are accustomed to. Is Max dreaming?
  • Downsampling Perception
    A documentary about Crash Test Dummies drummer Mitch Dorge and his transition from large-scale to up close and personal with his innovative and inspiring performance, 'In Your Face and Interactive'. You'll watch as Mitch tries to find answers to difficult life questions on-stage, while coping with the same issues in real life. How can we focus our energy and find our place in the world? Shouldn't we at least take the chance to chase a dream? Possible answers lie in music and anyone who has ever hummed a tune or danced to a beat can relate to Mitch's ideas.
  • Dragoon Street
    A couple of closet cases play video games while fantasizing of better eight bit days.
  • Embowered
    A "bower" is an enclosed garden but also a medieval woman's private chambers. Embowered is a short re-telling of The Lady of Shalott and an exploration of the restrictive demands of femininity. Inspired by the imagery of Julia Margaret Cameron, Embowered was shot on B&W 16mm, hand-processed, hand coloured and then transferred to video.
  • Endings
    If someone could tell you how your life will end - would you want to know?

    This is the story of Megan, a young woman with the ability to see "endings"  -the moment and setting of a person's death. Her visions are activated by touch - forcing her to withdraw from other people, both physically and emotionally. When Megan's friends host a dinner party she is mortified that her "gift" becomes the topic of conversation. But not everyone is afraid of their future...
  • Fancy, Fancy Being Rich
    Part silent film, part opera aria, Guy Maddin's film is a delirious celebration of love, lust, and deceit. Internationally celebrated Canadian soprano, Valdine Anderson performs the aria from Thomas Ades' avant-garde opera Powder Her Face. Maddin's video tells the story of a mythic group of Drowned Men who rise from Lake Winnipeg to seduce village women and steal their favourite possessions. The Globe and Mail says this film is gothic as all get-out and mordantly funny while being insanely sexy.
  • Jack's Prophecy
    Extreme human emotions often create extremely irrational behaviour. For Jack, the loss of his marriage, his child, and ultimately his life as he knew it, has sent into an emotional tailspin from which he may never return. A sense of quiet madness, explored through his internal voice, prevails as Jack's inability to accept his predicament results in his downfall. His desperate sense of false hope ultimately results, metphorically, in his self-fulfilling prophecy, a delusional reunion with his daughter.
  • Journey to Flood Ditch
    When engineers built a giant moat around the city of Winnipeg half a century ago, they were creating a marvel of flood control engineering. This is the amazing story of how the flood ditch came to be.John, Kyle, and Matthew all live in Winnipeg, enjoying the protection of the flood ditch. On one fortuitous day, the three lads were in possession of free 35mm film stock (10years old) and a camera. They lacked a story, and Matthew forgot to bring the light meter. Armed only with their wits, they made this film.
  • Liquid Lunch
    Our hero, Frank the business man, peruses the Adult Classifieds in search of a lunch hour 'quickie'. He and his co-worker get more than they bargained for when they encounter a real dominatrix.
  • Living With It
    A woman lives with the echoes of a trauma, and life becomes about just trying to get through the day.
  • Memory
    A woman sleeps on her bed of memories, dreaming of precious childhood moments. Memory was processed and coloured by hand.
  • Mutual Cadence Trilogy (Flesh Gridlock, Cell Variations)
    In a fusion of traditional and modern filmmaking processes, grainy 16mm source material filmed with a hand-wound Bolex camera is digitally layered upon itself, combining two sources of unrelated imagery in a kaleidoscopic composite. The warm images of a woman's body are combined with moments at a desolate beach in autumn. The cohesion of the images comes from motion within the respective images and the mutual rhythm shared by the woman's movements and the beach environment.
  • October Country
    In the middle of a dark October evening, four friends are ghost hunting near Woodridge, Manitoba, a community reknowned for its haunted train tracks. A detour down a deserted gravel road brings the four of them to a mysterious cemetery. The unanticipated setting causes a frantic reaction in the car. Much screaming, pleading and struggling ensues.
  • Pictures of the Interior
    photographs, memories, travels, observations, kimchi, and root beer...
  • Shaken
    The main character faces a difficult choice, which will change what is left of his life, forever. The mysterious presence of a girl in red set the stage for tragedy, revenge, sacrifice and most importantly, love.
  • Something For Santa
    Every year Santa Claus comes to town bearing gifts for children providing they leave him a little something in return - a cup of blood.
  • Strawboy
    Set in the world of dreams and fantasy, a young boy attempts to solve his mother's murder while confined to a staircase. Ultimately a story of a boy emerging from childhood and accepting responsibility, 'strawboy' examines those often hazy borders between fantasy and reality, and those between early life and adulthood.
  • The Arousing Adventures of Sailor Boy
    Sailor boys are the stuff of dreams in the prairie provinces. Bisch proves that this lack doesn't make them any less desirable. You are not going to wake up from this one without getting a little wet.
  • The Blue Bridge
    A thirteen year old boy and a young woman, who is a deaf-mute and a prostitute, meet each other on the bridge every morning. Since he first met her, he is interested in her questionable atmosphere. But one day, on an ordinary morning, something will happen between them. Basically a bridge can connect two places which are divided by some kind of obstacle. In this story, the bridge brings the boy to be mature through meeting one young woman.
  • The Darkling Plain
    Set in New York City, a contemporary fairy tale about deception and betrayal. Shot in Neo-realistic film noir style.
  • The Fever of Western Nile
    Summer passings observed the enigmatic West Nile malady stel its way into the minds and forests of Winnipeg wanderers, casting its feverish amnesia spell; immobilizing wooded creatures collectively pleading to e cured and released of their infirmity. A caution wanderer disregards her own ailment to aid the others as best she can; however the forest hosts its own fevers.
  • The Torch
    In the privacy of his small apartment, a man employs the service of call girls, yet dwells on the memory of a woman wish whom he shared only a smile. These memories shatter when this woman unexpectedly enter his life again as his next call girl. After the shock of this encounter, he renounces his call girl habit. The woman, later consumed by thoughts of him, abondons the sex trade.
  • Treatise on Prairie Mysticism, A
    An experimental dark comedy about an aging prairie poet who tells the fantastical tale about the birth of her muse.
  • Undercover
    A spoof about black and white police comedies of the 1920's. Two undercover officers run a wild goose chase trying to track down a drug dealer.
  • 38 Jansky Units
    A work of comedy, a work of art. The content is debatable, but the colour is good and the soundtrack is interesting. Just like an experimental film.
  • 5 Cents a Copy
    An innovative experimental animated film that makes moving images with a photocopy machine. Through bizarre images and a pulsing electronic musical score, the filmmakers have created a mind expanding work that will long remain in your memory.
  • Argentina
    The dispassionate calm of a solitary man is captured with disturbing clarity. The sound and images of Argentina mirror the stoic calm of this lone man.
  • Ask Me
    An experimental camera-less animation piece worked directly on black leader.
  • Automated Phone Sex
    Harold's wife just wants Harold to love her, but she has some competition. She must compete with a phone sex line to win her husbands affection. Who will Harold choose? Woman or machine?
  • Bad Karma
    A collage film that operates on a variety of levels, both emotional and technological, to explore the artists relationship to the end of the 20th century.
  • Before the Last War
    The dangers are receding but the shadows remain. In 1981, Joe Vismeg asked people on the street, 'What do you think of nuclear disarmament?'. This simple question elicits confusion, misinformation and apathy. An amusing and sometimes frightening examination of public opinion regarding nuclear disarmament.
  • Bite
    A car, water, an arm, a poem, titles, and credits. At one second, the worlds shortest film.
  • Build Me A Woman
    This mock documentary follows a lonely bachelor's effort to secure the perfect woman.
  • Carlo
    Since retiring as a master wood carver, Carlo Fusetti has carved a gift, an inheritance for his granddaughter. But now his health keeps him from his work. A moving lyrical film about an artist facing mortality.
  • Carpet Cleaners
    Amerika, Zed and Kyle are good friends until the wicked witch Trasha comes along and takes Kyle away. Amerika and Zed are upset that Kyle is spending more time with Trasha than with them. So they hire the lesbian Carpet Cleaners to rid the evil bitch Trasha once and for all. However both Amerika and Zed get more than they bargained for when the Carpet Cleaners carry out their diabolical plan
  • Cemetery Love Story
    It's a steamy day at the cemetery. A grave robbing widow has just met a new special someone. Love is in the air, but a nasty undertaker and his axe-wielding partner in crime have other plans for the young lovers.
  • Cold Turkey
    A woman desperate to quit smoking, stumbles upon the ultimate secret to conquering her addiction...with the help of a Burmese cat.
  • Dames
    Slick-as-grease Dames captures all of the energy and sass of classic film noir. You can smell the smoke in its seamy 1940s nightclub, the alcohol on the guys, and the perfume on its sex-drenched dames. But instead of dealing out the genre's dubious fate for women brimming with style and sexuality, its femme fatale Roxie breaks a long held film noir law. Outsmarting her hustler escort, Roxie sets her sights on the good girl Vera, who deals out a few surprises of her own. Together Roxie and Vera raise shot glasses to adventure and score on their own terms. When the smoke finally clears, itÕs the guys that have been set up. This jaunty homage to film noir mixes sly humour, a canny cast and a smoky noir feel to demonstrate that not every femme fatale hooks her schemes and dreams onto dangerous men.
  • Darkly Machiever
    Darkly Machiever is a farcical fable about one of the grey men, a cog in the corporate wheel, who goes about his business without quite knowing his purpose. One day he begins to wonder about his role in the proverbial Grand Scheme of Things.
  • Daydream
    A short trip into daydream-like surrealism.
  • Death, The Impossible Game
  • Demons of Bars and Tone
    A man is tortured both mentally and physically by his television. As the man is suffering, the television plays commercials representing his life, both past and present. Based on a real life incident of a young unemployed man whose TV addiction had serious consequences (he was found dead in front of the TV one day; the causes of death undetermined).
  • Dialogue
    dialogue explores the creation of identity. In this case, the identity of Moira, a hauntingly beautiful and passionate young woman. This is her story: a movement from passive recipient to active creator of her own identity. dialogue concludes with an explosive, and shocking decision.
  • Did An Ocean Know?
    An ancient ocean resonates in the human subconscious in this exploration of memory.
  • Fragments: Egil's Saga
    The director's first film recreates the dramatic Norse tragedy of Egil; a tale of violence and revenge.
  • Garbage
    Three tenants who are strangers, share a unique bond of obsession that revolves around a broken coffee cup that keeps getting thrown into a garbage bin.
  • Gavin Frogboy
    In a small town plagued by mysterious sightings of several large creatures roaming the streets, Gavin, living with his insensitive father; believes he will have more freedom as a frog than a human being. Gavin Frogboy is a story of a neglected boy, his unconventional solutions to his problems and the paranoia of a small town.
  • Good Citizen Betty Baker
    Follows a civic-minded housewife as she tracks the missing Prince Phillip. This madcap chase takes our heroine, Betty, from her neighbours trash to a strangely exciting all girls bar, to the arms of a handsome lady golfer.
  • Havakeen Lunch
    After eighteen years of operating the favourite lunch counter in Manitoba's Interlake region, Ellen and Martin Kihn have retired. A poignant look at the last day, The Kihns, their friends and their customers, demanding rural life and the place the disappearing institution of the country cafe plays in these people's lives. A tribute to the cafes found in small towns.
  • Home Advantage
    The newspaper ad read "Due to expanding financial needs I'm Looking to take on one or more new employers." A tale of a job interview with a decided twist.
  • How Much for Half a Kilo?
    A writer tries to sell his work in order to pay his debts. Through several rewrites, the landlord is continuing to collect his rent. And on goes the story . . .
  • I Come In Pieces
    A recent pet craze has peaked in a small town. All the children have their very own “finky”, a round, harmless, spotted creature brought to Earth years ago from the planet Mars by astronauts from the “First Missions to Mars” voyage.
  • It's A Hobby for Harvey
    This light and humourous vignette takes Harvey Pollack from his Winnipeg Law offices to the stage of the Centennial Concert Hall, performing with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. The film showcases his unique talent and points out some of the more offbeat aspects of his pucker power.
  • Joe 90
    On the hot and dusty prairie stands the Oasis Bar & Grill. Within, Joe 90, a crop insurance claims adjuster is quickly persuaded by annoying paranoid Dick Rotundo to conspire in a false insurance claim. Before they can close the deal, Dick Rotundo?s uncontrollable paranoia forces him to run through a burning field. Without a claimant, Joe 90 tries to get out of the scam, until he discovers Dick has survived. But when the two complete the fraud, Dick cannot deal with the guilt and he helplessly watches as Joe offers him a place in a corrupt, desolate future.
  • Lifetime
    A 1960's angel helps a 1990's teenage boy in a struggle over life and death.
  • Love Means Never Asking You To Shave Your Legs
    A country and western love song for the 90's by a man who has a few problems adjusting to the women of the 90's. For the men who have trouble letting go of the traditions of their fathers, advice from someone who has been there.
  • Messages
    'The fear of being alone is central to human experience, most often the moments of lucidity we have in our lives occur when we are alone.' Messages is like a bad dream after reading a supermarket tabloid. The film relays a barrage of commercial sound that only adds to the confusion of our own emotions.
  • Middle
    Being middle class in the middle of the city at the geographical centre of North America doesn't help Mike feel any less alienated. In fact, troubled by the dichotomy of being in the middle of everything and at the centre of nothing, he seeks the advice of Brad, a new age guru/songwriter who sells disposable junk in the guise of spiritual understanding.
  • Mike
    Mike is released from a mental institution and finds himself in a filthy room and board where dreams and reality are one. A moving depiction of mental illness and a scathing indictment of the impersonal health care system.
  • Monday with the Martins
    The Martins would be a common, happy couple if it weren't for the fact that Mr. Martin's penis is a fully functional hand on the end of a short arm.
  • Monster is Loose In The City, A
    A bizarre and humorous pastiche of images and narrative decrying the monster let loose in our minds, our homes and our cities almost every night between 7 and 10 (and sometimes during the day as well).
  • Mother-Daughter Love
    A mother and her look-alike young daughter have died and are wandering their hometown looking for a way to come back to life.
  • Mr. Twenty-Five Cents
    A story of a man who believes in the tooth Fairy! A drama exploring society's responsibility for everyone's impurities. By stealing children's teeth, Mr. 25 Cents captures their purity and saves it from corruption.
  • Muse
    What happens to someone who contains richness, and beauty, who becomes afraid of showing it to the world?
  • Music
    A group of infants with electric guitars compose a shocking violent punk rock song which surprises, saddens and offends their mothers.
  • My Boss, The Scarecrow
    A wearied office worker goes through the everyday paces of his job. One thing keeps bothering him though - his boss is a scarecrow. And nobody wants to talk about it.
  • No Problem
    Marcia is determined to create a new life in Canada for her family. She tries hard to fit in and to forget about the horrors of her past. When a charming, persistent salesman knocks on her door, her gentle domestic life is threatened. Pushed to the extreme, what will she rely on?
  • Once Upon A Weiner
    A cartoon dog named Fred tries to catch himself a steak by using a fishing rod but instead his line gets caught on a truck. After getting dragged through town, he flies through a deli window and gets turned into a weiner.
  • Peep
    A lonely apartment dweller innocently peeps on his neighbours, watching them through the peephole of his front door. But he soon finds that peeping is not as innocent as he thought, when trouble starts brewing in his hallway.
  • Pornography Begins at Home
    721 images in five minutes. Pornography Begins In the Home is a vibrating collage of the visual art of C. Graham Asmundson.
  • Rabbit Pie
    The first production released by the Winnipeg Film Group! A trestaurant serves cute little bunny rabbits. Yum-yum! One of the Film Group's greatest ventures, this light comedy features Peter Paul Van Camp as an industrious writer who sits and composes his poem about bunnies while at the very next table, the special entree - rabbit pie - seems to have become more rabbit like.
  • Rapture
    A short drama about one man's fixation on an ideal and his ineffective attempts at replicating this ideal in his own world.
  • Routines
    Performance poetry, charming crutches, blood and microphones - a typical morning routine.
  • Rushes
    A challanging, amusing study of an actor-turned-writer-turned-director, a struggling actress (struggling against the script), and an unfortuneate crew, on one day's shoot in a small but very pretty kitchen.
  • Sarah's Dream
    Plasticine animation tells the quick amusing story of a girl whose wish to move to Canada from the Old Country is granted.
  • Separate Bees
    Deep within the bowels of the City of Winnipeg lurk three women and a screaming man in a shopping cart. A romantic poem in the tradition of Keats and Ezra Pound.
  • Serious About McIntosh
    Diana McIntosh is a unique, multimedia composer/performer who brings out the bizarre and humorous side of life through her eclectic music.
  • Silence of the Clams
    A contemporary comedy about the perils of suburban life! From the creator of the syndicated comic strip Peaches.
  • So Far From Home
    Exiled Chilean folk singer Hugo Torres has a Canadian wife and family, but struggles to keep the Chilean cause alive and swears he will return.
  • Soft Like Me
    On a prairie wheat field, in a mythical past, boys are enslaved to harvest the crops. They hope to escape, but with hope comes punishment.
  • Stacey Poivis
    The lack of acceptance and respect affects different people in very profound ways. Some chose to create an alternate world into which escape seems preferable to reality. Others choose reality then dwell on the negatives in life. Stacey Poivis can not decide which choice allows her to get through her day. Her existence is a blend of reality and imagination. The results are bizarre, amusing, and sometimes tragic. Stacey's dream of becoming a law enforcement agent seems so unattainable, because her reality as a city street cleaner is so insignificant. Sadly the lack of respect and acceptance shown her by others is as much at fault for her quirky existence as Stacey herself.
  • Surviving Stray Thoughts
    A seemingly average man announces that he'll be sharing his thoughts with us, as they occur, in real time. However as his stories unfold, they begin to collide until they take on a life of their own
  • Tales of the Steamin' Green Log
    An animated tale of a story heard about a canoe trip.
  • The Alley
    Bernie, a squeegee kid who struggles to survive in the city, finds a friend in Mo, a veteran of the streets who chooses to live and paint in the alley. The Alley is a story of friendship and compassion between two unlikely street people, an old man and a young teenager.
  • The Elusive
    A visual poem, images of women moving backwards are juxtaposed with words of memory, the elusive nature of what is remembered as real and what one wanted to be real.
  • The Guinea Pig Age
    In an age of microwaves and pollution, we're all guinea pigs and anything can happen. Guinea Pig Age is a cautionary tale with tongue in cheek.
  • The Historical Dramatic Comedy of Punch and Judy
    A film about the Manitoba Puppet Theatre's production of the classic puppet play. We follow the puppeteers from setup through performance and after, for a peek at the effort and ingenuity that go into this show.
  • The Milkman Cometh
    The Milkman Cometh is a bitter-sweet comedy about an office worker facinated with the simple world depicted on a can of Pacific Milk.
  • The Murder of Raymond Gordon
    An introverted used bookstore owner plots the perfect murder of his totally irritating brother, Raymond. Twists and reversals end in a funny, frightening fast-paced climax.
  • Trees
    25,000 pine seedlings are planted every spring and cared for by children. This video was animated for the TransAlta Utilities Arbor Day Program.
  • Two Men in Search of a Plot
    Two men attempt to accomplish a simple task - the disposing of a body. Unfortunately, every time they try to dump it somewhere, they get caught and are forced to dispose of yet another hapless victim. The body count escalates while our heroes desperately try to stay calm. Morality, the impossibility of accomplishing our goals and four or five good belly laughs, all in one short package.
  • Under Chad Valley
    A chilling, thought provoking drama set in a metal tank deep in the underground, punctured by large tree roots. Two butchers slice and separate large chunks of meat as two girls bear witness to their strange homosexual relations.
  • Unwoven
    On the death of her mother, a woman recalls another separation that happened to her as a child. Through memories of a childhood braiding game, she comes to understand her mother's profound sadness and her own need for connection.
  • Waiting
    While waiting in a movie for the film to start, a guy tells his date a long, elaborate, annoying joke.
  • We're Talking Vulva
    At long last, everything you've always wanted to know about 'down there' but were afraid to ask. A tender tale wherein our heroine, Ms. V..soul sisters her way into your heart with the hottest rap this side of the uterus. She sings!!! She dances!!! She's Big!!! It's a wear and care manual, it's a delightful tour, its a Rock Video.
  • With Frogs and Fishes
    A young woman's search through a whirlpool of emotion to understand the senseless drowning of her first love.