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FILM CATALOGUE

Search the Winnipeg Film Group's Film Catalogue for independent Canadian films dating back to 1973.

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Kewekapawetan: Return after the Flood

By Jennifer Dysart | 00:28:55 | Documentary | 14/06/2014

A Cree community in northern Manitoba Canada returns to their original village site that they were forced to abandon due to the purposeful flooding of their lake.

Memory Stitch: Winter Sports, The (Point de mémoire: les sports d’hiver)

By Jacquelyn Hbert | 00:06:00 | Experimental | 01/01/2009

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…

Hydro-LÃ©vesque

By Matthew Rankin | 00:16:00 | Experimental | 01/06/2008

November, 1976. As QuÃ©bec strides boldly towards independence, a supernatural vision of tragedy inspires a deaf-mute QuÃ©bÃ©coise Catholic nun to save the city of Winnipeg from committing mass suicide. Arriving just in time to find Winnipegâs polio-stricken mayor leading the citizens into self-destructive hysteria, the Holy Sister must prepare the way to salvation by filling…

Canoe

By Deborah Schnitzer, Shelagh Carter | 00:06:13 | Drama, Narrative-Fiction | 01/01/2011

Canoe traces the decision a middle-aged woman makes as she contemplates her husband's long term and incurable illness. The action takes place at a lake where they have a summer home, on the last day of their lives as she develops a plan that will kill them both.

Souvenirs: Waiting for the Parade

By Paula Kelly | 00:07:18 | Documentary | 01/09/2008

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.This film is part of a trio of shorts (Sand and Stone, Watermarks, Waiting for the Parade) about the city of Winnipeg, which sift through the…

Souvenirs: Sand and Stone

By Paula Kelly | 00:06:00 | Documentary | 01/09/2008

Souvenirs is a trio of short films (Sand and Stone, Watermarks, Waiting for the Parade) 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 landscapeâthe workers who…

Asleep at the Wheel

By Mike Maryniuk | 00:02:00 | Animation, Comedy, Experimental | 1/9/2005

Using found footage of road trips from the 60's, Maryniuk has crafted a psychedelic tribute piece to a friend who passed away in a car accident. Maryniuk's techniques included hole punching and reassembling, bleaching, painting, scratch animation and boiling the film.

Death By Popcorn: The Tragedy of the Winnipeg Jets

By Atelier National du Manitoba, Matthew Rankin, Mike Maryniuk, Walter Forsberg | 01:00:00 | Comedy, Documentary | 1/1/2006

Peppered with action-packed cameos by Winnipeg All-Stars Dale Hawerchuk, Burton Cummings, Teemu Selanne, Billy Van and a recent interview with the man who sent the Jets straight into the jaws of death by throwing a cataclysmic box of popcorn onto the ice in Game 6 of the 1990 playoff series, Death by Popcorn follows the…

Kubasa in a Glass

By Atelier National du Manitoba, Matthew Rankin, Walter Forsberg | 01:05:00 | Experimental | 1/1/2006

Kubasa in a Glass is a hilarious pastiche of Winnipegs commercial and public access programming throughout the 80s, rescued from the trash by members of the former-Winnipeg filmmaking collective Atelier National du Manitoba.

John Scoles Liars Club

By Mike Maryniuk | 00:04:30 | Comedy, Narrative-Fiction | 01/01/2007

John Scoles has many cards up his sleeves and is victorious.To the victor goes the spoils,A VCR and overnight at West Edmonton Mall. Set to âMotorheadâs Ace of Spadesâ

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