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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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Sister of the Wind

By Patrick Jenkins | 00:04:01 | Animation, Narrative-Fiction | 2/10/17

The Flute is played with just breath,Evoking the sound of the wind. The wind that blows the flute,Is the breath of life.

whine

By Glen Johnson | 00:03:36 | Poetry | 02/01/2017

A middle-aged man muses on the fate of his generation of âbohemiansâ in this wry response to Ginsberg's Howl.

skin of the cit-y

By Solomon Nagler | 00:07:01 | Experimental | 15/06/2016

Framed by poet Robert Lax's sculptural texts, skin of the cit-y wanders through mills and factories surrendering to the elements, deteriorating in solidarity with the isolated Maritime cities that erode beside them. Contact printed in-camera, the film material stares back, layers view-planes and duration while dreaming in light....

Heart

By Sam Karney | 00:02:42 | Documentary | 20/04/2015

A filmmaker and poet journey to Winnipeg's North End, one of the most economically depressed and violent neighbourhoods in Canada, only to find some of the most wonderful and warm people, dispelling many of their preconceptions of the people who call the place home.

Exploitation

By Luther Alexander | 00:04:50 | Drama | 19/11/2014

In Canada's backyard, a colonial history of oppression and cultural genocide against Aboriginal women has created a vicious cycle of poverty, greed, addiction and abuse. And in the streets these women must overcome their situations in order to survive and at the same time, have their stories known and understood.

SQUARE

By Michelle Elrick | 00:03:37 | Narrative-Fiction | 13/01/2015

SQUARE is the story of a room that undergoes a series of dream-like transformations during a woman's mundane morning routine. Throughout the film, objects are transformed, exaggerated, dismantled and re-imagined, addressing the transient nature of place and distorted perspective of memory.

Primiti Too Taa

By Colin Morton, Ed Ackerman | 00:02:45 | Animation, Experimental | 1/11/1986

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…

…life happens

By Mark Borowski | 00:22:00 | Narrative-Fiction | 1/1/2005

Matthew Young, an Aboriginal street poet chooses to move back to Winnipeg to search for a new existence. He is growing weary of the street life and the perils it poses. He must overcome his personality traits to find a job and a place to call his own.

expect something and nothing at once

By Michelle Elrick | 00:03:36 | Experimental, Narrative-Fiction | 01/03/2013

Poet Michelle Elrick approaches âhomeâ through blanket forts, poetry and collected sounds in this stark and beautiful film from the Canadian prairie. âexpect something and nothing at onceâ follows the poet from the stillness of a room to the windswept, late-Autumn field where she struggles to recreate the essence of home.

House of the Wind

By Sheldon Oberman | 00:18:48 | Narrative-Fiction | 1/1/1988

A short drama based on a poem by internationally acclaimed poet George Amable. Shot in an abandoned community in Manitoba, the film is about a writer who abandons civilization for the gentle, natural beauty of a ghost town. The effect this has is revealed when a woman close to him comes to find him.

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We’re located in the heart of Winnipeg's historic Exchange District in the Artspace building. We are across the street from Old Market Square at the corner of Arthur Street and Bannatyne - one block west of Main.

The Winnipeg Film Group is located on Treaty 1 Territory and on the ancestral lands of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene Peoples and in the homeland of the Métis Nation. We offer our respect and gratitude to the traditional caretakers of this land.

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