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Community

FILM CATALOGUE

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

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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…

Great Divide, The

By Bryan Besant | 00:03:24 | Experimental | 01/05/2008

The Great Divide was created as a collaboration with Japanese artist Katsuyuki Hattori, and 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 from the rest…

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By Robert Pasternak | 00:04:38 | Experimental | 01/01/2008

Dimensional movements of sound and surface come together in this collection of 14 short experiments on the division of space and light on 16mm film. A dialogue within the speed of triggering patterns, arise as the viewer becomes the figure with their mind going for a walk in a multi-dimensional landscape.

Beep It

By Gregory Zbitnew | 00:08:35 | Documentary, Experimental | 01/01/2007

'Beep it! Beep it!' provides a 'behind-the-scenes' look at the production of 'Muskeg Special', which was filmed in communities along the Hudson Bay Rail Line in Northern Manitoba during the summer of 1979. To synchronize the sound recorded on reel-to-reel tape with images on the 16mm movie camera, an electronic 'beeper' was used to mark…

Footsteps

By Guy Maddin | 00:09:00 | Documentary, Experimental | 01/01/2008

The film features Footsteps, the famed cult of Foley artists living in a compound just outside of Toronto, Canada. These are people who see the whole world as comprised of things that can be rubbed, squeezed, scraped or hit together in inventive permutations to produce a simulacrum of the acoustic world we and our ears…

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ABOUT US

The Winnipeg Film Group is an artist-run education, production, exhibition and distribution centre committed to promoting the art of cinema.

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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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