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  • Atom Egoyan – Guest of Honour (2019)

    Drama2011-2020Atom EgoyanCanada

    A man’s daughter a high school teacher who is accused of abusing her position of authority with a student. When Veronica rebuffs Jim’s attempts to secure her early release, Jim begins to take out his frustrations through his work as a food inspector.Read More »

  • Mike Hoolboom – Incident Reports (2015)

    2011-2020CanadaExperimentalMike HoolboomPhilosophy

    After a bike accident, the amnesiac produces one-minute shots. The voice-over weighs in on gender, animals and the end of literary culture. An essay featuring Elvis, wrestlers, boy ballet, naked cyclists and the heavenly voices of ChoirChoir!. (from MUBI)Read More »

  • Jean-Jacques Annaud – La guerre du feu AKA Quest for Fire (1981)

    1981-1990AdventureCanadaDramaJean-Jacques Annaud

    Quote:
    “Fire was a symbol of power and a means of survival. The tribe who possessed fire, possessed life.” – Opening title card

    That is the last piece of modern language iterated by the film. The filmmakers transport us 80,000 years into the past, to the Middle Palaeolithic era. The subsequent complex creation of communication was formulated by linguist and author Anthony Burgess (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE), zoologist Desmond Morris, and actors in advance formulating a gesture-based relay of thoughts. Read More »

  • Michael Snow – To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror (1991)

    1991-2000CanadaExperimentalMichael Snow

    Quote:
    To Lavoisier Who Died in the Reign of Terror (1991) is a collaboration with filmmaker Carl Brown, who specializes in homebrewed chemical film development. In a series of tableaux, people perform everyday tasks — sleeping, dining, reading, card-playing — as the camera arcs past and over them (the replete set of positions recalls La région centrale’s movements). Brown abraded the film stock, creating a continuous dynamic surface-effect tension with the comparatively static views and cueing the soundtrack, the crackle of fire. The physics and chemistry of combustion were the scientific focus of Lavoisier, the 18th-century savant.Read More »

  • Jeff Gillen & Alan Ormsby – Deranged AKA Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile (1974)

    1971-1980Alan OrmsbyCanadaCultHorrorJeff Gillen

    Synopsis:
    A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies he misses her, so a year later he digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and begins robbing graves to get materials to patch her up, and inevitably begins looking for fresher sources of materials. Based closely on the true story of Ed Gein.Read More »

  • Xavier Dolan – Matthias et Maxime (2019)

    2011-2020CanadaDramaQueer Cinema(s)Xavier Dolan

    Quote:
    Two childhood best friends are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film. Soon, a lingering doubt sets in, confronting both men with their preferences, threatening the brotherhood of their social circle, and, eventually, changing their lives.Read More »

  • Jeremy Weisfeld – Deep Crates: A Documentary Film Dedicated To The Art Of Beatdiggin’ (2004)

    2001-2010CanadaDocumentaryJeremy Weisfeld

    Quote:
    Deep Crates is the first ever full-length documentary film exploring the exciting world of beatdiggin`/record collecting culture from a hip-hop perspective. This film endeavour features some of hip-hop`s most elite producers and DJ`s including the likes of Diamond D, Madlib, Lord Finesse, and Da Beatminerz, as they deliver the goods with a hip-hop history lesson and wild tales of crate-diggin` adventures never before revealed on film.Read More »

  • Michael Snow – *Corpus Callosum (2002)

    2001-2010CanadaExperimentalMichael Snow

    The corpus callosum is a central region of tissue in the human brain which passes “messages“ between the two hemispheres. Corpus Callosum, the film (or tape, or projected light work), is constructed of, de-picts, creates, examines, presents, consists of, and is, “betweens.“ Between beginning and ending, between “natural“ and “artificial,“ between fiction and fact, between hearing and seeing, between 1956 and 2002. It’s a tragi-comedy of the cinematic variables. Corpus Callosum juxtaposes or counterpoints a realism of normal metamorphosis (two extreme examples: pregnancy, explosions) in believable, “real“ interior spaces with “impossible“ shape changes (some made possible with digital animation). Read More »

  • Luc Dionne – Aurore (2005)

    2001-2010CanadaDramaLuc DionneMystery

    The year is 1909. In the village of Sainte-Philomène de Fortierville, Marie-Anne Caron, wife to Télésphore Gagnon, gives birth to their second daughter, Aurore. The child grows up in a loving and happy family, but in 1918 her mother dies of tuberculosis. Shortly after, Télésphore Gagnon decides to remarry, having fallen under the spell of his beautiful cousin, Marie-Anne Houde. Marie-Anne is not the devoted stepmother everyone takes her to be, however. Following the death of Aurore, a coroner’s inquest reveals that the young girl had died of blood poisoning, brought on by the horrific abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepmother. The sensational trial which followed these revelations had a profound and lasting impact on Québec society. Aurore depicts an almost-forgotten period and social milieu of Québec’s history, finally giving voice to those who, at the time, knew what was going on but preferred to remain silent.Read More »

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