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The explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative that became the most highly respected and mythologized film centre in Canada. Tales outlines the tremendous importance and impact of Winnipeg on the national filmmaking scene. Packed with rare archival footage, dynamic film excerpts, and hilarious interviews, this documentary traces the history of the legendary Winnipeg Film Group. We hear candid behind the scenes stories that illuminate the storied rise of acclaimed filmmakers like John Paizs (Crime Wave), Guy Maddin (Tales From The Gimli Hospital, My Winnipeg) Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan (We’re Talking Vulva, Good Citizen, Betty Baker) and Caroline Monnet (Ikwe). Often mired in controversy, the Film Group has been acclaimed at film festivals around the world – attested to by several Toronto film luminaries in the film – for subversive, original filmmaking. This documentary continues that tradition of bold, exuberant work.
Found memories decayed by the shock patterns of childhood trauma. This films is made mostly with footage found in the bin of an ophanage. The white progressivelly disolve within a darknest more and more dense. Faces progressivelly disolves within one another.
Polish land taking in the Jewish dead. Beneath the streets of Warsaw, under the garden of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China, are the lost writings of The Ash Kodesh (the holy fire), Rabbi Klonimus Kalmish Szapiro, a Chassidic master who was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto. His lost aphorisms float through the hallowed trees and shadow architectures that sheltered jewish fugitives during the Shoah. In the forests, unmarked graves await commemoration; through glitch and balagan we are pulled into subterranean landscapes that emerge as fragmented archives of silence.
It's 1903, and Otto Weininger, Vienna's most infamous self-hating Jew has decided to kill himself in a room containing Beethoven's deathbed. He has just published his first book Sex and Character, and has yet to witness an acknowledgment of his self-assured genius. Haunted by the damning statements within his own book, he holds a gun to his head, and takes a leap towards the great unknown.
A Visual essay of indexical failures that examine the bliss of ineffable gestures…
A film shot in three sequences, each sequence corresponds to one of the letters in the title of the film. The title M.O.Y. gets it's meaning only from the actions within the film narrative itself, and lacks any meaning outside the film.
An experimental dark comedy about an aging prairie poet who tells the fantastical tale about the birth of her muse.
An intimate synthesis of sound and picture is created in Celluloid Sounds, a 16mm hand-processed film instillation. Crackles and pops carved onto hand-processed images float throughout the mysterious pseudo-multiplex, repetitiously mocking the environment and industry that is destined to abandon its beautiful image making creation...
"Which ever word you speak you owe to destruction" Hand-processed sound/picture explores the intimate relationship between
Shot entirely in Warsaw, Poland, a polish post-communist love story set in the urban chaos of a farmers market in the city's centre.