All Films

A trip to Russia by two filmmakers in 1990, forms the bulk of this twin-screen projection, finished some 9 years later; Their super-8 footage mixed in with archival material (and a sprinkling of the classics such as Vertov and Eisenstein).

A video essay set in the Mexican-U.S. border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. multinational corporations assemble electronic and digital equipment just across from El Paso, Texas. This imaginative, experimental work investigates the growing feminization of the global economy and its impact on Mexican women living and working in the area. Looking at the border as both a discursive and material space, the video explores the sexualization of the border region through labor division, prostitution, the expression of female desires in the entertainment industry, and sexual violence in the public sphere.

After a great night of partying, the law comes down on a house of squatters...

The film tells the story of a lonely man with a chronic hunger to rejoice and communicate with others, holding a party for his friends but ...

Paul wants to escape the pressures of teaching his homophobic students by entering the fantasy world of ballroom dancing. After a disastrous experience at a straight dancing school, Paul's life takes a definite turn for the better when he discovers Linda, the glamorous lesbian dance teacher. But who will he be dancing with at the college Xmas party?

A boy who knows his nail polish recounts his favorite colors and the stories they recall.

An experimental short exploring the absences and buried histories that follow the act of leaving home, filtered through the many routes that leaving home takes for a "Canadien" daughter of Yugoslav immigrants: cultural displacement, assimilation, mother/daughter histories, sexuality and memory. Childhood and recent Super 8 footage is intercut to create a repository for family portraits, cultural memories of the balkans, immigration history, and personal reflection.

Documentary about the musical scene in Minneapolis, focusing on queer punk groups. Ganser interviews members of groups such as Tribe 8, The Misfires, and The Butchies.

A helpless maiden is tiring of her consensual S&M relationship with her lover, and "evil" queen. She wants to break up. An impassioned monologue in a dungeon with our heroine in wrist cuffs quickly becomes an emotionally messy ending in flames.

Created by Nick Clarridge, a grade-six student from Toronto, Sam Digital is a 21st century computer virus detective in the year 2050. When a giant virus monster tries to destroy Internet World, everyone in the future can't do their daily activities, and Sam must go into the digital world to stop the virus once and for all.

16mm film that came out of a soundtrack called Très Lent by Tarrl Lightowler & Matthew Swiezynski which was a nihilistic amalgam of 840 layers of Erik Satie's Vexations. Layers were recorded and re-recorded on a reel to reel with the erase head covered up. New melodic elements added in 2013.

A relaxed and humorous look at pot as medicine as well as a guide for general use of the substance for recreational purposes.

A man fills plastic bottles with messages for a loved one who has suddenly disappeared and pours them into a river. A girl cannot accept the death of her lover. An angel is right next to these people who are struggling to survive, almost crushed by a love that has nowhere to go. A plastic bottle delivery man. A guide to the passage between this world and the next. A rebirth witness. And a folk duo called the Vaudeville Duo. They deliver their miracles as unobtrusively, as small and shiny as a grain of light in the midwinter wind. What miracles are performed by angels in human form, riding around on bicycles, holding fishing rods or endlessly shirking?

While studying in Beijing, China, Yoh leaves her wallet in a taxi. He is depressed that he will not get it back, but the next thing he knows, a Japanese man in the taxi has delivered it to him. A delighted Yoh goes out to meet the person to thank him. The person was a woman called Tomomi, also a student studying abroad. Despite meeting each other for the first time, their conversation is lively and Yoh immediately falls in love with her. When Tomomi told him she wanted to see him again, he gave her his pager number. The next day, Yoh sends a message to her pager.

Is this Japan in the near future or a place that closely resembles Japan? In a town where the weather forecast always ends with an announcement about a 'dull rain', people live their lives constantly worrying about the rain. The 'dull rain' is said to be the vapour that forms when a substance called H.U.A.N. in the air combines with another substance called Violence (VIOLENCE), which rises into the sky and forms clouds. However, neither clouds nor rain is visible to the human eye, nor do we know what happens when they fall.

Alone in his room, a man exposes his meagre body to muscle training. Shadowboxing, strengthening his abdominal muscles with equipment bought by mail order, repetitive lateral jumps... Is he a young man who wants to be a boxer? No, he has no intention of becoming a professional boxer or a macho man. He has only one goal: to rob the bride at the forthcoming wedding of his girlfriend, who three years ago went to the dump in her own jeans and never came back. Since the day he received her invitation to the wedding, he has been steadily preparing himself to direct and star in the best bride-stealing act of his life. He had to build up his body, decide on the route, check his movements, practise his lines, arrange a black Porsche, a white tuxedo and some cool shoes... The plan was complete and the day of the ceremony finally arrived. He leaves the house with a bat in his bouquet. Cool, man. But will the plan work?

A crisis of feelings, mutual misunderstandings. The man leaves his partner and drives the car along a forest road skidding. The drivers manage to avoid an accident, but when, after a short walk to calm his nerves, he tries to return to the car, he does not find the way back. He does not know yet that he has entered a dangerous area - into the thicket of his shaky self. Will he find relief and reconciliation thanks to his wandering through this mysterious, disturbing "inner" world of memories, desires, dreams and dreams with your partner and yourself ?

Hans loves Fatima and he will do anything to make her feel at home in Germany. Fatima loves Hans and she will do anything to feel at home with him. This short student film was shot on 35mm.

In an Age of Violence, a ruthless gang of mutant killers search for ancient treasure. An epic adventure about a greed quest gone mad. Fabulous treasure could await them in The Valley of the Robots, or maybe even radioactive death. The first effort by The PuppeTose Theatre. Shot in 1998-99 in Austin, TX. Starring Ross Wilsey, Charlie Sotelo, Max Kane and Dianne Whitehair. Filmed on 3/4" videotape and edited in a linear edit suite. This cult hit aired theatrically in Austin October, 1999 to sold out shows.

A weaving tale in which different pieces of embroidery on fabric animate a female's emotional bonding to the relationship between two sexes.

Performance, 1999, at NICC Antwerp, 9 September 1999, in ILLUSION FREE SPACE FOREVER YOUNG, curated by Gert Robijns & Francesca Lesac. The BODI are a nomad tribe long since living in the Omo-valley in the south of Ethiopia.

High above the city that shimmers like a distant sea, a boy kicks a plastic bottle half full of liquid up a steep shanty road of light and dark. A norteño song plays somewhere. A truck passes. The challenge is to get to the top of the hill by kicking the bottle steadily upwards, intercepting it as it rolls back, kicking it again, playing with and against gravity. The bottle drifts and dodges, zigs and zags, is briefly kidnapped by a dog. At the end, the Sisyphean stakes of the game become clear as the bottle gets away and with a groan the boy runs downhill after it.

The complex dynamics between predator and prey are carefully examined through the use of modern technology. Prey are constantly finding new ways to avoid being eaten by predators it is thus crucial for the predators survival that he too finds mechanisms to outsmart his prey- it's an ever-evolving world on the African Savannah. This show examines this evolutionary process - are predators today fitter, faster and stronger than their predecessors? What gives one animal the edge over another? And how much of the animals behaviour is instinctive and how much is learnt? It's a fine balance out on the Savannah grasslands- a world that demands the very best from predator and prey.