All Films

The communal riots that reduced Bombay into two distinct communities in December '92 and January '93 also created an underclass of citizens. During this time, Behrampada a slum colony in the city's western suburb with its predominantly (80%) Muslim population was cast as the villain by the majoritarian media and the communal forces. I Live In Behrampada traces the history of this Muslim ghetto which was first populated in 1950 and grew through the efforts of the slum dwellers who turned the slimy marsh land into solid ground. But in the face of rapid development yesterday’s pathfinders have become today’s interlopers. Is the dividing line language, culture and religion or class?

During the war in Beirut, the studio of painter Samir Khaddaje became inaccessible, under the rubble. At the end of the sixteen-year conflict, Samir Khaddaje decided to leave. “Far from Beirut” is a tribute to this angry man who continues his work, far from home, haunted, no doubt, by the memory of images of destruction. Based on photographs of the disaster, real or invented images, “Far from Beirut” is a film without words, about the creative act that appears derisory, but is oh so vital to fight against the forgetting of a war that has already been relegated. to television archives by other conflicts.

Presents a young couple who decides to play in a pornographic film.

An experiment from the video lab of Hervé Huitric and Monique Nahas.

BURT BARR The Pool, 1993

Abode of Illusion shows how Chang Dai-chien's art - fake and genuine - illustrates essential differences between Western and Chinese approaches to art, and how originality and tradition, and abstraction and representation, are interpreted and valued across cultures.

Experimental short based on a sheet music for Karama, A Japo-Rhapsody March two-step.

A tired University of Alberta student gets a little help from Mary Shelley to learn about the University of Alberta Library system

This film is based on the real events of 1958. He talks about the tests of a secret bomber created by Soviet aircraft designers.

Hitler's professional look-alike from Uzbekistan arrives to Moscow to earn money.

The Very Quiet Cricket is about a young cricket who finally finds his voice. Taken from The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Stories collection. Based on Eric Carle's picture book.

Before Element was called Element they were called Underworld Element.

Lenny is on a journey of some kind and it involves various kitchens for some reason.

TV documentary about the city Chamdo (aka Changdu or Qamdo) in the eastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

An experimental Virtual Reality project that explored potentials for narrative action on the part of players in a simulated landscape. The work incorporated elements of local mythology and actual locations in the Canadian Rockies. Three-dimensional videographic scene elements, spatialized sounds and voices, and simple character animation were employed to construct places in a virtual environment that could be visited concurrently by two physically remote participants wearing head-mounted displays. Produced at the Banff Centre for the Arts in collaboration with Brenda Laurel.

The heritage of Carthaginian women still survives in Tunisian traditions.

Crude German body horror.

To view it in 3-D, cross your eyes until you see three images. The middle one will be in stereo. Click on the images to remove the playback control icons, then move the mouse out of the picture.

Educational video that teaches youth about the value of money and importance of financial planning. Part of the series of films produced with cooperation of: Japan's Central Council for Financial Services Information and Bank of Japan Public Relations Department.

The mythologist Joseph Campbell wrote "a temple is a landscape of the soul." Fragments Of India explores this potential in the realm of video. Hindu, Muslim, and Jain architecture merge into a unified pattern of images. The sounds of India’s temples, mosques, tombs, and marketplaces form a marriage of video and architecture.

This is a theatrical adaptation of the manga of the same name serialized in Morning magazine by Nagamatsu Kiyoshi. This home comedy depicts the protagonist Igawa Tsuyoshi's high school and college years. Igawa Tsuyoshi is a third-year junior high school boy who is bullied by his two older sisters and his mother and is forced to do all the housework. For some reason, his eldest sister Keiko is harsh to Tsuyoshi every New Year's Eve. In order to escape disaster in 1993, Tsuyoshi goes out to play with his best friend Watanabe Tsukasa. However, he accidentally gets into a time machine travels back in time from December 31, 1993 to December 31, 1981. There, he meets Tsuyoshi, a kindergartener, and Keiko, who is bullying him.

A struggle to speak. Contrasting forms of, and desire to, communicate. Hand painted and scratched directly onto Film stock. Animated film by Lucy Lee

A man and a woman meet after a long unexplained separation. Gradually over the course of a strained and oblique conversation, the nature of their shared past is revealed. This film grew out of a casual conversation between feminist writer and filmmaker Shameem Akhter and Masud. When Shameem mentioned the plot of a feminist short story she had written, Masud immediately suggested it be made into a short film. Shameem herself plays the female role, while noted actor Pijush Bandhapadhyay plays the mysterious male visitor who turns up at her door. The theme of an independent working woman, supporting a family household, was new to Bangladesh cinema in the early 1990s. This reflected the changing face of a rapidly urbanizing society with a growing population of educated wage- earning women, and in some ways paralleled the developments of Satyajit Ray’s 1963 classic Mahanagar. In this sense Se was a pioneering work for Bangladesh in expressing the new feminist ethos of the 1990s generation.