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Square Dance Story (2011)
by Jason Karman
The patience of an outsider is tested when a square dancer holds him in contempt for his romantic advances.
An outsider enters a strange bar hoping to connect with people and instead finds a curious square dance troupe in the back. In the troupe, he pursues a mysterious square dancer only to be chastised as the square dance caller steps in order to save the troupe from fragmenting.
Cup of Wine (2010)
With the aid of three expert dancers and the waters of the Fraser River’s Hells Gate rapids, choreographer Wen Wei Wang and I re-imagine five Tang and Song dynasty poems, with their Buddhist layers of reality and illusion, shifting nuances of human sentiment, and Taoist love of nature. To re-visualize these layered poems, we reduce the human body to elemental parts: hands, necks, backs. Dance, in this film, is pure, expressive human movement. And we allow one dancer to fly, as dancers did in Song dynasty cave frescos.
I'm in the Mood for Love (2010)
by Jason Karman
A singing telegram worker meets his ex boyfriend while having hot pot and learns to embrace his newfound bachelorhood through popular song.
Poodle Dog Ornamental Bar (2010)
by Julia Feyrer
Julia Feyrer’s Poodle Dog Ornamental Bar was many things: a contingent art space, a film set, a historical recreation, a speakeasy, a party space, a site-specific installation, and a venue for music, readings, and screenings. Feyrer recreated an 1898 Gastown bar by the same name constructed out of cedar bark, flotsam and jetsam. In the present day version, you could buy a glass of homemade apple wine for a dollar. The Poodle Dog functioned as a space for just shy of two months and, while it lasted, it felt revitalizing. Contrary to the rumors circulating, it did not meet an untimely end due of the cruel, yet unfortunately legal, eviction of the residents of 536; the Poodle Dog was only supposed to last for the summer.
The Strange Case of Dr. Victor von Dictor (2010)
In this remarkable parody of early melodrama, a snake oil salesman finds money, romance and intrigue in a remote town when his "Miracle tonic" actually cure the Mayor's ailing daughter.
Replay (2009)
It's Kate Stewart's birthday. Open for anything --it's the unimaginable that arrives. Two young men are armed with a knife and driven by a need for her vintage car.
In an instant, she's bleeding, threatened with the possibility of more violence and planning her one opportunity for escape. Surviving will be a terrifying, hallucinogenic adventure that forever haunts.
Girlfriend Experience (2008)
Why do men pay for sex? An entertaining peek into the world of prostitution from the client’s point of view.
Daniel doesn’t understand why he can’t have a relationship with his girlfriend Maddy and date prostitutes for fun on the side - a practice he calls GFE (Girlfriend Experience). But when Maddy dumps him and Daniel starts purchasing GFE from a mysterious prostitute, the lines between sex and love, fantasy and reality, begin to blur. Sometimes love can be a lot more expensive than sex.
"As a filmmaker, I simply want to reveal what is hidden - the john". Movies often portray sex-workers, but their customers remain well hidden – faceless and nameless. Girlfriend Experience calls attention to this bias, at the same time as it shifts the cinematic gaze onto the client.
Inside Passage (2008)
by Jeff Carter
Derived from a collection of Super-8 footage shot during extensive travelling along the ferry routes of coastal British Columbia. The images will be edited to a commissioned acoustic piano soundtrack. The result will be a sensuous and compelling visual and aural spectacle, capturing the rhythms unique to our part of the world.
Just A Minute (2008)
by Allison Beda
A working single woman (dancer Jennifer Clarke), stuck in the rat-race of urban existence tries to leave her apartment. Just A Minute is the first in an infinite series created in collaboration by the collective 3√60
Poe - Last Days of the Raven (2008)
by Brent Fidler
This character-driven film paints a psychological portrait of the great American writer Edgar Allan Poe, exploring the extraordinary life experiences that shaped his fascinating imagination. By weaving through the ethnography of Poe’s dreams and nightmares, particularly the dying moments of himself and his loved ones, a complex plot line of past and present intermingles while Poe hovers near death in his hospital bed...