You know a long take has paid off when you don’t really notice it. Or if you’re an aficionado who keeps an eye open for feats of cinematic virtuosity, you don’t notice until you’re well into it. It’s an indication... view more

There are a lot of things you can do with a puppet that no self-respecting human performer would ever agree to. There’s also more a puppet can get away with because, hey, it’s just a puppet. Simon Glassman submitted as... view more

This remarkable first film from Janna-Marynn Brunnen aptly and enchantingly describes a journey to an altered understanding of love starting from its destruction, along with the idea that it lasts forever, through the subsequent fallout, eventual healing and finally to... view more

This morality tale about a young girl who discovers a mysterious evergreen that sprouts books can be interpreted on a number of levels and is simply and economically told in a brisk, direct fashion. Nature’s Library also effectively varies its... view more

Kicking off a trio of experimental works is this lighthearted tribute to celluloid film in an age when cheaper and more convenient digital media are starting to take over both the industry and the art. Murray Smith shot Maybe Film... view more

There are three distinct sections to this glossy and very creepy experimental piece by Aran Wilkinson-Blanc. In the opening sequence, a young woman sits in a chair while unidentified persons in white suits and masks prepare to make a plaster... view more

Experimental filmmaker Kyle Armstrong describes this work as “a non-narrative dream film” that explores “the thin membrane between waking and sleeping”. He juxtaposes urban environments, in which artificial light is arguably the subject because of its inability to adequately penetrate... view more

This humorous revision of the myth of the knight-errant starts in typical storybook fashion and quickly takes an unexpected turn. Perhaps Dragon.Love is meant as a modern-minded demonstration of the virtues of negotiation over the evils of violent coercion. Or... view more

In an earlier experimental short, With You in Mind, Stefanie Wong explored identity and transformation by filming a woman cutting her hair and rending her clothing. She appears to continue her fascination with the same theme and materials in What... view more

If uncompromisingly bleak in tenor, A Prairie Love is nevertheless an extremely affecting short. Like Haleigh Toney’s Dragon.Love, this simple animated work is built using a sequence of more or less still images, in this case depicting a stream of... view more

While the popular expression “to go postal” takes its origin from a deeply disturbing event, for better or worse the phrase is now used quite casually to describe any egregious loss of composure, particularly in reaction to the inhuman pressures... view more

In this latest documentary essay, Trevor Anderson points his camera at an iconic Edmonton landmark then chucks the piece of equipment off its edge to plummet, still recording, into a snowy bank beside the cold North Saskatchewan River. Over a... view more

Who among those of us who regularly take public transit hasn’t got at least one or two amusingly horrific stories involving inebriated or otherwise unpredictable fellow passengers? That’s what makes boarding the bus or taking the LRT so exciting: anything... view more

Take a mother and daughter clash of generational values on the question of babies, cross it with a police procedural, then throw in a healthy measure of Three Stooges mayhem and you may have a fair description of Dominique Keller’s... view more