Doors open at 7pm, show starts at 8pm
INTEL
Director: Talia Pura
Length: 8 minutes
Genre: Drama
Intel is the story of a young military dental hygienist who is sick of her job and wants to switch to Intel. Her family isn’t crazy about the idea.
FORGIVENESS
Director: Paul Carvelli
Length: 10 minutes
Genre: Drama
A visual expression of one couple’s struggle with infidelity.
OFFLINE
Director: Ian Bawa
Length: 20 minutes
Genre: Comedy
Kevin is annoyed that he has to spend his afternoon teaching his Grandmother how to use her computer, when he leaves to work on it herself she inadvertently turns off the internet.
TUDOR VILLAGE
Length: 5 minutes
Genre: Experimental animation
Director: Rhayne Vermette
In pursuit of an eclipse, the citizens of Winnipeg flee the city. Meanwhile, stranded in Tudor Village, the caretaker does his best to interrupt their trajectory & entice everyone to return.
THE VISITOR
Length: 5 minutes
Genre: Documentary
Director: Miriam Sainnawap
The Visitor captures Miriam Sainnawap’s personal experience of living in the city as an Aboriginal person. She portrays the unique challenges and counteracts conventional stereotypes through the use of a soft Super 8 camera lens.
THE PLAN
Length: 15 minutes
Genre: Drama
Director: Mandeep Sodhi
it’s not what we think but what we do…What if you were caught in a crime that you never did?
PILLOWS
Length: 7 minutes
Genre: Comedy
Director: Trevor Kristjanson
A suburban family’s idealist life is suddenly disrupted by an unexpected storm.
JEANETTE JOHNS
Length: 6 minutes
Genre: Documentary
Director: David McGregor
Short documentary highlighting the work of Winnipeg artist Jeanette Johns.
THOUGHT CAMERA, REEL ONE: CIRCUS OF OBJECTS
Length: 4 minutes
Genre: Experimental Animation
Director: Murray Toews
A “thought camera” was created; allowing Murray to document an internal nightmare of a travelling circus deep within his brainscape.
THE DOLL MAKER
Length: 7 minutes
Genre: Experimental
Director: Matheu Plouffe
A doll maker goes to a junk yard of dolls to exhume the materials for his newest creation. After building his latest creation, he unveils it at a fair, where it is rejected by the audience in favour of a more traditional doll made by a rival.
KEEP A MODEST HEAD
Length: 19 minutes
Genre: Experimental Documentary
Director: Deco Dawson
Jean Benoît, the last official member of the French Surrealist group, receives Deco Dawson’s signature visual treatment in a biography that fantastically illustrates Benoit’s formative (and highly sexual) childhood memories. Mixing interviews recorded in Benoît’s Parisian studio with Surrealist-inspired re-enactments, Dawson deconstructs documentary conventions to eulogize a formidable artist.
