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Image credit: Don’t You Like the Green of A?, by Nelson Henricks (2025)
M U S I C commences with a waiting piano and a collage of chattering voices at a concert hall. The voices chatter consistently for four minutes and thirty three seconds. There is a montage of various musical images but no music. Then the voices stop and there is another definitely non-musical sound. There is another closing… ⊕
Mandaeans by Water is a micro-short documenting the voice of my grandmother who is one of the few remaining indigenous Iraqi-Mandaeans still practicing the religion today. Baptisms and water are a vital part of the community as they are associated with accessing heavenly realms and act as a bridge between the earth and the… ⊕
Meteor is a visually stunning piece that employs animated surrealist imagery to delve into the narrator's profound grief over losing her best friend within the repressive Islamic Republic of Iran. Meteor juxtaposes the international "women, life, freedom" protest movement with the challenges faced by the LGBTQ+… ⊕
METHodologies is a video intervention produced as part of a research study of chemsex (the sexualized use of methamphetamine in gay-, queer-. and trans-male sexual practices) in Toronto. This video seeks to expand beyond the common demonizations and shame tactics that prevail in public discourse about chemsex, to provide a more… ⊕
1976, 10:53 minutes, colour
tapecode 2162.06
Cole and Dale’s second student film is a tribute to their friends living alternative lifestyles in downtown Toronto during the 1970’s. We meet a transexual, homosexual, streetwalker and trio of drag performers. The filmmakers structure their film to bring the audience into their world, relate to them, breakdown… ⊕