This is a video which documents a performance of Precarious Lines: Instructions for Interacting with a Chair, including the making of a drawing as response. Leena Raudvee performs the act of sitting down and getting up again with her disabled body and then draws the internal echoes of these efforts on a large sheet of mylar… ⊕

What starts out as a short nature documentary inspired by the mating sounds of male wood frogs in a southern Ontario forest, slowly reveals itself to touch on the fragility of life, the cycle of the seasons, the wonder of the natural world, and, in an echo of the Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus’ maxim that you… ⊕

 A young woman (my sixteen-year-old daughter, Emma) dances on a subway platform to music only she can hear. As we watch her move through this public space with unselfconscious expression, we hear her thoughts on the vulnerability of dancing in front of others, the poetry of interacting with strangers, and the wonder of… ⊕

In this non-narrative short film, shot on 16mm and voiced entirely in questions from a young girl, the filmmaker weds footage of her daughters playing in an abandoned quarry with the inexhaustible curiosity of a child. The youngest daughter’s questions address a vast range of knowledge, moving, as she and her sister… ⊕

In this three-part short film, filmmaker Kelly O’Brien begins with her daughter Emma’s reflections on her disabled brother Teddy and how she imagines he sees the world. O’Brien then shifts into the past to address the question of how to depict disability on the screen while a young Emma dances around Teddy.… ⊕