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Image credit: Lloyd Wong Unfinished, by Lesley Loski Chan (2025)
Visions of Basra explores some of my mother’s fragmented memories of her home by conjuring up photographs, colours and her words. Throughout the film, the moving visuals appear imperfect or out of focus depicting the distance between where she grew up versus where she lives now. ذكریات… ⊕
Mars Brito, a trans bike courier, is killed by an SUV—is he the victim of an accidental "door prize" or is this murder? His case becomes a city-wide obsession, with hourly true crime updates and rewards for clues. While this murder mystery unfolds, a Toronto trans activist (also named Mars) works with his… ⊕
Outraged by the 2021 bombing of Gaza, Palestinian queer activist Hamza (Sam Al Esai) and his brother Walid (Ramzi Zain) recruit novelist Jean Genet (John Gilbert) to sabotage the Eurovision song contest in Jericho. Their method? Secure the collaboration of Buddy and Pedro, Toronto's famous naked gay singing penguins... The… ⊕
This film is a study of Western-style pre-wedding photography near Tokyo Station. Every night, several couples take turns striking similar poses near the front of Tokyo Station on Gyoko-dori Street. Pre-wedding photo shoots have been popular on social media for about the last five years. The photo packages often include the… ⊕
2023, 03:39 minutes, colour
tapecode 066.27
An ironic, top-down summary of the language used in real estate superimposed on a Canadian neighbourhood.