October 5
High tension and imploding domestic nightmares are only part of this program fuelled by uneasy impending doom. Each landscape is exacting and charged, with unrelenting anticipation. Within these nocturnal underworlds, the interior and exterior psyche of each space is fierce yet vulnerable. No tropes or jump scares, yet these unsolved mysteries are bludgeoning – something is coming around again.
October 6
Accessible and intimate, these short films drill deep within the possibilities and representations of surface tensions. Each film is without tripwires or threatening themes, yet posit tactile geographies, personal dream spaces and fractions of time that are more than lingering desires or languages. This program is luminous, dark, playful and reflective of diverse voices and visions
October 6
Together in nature, together in space-free time. We all become one organism through rituals that are with us if we only remember how to carry and care for them. Some carried in our bodies, some on our shoulders or back pockets. Heidi Phillips’ debut feature Valley of Light and Caroline Monnet’s Ceremonial open a portal to the sacred connection of being alone.
October 8
When Japanese New Wave bad boy Seijun Suzuki delivered this brutal, hilarious, and visually inspired masterpiece to the executives at his studio, he was promptly fired.
October 8
Black Tight Killers is an ultra-stylish, candy-coated amusement park ride in the form of a movie.
October 9
New German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in Paris, Texas, a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Sam Shepard.
October 10
Rich with access to hundreds of hours of never-before-seen footage and unreleased music, Gary Hustwit’s forthcoming documentary Eno employs groundbreaking technology to accomplish something that’s never been done before: a feature film that’s never the same twice.
October 10
Sam hasn’t been home since his transition. After four years in Toronto, he takes along-dreaded trip back to his hometown for his father’s birthday.
October 11
At a seasonal fishing camp two families endure conflict between the nobleman Adiits’ii and his best friend Kwa.
October 11
Conor sees no way out of this existential rut until one night channel-surfing he catches a bizarre ad for a party hotline hosted by a strange dancing goblin: Frankie Freako.
October 12
Sam hasn’t been home since his transition. After four years in Toronto, he takes along-dreaded trip back to his hometown for his father’s birthday.
October 12
Sam hasn’t been home since his transition. After four years in Toronto, he takes along-dreaded trip back to his hometown for his father’s birthday.
