November 5
Looking For An Angel follows Shinpei and Reiko as they process their friend’s disappearance, their memories coalescing into a bold exploration of grief set against the backdrop of a nostalgic, blue-hued city shot in a variety of filmic formats.
November 5
The new film from legendary underground novelist Dennis Cooper and visual artist Zac Farley is a side-eyed, tonally unpredictable portrait of a family-run haunted house in the California desert, with an undercurrent of menace.
November 6
One man, a room, and the Sahara, in this symbolically charged film, Frank Cole casts himself in the role of a man on a quest for immortality.
November 6
A chronicle of Frank Cole's amazing 7,100 kms camel-crossing of the Sahara Desert from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.
November 7
Capitalisms is an ongoing project begun in 2016. 12 features, 55 shorts. Here is the first of a two-program selection offering views from Nazareth, Victory Day in Russia, a mental health centre in Ohio. Essay miniatures. Hope ventriloquisms.
November 7
Brown Town Muddy Water is a documentary about the Indigenous Musicians that lived, died, prospered and survived Winnipeg's notorious main street strip during the 1960's.
November 7
An essay film about the mysteries of consciousness and communication channeled through neurophysiologist and “psychonaut” John C. Lilly, a daring experimenter with dolphins and psychedelics. Lilly’s motto — “My body is my laboratory” — carried him into realms of radical self-investigation, while his research also helped bring dolphins and whales into the collective dreamlife of the 20th century.
November 8
Thoughts on place.
November 8
Defying modernity, 90-year-old Agatha forges a solitary existence on her ancestral farm, preserving heirloom seeds in her handmade universe.
November 8
Three MiniDV tapes of life in Gaza from 2001 were recently rediscovered. What started as a search for a former prison mate from 1989, led to an unexpected road trip from the north to the south of Gaza with Hasan, a local guide whose fate remains unknown. A cinematic reflection on memory, loss and the passage of time, capturing a Gaza of the past and lives that may never be found again.
November 8
How do we organize attention, and who do we grant this authority to? Perhaps the ‘second family’ of chosen ones (or did they pick you?) offers new portals and possibilities. This program looks at the too familiar aftershock of the American election (surely as Zizek suggested, everyone in the world should be allowed to vote on such an important matter), 9-1-1 (as it used to be known, the CIA-led coup in Chile) and Palestine. The program ends with an extended swim with my mother, followed by a closing letter from my friend Fred. – Mike Hoolboom.
November 9
The Index Reframed features short films that interweave the boundaries between the real and the imagined, the evidentiary and the poetic.
