Online cinema
Gros chat
Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush
Simeon Malec, host of Pakueshikan FM radio, welcomes Marie-Soleil Bellefleur on the air to discuss a new regulation concerning salmon nets. To their dismay, the duo is constantly interrupted by increasingly disturbing calls… It seems that a lion has been spotted in the community!
No Crying at the Dinner Table
Carol Nguyen
A collection of family secrets, confessions and confrontation. Filmmaker Carol Nguyen interviews her own family to craft an emotionally complex and meticulously composed portrait of intergenerational trauma, grief, and secrets in this cathartic documentary about things left unsaid.
Déjà vu
Gina Haraszti
This is a very personal piece with subjective narrative and full of symbols. Feel free to have your own, personal interpretation.
Tristan Rêveur
Gina Haraszti
This project introduces an identity, which was created in cooperation between strangers on the internet. Tristan Reveur is their common creation. His artworks started to multiply on the internet by unknown people. Making this mockumentary was just like making a documentary. I researched the facts made up by other people, than I summarized, arranged and illustrated them to show. The video uses classic documentary style to convince the audience about its authenticity. The movie has an additional feature during the exhibition, which works only in Hungraian. The part which are not subtitled contains spoiling information: well known theorist, J.A. Tillmann comment on fake identity in the age of online existence. The audience who just passes the work, and not being listening to the headphones would do not know about the twist. Therefore the project can be interpreted in two ways. After I first had heard about Tristan Reveur, I started to follow his forming on the internet. Although I was interested in the process, I wanted to show the result. This projects introduces the ideal artist imagined by the audience.…
J’ai comme reculé, on dirait
Sophie Bédard Marcotte
Shot between Montreal and Berlin, vacillating between intimate portraiture and impressionistic self-portraiture, I’ve Gone Backwards or Something captures the daily lives of Renée, Danielle and Sophie with a raw and immediate aesthetic and a self-deprecating humor.
Milcham
Gina Haraszti
Milcham is a Hebrew name of the Phoenix bird. The film tells the story of Mrs Endre Akarat (Ani) and her niece, the artist Nicole Zádor. Nicole came to Hungary for the first time in 2003. Her parents had escaped to the USA during the revolution in 1956. When she arrived in Hungary, Nicole started to search for her relatives but she only found a suitcase, full of memories from the second world war. The suitcase had belonged to her Aunt Ani, who had been deported to Auschwitz in 1944 when she was 31 years old. Anni’s suitcase was the only trace of Nicole’s heritage. This documentary reveals the path, laid by the photos and letters contained in the suitcase, that Nicole followed to discover her and her family’s hidden past.
L.A. Tea Time
Sophie Bédard Marcotte
A filmmaker stuck in an arid, jobless Montreal winter embarks on an improbable quest across the USA, taking her director of photography along for the journey. L.A. Tea Time is an unusual travelogue, at times meditative, at times haunted, recounting the adventures of Sophie and Isabelle with humour and a little touch of magic.
Wall
Gina Haraszti
Have you ever felt the world you live in amplifies the fear and questions that you hold within? Take a look through the lens and witness a visual perception of solitude.
TacTic
Gina Haraszti
Do you really feel free? Have you ever had the feeling of running in circles or that you were being hunted? In which direction do you feel the world is chasing you? Tactic is an experimental video about escape and confrontation which could help to make clear whether you are chasing or being chased. Even if there is no escape, try to look around and while running, gain a view of the world!
Your Place or Minecraft?
Gina Haraszti
Your Place or Minecraft? is a machinima documentary webseries that follows the virtual lives of a handful academics playing Minecraft together. An online adventure of fun, smarts and drama. The show takes place in the virtual land of the ‘mLab server,’ one of the most modded Minecraft servers in the world. But what makes it really special is that it is owned by academic game research centres of Concordia University where the players—students and professors—all work together in real life. Their real life friendships, objectives and conflicts result in fascinating, self-reflexive and sometimes explosive gameplay.
Envers et contre nous
Marilyn Cooke
In the middle of the sunny countryside, 10-year-old Selma and her big brother Jonas set out by bike on a journey with a very personal goal in mind. Taking them further and further away from home, their mission pushes them beyond their limits and into the real world, where they must face the fact that some things in life can’t be changed.