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In 2018, an incel called Anathematic Anarchist posted a suicide note on Reddit entitled "America is responsible for my death." This film is an attempt to find answers to his words. A virtual drift through the internet in search of his digital tracks that eventually turns into an inner journey between our connected solitudes.
Through moments in the lives of three groups of girls, images gleaned from the web and live streams of young women around the world, _Bloom_ delves into the world of today's teenage girls. We delicately observe a hyper-connected but lonely generation inhabited by great lucidity, an inner struggle with self-image obsession, and a need for self-affirmation in the face of a complex sense of aliena...
A 15-year-old girl evokes the boredom of her bourgeois environment and brings charges against her father and mother. A walk with her dog serves as a pretext to see life through the eyes of this teenager who feels alienated from the world around her.
Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determined to record the diverse modes of transcendence that people in different cultures adopt in order to live life to the fullest. As he traverses civilization and wilderness and encounters a range of lifestyles and ideas, the filmmaker’s mind-expanding trip around the world grows into a poem of images and so...
In order to confront the ghosts that haunt him, Palestinian director Raed Andoni assembles an eclectic group of ex-prisoners to recreate the Al-Moskobiya, Israel’s main interrogation centre, where he was himself jailed at age 18. Day after day, these construction workers, a blacksmith, an architect, an assistant director give shape to their memories of how they survived with grit and a sense of...
Being held as a slave in Europe today seems impossible. Yet it is the case for millions of people. Marish, 52, has been held captive by a family for 10 years and forced to work without pay. She has forgotten what freedom feels like and has lost all will to escape. Drawing courage from the presence of the filmmaker, she decides to escape the unbearable oppression and regain her freedom. This fil...
_I Want to Sleep with You_ is a private film, like a diary or a conversation overheard by chance, in which five couples lay themselves bare to share their most intimate experiences, to tell what love is today, what variations it offers and what compromises it imposes to overcome the risk of loneliness.
In the sixties, Jeffrey Paull gave a group of young people with autism the opportunity to film themselves and the world around them. Mike Hoolboom draws from this archive to continue Paull’s mission: to express the emotions of people who are condemned by the authorities and by other people’s perceptions, to live in silence. Donna Washington, a former patient, comments on the images and reports ...
Since the 1970s, Judy Rebick has been the face of feminist struggles in Canada. For Mike Hoolboom, she's more a "living archive" of activism and struggles for the rights of all minorities, as well as an exceptional woman who has defied her own traumas all her life. Their privileged relationship gave birth to this film, a creative hybrid between documentary and experiment. A colossal work of arc...
At the crossroads of art and science, this film centers on human beings and robots as their artificial counterparts. Like a series of archival documents detailing the first contacts and exchanges between human beings and a robot, the film studies cognitive dissonance, a minuscule, mysterious relational space lying between them both.
This feature documentary offers an intimate portrait of living with bipolar disorder. Filmmaker Pierre Goupil (_Celui qui voit les heures, La vérité est un mensonge_) reveals his uneasy relationship with his illness and his journey as an artist in a society that struggles to accept those on the fringe. A product of the 1960s intellectual scene, Goupil continues to question the world and fight f...
Une plongée au cœur de Waseskun, un établissement de réinsertion pour hommes autochtones au passé criminel. Un regard empathique dénué de naïveté qui décrit sans tabou la complexe reconstruction d’hommes en lutte contre eux-mêmes. À Waseskun, la guérison passe par la spiritualité et par une réappropriation de l’identité et de la culture ancestrale. Une chronique sensible à propos de rescapés de...
A ten-metre-high diving board. People climb up: to leap or to climb down? The situation highlights a dilemma: endure the instinctive fear of taking the plunge or the humiliation of having to climb down. _Ten Meter Tower_ is an entertaining study of human vulnerability.
_Unfinished_ encapsulates a young woman’s struggle with mental illness as seen through the lens of her mother. Over a series of hospitalizations the mother’s frustrating inquiry to understand and untangle the conundrum of her daughter’s mental health condition unfolds. The filmmaker-mother critically examines home videos filmed by her during her daughter’s first episode that unravels the family...
The story of a mother who died four years after giving birth to her only son, a father who raised him through grief and trauma, and a boy lost in the forest.
Poundmaker's Lodge: A Healing Place
Duration: 58 minutesJust north of the City of Edmonton lies Poundmaker’s Lodge, an addiction and mental-health facility specializing in treatment for Indigenous people. Founded in 1973 and still operational today, the Lodge’s programs and services are Indigenous-run and based in culturally appropriate recovery and healing techniques. Framing the short documentary with the words of the great Plains Cree Chief Pîhto...
A documentary portrait of Peter Mettler's childhood best friend, who left the family home to pursue an uncompromising lifestyle.
This experimental short film gives the floor to Robert Dole who gives us his story and exposes his vision of schizophrenia. The theme of mental illness is echoed here in a cinematographic treatment that explores the materiality of film and magnetic tapes to find points of meeting and detachment, spaces resonating with the fall and redemption of Robert Dole.
In 1969, Allan King created one of the most intimate portraits of domestic life ever brought to the screen with _A Married Couple_. In it, he filmed his friends, Billy and Antoinette Edwards, who were experiencing serious marital tensions. Opening the door of their home to the cameras, the Edwards allow the filmmaker to see their lives over a ten-week period in Toronto, highlighting the difficu...
In 2018, an incel called Anathematic Anarchist posted a suicide note on Reddit entitled "America is responsible for my death." This film is an attempt to find answers to his words. A virtual drift through the internet in search of his digital tracks that eventually turns into an inner journey between our connected solitudes.
Through moments in the lives of three groups of girls, images gleaned from the web and live streams of young women around the world, _Bloom_ delves into the world of today's teenage girls. We delicately observe a hyper-connected but lonely generation inhabited by great lucidity, an inner struggle with self-image obsession, and a need for self-affirmation in the face of a complex sense of aliena...
A 15-year-old girl evokes the boredom of her bourgeois environment and brings charges against her father and mother. A walk with her dog serves as a pretext to see life through the eyes of this teenager who feels alienated from the world around her.
Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determined to record the diverse modes of transcendence that people in different cultures adopt in order to live life to the fullest. As he traverses civilization and wilderness and encounters a range of lifestyles and ideas, the filmmaker’s mind-expanding trip around the world grows into a poem of images and so...
In order to confront the ghosts that haunt him, Palestinian director Raed Andoni assembles an eclectic group of ex-prisoners to recreate the Al-Moskobiya, Israel’s main interrogation centre, where he was himself jailed at age 18. Day after day, these construction workers, a blacksmith, an architect, an assistant director give shape to their memories of how they survived with grit and a sense of...
Being held as a slave in Europe today seems impossible. Yet it is the case for millions of people. Marish, 52, has been held captive by a family for 10 years and forced to work without pay. She has forgotten what freedom feels like and has lost all will to escape. Drawing courage from the presence of the filmmaker, she decides to escape the unbearable oppression and regain her freedom. This fil...
_I Want to Sleep with You_ is a private film, like a diary or a conversation overheard by chance, in which five couples lay themselves bare to share their most intimate experiences, to tell what love is today, what variations it offers and what compromises it imposes to overcome the risk of loneliness.
In the sixties, Jeffrey Paull gave a group of young people with autism the opportunity to film themselves and the world around them. Mike Hoolboom draws from this archive to continue Paull’s mission: to express the emotions of people who are condemned by the authorities and by other people’s perceptions, to live in silence. Donna Washington, a former patient, comments on the images and reports ...
Since the 1970s, Judy Rebick has been the face of feminist struggles in Canada. For Mike Hoolboom, she's more a "living archive" of activism and struggles for the rights of all minorities, as well as an exceptional woman who has defied her own traumas all her life. Their privileged relationship gave birth to this film, a creative hybrid between documentary and experiment. A colossal work of arc...
At the crossroads of art and science, this film centers on human beings and robots as their artificial counterparts. Like a series of archival documents detailing the first contacts and exchanges between human beings and a robot, the film studies cognitive dissonance, a minuscule, mysterious relational space lying between them both.
This feature documentary offers an intimate portrait of living with bipolar disorder. Filmmaker Pierre Goupil (_Celui qui voit les heures, La vérité est un mensonge_) reveals his uneasy relationship with his illness and his journey as an artist in a society that struggles to accept those on the fringe. A product of the 1960s intellectual scene, Goupil continues to question the world and fight f...
Une plongée au cœur de Waseskun, un établissement de réinsertion pour hommes autochtones au passé criminel. Un regard empathique dénué de naïveté qui décrit sans tabou la complexe reconstruction d’hommes en lutte contre eux-mêmes. À Waseskun, la guérison passe par la spiritualité et par une réappropriation de l’identité et de la culture ancestrale. Une chronique sensible à propos de rescapés de...
A ten-metre-high diving board. People climb up: to leap or to climb down? The situation highlights a dilemma: endure the instinctive fear of taking the plunge or the humiliation of having to climb down. _Ten Meter Tower_ is an entertaining study of human vulnerability.
_Unfinished_ encapsulates a young woman’s struggle with mental illness as seen through the lens of her mother. Over a series of hospitalizations the mother’s frustrating inquiry to understand and untangle the conundrum of her daughter’s mental health condition unfolds. The filmmaker-mother critically examines home videos filmed by her during her daughter’s first episode that unravels the family...
The story of a mother who died four years after giving birth to her only son, a father who raised him through grief and trauma, and a boy lost in the forest.
Poundmaker's Lodge: A Healing Place
Duration: 58 minutesJust north of the City of Edmonton lies Poundmaker’s Lodge, an addiction and mental-health facility specializing in treatment for Indigenous people. Founded in 1973 and still operational today, the Lodge’s programs and services are Indigenous-run and based in culturally appropriate recovery and healing techniques. Framing the short documentary with the words of the great Plains Cree Chief Pîhto...
A documentary portrait of Peter Mettler's childhood best friend, who left the family home to pursue an uncompromising lifestyle.
This experimental short film gives the floor to Robert Dole who gives us his story and exposes his vision of schizophrenia. The theme of mental illness is echoed here in a cinematographic treatment that explores the materiality of film and magnetic tapes to find points of meeting and detachment, spaces resonating with the fall and redemption of Robert Dole.
In 1969, Allan King created one of the most intimate portraits of domestic life ever brought to the screen with _A Married Couple_. In it, he filmed his friends, Billy and Antoinette Edwards, who were experiencing serious marital tensions. Opening the door of their home to the cameras, the Edwards allow the filmmaker to see their lives over a ten-week period in Toronto, highlighting the difficu...