Psychology
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Octopus
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_Octopus_ surfaced during trauma, in the aftermath of the cataclysmic Port of Beirut explosion. The film silently navigates that unfolding, giving space to the myriad of existential questions birthed by the enormity of the happening. Questions of unexamined worldviews, of suffering and meaning, of collective purpose, and of many other quiet thoughts strewn amidst the rubble. What are we saying ...
C’est une bonne journée
A short, deconstructed story about depression and the mental health of a woman who drinks.
Les mots/maux du silence
Fragments of poems, readings, texts, excerpts from plays, songs, and reflections, pieced together like a patchwork quilt. What’s the purpose of medications, electroshock therapy, institutions? What if all of it only serves to suppress rebellion? What’s the purpose of psychiatry and our prejudices, the daily responses… to those women we label as _mad_?
I Remember Nothing
December 2010: revolution breaks out in Tunisia, the country of the filmmaker's father. In a strange way, the cries of fury of the Tunisian people echoed the inner turmoil that had been growing inside her for several weeks. At the same time, she was going through a manic-depressive episode of great intensity, and was diagnosed as bipolar and admitted to a psychiatric clinic. When she emerged fr...
Pathfinders
With ropes and wood, teenage girl scouts build an ephemeral village deep in the forest, where they live together freely. Filled with raw beauty, both autonomous and vulnerable, they come face to face with themselves and learn to be tolerant of others.
Il était une fois Françoise Dolto - Part 2
Il était une fois Françoise Dolto - Part 2
Duration: 0h59Subscription access
These conversations with renowned pediatrician and psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto were recorded in 1986, two years before her death. With her unique perspective on childhood, her humour, and her unparalleled talent for simplifying psychoanalytic theories, Dolto helped change the way society views children.
Il était une fois Françoise Dolto - Part 1
Il était une fois Françoise Dolto - Part 1
Duration: 0h59Subscription access
These conversations with renowned pediatrician and psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto were recorded in 1986, two years before her death. With her unique perspective on childhood, her humour, and her unparalleled talent for simplifying psychoanalytic theories, Dolto helped change the way society views children.
Le Jardin des délices de Jérôme Bosch
Le Jardin des délices de Jérôme Bosch
Duration: 34 minutesSubscription access
Filmmaker Jean Eustache reconstructed an evening among friends — of which he was a witness a few years ago — during which a fan of Jérôme Bosch, the psychoanalyst Jean-Noël Picq, engaged in a very personal commentary on the painting _The Garden of Earthly Delights_.
Chasing Birds
When the world turns upside down, we have a choice to firmly hang on to old ideas or embrace the new view. In _Chasing Birds_ we follow a little girl who playfully chases a bird throughout a chaotic and transformational period. An animated short inspired by the directors own anxiety and her daughter Sunneva.
The Mechanics of Fluids
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.
Bloom
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...
One Day...
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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.
Gambling, Gods and LSD
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...
Ghost Hunting
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...
A Woman Captured
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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 Wanna Sleep with You
_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.
Scrapbook
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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 ...
Judy Versus Capitalism
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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...
Year of the Robot
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.
Octopus
Subscription access
_Octopus_ surfaced during trauma, in the aftermath of the cataclysmic Port of Beirut explosion. The film silently navigates that unfolding, giving space to the myriad of existential questions birthed by the enormity of the happening. Questions of unexamined worldviews, of suffering and meaning, of collective purpose, and of many other quiet thoughts strewn amidst the rubble. What are we saying ...
C’est une bonne journée
A short, deconstructed story about depression and the mental health of a woman who drinks.
Les mots/maux du silence
Fragments of poems, readings, texts, excerpts from plays, songs, and reflections, pieced together like a patchwork quilt. What’s the purpose of medications, electroshock therapy, institutions? What if all of it only serves to suppress rebellion? What’s the purpose of psychiatry and our prejudices, the daily responses… to those women we label as _mad_?
I Remember Nothing
December 2010: revolution breaks out in Tunisia, the country of the filmmaker's father. In a strange way, the cries of fury of the Tunisian people echoed the inner turmoil that had been growing inside her for several weeks. At the same time, she was going through a manic-depressive episode of great intensity, and was diagnosed as bipolar and admitted to a psychiatric clinic. When she emerged fr...
Pathfinders
With ropes and wood, teenage girl scouts build an ephemeral village deep in the forest, where they live together freely. Filled with raw beauty, both autonomous and vulnerable, they come face to face with themselves and learn to be tolerant of others.
Il était une fois Françoise Dolto - Part 2
Il était une fois Françoise Dolto - Part 2
Duration: 0h59Subscription access
These conversations with renowned pediatrician and psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto were recorded in 1986, two years before her death. With her unique perspective on childhood, her humour, and her unparalleled talent for simplifying psychoanalytic theories, Dolto helped change the way society views children.
Il était une fois Françoise Dolto - Part 1
Il était une fois Françoise Dolto - Part 1
Duration: 0h59Subscription access
These conversations with renowned pediatrician and psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto were recorded in 1986, two years before her death. With her unique perspective on childhood, her humour, and her unparalleled talent for simplifying psychoanalytic theories, Dolto helped change the way society views children.
Le Jardin des délices de Jérôme Bosch
Le Jardin des délices de Jérôme Bosch
Duration: 34 minutesSubscription access
Filmmaker Jean Eustache reconstructed an evening among friends — of which he was a witness a few years ago — during which a fan of Jérôme Bosch, the psychoanalyst Jean-Noël Picq, engaged in a very personal commentary on the painting _The Garden of Earthly Delights_.
Chasing Birds
When the world turns upside down, we have a choice to firmly hang on to old ideas or embrace the new view. In _Chasing Birds_ we follow a little girl who playfully chases a bird throughout a chaotic and transformational period. An animated short inspired by the directors own anxiety and her daughter Sunneva.
The Mechanics of Fluids
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.
Bloom
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...
One Day...
Subscription access
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.
Gambling, Gods and LSD
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...
Ghost Hunting
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...
A Woman Captured
Subscription access
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 Wanna Sleep with You
_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.
Scrapbook
Subscription access
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 ...
Judy Versus Capitalism
Subscription access
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...
Year of the Robot
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.
