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Stampede Eats Me Up Inside
4 minutes
Directed by Trevor Mahovsky
B.C.
Two boys ready for action head down to the Calgary Stampede, a cornucopia of rides, food and girls. “When I see the Stampede grounds through the spinning arms of the Ferris Wheel, flashing like the frames in a film, I think ‘This is my fountainhead'.”
Lost and Found
6 minutes
Directed by Gail Noonan
B.C.
A true story of a young boy and a girl who discover reality when they search for a lost mitten. As the credits open and characters are introduced, the audio track immediately brings one into a dream like state and compliments the visual story line. Vibrant colours of paint and pastel take us through a world of the homeless. A mix of line animation on paper and cel, create a unique movement by which the curious explorers search in this ‘new world'. We pan the zone where the street people live, peer into their cardboard shelters and find a little home, then step further in to discover nothing has permanence. This is the land of the uncertain, of people forgotten, and the land of the lost mitten. Two kids out for fun discover that for some, life is an unsettled existence. Gail Noonan makes meaningful films in an artful way, composer Robert Minden who performed with Carla Hallet is as in tune as one could ever hope. - Scott Clark
Sea Song/Chanson de Mer
B.C. Premiere
4.25 minutes
Directed by Richard Reeves
B.C.
Hand painted & scratched 35mm film looks into the sparkling ocean at night. The kinetic movement and colour brings alive an underwater world. Rich in depth of experience to this film method, Reeves has taken this technique beyond the pioneers of Lem Lye, Harry Smith & Norman McLaren.
Opening Day
World Premiere
13 minutes
Directed by Luke Shanaman
Australia
A tale of two competing real estate salesmen their different styles clash in a lively way as they try to sell the same house.
Babette's Feet
Winner of the NSI drama prize
“Is a delicious little film with a delicious little title” Eye Magazine
17 minutes
Directed by Harry Killas
B.C.
Harold is a lawyer and a foot fetishist. A foot fetishist on the usual quest for the perfect pair of feet. One day he finds Babette, an artist who has an obsession of her own.
"An enjoyable, delightful film that turns out to be surprisingly romantic and, yes, sensual." - Patsy Kostsopolous
Blind
10 minutes
Directed by Deborah Day
Ontario
A lonely woman becomes directly involved in a bloody fight as she finally ventures outside to meet a telepersonal ‘Prince Charming'. A dark film with a deliberate play between the shadows and the light.
Gohbi and God
Canadian Premiere
25 minutes
Directed by Evangelos Maderakis
Downtown, in the sweltering heart of a multi-ethnic, “omnium-gatherum melting pot” of a neighbourhood, a young African American boy and his new Indian neighbour become friends as they explore the magical, and sometimes treacherous, urban playground that surrounds them. An interesting take on race and perception. Gohbi and God uses racial stereotypes in its cast of characters while ridiculing the white mailman's preconceptions of the community.
Rituals and Resolution
B.C. Premiere
Awarded Jury Prize Winner Newport International Film Festival
29 minutes
Directed by Michael Stein
USA
Murder, gambling debts and seduction create a challenging holiday season. Three vignettes intertwine in a quiet bar at Christmas time, as gamblers, an unfaithful spouse and a cocktail waitress are controlled by their rituals and excessive behaviours.
Sergalio 35mm
World Premiere
13.5 minutes
Directed Gail Lerner and Colin Campbell
A charmer! A suburban housewife's day is disrupted by the discovery of a rather odd item in a cabbage patch.
Mommy, There's A Monster In My Bed
B.C. Premiere
18 minutes
Directed Guy Bonneau and Martine Fortin
A young girl named Richard plays quietly while the women work around her. The layers of images and sounds reinforce a feeling of home and security yet something is not quite right. A haunting vision of the black hole that is this family's dynamic.
The Offering
Awarded 1st prize & Kodak Cinematography award at New Haven Film Fest
Best Foreign Film, Hardacre Film Festival
10 minutes
Directed by Paul Lee
Ontario
A film with a Japanese sensibility. The Offering is a meditation about the passing of life, told through the story of love and friendship between a Japanese monk and his novice, from their initial encounter to their final parting.
The Offering is a film which spans a great deal of time, choosing its moments carefully, never rushing. Each action, shot and character is carefully crafted and the vivid colours and deliberate three dimensional layering make this film a visual delight.
Applaud or Die
11 minutes
Directed by Brian McKeown
B.C.
All the poor fella wants is to be noticed but this actor takes it to extremes.
Nobody's Nothing
B.C. Premiere
4 minutes
Directed by Bridget Farr
Quebec
Non relationships - ahh, the heart of a city.
Drop
B.C. Premiere
7.75 minutes
Directed by Luke Carroll
B.C.
JC's journey to the city is dampened when he gets trapped in a puddle. Unseen by those that could help, the signs of a new day bring the danger of the sun drying up JC's existence.
Earl & Edna
Canadian Premiere
8 minutes
Directed by Sarah Shute
USA
"A subjective study of an object", is in fact the study of: a field, a forest, a young man, an old nattering couple, and a park bench to name a few. By montaging these elements one after the other, Sarah Shute creates a funny new object.
The Rememberer
10 minutes
Directed by Coreen Mayrs
B.C.
The story of a young woman coping with the loss of her lover, whose melancholy view of our modern, "thought ridden" world leads to his mysterious physical transformation.
A New Media Presentation
An Egg
World Premiere
Directed by Maria Papacharalambous and Achielleas Kentonis
Cyprus
A Computer Generated Image piece that merges abstract art and painting to prove that computer animation doesn't always have to look like ReBoot. Fun, whimsical and uplifting.
Catch it during the film forum at the Laurel Point Inn
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