Mediatheque

Mediatheque is an innovative project aimed at building an online exhibition space for media arts. You may browse over 100 independent films and videos from across Canada below in live-streaming format. If you wish to submit a video to be added to the Mediatheque, please click the submit button.

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	Artist/Director	Year Produced		Original Media
02-02-02	Penny McCann	2003	February 2nd, 2002 was an auspicious day - a rare celestial palindrome. On this day, her birthday, the artist examines signs and omens, attempting to divine the future.	Hi8, Super 8
A Landscape Of Here And There	Phil Rose	1999	Structured around train trips through the countryside and cityscapes of central Canada and the urban corridor into London, England, A LANDSCAPE OF HERE AND THERE explores issues of identity, the role of landscape in shaping it, and how, in turn, tech	Super 8
A Porno Mortis	Rob Thompson	1993	Pornography is an issue rife with knee jerk responses and emphatic opinions. This video follows the story of one reporter’s attempt to produce an exposé on the life and times of best selling pornographer, Simon Black.	Betacam
A Queer By Choice	Kevin Gibbs	2002		n/a
Americans	Chris Mullington	1988	Shot on Video 8, this video is a collection of dreamlike impressions of a Studebaker ride across the U.S.A.	3/4", Betacam, Hi8
Ask- Me	Carol Beecher	1993	ASK-ME is an experimental camera-less animation piece etched directly on 16mm black leader, with the addition of colour using permanent markers.	16mm
Audrey Grey Eyes - Story Of An Artist	Liisa Rissanen	1997	An eyewitness story of structural and institutional racism. A Plains Cree girl grows up in a residential school. In spite of the hardships of the school she learns to survive and excel in life by appreciating her cultural background.	DV
Auf Festen Boden (pt. I)	Franziska Von Rosen	1999	A documentary about the lives of four East Prussian sisters whose experiences span the 20th century and two continents, Europe and Canada based on archival photographs and interviews.	DV
Auf Festen Boden (pt. II)	Franziska Von Rosen	2001	A documentary about the lives of the four Marshall sisters whose experiences span the 20th century and two continents, Europe and Canada based on archival photographs and interviews.	DV
Available Light	Anatoly Ignatiev	2003	A Gaze is equally important, if not more, than an Action. What do you see? A sewage collector, a falling leaf, a ray of steam… This short video was born as a videography reel.	MiniDV
Beacon	Eric Walker	1999	With hypnotic image loops and squelching radio noise, BEACON is a fast meditation on microwave relay towers and urban landscape.	Betacam
Bedford Basin	Eric Walker	2000	An eight minute real-time video painting of the Bedford Basin in Halifax, Nova Scotia, viewed from a moving train. It is in homage to Arthur Lismer's panoramic Basin views made during the First World War.	Betacam
Blue Screen Blues	Bonnie Robinson	2001	BLUESCREEN BLUES is a comedy about an unnamed high tech company struggling to meet deadlines and get funding after the dot.com crash.	MiniDV
Brothers	Anne Golden	1998	Two lesbian brothers play out a prescribed sleep-work-play existence, but when the evening comes…	Betacam
By Myself	Cristina Usubiaga	1994	By Myself is a tale of a young boy who embarks on a journey through a man's public washroom on his own. In light of today's changing world of single families and urban fears, this small step towards independence takes on more significance.	16mm
Caged	Rob Thompson	2000	Pam Meldrum and Eric Wolf were selected from over 80 applicants to try and live like battery hens for one week.	Betacam
Christ Not Marx	Chris Mullington	1983	Chris was testing out a film camera at Lansdowne Park when he happended upon a fundamentalist Christian rally. He didn’t even remember shooting the shot until the roll came back. Sometimes happy accidents occur. A slice of indoctrination.	3/4", 16mm
Club ViviSEXion	Rob Thompson	1997	The bizarre two-part story of a young country woman who, thanks to an unusual turn of events, finds herself the owner of a club/brothel in the city.	Betacam
Confessions	Chris Ikonomopoulos	2001	Watch as people on the street confess to stangers.	MiniDV
Corridor	Josee Dubeau	2000		Hi8
Crabapple Jelly	Penny McCann	1995	A daughter struggles to come to terms with the death of her mother. Instinctively, she reaches for lessons of creation and ritual. Gently, she is drawn towards transcendence.	16mm
Cream Sauce	Susan Terrill	1997	Food and sex. Memory and desire. Sweat and lust. Nature and civilization. All this in seven minutes? All this and more, actually.	16mm
Damned Near Killed Him	Tony Asimakopoulos	1998	A poetic montage of images from films I made years ago, revisiting violence and transgression in the form of a confession and prayer. A hit-and-run outburst of dreamy melodrama within a rant within a mystery all wrapped up inside a longing for God.	16mm, Super 8
Derailleur	Rob Thompson	2000	As an urban dweller, the city was making me sick at heart. So one day I leapt on my bike and discovered the Experimental Farm. There I could watch the duckies and pet the cowies, and wander beneath ancient treeies.	MiniDV
Diary Of A Neo-Fascist	Rob Thompson	1992	Drawn to the charismatic leader of a neo-fascist gang, a young woman reveals, through her diary, her descent into political and emotional seclusion.	n/a