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.
Title | Artist | Original Media | Year Produced | ||
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02.02.02. | Penny McCann | 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 | 2003 | |
28 Laval Street | Philippe Caron | Based on a letter found in a derelict building, 28 Laval Street explores the world of a young single mother trapped in a cycle of poverty, drugs, and abusive love. |
¾" | 1987 | |
3 Girls Named Sheila | Melina Young | Hi8 | 1997 | ||
61 Days | Anthony Seck | A bad night at Motel Hell. A rocker and a groupie set themselves up in a room. |
Video | 1997 | |
A Landscape of Here and There | Phil Rose | 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 |
Super 8 | 1999 | |
A Porno Mortis | Rob Thompson | Pornography is an issue rife with knee-jerk responses and emphatic opinions. |
Betacam | 1993 | |
A Queer by Choice | Kevin Gibbs | Directed by Ali Biggs, Kevin Gibbs, and Andrew Grimes Griffin. Phyllis' desire for a queer baby opens a messy can of sperms. |
1993 | ||
A Taste of Bannock | Chris Ikonomopoulos | The document of a pair doing outreach during the Christmas season. |
MiniDV | 2001 | |
Abandon Bob Hope | Kevin Kurytnik | This film is a bastard satirical mutation comprised primarily of animated collage bits of Gustave Doré's Divine Comedy engravings of the Inferno and those oversized "how to" books by Walter Foster |
Betacam | 1997 | |
Afghani Culture | Maliha Hamidee | About Afghani culture, clothes, Ramadan, Eid Celebration, wedding parties, engagement, and music. Statement: For others to become aware of Afghani culture, religion, celebrations, and fashion. |
DV | 2002 | |
American Sandwich | Jillian Mcdonald | A split (into 4) screen performative video where I eat as much as possible of WonderBread, bologna, Kraft singles, and iceberg lettuce, until in some cases I get sick. |
MiniDV | 2002 | |
Americans | Chris Mullington | Shot on Video 8, this video is a collection of dreamlike impressions of a Studebaker ride across the U.S.A. |
¾" | 1988 | |
Angel in the House | Caroline Langill | In this tape, a woman comes to terms with her own conflicted feelings while dealing with her angry child. |
Betacam | 2002 | |
Animating Mr. Saint John | Connell Smith | "Animating Mr. Saint John" is part doc, part mock. It asks what would happen if Loyalist Man truly represented the personality of his city. |
DV | 2002 | |
Apple of My Eye | Fortunée Shugar | As the apple rolls out, it tells the story of a love half a lifetime ago, relived but for a moment. |
DV | 2002 | |
Arena | Lois Siegel | "Arena" is a study of images and movement. Stark black and white photographs of faces have been airbrushed with colour. They dissolve one into another. The central image is a long boy: Guy. |
Film | 1979 | |
Ask-Me | Carol Beecher | "Ask-Me" is an experimental camera-less animation piece etched directly on 16mm black leader, with the addition of colour using permanent markers. |
16mm | 1993 | |
Attention Span | Rob Thompson | Television reaches new depths of mediocrity as it seeks to fill time through the endless repetition of images. Moments of reality rendered pointless by their decontextualisation. |
Betacam | 2000 | |
Audrey Greyeyes: A Story of an Artist | Liisa Rissanen | An eyewitness story of structural and institutional racism. A Plains Cree girl grows up in a residential school. |
DV | 1997 | |
Auf Festem Boden (pt. I) | Franziska Von Rosen | 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 | 1999 | |
Auf Festem Boden (pt. II) | Franziska Von Rosen | 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 | 2001 | |
Available Light | Anatoly Ignatiev | 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 | 2003 | |
Back and to the Left | Hart Snider | Scratch video remix of TV, with James Brown's drummer, The Fiddler On the Roof, and JFK. |
MiniDV | 2000 | |
Backwards | Cathy Sisler | Un plan unique sur un dos dénudé offre une résistance à notre désir de voir. Une voix de femme raconte. |
¾" | 1992 | |
Battlefield | Jef Harris | Industrial music video. |
DV | 2003 | |
Beacon | Eric Walker | With hypnotic image loops and squelching radio noise, "Beacon" is a fast meditation on microwave relay towers and urban landscape. |
Betacam | 1999 | |
Bedford Basin | Eric Walker | An eight-minute real-time video painting of the Bedford Basin in Halifax, Nova Scotia, viewed from a moving train. |
Betacam | 2000 | |
Betty Swollox | André Coutu | Simple plan. Simple disguise. A true story of misinformation and robbery gone awry. |
DV | 2002 | |
Beyond the Pale | Maureen Bradley | How do you recreate an un-documented past? How do you define a life? |
MiniDV | 2010 | |
Biff Bang Pow! | Anthony Seck | A trailer for a never-released science fiction film, with a self-assembled appliance robot, which rampages through the suburbs, man-eating salad which lurks in the forest, zombie maidens of evil fl |
Betacam | 1997 | |
Billy | Rob Thompson | Two women get together for a cup of tea, but their conversation quickly descends into a confrontation of their deepest fears. |
MiniDV | 2003 | |
Blasons Anatomique | Carol Breton | "Blasons Anatomique" is a video blasons - a eulogy to the male torso. Flesh fills the monitor, a corporeal landscape of soft, pink, undulating man-flesh! |
Hi8 | 1996 | |
Blind Date | Khanhthuan Tran | A blind date is set up between a street-involved youth and a non-street-involved youth. Watch as the awkwardness ensues. |
MiniDV | 2001 | |
Bluescreen Blues | Bonnie Robinson | "Bluescreen Blues" is a comedy about an unnamed high tech company struggling to meet deadlines and get funding after the dot.com crash. |
MiniDV | 2001 | |
Boredom | Lois Siegel | "Boredom" consists of a series of images portraying the movements of one character. The character performs acts with no apparent reason or result. His life is his art. |
16mm | 1976 | |
Breakfast | Rob Thompson | "Breakfast" is a music video I made of a punk rock song about breakfast. Statement: An early music video. |
¾" | 1991 | |
Bride Fest 2002 | Mark Mckay | "Bride Fest 2002" is a celebration of weddings, brides, fun, and good times. |
Hi8 | 2002 | |
Brothers | Anne Golden | Two lesbian brothers play out a prescribed sleep-work-play existence, but when the evening comes... |
Betacam | 1998 | |
By Myself | Cristina Usubiaga | "By Myself" is a tale of a young boy who embarks on a journey through a man's public washroom on his own. |
16mm | 1994 | |
Ca Pas De Bon Sang | Jean Rene | A funny twist on a vampires theme. |
1996 | ||
Caged | Rob Thompson | Pam Meldrum and Eric Wolf were selected from over 80 applicants to try and live like battery hens for one week. |
Betacam | 2000 | |
Celebration of Life (River of Fire Fest.) | Douglas Von Rosen | ¾" | 1995 | ||
chant [dans les muscules du chant] | Suzan Vachon | "chant [dans les muscules du chant]" primarily uses film archives from the first half of the twentieth century. |
MiniDV | 2010 | |
Chelsea Bridge the Tentet | Douglas Von Rosen | "Chelsea Bridge", under the leadership of John Frayne, is an award winning jazz ensemble that has garnered international acclaim. Their music is on the cutting edge of contemporary jazz. |
DV | 1997 | |
Chorégraphie | Luc Desjardins | A paradoxical and absurd look at artifice (the moulin rouge) versus real life (taking out the trash). |
VHS | 2002 | |
Christ Not Marx | Chris Mullington | Chris was testing out a film camera at Lansdowne Park when he happened upon a fundamentalist Christian rally. He didn’t even remember shooting the shot until the roll came back. |
¾" | 1983 | |
Chrome and Thunder | Thomas Mann | A point-of-view exposé of Ontario Harley Davidson riders, including police, professionals, women & clubs. Statement: I was angered by the climate of fear being generated about bike clubs. |
DV | 2002 | |
CIBA Chrome | Jean Rene | Psychedelic music video. |
VHS | 1997 | |
Clowning Around | Brett Kelly | A clown comes home from work to find his clown wife in bed with another clown. Statement: Just a silly comedy about clowns. |
1999 | ||
Club ViviSEXtion | Rob Thompson | 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 | 1997 |