Experimental Films
In this section, films are grouped under the name of the filmmaker. Titles are listed alphabetically under each filmmaker's name.
It's Me, Again
46 min. 1993
Ostensibly a film about twins, It's Me, Again explores the expectations and desires we have when we are confronted with identical siblings. Described as a "mockumentary," the film plays with the documentary form, and through it presents conflicting truths which vie for ascendancy. Interviews with twins compete with scientific data, and as authoritative meaning grows more elusive,the viewers must select a hierarchy of truth in order to create their own personal meaning.
New Shoes: An Interview in Exactly Five Minutes
5 min. 1990
This film presents a candid portrait of a male-female relationship that terminated with dire consequences. A woman tells a unique story that is intercut with symbolic imagery of a fairy princess. Time is manipulated and compressed to meet the five-minute limit set by the Five Feminist Minutes project, bringing a quirky sense of irony and detachment to the telling.
Awards: Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker, Ann Arbor; Honourable Mention, Northwest Film & Video Festival; Honourable Mention, Toronto Festival of Festivals
Subject(s): Relationships, Violence against women
Pioneers of X-Ray Technology (A Film about Grandpa)
15 min. 1991
Pioneers of X-Ray Technology is a portrait of the filmmaker's grandfather, Dr. Ernest To, a 91-year-old Chinese man who watched Hong Kong enter the twentieth century while he voraciously made images as a photographer, moviemaker, and radiologist. While he talks about his achievements in the public realm, the film presents images of the family's home life - the filmmaker, her mother, and her grandmother.
Subject(s): Chinese-Canadians, Family
Pleasure Film (Ahmed's Story)
6 min. 1994
Talented Canadian actor Valerie Buhagiar tells a story about an intriguing Iranian man living in Vancouver. She recounts a powerful and symbolic tale that emerged from his dreams.
Subject(s): Storytelling
Waving
5 min. 1987
A woman recalls the intense, complex relationship that she shared with her maternal grandmother. Exploring the cyclical rituals of life and death, this film evokes the passionately private nature of memory, the loneliness of childhood, and the eternal quality of family bonds.
Awards: Honourable Mention, Northwest Film and Video Festival; Experimental Category, Canadian Student Film Festival
Subject(s): Family, Women
You Take Care Now
10 min. 1989
(Also available with a French narration.)
Using a non-linear, free association mode, the filmmaker presents a self-reflective
account of two personal traumas: the experience of sexual assault while travelling
alone, and an accident that results from simply crossing the street. Visual imagery
suggests the range of impressions that such intense experiences invariably evoke.
Awards: Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker, Ann Arbor; Honourable Mention, Northwest Film & Video Festival
Subject(s): Violence against women
The Man and the Moon
4 min. 1988
Combining live action and animation, this film tells the wistful tale of a man who seeks the acquaintance of the face of the moon.
Return to the catalogue page
Moving Images Distribution
402 West Pender St, Ste 606, Vancouver, BC CANADA V6B 1T6
tel: 604.684.3014 toll-free: 800.684.3014
fax: 604.684.7165
Send us an e-mail
