Community Shorts Program

Screening December 16, 2022 at 6:00 PM at the OAG Alma Duncan Salon
Screening Fees sponsored by / Frais de projection sponsorisés par
DARC - Digital Arts Resource Centre

Nicole Blundell - Good Grief

Le deuil est une expérience intime et délicate qui ne porte pas attention au stades qu'on lui donne.

Grief is an intimate and delicate experience that does not pay attention to the stages we give it.

This film was shot on 16mm film with in camera effects and lovingly processed by my own hands.

Zainab Muse - Road to Artist

In Road to Artist, we peer into a casual conversation shared over a meal amongst musicians turned friends making art for a common goal - to shift mindsets towards diversifying the narratives about the African diaspora.

Pearly Pouponneau - The Ritual

Matriarchs from the Ottawa/Gatineau region (traditional territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation) gather to reflect on the power of their relationship with cannabis and the stigmas that they experience as Canna Moms. They invite you to the ritual.

Penny McCann & Eric Walker - Events in the Tunnel

Drawn from Super 8 films in the artists’ personal archives as well as found amateur 8mm footage, Events in the Tunnel presents an absurdist abbreviated retelling of Canada’s colonial history as defined by that great colonial trope, the cross-country train trip. In the transitional void of a train tunnel, we witness familiar 19th and 20th century paradigms of white middle-class conformity as represented by images of travel, amusement, and domesticity, with Canadian culture embodied by a chimeric portrayal of the early 20th century painter Tom Thomson. Sound design by Chris Ikonomopoulos.

Events in the Tunnel marks the first co-directing project by life partners and artists Penny McCann and Eric Walker.

Laura Paolini - Three Weeks in Quarantine

Three Weeks in Quarantine is a suite of four videos made from short clips, sequentially linked together through audio and text. While the videos seem very static, several near still images placed together, they are the result of the tracing of a bodily habit through space during the first lockdown from March-June 2020.

Noor Gaith - Visions of Basra

Visions of Basra, explores some of my mother’s fragmented memories of her home by conjuring up photographs, colours and her words. Throughout the film, the moving visuals appear to be imperfect or out of focus to depict the distance between where she grew up versus where she lives now.

Avery Wilton - Her Drive

A truly inspiring story featuring the professional race car driver and rare disease survivor, "Demi Chalkias." This documentary outlines the struggles of those with TGCT, a rare, locally aggressive, typically benign, tumor of the joint, tendon sheath, or bursae. From hands on experience with the disease through the gripping story of our beloved race care driver to the executive director of the organization, this film allows for many needed voices to be heard.

Benjamin Shimwa - Inner Sounds

A young and talented black singer and musician faces the biggest challenge of his life yet. After a terrible car accident that almost killed him, Louis Walters is left without the ability to use his focal chords to speak. This situation permanently changes the course of his life as he has to live in a new reality where the only thing he was passionate about and talented at is something he can no longer do. In this sombre state, Louis rediscovers himself and the core of his love for music after a much needed conversation with his sister Sandra.

Amen Jafri - So I Married Myself

Filmmaker Amen Jafri follows a divorced, single mother as she joins a controversial new global movement - sologamy (or self-marriage). While sologamy's critics are quick to label it as narcissistic, Jafri seeks to uncover its roots and why women in particular are drawn to it. So I Married Myself is a quirky and inspiring take on the next level of female empowerment.