Penny McCann
Canada
2017 | 0:06:04

Erratic flashes of light spark across a flickering expanse of water and sky. The image itself can’t be contained as light and debris spill outside the frame. The random alchemy of hand-processing techniques creates a landscape that transcends the observable, edging into the sublime. This is the ninth work in my ongoing series of poetic landscape films. Gibraltar Point (transformed) was created during a residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point on Toronto Island. Shot on black and white 16mm film, hand-processed, then transferred digitally to 2k digital files with an ambient sound design by Michelle Irving.

Oksana Chepelyk
Ukraina
2017 | 0:15:06

In a film the sounds of flips of balls grow into shots - both realities of war and peaceful life meet in space of gym. A film researches post-traumatic rehabilitation by sport of veterans of war.

Kent Tate
Canada
2017 | 0:04:24

I generally gravitate towards places that reveal the many layers of time when deciding on a particular location to set up my camera and tripod. This is when I like to imagine worlds that have passed, worlds that are present, and worlds that are yet to be. In 2009 Johan Rockström led the team which developed the "Planetary Boundaries Framework," a set of 9 boundaries that they define as a “safe operating space for humanity.” These scientists assert that once certain thresholds or tipping points are passed there is a risk of “irreversible and abrupt environmental change." In 1976 a number of companies began selling genetically modified foods and pharmacueticals for the first time

Jean-Charles Hue
France
2017 | 0:12:00

Jean-Charles Hue follows a few Tijuana folks, from the arid desert to the night world. Very early on, reality gets diluted and the film changes skin the way a viper would. Amongst these more or less fantasized figures that suddenly loom before Hue, some are little devils who could just as well be angels. With the feeble light of a bulb, Hue tries to follow the steps of a certain Roxana, who no sooner appears than she vanishes. Maybe she’s in the hands of the devil?

Vivian Ostrovsky
United States
2017 | 0:07:42

Dizziness, in the sense that it inspires artists and filmmakers to move beyond their known borders. Or how a state of altered perception, instability, and confusion can be a catalyst for exploring new surroundings. Let go of the ground and attain giddiness or perhaps even foolishness?

Jeannette Louie
United States
2016 | 0:13: 44

Inside the neuronal landscape is an entangled network where consciousness, memory and stimulus embolden everyone to feel unique. In reality, sentience is actually a stream of neural activity made up of billions of neurons engaging in a multitude of connections. It takes a unity of many to be an individual. However, one neuron senses something else residing in this scientific fable. Follow her as she guides us through the synaptic forest and asks, “Who am I to refute the assumption of a soul?”

Claudio Capanna
Belgium
2017 |0:10:00

This short film wants to represent, through a sensorial approach, the wild force of birth.

Maria Ångerman
Finland
2017 | 0:22:12

Inspired by Margaret Duras’ play Agatha, juxtaposing images of humans to those of animals, the film is a cinematic meditation on loss of control. Built around three disparate scenes, it sets up a sense of disorientation to heighten the possibility of inhabiting a different perspective.