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The Telidon System is a telephone communication process which enables the exchange of visual information.Read More »
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Pierre Moretti – Graphic Variations on Telidon by Pierre Moretti (1979)
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Donald Shebib – Between Friends (1973)
DramaCanadaCrimeDonald ShebibAn ex-con, his daughter, and her two friends plan the elaborate heist of a nickel mine in Northern Ontario.Read More »
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Daniel Petrie – The Neptune Factor (1973)
1971-1980AdventureCanadaDaniel PetrieSci-FiSummary:
When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.Aboard the R/V Triton, the Project Neptune team is doing oceanographic research. Director Andrews (Walter Pidgeon) is trying to keep the research going in spite of opposition from Foundation Head Sheppard. Below on the ocean floor, in the Sealab, the team led by Hamilton is about to return to the surface when the Sealab is ripped loose from it’s moorings and sent careening into a trench. Trapped too deep for divers, the only chance is rescue by a new US Navy mini-sub, piloted by the arrogant Cdr Blake (Ben Gazzara) USN. Blake, Chief Diver MacKay (Ernest Borgnine), Diver Cousins & Dr. Jansen (Yvette Mimieux) (Hamilton’s fiance) dive in the mini sub to attempt the rescue of the trapped Hamilton & crew.Read More »
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Amelia Moses – Bloodthirsty (2020)
2011-2020Amelia MosesCanadaHorrorThrillerQuote:
Grey, an indie singer, whose first album was a smash hit, gets an invitation to work with notorious music producer Vaughn Daniels at his remote studio in the woods. Together with her girlfriend/lover Charlie, they arrive at his mansion, and the work begins. But Grey is having visions that she is a wolf, and as her work with the emotionally demanding Vaughn deepens, the vegan singer begins to hunger for meat and the hunt. As Grey starts to transform into a werewolf, she begins to find out who she really is, and begins to discover the family she never knew. What will it take to become a great artist and at what cost to her humanity? As Grey completes her new album, Charlie tries to warn her about Vaughn, but Grey won’t abandon the album. Will Grey do whatever it takes to become a great artist, as she uncovers the truth about her past, her future, her family and ultimately herself.Read More » -
Michael Kot – Shipbreakers (2004)
2001-2010CanadaDocumentaryMichael KotSynopsis
Welcome to Alang, India, the site of a gargantuan scrap yard where oceangoing ships come to die. Forty thousand Indians live and work here, dismembering and scavenging the hulks of 400 vessels every year. Shipbreakers is an extraordinary documentary that chronicles the lives of the people who work here, from the men who take apart these giant ships with their bare hands to the bosses, who ignore environmental and health concerns for fear of losing the business to other developing nations. It may be the world’s most dangerous job. One worker a day, on average, dies on the job, evaporated in explosions, crushed by falling steel, cut in half by cables or broken up from falls. Of the remainder, one in four will contract cancers caused by asbestos, PCBs and other toxic substances. Vividly capturing both the haunting beauty of the ships and the deplorable conditions of the workers, Shipbreakers is an international story of greed, survival, Third World labor, and environmental neglect.Read More » -
Léa Pool – Emporte-moi AKA Set Me Free (1999)
1991-2000CanadaDramaLéa PoolQuote:
The most exuberant set piece in the acutely sensitive Set Me Freefinds two girls blithely spurning the puppy-dog attentions of the boys at a dance party to hold hands and exchange gazes. As in much of her autobiographical coming-of-age tale, director Léa Pool uses long, steady close-ups to limn the girls’ discovery of each other, coaxing tender, unaffected performances from her two young actresses. They stand on the precarious threshold of adolescence, when physical love has not yet divided into erotic and platonic categories.Read More » -
Alan Zweig – Records (2021)
Alan Zweig2021-2030CanadaDocumentary

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Twenty-one years after Alan Zweig’s groundbreaking first feature documentary Vinyl, Zweig returns to the topic of compulsive record collecting with newfound introspection and a sunnier disposition.Read More » -
Jean-Jacques Martinod – Before the Deluge (2020)
2011-2020CanadaDocumentaryJean-Jacques MartinodShort FilmWithin the ancient Precambrian rock of Northern Canada sits one of the largest reserves of uranium on the planet. A power that has yielded the largest destructive energy known to man, also manifest in the region’s harsh natural glory. A gothic travelogue that summons dialogue with ghosts of the region; abandoned mining towns swallowed within the pandemonium of extraction commerce and neglect, while also the liminal unknown forces that inhabit these lands and speak in shadow memories.Read More »
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Dawn George – Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables (2019)
2011-2020CanadaDawn GeorgeExperimentalShort FilmQuote
Each plant depicted in the film was hand developed in its own liquid essence, mixed with vitamin C and washing soda andused as a developer at precise times and temperatures. The film undergoes an eco- reversal process, is exposed to light, then a second eco-developer and is fixed. Lastly, the film is left to dry in the wind.Read More »







