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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Nail Polish | Yvon Villarceau | The first of the fictional "Vovo Kingdom" series of therapeutic videos in which Dr. Dotolulu suggests trancendental ways to get over the breakup of a love affair, while still remaining friends. |
1993 | ||
Névé | Andree Prefontaine | J'ai choisi de traiter des rituels qui ponctuent l'inéluctable quotidien. |
VHS | 1998 | |
Next! | Fortunée Shugar | A group of unsuspecting cartoon characters audition for a role in "Urban Jungle". |
DV | 2002 | |
Nice Shoes Faggot | Carl Stewart | Altering between black and white, past and present, dreaming and waking, "Nice Shoes Faggot" is an eerie and evocative exploration of homophobic violence and its psychological effects. |
Super 8 | 1996 | |
Night of the Celibate | Tony Asimakopoulos | A self-styled monk and his cohort - The Celibate and The Sister - lead a meditation group for a handful of lost people who are having trouble making sense of their mysterious, fragmented, and contr |
Betacam | 2000 | |
Night Songs | Brett Kelly | A woman is being pursued by a vampire, or is she? Statement: A dark meeting of video and music. |
Hi8 | 1999 | |
None of the Above Party | Marc Adornato | A propaganda video that protests against baby boomers. |
DV | 2001 | |
Nora | Caroline Langill | Intra-uterine images of a fetus alternate with close-ups of an infant sucking her mother’s breast in a simple video whose unique strength lies in its daring to venture into socially-repressed, bare |
1997 | ||
Not Torn (Asunder from the Very Start) | Steve Reinke | If I say I dreamt these images and then found them in the archive, it is because I already had the images in my head, but not as memories. |
MiniDV | 2010 | |
Ode to Alex Bag | Marc Adornato | While mocking Alex Bag, this video explores space, time, and the universe, through immature, naive, childish, and ignorant methods. Similar to Alex Bag. |
DV | 2001 | |
On the Bowery | Anthony Seck | After World War III, 4 musicians get together and decide to sit on the tops of buildings to jam. Deirdre Smith sings along from Vintage war poster art. |
Betacam | 2001 | |
Opération: Lait | Jean Rene | A secret spy cat is planning a mission on her master. |
VHS | 2002 | |
Oral Currency | John Boehme | This performance/installation was comprised of an entire loan office including custom designed loan application withdrawal and deposit slips, business cards, and pens, all of which reify Language o |
2002 | ||
Painting with Light | Lois Siegel | "Painting with Light" consists of images produced by moving light. Techniques include refilming slides in an animation fashion. Original slides are time exposure images of colour filtered light. |
16mm | 1974 | |
Pancake on a Hot Tin Roof | Lois Siegel | Dick Tracy move over. Joe Private is on the scene. "Pancake on a Hot Tin Roof" is a detective spoof focusing on Joe Private as the detective who does everything wrong. |
16mm | 1990 | |
Paralysis | Lois Siegel | "Paralysis" is a computer film created by directly filming the images produced on an oscilloscope, which has been attached to a computer(s). |
16mm | 1972 | |
Peaceful Pictures of the World | Nena Toth | 16mm | 1993 | ||
Pieces of Her Become You | Marika Jemma | A lyrical rendering of a ‘Day in the Life’ of a lesbian couple & their cats. |
VHS | 1996 | |
Plastic Dreams | Lois Siegel | Through the use of pixilation, this zany film introduces strange characters and happenings. |
16mm | 1988 | |
Plug | Monique Moumblow | The walls are thin. A young girl plays with plugs. A woman puts her ear next to an electrical socket. Are plugs the portals to another world, or at least to the next apartment? |
Betacam | 1997 | |
Popsicles | Gloria Camiruaga | Video art using the signs and symbols which make up my existence. In this tape, the space, symbols, and the historical context in which I live as a woman on this side of the continent interact. |
¾" | 1984 | |
POW: Drugs #1 | Thomas Mann | Une série de spécialistes internationaux bien connus citent des points de vue inédits sur la tragédie de la guerre américaine contre la drogue. |
DV | 2000 | |
POW: Drugs #2 | Thomas Mann | Une série de spécialistes internationaux bien connus citent des points de vue inédits sur la tragédie de la guerre américaine contre la drogue. |
DV | 2000 | |
POW: Drugs #3 | Thomas Mann | Une série de spécialistes internationaux bien connus citent des points de vue inédits sur la tragédie de la guerre américaine contre la drogue. |
DV | 2000 | |
POW: Drugs #4 | Thomas Mann | Une série de spécialistes internationaux bien connus citent des points de vue inédits sur la tragédie de la guerre américaine contre la drogue. |
DV | 2000 | |
POW: Drugs #5 | Thomas Mann | Une série de spécialistes internationaux bien connus citent des points de vue inédits sur la tragédie de la guerre américaine contre la drogue. |
DV | 2000 | |
POW: Drugs #6 | Thomas Mann | Une série de spécialistes internationaux bien connus citent des points de vue inédits sur la tragédie de la guerre américaine contre la drogue. |
DV | 2000 | |
Rebirth | Marc Adornato | Shot, edited, and produced within 24 hours, this short segment, conceived by David Wilkinson and co-written/directed by Adornato, features Adornato's performance characters, Mabus and Sirus. |
DV | 2002 | |
Recipe to Cook a Clown | Lois Siegel | "Recipe to Cook a Clown" involves one character who enters a city and meets bizarre people: a deaf-mute boy, a solicitous young man, and a somewhat neurotic young lady. |
16mm | 1978 | |
Red Bull | Marc Adornato | Marc, Dave, and Matt got all dosed up on American Red Bull energy drinks, and moved some furniture. |
DV | 2002 | |
Regan Sees Red | Ramona Macdonald | Experimental political satire. |
16mm | 1980 | |
Remix: Affirmative | Chris Anderson | A one hour episode of CBC's "The National" remixed. |
VHS | 2002 | |
Remix: Knee-Jerk Religion | Riley Rempel | Remixing one hour of CBC's "The National". |
VHS | 2002 | |
Remix: Opening | Véronique Couillard | Everything is familiar, nothing is at the right speed. |
DV | 2002 | |
Remix: POW | Neill Petersen | Description: With clips from an episode of "The National" on CBC, I made a short 'video collage'. Did you know that I tied for third place in the event with Riley Rempel? Yup - it's true. |
VHS | 2002 | |
Reserve Dogs | Joseph Dandurand | 1994 | |||
Resonance | Dino Koutras | An individual's journey through the cold urban landscape armed only with some cigarettes and a camera. Statement: I love making movies. I love film noir. This is an example of my two loves. |
16mm | 1996 | |
Ride Home | Ryan Stec | Almost totally devoid of people, this piece focuses on the methods of transport which move us through our urban environments. |
Hi8 | 1998 | |
Riley's Outreach Ranch | Riley Rempel | Description: Stuck with an excess of fame and money, pop star Riley Rempel attempts to diminish her feelings of guilt by opening a ranch for underpriviliged children. Hilarity ensures. |
DV | 2002 | |
Ring of Vision | Claudia Jurt | A doorway to the past is opened when the ring of vision is found. A group of friends use the magic ring to search for the reason behind Aunt Chloe's deep depression. |
DV | 2003 | |
Robot Sapien | Jean Rene | Artistic video of robotic life: A women buys a male robot for domestic work. |
2002 | ||
Sailor's Warning | Mike Wert | This is a one-hour documentary exploring the little-known history of Long Point on Lake Erie. Over the last 200 years, Long Point alone has claimed over 163 shipwrecks. |
DV | 2001 | |
Sandspit to Dildo | Chris Mullington | Shot on Video 8, the first small format video documentary aired on CBC Television (1989). |
¾" | 1989 | |
Scale | Sean Butler | Johnass sets out to conquer the mountain, but, when he gets to the top, realizes it is only a big anthill. |
Betacam | 2002 | |
Shafig | Madi Mohammed | Mahamme Shafig, an exiled writer from Morocco, has never given an interview in his life. I got to him through his sons in his home in Belgium. |
DV | 2002 | |
Shared Visions | Liisa Rissanen | Features two female painters and their paintings. Artists Susan Feindel and Joyce Devlin. |
1981 | ||
Shock and Awe | Don Monet | The start of the war in Iraq - "Shock and Awe" is Rumsfeld’s metaphor - we watch from televisions in the snow; in the spaces through our windows, you can see the changes in light and texture on the |
Super 8 | 2003 | |
Shopping | Melina Young | Music: Doris Au, Techno Step, Techno Brat. Statement: Tranquillity of the suburbs silences those who don't fit in. |
Hi8 | 1996 | |
Shore Lines | Dan Sokolowski | Three sculptures interact through composition and editing. |
16mm | 1994 | |
Sky Light | Dan Sokolowski | Real clouds become tactile animations. |
16mm | 1998 |