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
Tribal Invitation Jef Harris

Behind the scenes video.

DV 2001
Trudeau Unifies the Country Ramona Macdonald

Was presented to Channel 4, who never replied but went on to produce a similar series.

16mm 1981
Tu Veux Que Je Pose Anthony Seck 16mm 1991
Tunnels Jamie Bruni

"Tunnels" is a stereotypical view of life at Carleton University that takes place in real time.

DV 2002
Two Guns and a Hacksaw Jordan Mctavish

In a shady motel, a drug dealer awaits his next shipment. When he finds a suspicious guy loitering outside his place, out come two guns and a hacksaw.

Digital 8 1998
Two Thieves Maliha Hamidee

The crime spree of two bumbling thieves comes to an abrupt end and a dilemma. Statement: My first experimentation in the dramatic genre.

MiniDV 2002
V.L.T. Karen Guttman

Encased in a giant video lottery terminal, "V.L.T." explores the impulse to gamble - with one's future.

VHS 1997
Vortex Gennaro De Pasquale

"Vortex" is an experimental video that combines fragments of films from different genres (fiction, documentary, reportage, animation, etc.), most of which date from the early twentieth century.

MiniDV 2010
Weaving Words Eve Haque

This video attempts to interrogate how one can 'language' the effective realm of marginalisation, exclusion and alienation that are the legacy of transnational migration into white settler nation s

DV 1995
Witches Way (Magic, Coming Soon) Wendy DeMos

Using dance to capture the excitement/energy of a percussive driven song called "Magic, Coming Soon."

Hi8 1995
Work to Live... Donna James

"Work to Live..." is a one-minute video tape that uses the oral tradition to highlight three women's shared work experience in Canada and Jamaica.

1993
X (trace), Studies for a Self-Portrait Phil Rose

"X (trace), Studies for a Self-Portrait" is a 'motion painting', a single-channel video or continuous loop installation which takes Francis Bacon's self-portraits as the starting point for a series

Video 2002
You Are a Constellation Kevin Hogg

An experimental art video challenging the context of the music video format.

MiniDV 2001
Your Absence Shahin Parhami

A video poem concerned with race and gender issues.

Hi8 1996
Yousef Dweik Madi Mohammed

An interview with the Palistinian-born artist, Yousef Dweik. The interview and art exhibit is about his art work. Statement: I have long considered the creative impulse to be a thing of grace.

DV 2002
Žena: The Woman Nena Toth

An experimental film all done in close-ups about a woman.

1989