Mediatheque

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

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.

A video poem concerned with race and gender issues.

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

"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

"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.

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

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

"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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Behind the scenes video.

A happy man named Jed goes shopping in his wife's underwear. When SAW Gallery did its Detonator show, they asked me to do a project. And they paid me for it too.

Pure improv: non-actors, crew using obsolete equipment for first time. Filmed in 2 takes.

Alternative rock.

One long year has passed since 15 year old Ashleigh Burns went missing. Police have given up the search, leaving Ashleigh's best friends to solve the mystery themselves.

In 1899, Victorian England, the huge popularization of the bicycle sparked women's independent mobility.

An inside look at viewing popular culture.

A man leaves his office on a Friday after work. It's a beautiful day and he decides to break from his regular routine of the subway and walk home instead.

A surly, foulmouthed bounty hunter cares more about getting his laundry done than saving his kidnapped ex-girlfriend from a delusional and mostly harmless masked man.

Set in a washroom, "The Toilet Suite" is a funny look at the intersection of public and queer space.

The same kind of stereotypes exist in video games as they do in TV and film.

Etched on a gravestone are the stark facts: three sisters who drowned on the same summer day in 1917.

This video relates to the theme of fluidity as a visual metaphor and identity since the artist is evident both from behind and in front of the images.

George Lim arrived as a young man in 1913 in Ottawa. He lived there the rest of his life except for visits to China.

"The Lady of Shalott" reinterprets Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem of the same title in a contemporary setting: the bored lady sits in her highrise apartment writing pulp romance while Sir Lancelot, we

Five university students meet in Halifax for their weekly knitting club. From seeing scenes from their past, we begin to understand their choices and actions in the present.

"Back Home" is an online cultural magazine show about Newfoundland & Labrador.

The couple are talking about life and love. It's just beautiful.

"The Inner Wedding" is a snapshot of a very ordinary woman's life. Shot from her point of view, it shows how the rituals and crisis of daily life seep and are absorbed into our psyche.

In this puppet video, a golem is sewn together out of socks and sent to maintain society's status quo. It does this with a vengeance, even transforming himself into a model citizen.

Four friends, each representing a different aspect of society, get together one night to partake in the ultimate game of world domination - war - by means of their favourite board game, Risk ®.

This is a story about money, deception, and pleasure. Caesar, a wealthy organized crime boss, loses a hundred grand to two deceitful spanish streetfighters.

Set in Depression-era Eastern Ontario, "The Fires of Joanna" tells the story of a woman struggling to endure a harsh and unforgiving life.

Parallel stories. When a double takes the life of an original.

The artist was inspired to produce this tape after an extended visit to Montreal.

Host Marc Adornato interviews his clone, and get into a personal heated argument with his clone (played also by Marc Adornato).

A skated performance piece exploring the passage from tradition to experiment through the choreography and sound.

Paranoid science fiction obsessing over the omnipresence of television and radio waves, wireless communications... in our very midst, in us and around us.

Mabus clones himself in an attempt to conquer the world.

A comedy/satire of two spacesuit-wearing superheroes, Mabus and Sirus, and their quest to save the Earth's eternal herb from the evil Zybain.

From ancient prophets to modern sci-fi writers, this video montage shows a brief overview of the present technological revolution; science fiction becomes science fact.

A story narrated by my uncle, who takes us on a journey into the country of his birth, the ex-French colony of Algeria, and his Sefaradim cultural roots.

An egoist, a religious zealot, and an addict meet in a park and wax philosophical. When a $10,000 lottery ticket comes between them, it will be the last time they meet.

An unlikely group posing as everything from superheroes to computer viruses gathers in an internet chat room.

Willoughby Sharp visited SAW Gallery in 1983. This flamboyant New Yorker was a denizen of Andy Warhol’s Factory scene before becoming a prophet of telecommunications and satellite technology.