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
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
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
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
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
Opération: Lait Jean Rene

A secret spy cat is planning a mission on her master.

VHS 2002
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
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
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
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
None of the Above Party Marc Adornato

A propaganda video that protests against baby boomers.

DV 2001
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
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
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
Next! Fortunée Shugar

A group of unsuspecting cartoon characters audition for a role in "Urban Jungle".

DV 2002
Névé Andree Prefontaine

J'ai choisi de traiter des rituels qui ponctuent l'inéluctable quotidien.

VHS 1998
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
Mythic Hero Josh Stafford

Upon graduating, a group of friends flounder in the limbo of time between high school and real life.

DV 2000
Music to Get Drunk By!!! Riley Rempel DV 2002
Murmur Miriam Sampaio

In 1998, for the first time as an adult, I traveled to my birthplace of my parents in Portugal.

MiniDV 2002
Mr. Rogers' Vacation Jacob Hanna

Using the plainness of Mr.

1998
Mistakes Chris Ikonomopoulos

Watch as people admit mistakes to strangers.

MiniDV 2001
Mi'kmwesu Franziska Von Rosen

"Mi'kmwesu" is an experimental music video on the elusive world of the mythical Mi'kmwesu, a trickster figure in Mi'kmwesu cosmology.

Betacam 2000
Mère/Archives/Fourrures Luc Desjardins

Ingredients: One mother, archives, and some fur.

VHS 2002
Me and Billy Bob Jillian Mcdonald

An ongoing series of short videos where I have inserted my own footage into scenes from Billy Bob Thornton movies, where he (and I) exchange glances, winks, smiles, tears, and even a kiss.

MiniDV 2002
Matéria Prima Petunia Alves

An intimate look at Martha Fleming and Lyne Lapointe's work, and more specifically Materia Prima, a project for the abandon garden of an historical landmark in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Betacam 1997
Marshlands Penny McCann

"Marshlands" is a short poetic video about marshes and waiting for the train.

Betacam 1999
Marder Anthony Seck

Trance DJ music with East Indian influences. The air-conditiong in a hotel is down. Bugs are in the system.

Betacam 2001
Mabus Trailer Marc Adornato

This is a trailer of a long-term, muti-segment series of shorts that are still in production today!

DV 2002
Lunch Jordan Mctavish

A man discusses the finer points of infestation with his parasite while making a soup & sandwich. Statement: Minimalist, maximalist style, maximalist dialogue.

Digital 8 2002
Louise and Eddie Chris Mullington

A collaboration between Chris Mullington (videographer/director) and Richard Nigro (writer/producer). Louise, a prostitute, has murdered Eddy, her 15-year-old lover.

¾" 1986
Lost and Found Innocence Sandra Hawkins

A video about resistance and letting go, with metaphorical references to time, culture, place, and positioning.

DV 2001
Long Live Technology Marc Adornato

Originally set to epic music by Hollywood composer Jerry Goldsmith, this now silent drama is one of Adornato's first self-produced videos.

DV 1999
Living with Deer Franziska Von Rosen

Based on beautiful wildlife footage shot over a period of more than a year, this video brings the life of the graceful white-tailed deer onto the screen.

Betacam 1998
Live in Infamy Jillian Mcdonald

Footage shot from my doorstep of the tip of the Twin Towers burning slides behind large poppies which rise to cover them.

2002
Lifelines Alison Chung-Yan

"Lifelines" is a digital video depicting a protagonist's moment of transition - in walking away from the abusive confines of one life and starting a new one filled with both promise and uncertainty

DV 2001
Life on the Heater Thomas Mann

A day in the life of a group of men, woman, and youths, who called their home a heater grate located under a bridge just blocks from Parliament Hill.

DV 2000
Lies Chris Ikonomopoulos

Taking up our time by bothering the public. Statement: Free gear, cheap time.

MiniDV 2001
Library and Archives Canada Public Domain Reels Ryan Stec & Véronique Couillard

Images of the Canadian industrial landscape melt into one another. Materials are processed and reprocessed through real-time digital tools and meticulously animated sequences.

MiniDV 2010
Lesbian Fairytale Kerry Campbell

A cast of all women participate in a fairytale. The princess divinity is dead and only her love can save her. After a quest, the prince talks to a wizard for a cure.

DV 2001
Les Filantes Étoilées Odile Trepanier

A series of formal, symbolic, and atmospheric images form the narrative and create a dialogue on memory of place and meditation.

DV 2000
Le Pontiac, C'est Presque Un Pays... Angèle Gagnon ¾" 1986
Le Drag Show Luc Desjardins

A deconstruction of the drag show with emphasis on women as archetype and icon.

VHS 2001
Le Charme Luc Desjardins

A paradoxical look at charming and not-so charming men.

VHS 2001
Laurie's Garden Dan Sokolowski

A year in the garden.

16mm 2000
Lately Riley Rempel

An innocent couple is pulled into Riley's world of alcoholic mayhem. Chock full of larfs. Satement: A video that makes people think that Riley thinks she is Jesus Christ.

16mm 2000
La Séduction Luc Desjardins

A twisted and paradoxical look at seduction. This video contains a Fellini film sequence featuring delirious bare-breasted prostitutes. It is not at all for kids.

VHS 2002
La Grange Guilault Leigh Nunan

When a young black urbanite finds herself transplanted to an isolated old farmhouse in rural Canada she is greeted with fear and anger.

DV 2002
L'Abominable Microbe Diane Obomsawin

Une tranche de vie chez les bete de lat terre. Le mot microbe vient du grec <<mikrobios>> qui veut dire: dont la vie est courte.

¾" 1992
L'a Tribu(t) Andree Prefontaine

Le fait de capter des images et des sons d'insectes pour illustrer des analogies sonores humains / non-humains amène à considérer l'unité profonde des êtres qui transparaît ici via la manipulation

VHS 1996
Kids Chris Mullington

A collaboration between Chris Mullington (videographer/director) and Richard Nigro (writer/producer).

¾" 1987