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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Kanata Flag Day | Greg Hill | "Kanata Flag Day" is a video that is part of the Kanata Project. |
DV | 2002 | |
Josh | Erin Brophy | One of the many kids you see on the streets. Getting into trouble, getting out of it. Josh had a couple of things to say. |
DV | 2002 | |
Jon Fredericks: Performance Artist | Rob Thompson | This docu-drama explores the work and life of Jon Fredericks, a performance artist who grapples with life and art. |
¾" | 1990 | |
Jolly Fat Men | Jacob Hanna | MiniDV | 2000 | ||
Jipuktewik Sipu, River of Fire | Franziska Von Rosen | "Jipuktewik Sipu, River of Fire" features the Micmac storyteller, artist, and musician, Michael W. Francis. |
¾" | 1991 | |
Jeux | Josée Dubeau | "Jeux" is composed of eight vignettes, in which performers Véronique Guitard and Hugo Gaudet-Dion reinvent the domestic environment in different playful scenarios, culminating in a sequence shot at |
Video | 2012 | |
J'Décroche: Do Not Disturb | Chantal Dahan | I take the phone off the hook. The answering machine takes the incoming messages. I'm taking a bath with my rubber ducky. I decompress. I'm in my own bubble. |
DV | 2003 | |
I’m So Happy You’re So Happy | Firuz Daud | A controversial book with a really, really violent scene is being made into a movie. A guy is having problems because it’s raining in his apartment. |
DV | 2001 | |
Interview: Femme Interieur | Angèle Gagnon | VHS | 1987 | ||
International Beauty Pageant News | Sara Angelucci | The theme of beauty pageants as my subject for the Public Domain project came about through several search tangents. I kept coming back to the idea of missing women, of women lost in the archive. |
MiniDV | 2010 | |
Instant Yolk Topping | Erin Brophy | A spoof on the infomercial genre, including an original product and a loveable sales pitch. |
DV | 2002 | |
In Motion | Douglas Von Rosen | "In Motion" is a short experimental video about the pace of life. |
Hi8 | 1993 | |
In Motion | Lisa Kojola | Summertime in Ottawa and Gatineau a few years ago... Statement: I place this in my home movie category. We shot some super 8 film over the summer of '98. |
Betacam | 1998 | |
In a Silent Way | Madi Mohammed | An homage to the disappearing ritual of film projection. Technologies of past and present collide, make love, and salute each other as the digital replaces the mechanical. |
DV | 2002 | |
In 328 (Other) Words | Jillian Mcdonald | MiniDV | 2002 | ||
Imitations of Life | Mike Hoolboom | Found footage, sci-fi. Statement: Children are living science fiction. |
Betacam | 2001 | |
If Garvey Was Here... | Jean Saint-Vil | "If Garvey Was Here" is a 30-minute video on the state of pan-African solidarity in Ottawa around the year 2001. |
VHS | 2001 | |
Icopa | Thomas Mann | A brief overview of The International Conference on Penal Abolition, featuring a stellar group of international leaders in all areas of corrections. |
DV | 2001 | |
Iconoclaste | Luc Desjardins | In my basement apartment, Eminem and some right-winger get makeovers to the music of Jacques Brel and George Brassens. |
VHS | 2001 | |
Hyperemotional | Riley Rempel | "Hyperemotional" is what happens when SAW Video gives a musician a microphone, a camera, and some free editing time. |
Hi8 | 2000 | |
Human Bytes | Sandra Hawkins | The content of this video relates to the idea that contemporary digital technology, while offering seductive material, benefits in contributing to a limited two dimensional image of who we are as h |
DV | 2000 | |
Helpless | Penny McCann | Based on a Nova Scotian folk tale, "Helpless" is a short dramatic film set in a fogbound world of superstition and magic. |
Betacam | 2001 | |
Hello Ingmar | Gunilla Josephson | For three decades, he stood at the dizzying heights of world kino, his name synonymous with the term, 'art movie'. But who would ever imagine finding a home in Ingmar Bergman's psycho-nightmares? |
DV | 2000 | |
Harry Knuckles and the Treasure of the Aztec Mummy | Lee Demarbre | Lee Demarbre's directorial debut finds Special Agent Spanish Fly taking a hands-on approach to the most important case of his life in this kung-fu action trailer. |
16mm | 1998 | |
Guy Meilleur: A Portrait of an Artist | Liisa Rissanen | The video gives an overview of the different artistic activities of painter, photographer, educator, and musician, Guy Meilleur. |
Hi8 | 1996 | |
Grachek: A Russian Clown in Carleton Place | Anthony Seck | Decades spent in the Russian circus boil down to a brief moment in a trailer in Hicksville, Ontario. Enter the world of organised crime in the Russian Circus. |
MiniDV | 2002 | |
Going Back Home (Ni Aqui, Ni Alla) | Maria Belisario | A personal reflection on going back to Venezuela and to my family's home-town. |
1998 | ||
God's Island | Ramona Macdonald | History of P.E.I. through paintings and reminiscences of a folk artist. The film has been screened at the National Gallery, BBC-2, CBC, and has theatrical distribution in England. |
16mm | 1983 | |
Genetic Experiments | Marc Adornato | 8 portraits of genetic engineering experiments. |
DV | 2000 | |
Gatineau | Luc Desjardins | Ingredients: Gatineau, drag queens, and a sad song. |
VHS | 2002 | |
Garden of Dreams | Fortunée Shugar | Is it a dream within a garden, or a garden within a dream? Gardens have a magical way of rejuvenating us, giving us hope. |
DV | 2002 | |
Gabosh | Anatoly Ignatiev | This story takes place between 1989 and 1997, telling us about optimism and an unexpected fate. |
Hi8 | 1998 | |
G8? | Marc Adornato | From the award-winning pilot TV show, "Clone TV", comes a post-9/11 satirical segment featuring "Mabus and Sirus" (Marc Adornato and David Wilkinson) who hi-jack the G8 Protest in Ottawa to raise a |
DV | 2002 | |
From Here | Jordan Mctavish | Broken into three segments, this visual essay asks important environmental, personal, and social questions of a variety of Ottawa citizens immediately after 9/11/2001. |
Digital 8 | 2001 | |
Frames of Reference | John Mark Seck | Originally conceived as a live performance piece for two musicians (flute and double bass). |
¾" | 1995 | |
Fore Mien | John Boehme | 2002 | |||
Fish Bait | Anthony Seck | Subtitled. Music by Anthony Seck and Tricky Woo. |
16mm | 1998 | |
Fire and Ice | Dan Sokolowski | A documentary on the 1998 ice storm. |
16mm | 1998 | |
Femmes de Rêve... | Louise Gendnon | ¾" | 1979 | ||
Femme d'Intérieur | Angèle Gagnon | 1992 | |||
Faces | Lois Siegel | "Faces" is a film composed entirely of photographs. Still photographs are re-filmed with a 16mm camera, and transitions from one to the next are completed through dissolves in the camera. |
16mm | 1976 | |
Evolution | Marc Adornato | An experimental remix of found-footage depicting the history of planet Earth, and the evolution of the human species. |
DV | 2001 | |
Eulogy | Penny McCann | This experimental video is a poetic evocation of ships and journeys, of absence and loss. |
¾" | 1992 | |
Emballage | Tim Dallett | Presented as part of Detonator, at SAW Gallery, a performance ensemble that drew out and magnified the minutia of the everyday, this video art piece celebrates the spirit of "live architecture" as |
Hi8 | 1999 | |
E-phem-e-ron | Maral Mohammadian | Delve into the frenzied psyche of a porcelain doll. |
DV | 2002 | |
Duet | Karen Guttman | "Duet" is a rhythmic dance between myself and my distorted image, between the camera and the doorknob, between the real and the feeling... |
VHS | 1999 | |
Du Noir, Une Impulsion Lumineuse | Angèle Gagnon | ¾" | 1992 | ||
Droit Au Coeur | Angèle Gagnon | 2000 | |||
Down to the Graveyard | Deniz Berkin | How do the dead mourn?? Statement: I wanted to do something a little gothic and mysterious. |
Super 8 | 2002 | |
DJ Shadow Mongrel | Jef Harris | A fan video for DJ Shadow. |
DV | 2002 |