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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Confessions | Chris Ikonomopoulos | Watch as people on the street confess to stangers. |
MiniDV | 2001 | |
Contribution | Jan Jakobiac | "Contribution" is an experimental documentary about Xu Kuan, an artist in rural China. |
DV | 2000 | |
Corridor | Josée Dubeau | Hi8 | 2000 | ||
Cream Sauce | Susan Terrill | Food and sex. Memory and desire. Sweat and lust. Nature and civilization. All this in seven minutes? All this and more, actually. |
16mm | 1997 | |
CS Series Photo Shoot | Jef Harris | A behind the scenes look at the CS Series photo shoot. |
DV | 2002 | |
Dais | John Boehme | An inter-media project that combines video projection with live performance as well as incorporating theatrical lighting and time-based construction. VHS 1/2". |
2002 | ||
Damn Near Killed Him | Tony Asimakopoulos | A poetic montage of images from films I made years ago, revisiting violence and transgression in the form of a confession and prayer. |
16mm | 1998 | |
Danse A | Luc Desjardins | A paradoxical and poetic look at cross-cultural manifestations. |
VHS | 2002 | |
Daylight Comes (and I Want to Go Home) | Firuz Daud | Two young university students decide to document the weird stuff that happens at night. What they find is shocking. “A triumph,” raves Brad Abrahams, the other guy who made this. |
DV | 2000 | |
Dead End Job | Ryan Stec | "Dead End Job" was created using a surveillance camera system connected to a digital video mixer. |
Video | 2004 | |
Dear Potato Chip Lover | John Boehme | This performance has a seething quality of fascistic advertising which infiltrates all elements of North American society, only maybe not as obviously. |
2002 | ||
Derailleur | Rob Thompson | As an urban dweller, the city was making me sick at heart. So one day I leapt on my bike and discovered the Experimental Farm. |
MiniDV | 2000 | |
Dialogue of an Ancient Fog | Lois Siegel | This film is an account of a man without qualities. He's the leftover face in the crowd who collects images, the unwanted images discarded by people without even a glance. |
16mm | 1978 | |
Diary of a Neo-Fascist | Rob Thompson | Drawn to the charismatic leader of a neo-fascist gang, a young woman reveals, through her diary, her descent into political and emotional seclusion. |
1992 | ||
Dino Sores | Douglas Von Rosen | "Dino Sores" is a bright colourful claymation about two groups of three dinosaurs. |
DV | 1996 | |
Distorted Daisies | Kerry Campbell | 2 girls have a pillow fight. |
VHS | 2001 | |
DJ Shadow Mongrel | Jef Harris | A fan video for DJ Shadow. |
DV | 2002 | |
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 | |
Droit Au Coeur | Angèle Gagnon | 2000 | |||
Du Noir, Une Impulsion Lumineuse | Angèle Gagnon | ¾" | 1992 | ||
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 | |
E-phem-e-ron | Maral Mohammadian | Delve into the frenzied psyche of a porcelain doll. |
DV | 2002 | |
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 | |
Eulogy | Penny McCann | This experimental video is a poetic evocation of ships and journeys, of absence and loss. |
¾" | 1992 | |
Evolution | Marc Adornato | An experimental remix of found-footage depicting the history of planet Earth, and the evolution of the human species. |
DV | 2001 | |
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 | |
Femme d'Intérieur | Angèle Gagnon | 1992 | |||
Femmes de Rêve... | Louise Gendnon | ¾" | 1979 | ||
Fire and Ice | Dan Sokolowski | A documentary on the 1998 ice storm. |
16mm | 1998 | |
Fish Bait | Anthony Seck | Subtitled. Music by Anthony Seck and Tricky Woo. |
16mm | 1998 | |
Fore Mien | John Boehme | 2002 | |||
Frames of Reference | John Mark Seck | Originally conceived as a live performance piece for two musicians (flute and double bass). |
¾" | 1995 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Gabosh | Anatoly Ignatiev | This story takes place between 1989 and 1997, telling us about optimism and an unexpected fate. |
Hi8 | 1998 | |
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 | |
Gatineau | Luc Desjardins | Ingredients: Gatineau, drag queens, and a sad song. |
VHS | 2002 | |
Genetic Experiments | Marc Adornato | 8 portraits of genetic engineering experiments. |
DV | 2000 | |
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 | |
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 | ||
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Hyperemotional | Riley Rempel | "Hyperemotional" is what happens when SAW Video gives a musician a microphone, a camera, and some free editing time. |
Hi8 | 2000 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 |