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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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 |