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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Tears for Susan | Anthony Seck | A little film about maple syrup by a small group of Croatian filmmakers. |
2001 | ||
Tasty 168 Solid | Firuz Daud | Life isn’t easy for any seventeen year old girl, but Strawberry Milk has it rough. |
DV | 2002 | |
Tapette!!! | Luc Desjardins | A paradoxical and poetic look at manifestations of a non-traditional sexuality within a traditional French Canadian family. |
VHS | 2002 | |
Swan Song | Phil Rose | A short clip of a swan is repeated and increasingly slowed down. In the process, the image - the swan - breaks down. Short sentences reflect on the encounter. The swan song of a swan’s image. |
Hi8 | 2001 | |
Stravaig / Errance | Nikki Forrest | An experimental portrait of a place, Scotland. You are looking for something. What you find is something else. "Stravaig / Errance" (Gaelic for wandering) is techno tourism of a personal nature. |
Betacam | 1999 | |
Straighten Up | Susan Terrill | A short, bloody tale of a girl's fantasies, featuring a shifty wolf, a convertible, a large hockey player, and his progeny. |
DV | 1996 | |
Still Life | Dan Sokolowski | Driftwood images through a day. |
16mm | 1991 | |
State of the Union | Marc Adornato | On September 20th, 2001, George W. Bush gave a 45 minute "State of the Union" speech live on television which contained 33 standing ovations. |
DV | 2003 | |
Spirits of an Amber Past | Ramona Macdonald | Lithuanian folk art in Canada as practiced on the grounds of the artists Antanas and Anastasia Tamosaitis. |
16mm | 1978 | |
Spick and Span | Rob Thompson | Armed with a bucket of cleaning utensils and a pragmatic approach to life, Jane, the hero of this dark comedy, attempts to scrub away the blood and guilt that’s left behind from a grisly suicide. |
Betacam | 1994 | |
Spectrum in White | Lois Siegel | "Spectrum in White" is an unusual film of colour and transformations and optical illusions. Pure graphics are scratched directly onto the film surface. |
16mm | 1971 | |
Spacemen, Go-Go Girls, and the True Meaning of Christmas | Brett Kelly | Uranus is in trouble! A war with Jupiter is leaving the planet's source of fuel in short supply. Its fuel-mistletoe! Aliens from Uranus come to Earth to steal its supply of mistletoe. |
Hi8 | 2007 | |
Spacemen, Go-Go Girls, and the Great Easter Hunt | Brett Kelly | The Easter Bunny has been kidnapped. It's up to 2 aliens from Uranus and 3 go-go dancers to save the day. A parody of 50's sci-fi trailers. |
Hi8 | 2001 | |
Songs You Can Never Play Live | Marc Adornato | From the award-winning pilot TV show, "Clone TV", comes a ridiculous experimental segment not to be missed. |
DV | 2002 | |
Solitude | Lois Siegel | "Solitude" is a film about the nature of the individual in the world as he moves from one space to another, shadowed by structures. |
16mm | 1978 | |
Sleeping Beauties | Sheila Chapman | 1998 | |||
Sky Light | Dan Sokolowski | Real clouds become tactile animations. |
16mm | 1998 | |
Shore Lines | Dan Sokolowski | Three sculptures interact through composition and editing. |
16mm | 1994 | |
Shopping | Melina Young | Music: Doris Au, Techno Step, Techno Brat. Statement: Tranquillity of the suburbs silences those who don't fit in. |
Hi8 | 1996 | |
Shock and Awe | Don Monet | The start of the war in Iraq - "Shock and Awe" is Rumsfeld’s metaphor - we watch from televisions in the snow; in the spaces through our windows, you can see the changes in light and texture on the |
Super 8 | 2003 | |
Shared Visions | Liisa Rissanen | Features two female painters and their paintings. Artists Susan Feindel and Joyce Devlin. |
1981 | ||
Shafig | Madi Mohammed | Mahamme Shafig, an exiled writer from Morocco, has never given an interview in his life. I got to him through his sons in his home in Belgium. |
DV | 2002 | |
Scale | Sean Butler | Johnass sets out to conquer the mountain, but, when he gets to the top, realizes it is only a big anthill. |
Betacam | 2002 | |
Sandspit to Dildo | Chris Mullington | Shot on Video 8, the first small format video documentary aired on CBC Television (1989). |
¾" | 1989 | |
Sailor's Warning | Mike Wert | This is a one-hour documentary exploring the little-known history of Long Point on Lake Erie. Over the last 200 years, Long Point alone has claimed over 163 shipwrecks. |
DV | 2001 | |
Robot Sapien | Jean Rene | Artistic video of robotic life: A women buys a male robot for domestic work. |
2002 | ||
Ring of Vision | Claudia Jurt | A doorway to the past is opened when the ring of vision is found. A group of friends use the magic ring to search for the reason behind Aunt Chloe's deep depression. |
DV | 2003 | |
Riley's Outreach Ranch | Riley Rempel | Description: Stuck with an excess of fame and money, pop star Riley Rempel attempts to diminish her feelings of guilt by opening a ranch for underpriviliged children. Hilarity ensures. |
DV | 2002 | |
Ride Home | Ryan Stec | Almost totally devoid of people, this piece focuses on the methods of transport which move us through our urban environments. |
Hi8 | 1998 | |
Resonance | Dino Koutras | An individual's journey through the cold urban landscape armed only with some cigarettes and a camera. Statement: I love making movies. I love film noir. This is an example of my two loves. |
16mm | 1996 | |
Reserve Dogs | Joseph Dandurand | 1994 | |||
Remix: POW | Neill Petersen | Description: With clips from an episode of "The National" on CBC, I made a short 'video collage'. Did you know that I tied for third place in the event with Riley Rempel? Yup - it's true. |
VHS | 2002 | |
Remix: Opening | Véronique Couillard | Everything is familiar, nothing is at the right speed. |
DV | 2002 | |
Remix: Knee-Jerk Religion | Riley Rempel | Remixing one hour of CBC's "The National". |
VHS | 2002 | |
Remix: Affirmative | Chris Anderson | A one hour episode of CBC's "The National" remixed. |
VHS | 2002 | |
Regan Sees Red | Ramona Macdonald | Experimental political satire. |
16mm | 1980 | |
Red Bull | Marc Adornato | Marc, Dave, and Matt got all dosed up on American Red Bull energy drinks, and moved some furniture. |
DV | 2002 | |
Recipe to Cook a Clown | Lois Siegel | "Recipe to Cook a Clown" involves one character who enters a city and meets bizarre people: a deaf-mute boy, a solicitous young man, and a somewhat neurotic young lady. |
16mm | 1978 | |
Rebirth | Marc Adornato | Shot, edited, and produced within 24 hours, this short segment, conceived by David Wilkinson and co-written/directed by Adornato, features Adornato's performance characters, Mabus and Sirus. |
DV | 2002 | |
POW: Drugs #6 | Thomas Mann | Une série de spécialistes internationaux bien connus citent des points de vue inédits sur la tragédie de la guerre américaine contre la drogue. |
DV | 2000 | |
POW: Drugs #5 | Thomas Mann | Une série de spécialistes internationaux bien connus citent des points de vue inédits sur la tragédie de la guerre américaine contre la drogue. |
DV | 2000 | |
POW: Drugs #4 | Thomas Mann | Une série de spécialistes internationaux bien connus citent des points de vue inédits sur la tragédie de la guerre américaine contre la drogue. |
DV | 2000 | |
POW: Drugs #3 | Thomas Mann | Une série de spécialistes internationaux bien connus citent des points de vue inédits sur la tragédie de la guerre américaine contre la drogue. |
DV | 2000 | |
POW: Drugs #2 | Thomas Mann | Une série de spécialistes internationaux bien connus citent des points de vue inédits sur la tragédie de la guerre américaine contre la drogue. |
DV | 2000 | |
POW: Drugs #1 | Thomas Mann | Une série de spécialistes internationaux bien connus citent des points de vue inédits sur la tragédie de la guerre américaine contre la drogue. |
DV | 2000 | |
Popsicles | Gloria Camiruaga | Video art using the signs and symbols which make up my existence. In this tape, the space, symbols, and the historical context in which I live as a woman on this side of the continent interact. |
¾" | 1984 | |
Plug | Monique Moumblow | The walls are thin. A young girl plays with plugs. A woman puts her ear next to an electrical socket. Are plugs the portals to another world, or at least to the next apartment? |
Betacam | 1997 | |
Plastic Dreams | Lois Siegel | Through the use of pixilation, this zany film introduces strange characters and happenings. |
16mm | 1988 | |
Pieces of Her Become You | Marika Jemma | A lyrical rendering of a ‘Day in the Life’ of a lesbian couple & their cats. |
VHS | 1996 | |
Peaceful Pictures of the World | Nena Toth | 16mm | 1993 |