7:00 PM

Innis Town Hall

Competition Program 12

A voyeuristic peek behind the curtain reveals surreal worlds where compulsive behaviours, fears and bodily fantasies are expressed with emotions ranging from razor-sharp wit to anecdotal depression.

Touch Me Now
Craig Marshall | Canada | 3 min. | video | 2003 | Toronto Premiere

Inspired by the lyrics of a Samantha Fox song, this amusing animation looks at Internet dating for those who like to touch. But keep your hands off the monkey!

Snow Job
Daniel Olson | Canada | 2 min. | video | 2002 | World Premiere

A man reading the newspaper may seem mundane, but Olson challenges our assumptions of what we see by playfully peeling back four layers of digital compositing to reveal the naked truth behind the news.

Hammer of Hope
Phillip B. Roth | USA | 2 min. | video | 2003

In the vein of Busby Berkeley’s classic musical bravuras, Roth provides his own rendition of extravagant dance routines and catchy ditties. These male hunks dance in a choreography that will amuse while singing their hearts out in this “leather boys' paean to the joys of fisting” (Phillip B. Roth).

Kill Road
Christina Zeidler | Canada | 14 min. | 16mm | 2003

Enduring a dysfunctional family requires a lot of stamina, wit and sharp survival instincts, as demonstrated in this anguished ode to family peculiarity. A pixilated tale of a girl whose off-kilter parents become lost in a mission to nurse a raccoon – an unfortunate road-kill victim.

ID
Mara Mattuschka | Austria | 10 min. | video | 2003 | Canadian Premiere

A woman on an escalator of horror foresees her own demise. Will she make it safely off the steps or be forced down into the bowels of a delirious underworld?

Pustulations
Lisa Morse | Canada | 8 min. | 16mm | 2002 | Toronto Premiere

Using a paint-on-glass technique, Morse offers up a story about a woman’s compulsion to pick at her skin and reveal a “pustular” world just below the surface.

Encre noire sur fond d’azur
Félix Dufour-Laperrière | Canada | 5 min. | 35mm | 2003 | Toronto Premiere

A black ink metropolis oppresses its inhabitants with Big Brother watchfulness. A man must confront his own isolation and lack of personal space in a world that constricts around him.

The Ogre
Ip Yuk-Yiu | Hong Kong | 2 min. | video | 2003 | Toronto Premiere

A kaleidoscope of self-devouring auto-eroticism” (Ip Yuk-Yiu).

Autobiology 15
Kevin Kelly | Canada | 3 min. | video | 2002 | Toronto Premiere

This video is an intimate journey across the body’s landscape. A closer look exposes an uncharted diverse and rugged terrain.

To the Happy Few
Thomas Draschan & Stella Friedrichs | Germany/Austria | 5 min. | 16mm | 2003 | Canadian Premiere

A mind-expanding image jam that uses decades’ worth of found footage. The visuals of croaking frogs, 1950s housewives, fake suns and much more are structured around a mystical mandala and perfectly set to a Bollywood beat. .

A Feather Stare at the Dark
Naoyuki Tsuji | Japan | 17 min. | 16mm | 2003 | Toronto Premiere

The cycles of life and death are meditated on in this simple yet stunning stream-of-consciousness animation. We enter a world where the angels invite us through the gates of heaven then shit us back out.