Yo-Yo - 1998
Made by: Remy Campbell
Description: Recipe for luminous refration; mix one part spinning toy, a dash of scratched emulsion and a wacky sense of direction.
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Length: 2:30
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Mr. Orderly - 2003
Made by: Bryan Green
Description: Which shall reign? Chaos or Order? Watch and find out.
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Length: 4:35
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Look - 2004
Made by: Kathleen O'Neil
Description: Super-8 images transformed to digital format. Short narrative piece on looking at human faces.
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Length: 2:09
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Insurrectionary Animation - 2005
Made by: Devon McKellar
Description: A Noisy experimental 2D riot in 2 parts. Shot on 30 year old 16mm film with a bolex. Obligatory Bon an no quotes a gogo
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Length: 2:25
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Rising Dawn - 2005
Made by: Arye Berlet
Description: This is Arye's second piece made at GIFTS, based on a song he wrote in 2001. It encourages the viewer to expand horizons and to look into the future.
This Film was produced during the Independent Media Producer's Program.
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Length: 1:46
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The Suffering of Chris Bennet - 2005
Made by: Jamie Perry
Description: The suffering of Chris Bennett is a story about a man haunted by his childhood memory of a sadistic teddy bear, only to encounter this man in the present day and fall into a dark, horrifying maze.
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Length: 3:04
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Lovers Leap - 2006
Made by: Brock Littlejohn
Description: The last two robots on Earth are on the run from "friendly/vicious" hunter, who will stop at nothing to kill them.
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Length: 2:50
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Today Is The Day - 2006
Made by: Benjamin Cheung
Description: "Today Is The Day" is a film about finding the strength to overcome all our fears - from miniscule to colossal - that we face everyday.
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Length: 3:27
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Driveways - 2006
Made by: Christa Grace-Warrick
Description: A poetic view of the significance of Gulf Island driveways. One minute, shot in fuzzy focus and black and white.
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Length: 2:32
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feel - 2006
Made by: Peter Rose
Description: Emotions are an integral part of daily life, yet few of us barely recognise their improtance. This Super8 film explores our emotions and asks the fundamental question of "what are they?" through scratch animation and frame painting. Shot on 8mm film, 16mm film was also used to help us look at our inner emotions and what they do.
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Length: 2:13
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Footsteps - 2006
Made by: Denise Calderwood
Description: An exploration of life thru footsteps.
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Length: 1:37
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Haiku - 2006
Made by: Frena Gray-Davidson
Description: Haiku is a symbolic journey of a woman's life, using a japanese setting and theme for this meditative and lyrical super 8 short.
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Length: 3:35
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Driving - 2006
Made by: Ian Charleson
Description: Thoughts about the life of driving.
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Length: 1:59
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Am I Real? - 2006
Made by: Gabriela Reuben
Description: A doll who is addicted to heroin, undergoes a journey through the forest and discovers she's real.
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Length: 2:15
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True Love - 2006
Made by: Stuart Smith
Description: True love is a message to the grave of Stuart's late soulmate who met when they were as young as five and at 16 she commited suicide and this film was made not even two weeks after.
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Length: 1:56
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100 years of solitude da movie - 2006
Made by: Tobias Brooks
Description: Look and See...
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Length: 1:33
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Nerdly in Love! - 2006
Made by: Chiyume Sugawara
Description: "Nerdly in Love!" is a Super8 scratch narrative short film about a very happy unique couple who fall madly and nerdly in love. It is the expression of emotions that one goes through when falling in love at first sight.
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Length: 2:37
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Eau Là! - 2007
Made by: Roch Gosselin
Description: It is a film that challenges communication, the sound, the play with words, with water, with thumping and splashing. Eau Là! All Haut!
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Length: 2:23
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Girl In A Box - 2007
Made by: Sandi Barrett
Description: Girl in A Box is a representation of how definitions can hinder the growth of an individual's identity.
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Length: 2:33
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Last Tango In Tokyo - 2007
Made by: Jennifer Chan
Description: She wants to tango
he wants to sleep
Her dream is Buenos Aires
he can't take time off
She teaches him the steps
he is completely off beat
She is in despair...
Last Tango in Tokyo
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Length: 2:33
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Kem Uh Stree - 2007
Made by: Pippa Hirst
Description: Two people meet and sparks fly.
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Length: 2:06
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Nursery Avalanche - 2007
Made by: Marsha Mildon
Description: Nursery Avalanche is a dark dystopic and sometime surreal look at nursery rhymes of "falling down"
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Length: 1:40
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The Tinkerers Sharpening Service - 2007
Made by: Catherine Cooper
Description: A four-minute documentary shot on SUper8 profiling the life and philosophy of Judith and Jurgen, a couple who run a mobile knife-sharpening service on the West Coast of Canada.
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Length: 3:45
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Day Of Shame - 2007
Made by: Jennifer Chan
Description: The San Franciso Peace Treaty, signed in 1951, ended the American occupation of Japan's main islands but ceded most of the Okinawa to the United States. In Okinawa, the day of the treaty was signed is refered to as the Day of Shame. Day of Shame is about the journy for peace of Okinawans and people worldwide.
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Length: 3:20
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In/Te/Gra/Tion - 2007
Made by: Hiroko Hara
Description: This 16mm experimental film takes a poetic form and explores the art of becoming focused on language, nationality, gender and ethnicity.
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Length: 2:16
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En Er Jee - 2007
Made by: Pippa Hirst
Description: An experimental exploration of how energies intersect during the creative process.
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Length: 2:10
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Enter Sandman - 2007
Made by: Sandy Brown
Description: The video is about loss of friends and in a dream state of mind. In his dreams, they're there. In his mind, he doesn't want to believe they're gone. THe film is SUper8 documentary with some video effects that havethingsgoing through his mind in the modified grave letting them know his moving forward and living their memories on by going backto his culture dancing. The drinking scene is 4 months before letting go as he's made new friends who feel that he's affected deeply by the loss of his friends and he's the only one left. In his dreams, they're always there, laughing all the time.
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Length: 9:43
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Bad Brownie - 2007
Made by: Chad Shroter-Gillespie
Description: Boy eats suspicious brownie and hallucinogenic consequences ensue.
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Length: 2:38
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Capture - 2007
Made by: Chad Shroter-Gillespie
Description: Boy eats suspicious brownie and hallucinogenic consequences ensue.
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Length: 2:38
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Natural History of a Tree - 2008
Made by: Charles Jones
Description: Natural History of a Tree documents a few moments in the life of a tree from the perspective of several people.
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Length: 2:53
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Infatuation - 2008
Made by: Johannah Andersen
Description: Inspired by my trip to Seattle last week with Chris and mad poetry skillz. Shot on Super 8 using scratch and paint. A montage displaying the feelings of infatuation.
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Length: 2:16
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Left of Center - 2008
Made by: Aria Thomases
Description: Left of Center is an experiment in Super8 and 16mm film, hand processing, hand colourings and editing techniques.
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Length: 1:53
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Star Cycle - 2008
Made by: Maya Bastian
Description: An experimental movie done with animation and live action.
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Length: 2:23
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The Good, The Bad and The Unrarmed - 2008
Made by: Tony Bernardi and Lee Page
Description: This movie pays homage to all western movies ever made, especially Sergio Leones. Dude, we love that guy. The first time I saw The Good, The Bad and The Ugly I fainted while getting up to get something to drink. Needless to say everytime I put it on I put bubble wrap on all the sharp corners of my house.
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Length: 5:18
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The Heart of Bowing - 2008
Made by: Marion Pape
Description: A super8 film describing the Zen spritual practise of bowing. Showing what can be accomplished through finding our own true nature and showing profound respect for all life.
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Length: 2:00
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Travis - 2008
Made by: Ron Kebic
Description: "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both" -Robert Frost (1874-1963)
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Length: 4:12
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The Birth of Nature - 2008
Made by: Sara Defoor
Description: An exploration of the bodies movemnet and nature's growth and re-growth. A vibrational scratch experiment!
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Length: 2:38
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Vermeer's Theory of Light - 2008
Made by: Emma Morgan-Thorp
Description: "Vermeer's Theory of Light" is a whimsical interpretation of Ryan Murphy's poem of the same name.
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Length: 2:21
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Golden Film Festival - 2008
Made by: Cliff Markham
Description: Promotional video for the Golden Film Festival 2009. A Brief history of action sports and pushing the envelope. Filmed in both Super8 and HiDef.
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Length: 2:21
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Orb of Zohraya - 2008
Made by: Alex Muirhead
Description: Filmed on Super8, hand processed, scratched and coloured, with a self-mixed soundtrack, Orb of Zohraya is a nod of the sci-fi TV classics. A space traveler finds herself some trouble on an alien planet.
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Length: 5:25
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¿Què es lo que ves cuando ves? When you look, - 2008
Made by: Laura Mireles Vallejo
Description: How our mental and social conditioning can make us see what we want to see.
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Length: 5:48
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Marguerite - 2008
Made by: Odessa Shuquaya
Description: Discover the secret life of daisies.
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Length: 2:54
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Passion - 2008
Made by: Steven Poulin
Description: A Passion Pyramid tale! A dance fable where the free mingle with the energy flow to unleash the passionate mind.
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Length: 3:46
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eXPeRi-mEnTaL mOO-v - 2008
Made by: Lesley Johnson and Pablo Saravanja
Description: eXPeRi-mEnTaL mOO-v is an 8mm odysey through the micro-landscape and the scenery of natural versus man-made rolling textures
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Length: 3:30
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