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GIFTS on Screen Web Cinema Super 8 Film Showcase

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Lez-be-eet
(2:22 min) 2000, Super 8 film
by Ms. Moustache

A self-portrait on coming out.

Winner of the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting at EyeLens 2001. Screened at Visualized Messages in Motion Activist Film Festival, Colorado, MIX New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Pittsburgh Intn'l Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, ImageOUT Lesbian & Gay Film Festival in Rochester NY, Images Film Festival in Toronto, Tower of Youth Film Festival in Sacramento, CA, Long Island Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Making Scenes Film & Video Festival in Ottawa, New York Queer Film Festival, Seattle Queer Film Festival and the National Student Film & Video Festival in Regina, SK.

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I Am Rubber
(4:11 min) 1999, Super 8 film
by Jennifer McNeely, Megan Stanton

A super 8 home-style movie about a girl's first driving lesson.

Winner of the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film at EyeLens 2000, 2nd Place for Post Secondary Experimental at Cascadia Festival of Moving Images, Vancouver, BC, Honourable Mention for Best Experimental at the National Student Film & Video Festival in Regina, SK. Screened at the New York Queer Film Festival, InsideOut Film Festival in Toronto, Splice This! Super 8 Film Festival in Toronto, Images Film Festival in Toronto and the Canadian International Annual Film Festival.

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Zipped
(3:54 min) 2000, Super 8 film
by Mia Wood

"Zipped" is a soft-porn / hard-rock video which careens drunkenly towards unabashed excess. Shot in black and white Super 8 and hand processed, "Zipped" is a full-on infatuation with the human fly -- All Zippers Down!!

Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Editing at EyeLens 2001. Screened at the Antimatter Underground Film Festival in Victoria, BC, Out on Screen in Vancouver, BC, Splice This! Super 8 Film Festival in Toronto, Portland Queer Film Festival, and the Northwest Film & Video Festival in Portland, OR.


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The Adventures of A.D.D. Girl
(4:04 min) 2000, Super 8 film
by Lauren Mainland, Terra Poirier

Using live action, paint on film, pixelation & hand processing, this film is a cheeky & triumphant exploration of different-mindedness.

Awarded Best Overall and Best Experimental at the National Student Film & Video Festival and the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Presentation of an Issue at EyeLens 2001. Screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival where the directors were nominated for the Telefilm Award for Best Emerging Director of a Western Canadian Short. Also screened at the Visualized Messages in Motion Activist Film Festival in Colorado.

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Theory of Continuity
(3:52 min) 2000, Super 8 film
by Jackson Bates

A visionary speaks on his non-sequential lifestyle, and petitions his audience to subscribe only to those laws of physics that they deem essential.

Winner of the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film at EyeLens 2001. Screened at Tower of Youth Film Festival in Sacramento, CA, and the Toronto International Teen Movie Festival.

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Punch, Kick, Fight
(2:30 min) 1998, Super 8 film
by Vern Bevis & Herb Cook

Watch your back! A chromatic choreography of violence set to a jazzy soundtrack.

Awarded Best Humour at the National Student Film & Video Festival, 2000, Best Experimental at EyeLens 1999, and 2nd Place for Best Experimental at Cascadia. It also screened at the prestigous Images Film Festival in Toronto.

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Hard Work
(3:48 min) 2000, Super 8 film
by Angus McTavish


A Super 8 exploration on the nature of work, complete with goats.


Winner of the GIFTS Online Viewer's Choice Award and nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Experimental at EyeLens 2001. Screened at Tower of Youth in Sacramento, CA, and the Vancouver Island Film, Video & New Media Festival.


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Accident
(3:30 min) 2000, Super 8 film
by Olive Dempsey, Lyndsay Sung

A short, experimental, Super-8 horror film exploring the images leading up to one woman's death.

Received an Honourable Mention for Experimental at the National Student Film & Video Festival and 3rd Place for Student Experimental at the Vancouver Island Film, Video & New Media Festival. Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography at EyeLens 2001.

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Eggy Weggs
(3:00 min) 2000, Super 8 film
by Julia Feyrer, Natty Simpson

Order and chaos inside an egg.

Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Film at EyeLens 2001. Screened at the Freaky Film Festival in Urbana, IL and the Texas Film Festival.

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Kronos
(2:30 min) 2001, Super 8 Film
by Chandra Murdoch, John Brown, Jason Hill, Tanya Yon

Contemplates differences in time, age, generations and the things that bind us to them both.



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