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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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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