Saturday, March 22
7-8:30pm
At the Confluence

Journey my Heart

Reil Munro, Manitoba, Canada, 9m
Featuring Swan Lake First Nation jingle dress dancer Joanne Soldier, a behind the scene looks at her physical and mental preparations for competitive pow-wows. (First Eye)

By Myself

Cristina Usubiaga, Ontario, Canada 5m
By Myself is a tale of a young boy who embarks on a journey through a mens public washroom on his own. In light of today’s changing world of single families and urban fears, this small step towards independence takes on more significance. (Special screening: not in competition) Filmmaker in attendance.

My Mother

Elaine Wickham, United Kingdom, 10m
Care for your children? You may need them one day.

Pillow Girl

Ronnie Cramer, USA, 8m
Musician/artist Ronnie Cramer, who scanned the covers and inside pages of a number of lurid, vintage paperbacks, then ran the collected image and text data through a variety of synthesizers. The resulting sound files were then processed and remixed into the soundtrack for Pillow Girl film; the visual portion of the film makes use of the over 200 covers, with one illustrated figure morphing into the next every two seconds.

Antes Y Despues de Besar a Maria
(Before and After Kissing Maria)

Ramon Alos, Spain, 7m
Before and after kissing Maria narrates, from the point of view of Raul, a 9 year-old child from a small village in the Spanish countryside, his adventures to kiss Maria, his 12 year-old cousin, which as every summer, has come to the village to spend her holydays.

My Name is Pochsy: An Industrial Film

Karen Hines, Alberta, 7m
Pochsy works at Mercury Packers ... where she packs mercury. All alone on a stark but spectacular northern industrial landscape, Pochsy muses about life, taxes and the future of the human soul. A satirical, subversive ode to the industrial film genre. Filmmaker in Attendance

Shikashika

Stephen Hyde, USA, 11m
A documentary short that offers a rare glimpse into life in the Andes mountains of Peru. The filmmakers focus on the unseen practices of extracting glacial ice for shikashika, which is sold at the steps of a cathedral beneath the mountain, Huscaran.

Fabryka (Factory)

Maciej Adamek, Poland, 30m
19 year-old Adam, takes a temporary job at a toy factory in order to pay for his future studies. There he meets a girl and this forces him to take a different look at reality.

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