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The Amazing Amy

Using humor and a love of fantasy, "The Amazing Amy" Harlib connects with audiences through performing strenuous yoga-based contortion acts in New York City. But behind the showmanship lives an incredibly lonely human being.

MediaStorm | 2011 | 13 minutes

Anne Clark – I’ll Walk Out Into Tomorrow

The film chronicles the work of the English poet and spoken word-artist Anne Clark. Shaped by punk she pioneered electronic music with her pre-techno classics "Sleeper In Metropolis" and "Our Darkness" and hugely impacted generations of musicians.

Deckert Distribution | 2017 | 81 minutes

Between the Lines

BETWEEN THE LINES offers rare interviews with over 15 major Asian-Pacific American women poets.

Women Make Movies | 2001 | 60 minutes

The Clockmakers

An experimental animated trip into a mysterious clockwork world.

National Film Board of Canada | 2013 | 4 minutes

CMYK

An unrestrained animated riot of color and energy built on a multitude of CMYK symbols, the codes used in four-color process printing.

National Film Board of Canada | 2011 | 7 minutes

Coda

Using advanced digital technologies, this short animation offers a new vision of dance in cinema.

National Film Board of Canada | 2014 | 11 minutes

Crutch

Chronicles the gravity defying life of Bill Shannon, an internationally renowned artist, breakdancer and skate punk—on crutches.

Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 96 minutes

Lemebel

Writer, artist and pioneer of the queer movement in Latin America, Pedro Lemebel shook up Chilean society during Pinochet’s dictatorship.

Icarus Films | 2020 | 96 minutes

Man for a Day

Performance artist and drag king Diane Torr leads a workshop in which women develop male characters.

First Hand Films | 2012 | 59 minutes

My Village in Nunavik

Bobby Kenuajuak's tender portrayal the village where he grew up, and the elements that forge the character of his people: their history, the great open spaces and their unflagging humor.

National Film Board of Canada | 2000 | 47 minutes