Shayla Stonefeather, a Native American attorney prosecuting a Lakota teen in a controversial murder trial, returns to the reservation to say goodbye to her dying father. After the teen is killed, she hears ghostly voices and sees strange visions that cause her to re-examine beliefs she thought she left behind..
"Louise Bourque's 'Imprint' focuses obsessively on home-movie images of her family's house, which seems gloomily oppressive, almost filling the frame; she repeats the images with various alterations - tinted, bleached, partly scraped away - as if attacking the place, turning its darkness into light." - Fred Camper, The Reader, Chicago, April 16 1999.
Imprint was a Canadian television series that aired on TVOntario, BookTelevision, Knowledge and, for one season, on PBS. Inspired by Bernard Pivot's French literary programme Apostrophes, the series featured interviews with prize-winning authors and journalists, and examined the latest trends in books and contemporary issues in literature. Among the guests featured were Harry Allen, Margaret Atwood, Amiri Baraka, Julian Barnes, Leonard Cohen, David Cronenberg, John Irving, Ray Robertson, Salman Rushdie, and Robert J. Sawyer. Daniel Richler hosted the series from 1988 until well into the 1990s, and was succeeded by Mary Hynes. The program was last hosted by Tina Srebotnjak. In a controversial announcement, TVOntario, the program's producer, cancelled the series in early 2005..
An experimental dance film featuring members of the Ballet Rambert, one of the world’s most renowned dance companies, performing to the music of Gavin Bryars..
Au xixe siècle, un Américain se retrouve au Japon pour retrouver la femme qu'il aime. Il arrive sur une mystérieuse île où se trouve une maison close gardant de lourds secrets..
A solemn live-in-nurse cares for her enigmatic yet ailing Mistress, however, her devotion soon becomes obsession as her fantasies bleed into reality..
United States / Mexico 1974, Super 8 transferred to digital, colour, silent, 3 min.
Inna Dmitrieva's "Imprints of Absence" is, in the filmmaker's own words, 'an attempt to reconcile a love of one's city with the impossibility of returning there as home'. With a sense of distance, nostalgia and care, a city washed in blue develops, its corners turning into cyanotype photographs. Preserving image to preserve memory, the film explores the complicated relationship between where you are from and how much of it you carry with you..
It is general knowledge that the Yanks dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima, but where did the uranium come from that gave it its power? From the Congo, explains this VR experience that takes you to the Shinkolobwe mine where Congolese miners excavate the radiation-rich material without protective equipment. This marks the start of a journey into deeply buried histories: alternatives to the optimistic, post-colonial Western perspectives. Underground proves to be a memory palace of sorts – the various spaces providing contact with history. Grasping objects from that world gives rise to rich collages of archival materials, personal statements, dreams and memories. In this way, the work – a collaboration between historians from various African countries and creative makers – poses the question: what is the true toll of progress?.
An exploration of the passing of time as Mary recalls memories of her late husband Dennis. Moments from the 1960s imprinted onto Dennis's cine reels..
12 years after the devastating suicide of her oldest sister Isobel, filmmaker Ali Grant travels back through old letters, photos, and home movies to arrive at a pivotal moment in their intertwined destinies. With humour, insight, and love, she explores her own coming of age, 3000 miles from home, and the lasting imprint of a sister’s invitation into a world of possibility..
Jen, a young girl facing problems at home with abuse is trying to get her way out of the situation. Then she meets someone who turns everything around..
After objects in her apartment come to life, a young woman must fight through the newly animated voices around her to keep her grip on reality..
In this non-narrative animated film inspired by composer François Couperin's harpsichord composition "Barricades mystérieuses," Jacques Drouin explores a whole new way of using the pinscreen to create animated images. He pivots the screen and uses low-angled light to capture images in high relief. The result is like a sculpture whose expertly modelled forms are revealed through film. A film without words..
La vie des travailleurs et de leurs familles dans un chantier de construction d'une autoroute en 1965....
Is the seed of happiness planted during childhood? The early years of our lives, the ones we no longer remember, leave a deep imprint on us. But is that imprint permanent? Or does it perhaps evolve? This is the voyage to that place forgotten by the memory, a journey from the mother I have become today to the baby I once was..
Shows how experiments with ducklings led to the concept of imprinting as a link between instinctive and learned behavior..
