Body Movies

A mother and her three children try to live peacefully despite the presence of a menacing, unpredictable and irrational father.

In Things Remember, the protagonist, performed by dance-artist Allison Blakley, speaks of the limitations of chronic illness and how this can serve...

In Words as Sculpture, Their Shapes as Sound, the protagonist performed by soprano Emili Losier, compares the styles of Sylvia Plath, whose use of...

What is masculinity? What is it to be a man? How do these terms apply to homosexual identity? In reaction to homophobic behaviour towards gay men,...

Women of all ages emerge from the shadow and together, walk towards a light. Guided by their instincts, they will face and transcend their own...

Inspired by Ballet Mécanique, Ballet Biologic is an experimental triptych exploring the body through movement, physical painting and spoken...

A webcam tunes the body. The corpo-reality of the image in the process of transmutation.

Amidst the Israeli bombings of Lebanon in 2024 and 2026, the filmmaker examines her relationship to the homeland, as she grapples with the...

Beware takes sound bites from a 1961 homophobic propaganda film *Boys Beware* and flips it on its head. The narration accompanies a barrage of...

A surreal meditation on chronic illness and anxiety, Prion follows a character's struggle with self-acceptance as their fears manifest in the form of...

Akbari was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 and she lost her breasts due to the cancer. After she directed, wrote and acted 10+4 which showed her...

When a friend calls in the middle of the night, anybody would worry about the reason. Hesitant and curious, a friend embarks on a journey with an...

A huddled man awakens upon himself, animates himself and deploys himself. A trip to the center of oneself, an exploration and personal confrontation...

After the making of my previous film (PLAY DEAD!), some unfinished business remained on my desktop. Home movies and various body horror films from my...

A gang of small-time criminals has everything under control in the quiet little municipality of Bikkert, a place where no one would ever imagine...

Adapted from a performance by the same name, fuses autobiographical material with information about how an alcoholic family perpetuates addictive...

A warm and bright place hiding uncleanliness and fear. The slightest disorder of daily life brings the room down into deep darkness. Shot on 8mm film.

In this video self-portrait, the artist presents his identity in such a way that questions the value of physical and social characteristics. In doing...

This film is an in-camera portrait of my niece, Mia Larose (who was six months old at the time) captured during a winter family reunion in Lac...

The Body Machine is a landmark special on the human body that shows us just how much, how many, how large, how strong, how fast - just how amazing...