War on Coffee
By James Fay and Martina Bonanata
This piece explores the classification and demonization of drugs, extending that demonization to coffee. Coffee, being an extremely common drug, is lurking around every corner and plotting evil.
Eaton The Rich
By Amelia Hagelstam Renshaw and Dylan Nazareth
A short animated film working with archival footage, digital animation, and stop motion with physical currency. By exploring our relationship with physical currency and different economies, we can begin to understand the role they play in our day-to-day lives.
Fallen Angel
By Laura Slabbert and Ruddy-Sann Navalta Sison
This work was a venture in representing the way time works for the acts of creation and destruction. Our inspiration was the sad truth that destroying something can be done in seconds, but building and rebuilding can take forever.
Interruptions
By Appoline Vaillant and Shannon Hugh
Interruptions explores Montreal’s working-class neighbourhood, St-Henri. Playing with textures and temporalities, the people of the now gentrified neighbourhood, return back to their streets. Disconnecting and connecting the past and present; examining parallels. Revealing how histories live throughout time. Distortion works to separate time, but also brings it together.
Punching Rights
By Lalla Mariam Haidara and Julian Shaw
Thematically, our project will center around feminist activism and the fight for women’s rights in the mid 20th century. As a base film-fabric, we will be using archival footage of women’s boxing, which, throughout the length of the project, will be juxtaposed with visual and audio clippings of women voting, activist speeches and protesting, etc. A relationship between the two types of material will be developed by animating the silhouettes of the boxers and morphing them into the silhouettes of the women fighting for their rights in between cuts from one clip to the next. The objective of this approach is to create a visually striking and clearly communicative depiction of feminist activism at the time, and their struggles and success.
Feminine
By Ana Floyd and Morgan Moakler Jessiman
Breaking down the ideas of femininity in the world and exploring the depths of feminity through drag, housewives and women in entertainment. The question of what is a woman and who can perform femininity is ever-present.
La Miniskirt
By Zaya Levesque and Léa Tual
Questioning the women’s liberation movement of the 60s by using one of its most striking images: the miniskirt. was it a sexual liberation if so for whom? Was it the sexual liberation of men, and the over-sexualization of women?
Naturally a Woman
By Catherine Skothos and Elizabeth Asturias
This animated video “Naturally a Woman” juxtaposes archival footage of an educational video about the menstrual cycle with women protesting and fighting for abortion rights emphasizing the My Body My Choice movement. The sonic elements also add to this juxtaposition.“Naturally a Woman” makes a strong political statement about women’s rights to choose what to do with their bodies.
Colours of the Caribbean
By Anika Ouy and Shania Bramble
The Caribbean is well known for being a place of diversity while still sharing a similar culture. We wanted to amplify the aspect of diversity specifically in the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago; while also looking at the reason the country is so diverse through a sociological lense. Our aim is to demonstrate the diversity element through colourful overlays while simultaneously bringing attention to the colourism that remained from colonialism. We will draw on archival footage of British Royals visiting Trinidad and juxtaposed that imagery with footage of Trinidadians to demonstrate the effect of colonialism played.
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