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From 9 O’clock
director: Raphael Bendahan
Montreal, Quebec
June 26 - July 1, 2020
2min 20sec
Alone in an apartment during COVID lockdown time shifts and morphs into a barrage of reminiscences, places, memories. An adaptation of a poem by C.P. Cavafy
Landscape
director: Liz Marshall
Sunshine Coast, British Columbia
March to June, 2020
4min 45sec
A brief winter holiday to the Sunshine Coast to visit family turns into an unforgettable 20 week hiatus from Liz’s Toronto home.
are you haunted, daddy ? (about anxiety)
director: Guillaume Vallée
Montreal, Quebec
December 2016 and June 2020
2min 20sec
Vallée uses hand processed Super 8 film to depict various anxious states of mind reflecting a feeling of confusion and instability that the current pandemic has brought up.
Ghosting
director: Vanessa Magic
Toronto, Ontario
May 2020
3min
Trying to stay creative and deal with loneliness and isolation Vanessa builds a ghost costume, rearranges her furniture every night, and makes this film.
Breakout
director: Dylan Akio Smith
Vancouver/Southern Gulf Islands, BC
July 17-20, 2020
3min 45sec
After 4 months of being isolated a family decides to come up for air.
Dying to Tell You
director: Peter Rowe
Toronto, Ontario
April/May, 2020
3min 25sec
An animated film that gives a voice to those most profoundly affected by COVID-19 and that reminds us that this is not a virus that you want to mess with.
Holding
director: Ana Valine
Vancouver, British Columbia
July 11/12, 2020
5min 25sec
Archival images of people joyfully in close contact are used to express how hesitant we are now to touch.
Qui ose rire dans le noir? (Who Dares to Laugh in the Dark?)
director: Esery Mondesir
Toronto, Ontario
June 26, 2020
3min 20sec
Darkness as the absence of light is re-imagined as a site of immeasurable creative and destructive power.
Bits and Pieces
director: James Dunnison
Toronto, Ontario
July 1, 2020
6min 50sec
A playful piece of autobiographical memoir about the first time James was quarantined and needed to self isolate in Athens.
A Grief Observed
director: Matthew Rankin
Winnipeg, Manitoba
May 10th 2020 + June 10th, 2020
3min 35sec
Matthew spends Mother's Day in his mom's house slowly deleting her voicemails.
I Just Want to Wake Up
director: Heather Frise
Toronto, Ontario
April/May 2020
3min
Snippets of night-time conversations and drawings create a sense of the pandemic world Heather finds herself in - juggling work, homeschooling her daughter, and taking care of her mother who has Alzheimer’s.
Cohabitat
director: Kara Blake
Montreal, Quebec
June 14, 2020
2min 25sec
An escapist antidote to feeling isolated - imagining our homes as a host to a growing number of plants and animals whether we’re aware of it or not.
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