director: Terryll Loffler

Montreal, Quebec

July 30, 31, 2020

7min 25sec

An observation of the cyclical daily routine and how isolation has brought a family closer together but also further from the outside.

director: Brett Story

Toronto, Ontario

July 2020

3min 40sec

A neighborhood is ordered to shelter in place and snitch lines are set up in every town.

director: Daniel Cross

Dorval Island, St Lawrence River

June 29, 2020

3min

“Here I am sitting at the River, staring at this tire – buried in time, and wondering when I’ll get to move around again.”

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.