About the Programme

Stand By – Lindsay McIntyre – Vancouver, BC – 6min 40sec
We sit and wait in suspension 

Certain Uncertainties – John Price – Toronto, ON – 6min 15sec
Certain Uncertainties is an elaborate audio and visual mash-up of a family and a city during the pandemic.

Oh, to realize – Sophy Romvari – Toronto, ON – 2min 25sec
A short experimental film that explores the loss of identity that can occur when one submits oneself completely to technology.

Holding – Ana Valine – Vancouver, BC – 5min 25sec
Archival images of people joyfully in close contact are used to express how hesitant we are now to touch.

Once I Am – Barbara Sternberg – Toronto, ON – 3min
The day as it went along – feeling the light of the present…what else is there?

Glimmer – Dan Browne – Toronto, ON – 5min 10sec
A look at daily life – with homeschooling routines, a young daughter’s face, and shifting refractions of a hanging crystal.

are you haunted, daddy? (about anxiety) – Guillaume Vallée – Montreal, QC – 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.

change over time – Francisca Duran – Galicia, Spain and Toronto, ON – 4min 50sec
A collection of dreams and correspondences gathered in Toronto during the first 2 months of the pandemic

Qui ose rire dans le noir? (Who Dares to Laugh in the Dark) – Esery Mondesir – Toronto, ON – 3min 20sec
Darkness as the absence of light is re-imagined as a site of immeasurable creative and destructive power. 

typhoid aphorisms – Solomon Nagler – Halifax, NS – 3min 35sec
Fleeting images and text created during these months of uncertainty document lucid COVID dreams that manifest as aphorisms.