Community Shorts / Courts métrages communautaire
Screening December 10, 2021 at 6:00 PM / projection le 10 décembre 2021 à 18hr00
Ottawa Art Gallery Alma Duncan Salon / La Galerie d’art d’Ottawa salon Alman Duncan
Screening Fees sponsored by / Frais de projection sponsorisés par DARC - Digital Arts Resource Centre
Tresor Lubamba - The Project (Documentary, 9:30 min)
The Project tells the story of four real life heroes, who against all odds growing up in the Ottawa Community Housing projects, supersede expectations to become leaders in their own right, inspiring young generations to come. Using interviews, archival and live footage, we uncover the path to triumph on the hero’s journey. At its core, The Project is about hope in the face of hopelessness and the power of the human spirit to overcome even in the most difficult of circumstances.
Gary Franks - Meredith, 2020 (Experimental, 0:55 min)
The idea for Meredith lies “somewhere between Warhol’s Screen Tests and the idea of a silent conversation,” An exploration in video portraiture shot on Kodak Super-8 film and scored by Ottawa-based composer Adam Saikaley.
Nathan Hauch - slip (Narrative short film, poetry, 3:14 min)
A sequel to Nathan Hauch's pandemic 2020 shorts "still" and "sway", "slip" explores resolve in struggle.
Nicole Blundell - Porté(e) (Documentary, 7:30 min, français ave sous-titres anglais)
Il est normal que notre corps change avec l'âge. Mais lorsqu'une artiste de danse contemporaine atteint la cinquantaine et revisite une chorégraphie fantaisiste qu'elle a exécutée lorsqu'elle était plus jeune, nous sommes témoins du pouvoir, de la sagesse et de la grâce que recèlent ces changements dans nos corps.
Julian Bate-Vergette - Resonance (Cine-Poem, 3:04 min)
An emotional and introspective Cine-Poem written by Pete Vergette, and directed by his son Julian Bate-Vergette.
KAR33M - SOJAMAN (Music Video, 3:17 min)
Recognizing our self-worth and self-identity is one of the key tools to creating a world that works better for everyone. SOJAMAN was created to empower Afro-Descendant people and to inspire the generation of changemakers today. Directed by Zainab Muse.
Lesley Marshall - Dollar Bin DJ (Documentary, 10:00 min)
Two DJs are given $50 and 24 hours to come up with an hour long set of music from records they find during that period and present it as a party. The game is the impetuous for interviews radio hosts, DJs, and vinyl collectors in the city that work behind the scenes to maintain the music scene there, keeping in mind the idea that the vinyl record is the most successful form of media, second only to printed books.
Kristen McNaule - Lenny (Narrative Short Film, 12:03 min)
A Vietnam Prisoner of War befriends a spider to combat the torture and loneliness of isolation.
Randy Kelly - Recycled Verses (Animation, Cine-poem, 3:26 min)
A short stop-motion cinepoem about the cyclical nature of the universe and of self expression.
Penny McCann - Expo Film (this is my memory) (Experimental, 9:26 min)
Using anonymous home movie footage of Expo ’67 in Montreal, the artist sets out to recreate a memory that perhaps never existed. Celluloid manipulation and sound decay techniques coalesce to transform a mythic landscape into a sublime expanse of disintegrated memory. Sound design by Edmund Eagan.
Stephane Mukunzi - The Eternal Chaos of Allan Andre (Documentary, 9:53 min)
Allan Andre, an artist and muralist, is working on a stunning new public mural while simultaneously speaking about the challenges of finding inspiration and working through ADHD. In the past summer, his work has taken on a whole new significance, as he and others attempted to capture the public’s imagination in the wake of 2020’s BLM protests.