2025 Community Shorts Screening
Co-Presented by Digital Arts Resource Centre
Friday December 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM, OAG Alma Duncan Salon
Explore community voices through experimental, abstract and documentary storytelling
Explorer les voix de la communauté à travers des narrations expérimentaux, abstraits et documentaires.
Lure
Christopher Rohde
04:54 - Experimental
As the sun starts to set in a secluded wood, an unwelcome guest emerges from the periphery, drawn into a glittering snare. Time slouches, voices murmur from between the trees, and corrosion starts ahead of schedule. Be careful out there. You might catch your death.
L’atelier Martineau
Conor DeVries
09:04 - Documentary
L’atelier Martineau tells the story of Lucille Martineau; a 3rd generation carpenter/woodworker who has been working for over 60 years in the same workshop that her grandfather built in 1911.
HAC by st.x.rm
Charlandjuna Gracieuse
02:44 - Music Video
HAC or Hospital Acquired Condition is a song created exactly as a condition to fight endometriosis and trauma psychosis (extreme PTSD). This song represents resilience, acceptance of pain, and breaking cycles of suffering by standing in the eye of the hurricane.
The Automaton
Yanjano Banda
01:10 - Experimental
The Automaton follows a woman attempting to edit the source code of her mind. Drawing inspiration from the psychoanalytic theories of Carl Jung, this short film is a meditation on the performance of identity in the digital age.
Beyond Blue
Wendley Pierre
02:22 - Experimental
Beyond Blue is short film that explores the concepts of tranquility & self-reflection through fashion & music.
Laisse-moi tranquille (Leave me alone)
Aiden Fitzgerald
07:10 - Documentary
On September 10th, 2025, millions of Canadians gathered across the country to protest against transgender children's access to healthcare. The impacts these protests have had on the youth will never be forgotten.
Join
Brennan Bova
03:28 - Music Video
A film celebrating the joy of community and coming together with others to create something greater than the sum of its parts. As told by ducks, through interpretive dance.
Nancy
Lynda Hall
10:47 - Documentary
In this personal documentary, the filmmaker travels to Thunder Bay, Ontario seeking a connection to the city that might have been hers, had her mother not been banished to Ottawa as a pregnant teenager, and coerced to relinquish her baby for adoption.
Mon coeur à toi
Anna Tamblyn
02:20 - Cine-Poem
An intimate exploration of the early stirrings of love - those fragile moments when connection begins to take shape.
Geométrika
Nicole Blundell
04:00 - Experimental
Géométrika est une odyssée mathématique qui invite les spectateurs à un voyage expérimental à travers les merveilles géométriques de l'univers, évoquant le flottement des particules sous les paupières. Musique composée par Kevin Blundell Tourné sur 16mm, peint et développé à la main.
Dreamscapes
Rachel Gray
13:19 - Experimental
Dreamscapes is a genre-blurring experimental film exploring mental health not as a diagnosis, but as a shifting inner reality—at once painful, beautiful, glamorous and strange. Centered on a powerful performance by Amelia Rose Griffin, the film transforms her lived experience into movement, colour, and sound. Dreamscapes gives voice to experiences that are often hidden because of shame, stigma and silence.
co-Presented By
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