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VUCAVU
2017–Present
Location

Canada

Manitoba, Canada

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Description

VUCAVU.com works with independent film and video distributors from across the country to improve access to Canadian artworks and provide greater national and international awareness of our filmmakers, video artists and culture. VUCAVU.com currently streams about 1,500+ films and videos with an additional 4000+ for research purposes that span 50+ years of Canadian moving image art to the public. VUCAVU.com is a bilingual streaming platform that is unique because it is a multifaceted platform. - It allows the public to rent and stream independent videos online. - It offers online programming space for time-limited, curated and theme-based public screenings which are often for free while also paying artists for the viewing of their works. - Curators and educators can apply for special access to the shared catalogue to view an additional +4,000 titles for programming, research and educational purposes. - Community arts partners can utilize VUCAVU for their online curatorial programming needs and extend their reach to new audiences. - A unique research tool about Canadian artists of all kinds. - Each artist has their own profile page that links to not only their works on VUCAVU but also to their professional artist websites. - We even have private screening rooms to be used for presentation and education purposes. VUCAVU.com was developed by the not-for-profit Coalition of Canadian Independent Media Art Distributors (CCIMAD) and launched in 2017. Established in 2013, CCIMAD is a group of independent Canadian film and video distributors with the goal to improve international and national accessibility to their catalogues through a shared digital distribution strategy.

Coalition of Canadian Independent Media Art Distributors (CCIMAD). “About - VUCAVU.” VUCAVU. Accessed November 25, 2023. https://vucavu.com/en/about.
Works in catalogue
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    The Man From Venus

    film/video, 1999

    The Man From Venus provides a poetic discourse on the power of self-identification and the struggles one goes through to get there.

  • The poster is a combination of 4 drawings sectioned off into four sections. The top left is a humanoid face with light skin surrounded by red flowers and cat ears on top of the flowers. The top right is a cat head with flowers and then another character with a cat head, fish torso and human legs. The bottom left is two cats with random fish parts. The bottom right has creatures with just silhouettes and then a string of candles.

    Love is a Hunter

    film/video, 2010

    This animation uses watercolor paintings of child-morphed creatures, poppies and dismembered legs, based on collaged photos from my animation ‘Nothing ever happened’, to produce a commentary on loss. Set to the song ‘Love is a Hunter’ by Rae Spoon reminds us that love can be transformative, but sometimes the intensity of this transformation can be threatening. The surreal imagery reflects a childhood where love is very much defined by one’s ability to hide from violence and pain.

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    Butch Tits

    film/video, 2010

    Butch women discuss the sometimes complicated relationship they have with their breasts.

  • A close-up of a person's side profile as they look off-camera towards the ground. They have brown skin, and are wearing a patterned black-and-gold head wrap and a white outfit.

    yaya/ayat

    film/video, 2010

    yaya/ayat explores identities, being lost in translation and distance. But at its core it's about the filmmaker longing for a relationship with her geographically distant grandma and her journey to Greece to find her. This is an experimental documentary about how being a part of any diaspora shapes a person's identity.

  • An archival black and white photograph of an elderly man in the the Canadian prairies, circa 1920-1940. The man has long light hair and a long light beard, and he wears a black coat. The stairs of a homestead are visible in the background.

    Au pays des esprits

    film/video, 2010

    An operatic quest between father and child, between two genders and among colonial & Indigenous territories. An autobiographical film featuring found footage from the National Film Board’s archive.

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    An experimental animated documentary about criminalization in Canada and police brutality and the continued genocide of First Nations peoples today.

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    Beyond the Mirror's Gaze

    film/video, 2012

    In this utterly endearing animation by Iris Moore, a couple gets to know themselves and each other by exchanging their eyes, genitalia and facial features with different ones. The exchange of body parts (with the biology and playfulness of Potatohead toys) for the sole sake of new corporeal experiences, has us question our own preconceptions about the body’s rigid immutability. -- Mix New York Queer Experimental Film Festival (2013)

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    AKIN

    film/video, 2012

    With haunting suburban visuals backed by the rich sounds of Toronto based-band Ohbijou, Akin engages a relationship between an Orthodox Jewish mother and her transgender son as they navigate silent secrets of a shared past.

  • Horizontal photographic still that captures lush green foliage with budding pink flowers.

    Diaspora Ethiopia

    film/video, 2012

    The filmmaker envisions what life would have been like if her parents never left their country of origin. The haunting imagery and disjointed narration (in Amharic, left un-translated) create a portrait of the place her mother and father called home.

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    Change Over Time

    film/video, 2013

    This experimental and poetic perspective of a transman's first year on testosterone uses stop-motion and digital animation to ask "what kind of man will I become?"

  • This indie film poster features an image of two paper cutout stick figure people overlaid on a real image of the inside of a subway card. Both stick figures have short dark hair, bulbous heads perched atop long thin necks, and no visible arms. The one standing on the left holds a cup of coffee and has its eyes restfully closed. The one standing on the right wears square glasses and stares contemplatively at the left one. Above the image is the film's title, each letter a separate clipping from a newspaper. Above the title is a list of festival accolades. Below the image is the production company logo (a donut) and the copyright information.

    A documentary about the successes, failures, and incredible confusion trying to date as a genderqueer/trans person.

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    Just Dandy

    film/video, 2013

    Invited to speak at an Indigenous Revolutionary Meeting, the narrator describes an intimate encounter with an Evil Colonizing Queen which leads to Turtle Island's contraction of an invasive European flora.

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    2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com queers and indigenizes traditional dating site advertisements. Using a Butch NDN 'lavalife" lady (performed by director Theo Jean Cuthand), 2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com seduces the viewer into 2 Spirit "snagging and shacking up" with suggestions of nearby pipeline protests to take your date to, and helpful elders who will matchmake you and tell off disrespectful suitors. It's the culturally appropriate website all single 2 Spirit people wish existed. Following up on his video "2 Spirit Introductory Special $19.99" this work examines the forces of capitalism through envisioning a "financially unfeasible" service for a small minority community.