Sure as the Stars Shine Above

Programmed by Penny McCann

So Much to Share

John Marriott (2007)
Silent figures stand in the darkness surrounding a campfire, warming themselves as the flames crackle. Loons call out in the distance as the flames dance about hypnotically. At some point a gentle voice issues from the flames, asking you if you remember.

Stone Bruise

Dan Sokolowski(2007)
A surreal trip up the legendary Dempster Highway in Yukon Territory, Canada. Linked by a road and a battered windshield, hand processed/tinted 16mm images flow past the viewer in an ever-changing mosaic of landscape, form, and colour.

The Foxhole Manifesto

Nick Fox-Gieg (2007)
This is an adaptation of a poem by Jeffrey McDaniel, who has some ideas for a few appropriately modern gods.

The E.I. Life

Paul Gordon (2007)
A lazy cottage day on E.I.

Motel to Motel

Ryan Stec & Veronique Couillard (2006)

An experimental travelogue back-dropped against the slowly eroding nostalgic atmosphere of the roadside motel. The work blends experimental and documentary approaches with photographic and cinematic influences as it follows a couple through cool and playful snapshots of green shag carpets, bedspread evening wear, sexual games, migrant Cape Breton workers, and drug induced shivers.

Death by Vibration

Ehren BEARwitness Thomas (2006)

The emptiness of a lonely winter day in a deserted train yard creates the terrain for this short video. A haunting song rises from the desolate cold to feel the warmth of the winter sun. The song was written by Meash Jerre, a Metis musician who is based in Ottawa.

Roomette/Halifax Station Ambience

Eric Walker (2007)

A video/audio ambient juxtaposition, waiting and moving, being in two places at once and the play of light in the room of a speeding train.

Off-Kilter: Talking to Nature

Tom Sherman (2002)
We look to nature for companionship. We try to talk to nature in nature’s own language, to form new relationships with the animals and the plants and the earth between our toes. We take a wildflower for a walk across the road. We’ve tried all kinds of crazy things, but so far, nature hasn’t talked back.

Two Hummingbirds

Mary J. Daniel (2006)
A beautifully understated work that creates an almost palpable sense of absence through a simple interplay of word and image.

Tree

Shelley Niro (2007)
Personifying Mother Earth, she walks through her domain. She observes her environment and what has happened to it. She weeps. She feels violated. Not only has man damaged her but they continue to damage each other. She sighs. She will visit and start again sometime soon.

Cultures of Fear and Loathing

Tom Sherman (2007)
In our cultures of fear and loathing practically no one is frightened by the singing of birds. You can hear them in the dark of morning, and as the day collapses into night.

Caribou

Jason Britski (2008)

An experimental portrait of Saskatchewan, from the forests of northern Saskatchewan to the Badlands in the south. The final part in a series of North American landscape films and videos Britski has been shooting for the past few years, Caribou is essentially a video about mortality, death, decay, notions of beauty, and a respect for the natural world. It is grounded in the detail of the landscape, and the beauty that resonates from these hidden places.

Total running time ~ 62:24