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Still reeling from a personal tragedy, Detective Paul Grunning is sent on a routine call to a local professor's home. When things turn deadly, he must navigate a fractured reality to solve the mystery before it's too late.

In the heart of a popular neighbourhood of Montreal, Fissure is the portrait of Father Robert and his coordinator Jenny who carry the last church in the neighbourhood at arm's length. Set against a backdrop of religious decline, this short documentary testifies to what goes through us when our world collapses.

A mother,s long time missing daughter begins to reach out to her across time and space. Could it be a drug induced delusion or does Kate really possess the ability to cross over?

Gustavo lives for his work and completely ignores his limits. During yet another exhausting night, he falls asleep in the office and suffers from sleep paralysis. Trapped in his own body, he begins to feel shadows, distorted sounds, and the weight of the exhaustion he has always tried to hide. Between reality and nightmare, Gustavo faces the consequences of a life consumed by work.

Charlotte, an alienated sound engineer, travels to the country home where her mother was just murdered. She is quickly frustrated by the lack of progress in the police investigation and so begins her own. While listening to a fresh sound recording she made in her mother's house, Charlotte discovers a strange phenomenon, she can hear sounds from the past in her headphones. Soon she is using this ability to hear the past to piece together the last few days of her mother's life, drawing ever closer to discovering who killed her, even as the murderer returns to try and eliminate Charlotte before they are discovered.

In Taipei New Park, a woman uses a device meant to find hidden cameras but accidentally brings the park’s statues to life. These statues, linked to Taiwan’s colonial past, seem to rise to avenge a tragic plane crash during a 1964 national day’s military parade under Chiang Kai-shek’s military law.

A woman, 40 years old, lives the routine of daily life when an ordinary crack in the wall imposes reflections on the belief systems that construct her existence. Solid structures crumble, wrinkles crack the skin, yet finitude survives. When the mundane becomes haunting, all that remains is the uninhabited body.

The image is what appears before us. The image that a world of representations imposes on us is an evasion, it is of absolute blindness. To position oneself before the image is to place oneself critically before the world.

When Abdelsellem gets out of prison, his friend Nourredine is waiting for him. They spend the night celebrating their freedom and reencounter in the streets of Tangiers. During their wanderings, they meet up with Marcela, a Brazilian woman of extreme and suicidal tendencies, who draws them inexorably down into her madness. The three characters plunge into the narrow city streets meeting glue-sniffers, hash-smokers, illegal immigrants, and letting themselves be dragged down into what seems like hell.

Three former roommates find themselves facing the changes in their relationships with one another amidst a reunion.

Nerdy's visited a national landmark, but someone else there has other ideas...

In making this piece, Bourque literally distorted the personal home movie images appearing on the film plane through various manipulations in the process of doing her own low-tech contact printing. The point of contact in printing is continuously shifted so that the film plane appears warped and the images fluctuate, creating a distorted space of fleeting apparitions, like resurfacing memories.

An abandoned brick-making factory rests at the edge of the badlands in southern Saskatchewan, where clay hills slowly shift over time, burying the past. Fusing high-contrast black-and-white photography with a poem written and read by poet Amber Goodwyn and a textured soundtrack by composer Andrea-Jane Cornell, FISSURES is a lyrical examination of an impermanent landscape.

"Little fissures, small rips, barely noticeable tears- intrude into a subtle meditation on white. A film of in-between spaces, a haiku of small moments." –Sheri Wills

Inspired by Len Lye. Contacts of torn film segments, representing the head of a man with cap.

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Film is a sketch to a larger film project.

Three young children accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the three kids struggle to overcome a nightmarish hell that is literally taking over the Earth.

It's been five years since Terry's friend Glen discovered The Gate to hell in his backyard. Glen has now moved away and Terry begins practicing rituals in Glen's old house and eventually bringing back demons through The Gate and leading to demoniac possession and near world domination.

CIFA (the Chinese Independent Film Archive) has recently helped restore The Crack, a low-budget independent film made on 35mm, which has been screened only four times to a small circle in China since its completion in 2000. This semi-autobiographical film, set during the Cultural Revolution, provides the missing link between the roots-seeking and scar literature and art of the 1980s and the performance art of the 1990s and 2000s. It grounds many of the embodied extremes of China’s famous performance art in the persistent psychosexual fetishes and neuroses produced by the extreme denial of individual desire under “mass line” socialism.

Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth. This experiment causes a crack to form and grow within the Earth's crust, which threatens to split the earth in two if it is not stopped in time.