ACTION!
(7:35)

A collage of home video images depicting the historic Metro Toronto Days of Action against the Mike Harris Tories, October 25th and 26th, 1996. The speaker is NAC's Joan Grant-Cummings.

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THE BOOB
(1:47)

A hand-processed Super 8 film equating Ontario Premier Mike Harris with a televangelist and/or demolition derby.

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THE BUSINESS LUNCH
(1:37)

We've come a long way, baby.

From the DVD: Be a Cog!

CAPTAIN DO-GOODER IN "HELP THE NEEDY"
(6:18)

Ineffectual liberal superhero just wants to 'help,' but the downtrodden have other ideas. An anarchist slapstick comedy in black and white Super 8.

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CHEW IT, SOMALIA!
(6:07)

A bunch of educational films NOT about Canada's murderous child torturing 'peacekeepers' in Somalia are crafted into a satirical video about same.

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DEATH MASK
(5:18)

The dreaded 'personal documentary' genre dies on-screen as my family also drops dead one by one in this dramatic, rapid-fire photo album montage.

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DOWN WITH FUN
(2:47)

70s skateboard safety, in the key of Loogan Bin.

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80's BURGER RAP
(3:52)

The most uplifting corporate training video of all time.

From the DVD: Be a Cog!

EVENTUALLY
(5:10)

A collage video using protest footage, love letters and anger management to comment on the emotional toll of direct action. For Raymond Williams.

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GHOST SQUAT
(5:09)

The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty attempts to open up a city-owned building in Toronto as shelter for the homeless in November 2004. Music by Picastro.

From the DVD: RECAP

GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH - trailer
(1:40)

The revolution of everyday lunch. A trailer for Jonathan Culp's feature-length comedy about Grimsville's only underground grilled cheese sandwich club. More scenes from the movie can be viewed at cheesemovie.com.

From the DVD: Grilled Cheese Sandwich

HERE 75 PICKET
(8:08)

Food and service workers at one of Fort Erie, Ontario's more profitable casinos learn about collective action 'on the job' as they stage their first-ever picket line.

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HOW DOES IT WORK?
(22:01)

A sprawling montage of classroom films from the 60s and 70s, motivational tapes, and dog-training records, boiled down into a comprehensive psychic history of propaganda with special guest stars. (Presented in three parts)

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HOW TO AVOID BUMPING INTO THINGS
(1:20)

Stay off those conveyor belts!! Made in the 80s - when else?

From the DVD: Be a Cog!

IT CAN HAPPEN HERE - excerpt
(3:38)

JC takes a tour of Weyburn Mental Hospital's 'isolation cells,' reads the royal commission report on the 1935 riot which inspired a mural in the hospital basement, and reflects on the depression-related death of environmental activist Tooker Gomberg.

From the DVD: It Can Happen Here

JONATHAN CULP!
(3:40)

Peter Lynch excoriates me for not having sex with him while I stare at the wall - but what a wall!

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KNIFE MACHINE
(1:30)

An adaptation of Dreiser's "An American Tragedy" with all-stuffed-animal cast - set to a Loogan Bin punktoon. In glorious hand-processed Super 8.

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MAPLE GROVE: AN ONTARIO SCHOOL - excerpt
(1:08)

Maple Grove School is a small alternative school in Beamsville, Ontario, which recently celebrated its 175th anniversary. In this excerpt from a longer documentary, two kids help each other with a reading exercise in the school stairwell.

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MAYBE NOT
(3:12, Joey Meyer)

Loogan Bin dance their angst away in this super-saturated 16mm rock video.

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NESTING
(1:00)

JC's entry into the Toronto Urban Film Festival - a silent video designed for the TTC's subway video monitors. While developers spew rhetoric all over the QEW, a pigeon responds to the sprawl by building a nest in my bedroom.

ONE WORD
(3:02)

A performance piece by Loogan Bin, captured in glorious black and white 16mm.

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OUR VACATION TRIP
(6:08)

A funny home movie collage depicting an early '60s tropical paradise gone sour.

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P-GRRRL
(4:55, Siue Moffat)

Mild-mannered Liz Muff, suffering the nightmare of frequent urination, turns into the superhero P-Grrrl, teaching her sisters around the world empowerment through peeing. A claymation masterpiece with music by JC.

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PLASTICMAN AND THE JUSTICE LEAGUE
(16:01)

9-11 evoked, critiqued and reconstructed using 70s disaster films, 50s sci-fi, WWII propaganda cartoons, and forgotten newscast residue from the point of impact. (Presented in two parts)

From the DVD: Trigger Cut

POPE SQUAT
(6:52, Toronto Video Activist Collective)

In 2002, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty squats an abandoned building during the Pope's visit to call attention to the homeless crisis in Toronto

From the DVD: RECAP

PUSSY PALACE PANTY PICKET PROTEST!
(1:33, Jonathan Culp and Siue Moffat)

Toronto's queer community protests the summer 2000 Pussy Palace raids, where an all-male police squad crashed a women-only bathhouse event.

From the DVD: Trigger Cut

THE STUPID JOURNEY - trailer
(1:00)

A brief taste of my hitch-hiking travelogue zine, "The Stupid Journey #1: Thumbing the Canadian Wasteland." Winner of the 2007 Broken Pencil/Bookshorts zine video contest.

Also see: Zines

SUPPLEMENT
(8:25)

Fly-on-the-wall documentary about a 2005 guerrilla welfare supplement clinic - organized by the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty - to give poor people the means to survive, against the wishes of their government.

From the DVD: RECAP

U!S!A! U!S!A!
(4:50, Matias Rozenberg and Jonathan Culp)

A Desert Storm-era media collage frenzy, replete with waving flags and dubious moral prescriptions.

From the DVD: Trigger Cut