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CineSiege 2004

Nominees | Jury's Selection

Anamnesis (10 min.)

Director & Editor: Brendan Foster Algoo
Cinematography: Pavel Patriki

The abusive childhood memories of two boxers come back to haunt them and illuminate their need for violence while they fight each other in the ring.

Hocus Pocus (3 min.)

Director: Brian Malbon

A wacky fusion of cameraless animation and progressive rock...with penguins!

Hogtown Blues (18 min.)

Director: Hugh Gibson
Cinematography: Carl Elster
Editor: Mike Tersigni
Sound: Stephanie Da Costa

Toronto. Home to scores of refugees, many of them doctors and teachers, who mop floors and work on assembly lines just to survive Among them are Katsia, a single mother, and her estranged father Alexi, who together are forced to confront their dark and rugged past.

Hysterica & The Wandering Womb (5 min.)

Director: Michelle Lovegrove Thomson

Rendered in hand-cranked black and white, this film is a stylized and melodramatic look at the pathologizing of women's bodies by science in the past century.

In Memoriam (10 min.)

Director: Lina Rodriguez
Producer: Tricia Lee
Cinematography: Madison Matthews
Editor: Ryan Neill
Sound: Tamar Ditzian

A widow rebels against life without her husband and comes to the realization that his absence will always be part of her life.

Jade and the 4th of July (13 min.)

Director & Editor: Catherine Howe
Cinematography: Jorge Rangel, Catherine Howe
Sound: Tamar Ditzian

An exploration of a father's life that is captured and stuck in time, yet difficult to recall.

Love Letters (5 min.)

Director: Michelle Lovegrove Thomson

The frustrating thing about film is its dual ability to bring us close to celebrities, while maintaining an impenetrable distance. In an attempt to reconcile the distance between us by putting herself into the very medium that causes the separation, the filmmaker offers a filmic love letter.

MAGie (5:30 min.)

Director: Andrew Lennox

A hand-made film.

The Patient (9 min.)

Director & Editor: Marc Betsworth
Producers: J.J. Stocker, Marc Betsworth
Cinematography: Pavel Patriki

Late for work and reeling from a domestic dispute, a celebrated psychiatrist fails to bridge the gap between her personal and professional life.

Solstice (12 min.)

Director: Tess Girard

Even though she ripped up all the photos, she could still smell the perfume he once gave her.