2008 Vancouver International Film Festival

A Dérive

[DERIV] Canadian Images
Program Running Time is 103 min
Drifting… seeking the marvelous in a spectacular world.

The Narrator
Directed By: Mark Ratzlaff
Canada, 2008, 4 min
An old man clears his throat, steps in front of a microphone and begins to narrate a scene set in a small park on the first day of spring. All perhaps, a little too vividly.

Cattle Call
Directed By: M. Rankin, M. Maryniuk
Canada, 2008, 4 min
A dazzlingly abstract, absurd and adrenalizing animation about the art of livestock auctioneering.

In Transit
Directed By: Dan Pierce
Canada, 2008, 12 min
A moment of unity, stolen back by reality, between strangers on a bus.

30-Love
Directed By: Allison Beda
Canada, 2008, 6 min
This multi-dimensional piece chronicles the tribulations of long-distance love.

Spoiled
Directed By: Sherry White
Canada, 2008, 15 min
Young Pearl tries to help her dad find love on the internet, then begins to understand why her father has remained single.

Drux Flux
Directed By: Theodore Ushev
Canada, 2008, 5 min
Strikingly animated examination of the links between the artist and modern political thought.

Princess Margaret Blvd.
Directed By: Kazik Radwanski
Canada, 2008, 14 min
Gina Sylvester plays Isabelle, a woman defiantly confronting the frustrations, confusions and loneliness of Alzheimer's.

HA'Aki
Directed By: Iriz Pääbo
Canada, 2008, 5 min
Pääbo takes us on an awesome and impressionistic glide through Canada's national game.

The Morning Party
Directed By: Evan Crowe
Canada, 2008, 17 min
Revenge is now the only tie that binds three friends whose lives have taken different directions.

Paul Pontius
Directed By: Jesse McKeown
Canada, 2008, 21 min
20 years sober "born again" Christian Paul Pontius (Nicholas Campbell) attempts to reconnect with God by intentionally falling off the wagon.