Golden Girls Film 28: Lick My Leather[1981]

Salmon(xx)

Transformed into a salmon, an Indigenous street artist travels through decayed urban landscapes to the forests of long ago, in this sublime mixed animation.

Blue-Eyed Me(en)

In a world where pets are genetically engineered to look like miniature copies of their owners, two stories from opposite ends of the world become intertwined.

Shackles(zh)

The discharge of the nuclear sewage has brought great crisis to the environment. A particular mermaid becomes victim to it all.

Maman(fr)

Dad irons. Child tidies up. Mum breathes out.

Himokawa Rhapsody(ja)

Safety Net(en)

12-year-old Terry is in emergency care with guardians after his mother’s arrest. Cheeky and living with a disability, he outwits one guardian and connects with the other in a surprising way.

Karen from Susan May(en)

A struggling saleswoman's delusion towards her cosmetic career might be the very thing that leads her to achieving her dreams or destroying everything she loves.

Golden Hour(fr)

Filmmaking can sometimes be a very chaotic process. Allie is about to learn it as the director just got one last crazy idea.

Oh Sheep!(de)

An animated short film about two flocks of sheep and their shepherds who are at odds with one another and attempting to keep them separated.

Cognitio(da)

Reclusively withdrawn Tobias is hospitalized in a psychiatric institution. Here, he meets the boy Emil, a boy with an entirely different view on life and the situation he and Tobias are in. The two boys develop a close friendship that puts the mind and boundaries of Tobias to the test.

M6NTHS(en)

Short film about an animal in captivity longing for the outside. An animal that, like us, dreams, is intelligent, curious, social and sensitive, and in whom we can clearly recognise a soul. The piglet in this movie invites us to see the world through his eyes, which will forever change our view on pigs.

A Stranger in Her Own City(fr)

A documentary short that follows a 13-year-old girl named Nejmia, who lives in Sana’a and refuses to wear the veil.

We Are Okay Now(da)

A teenage boy is in love with his straight best friend, but a traumatic experience has changed the dynamics between them.

The Daughter of Emanuelle(en)

Emanuelle's daughter Pussy introduces her to her new lover and she suffers a flash of recognition.

Perspectives(en)

Jarnow regularizes a child's primitive sketch of a house into increasingly firmer architecture, showing how the same place might by rendered by different hands. Objects twist and turn, a drawing resolving into a wall painting, as the perspective shifts, boxes within boxes, until the viewer is back outside

Shorelines(en)

After a day of gathering hundreds of seashells and rocks from the beach, Jarnow uses the found objects to construct a stop motion commentary on how we look at nature through various cinematic techniques.

Moutons(fr)

Pings 2(fr)

Pings is a short film featuring cute characters in “politically incorrect” situations with an original graphics style. Two of these short films exist, this is the second one with the penguin.

Crocodile Dreaming(en)

Crocodile Dreaming is a modern day supernatural myth about two estranged brothers, played by iconic Indigenous actors David Gulpill and Tom E. Lewis. Separated at birth, they have different fathers. One is readily accepted as a full-fledged member of the tribe and is looked on to fulfill the duties of jungaiy, an important ceremonial role which obliges him to be caretaker for his mother's dreaming, the crocodile totem. The other, whose father was white, is younger and has had to struggle to fit into the tribe who see him only as a yella fella.

You Take Care Now(en)

You Take Care Now, an early student film, is a perfect exemplar of Ann Marie Fleming's idiosyncratic vision and stands as one of her signature works. Made on 16mm, and incorporating found footage, original material, animation, and processed images (Vancouver's groundbreaking avant-garde cinema of the 1970s is a decided influence here), Fleming's film offers a visually dazzling, emotionally wrenching, oddly humorous account of two profound personal traumas.