The annual international showcase of 16mm and Super 8 films by the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers features the avant-garde, insects, history and a trip down the pipeline.
Eden Called the paradise on clouds, the old Matsuo mine in Iwate Hachimantai was once home to 10,000 people. Japanese filmmaker Shinya Isobe, a graduate of Tokyo Zokei University Graduate School, tries to express what it was like to be in that place. 15 minutes, 16mm
Imperceptihole Chicago native Lori Felker and Bostonian Robert Todd exchanged rolls of high-contrast black and white film over the course of the year. The film eventually developed into a science-non-fiction fairy tale that shows how reality lies between seasons, states, planes and worlds. 14 minutes, 16mm
Contingency In this film, $100 Film Festival founder James Morrison uses the fest’s history to contemplate how random events can shape people’s lives. Learn how the festival has survived since its 1992 inception, and how it nearly died several times in obscurity. 2.5 minutes, 16mm
Fruit Flies Avant-garde filmmaker Christine Lucy Latimer sealed up all of the fruit flies that drowned in a vinegar trap in her kitchen one summer. The result is a short film much akin to a small spider’s dream. 1.5 minutes, 16mm, Silent
Someday All of This Will Be Yours A surrealist road trip anti-documentary following the TransMountain Pipeline from Vancouver to Alberta’s oil sands by Adam Huggins, Illana Fonariov and Jethro Archer. Someday is an exploration of how individuals relate to social, ecological and political struggles across their communities. 21 minutes, 16mm
Films screen nightly at ACAD Stanford Perrott Lecture Theatre, 1407 14th Ave. N.W. Thursday, March 8 to Saturday, March 10 at 7 p.m. $7 – $12. 100dollarfilmfestival.org.
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