Still Max

Facing a diagnosis of prostate cancer, artist Max Dean asks, “How do we fix ourselves?”

Artist Max Dean’s desire to document his journey with prostate cancer through his art takes on new meaning after his partner, Martha Fluery, is diagnosed with a more aggressive cancer and COVID 19 escalates into a world pandemic. One man’s investigation into the emotional impact of prostate cancer illuminates the core vulnerabilities of being human.

The Mill

Environmental controversy in Pictou Co. Nova Scotia

A gripping portrait of a rural community deeply divided over the fate of the local pulp mill

Strange and Familiar

ARCHITECTURE ON FOGO ISLAND

The stories of philanthropist Zita Cobb, architect Todd Saunders and community members intertwine as an ambitious contemporary architecture project takes shape on remote Fogo Island off the coast of Newfoundland.

Spring & Arnaud

Art, love and mortality intertwine in this portrait of Canadian artists Spring Hurlbut and Arnaud Maggs.

Arnaud Maggs, turning 85, embarks on a series of self- portraits that wryly depict his life’s work. Spring Hurlbut, at 60 is creating haunting works that evoke mortality while harboring the certainty that Arnaud’s time is limited. Together and alone, each grapples with the nature of an artist’s creativity where the drive for invention and discovery resists life’s finite reality.

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THE ART OF WANDA KOOP

Painter Wanda Koop shows us what we missed the first time, what remains hidden, and makes us question how and what we see. “I paint it and then I see it.”

Kinngait

RIDING LIGHT INTO THE WORLD

Set in the Canadian Arctic, this is an first-hand account of how the isolated Inuit community of Cape Dorset became the internationally celebrated art capital of the North. This is the story of the success of Inuit artists whose vivid imagery of their culture in transition captured the imaginations of people around the world.

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THE ART OF COLETTE URBAN

What does it mean to live on the edge of the country, but at the heart of art? This and other questions are explored in Pretend Not to See Me, a whimsical film about performance artist Colette Urban that reminds us to believe in ourselves.

Annie Pootoogook

An intimate portrait of Cape Dorset artist Annie Pootoogook as she prepares for her first solo exhibition at The Power Plant Centre for Contemporary Art in Toronto in 2006.