Time - 100 years of Toronto landmark history in four minutes. But, I fear that the limitations of the landscape will only cater to those who live in Toronto. I for one found it fascinating to see the transformation of the city landscape into some of our fair city's great and beloved locations. But since the rest of the country loathes Toronto as much as, say, salmonella poisoning, I fear that all of Kwan Ho Tse's hard work will only be loved by audiences in our city. Mind you, are your love letters intended for a larger audience or for the one you love only? Toronto, we here love you at least. You've come a long way baby.

Danse Macabre - Spellbinding and utterly fascinating, death has rarely been so beautiful to its end yet so mindful of how fragile these shells of flesh ultimately are. Simply put, it's frightening and gorgeous.

Secret Machine - This dazzling stop animation film engages in a frightening search for the answers to the mysteries of medical science. Much like Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lecture of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, art delves with terrifying fascination into the human body and its functions. Equally delicate and harsh it tests our stamina.

Things take a step back with The Way It Used To Be and Good Advice. I understood the motives but perhaps their placement in the program is what the problem was. After macabre delights of the previous two it is kind of hard to bring your audience back up. These comedic turns at the afterlife and pre-life are amusing at best.

The Archive – As the saying goes, ‘One man’s junk is another man’s treasure’. Paul Mawhinney’s treasure unfortunately might as well become junk as the man with the largest vinyl collection in all the world cannot find anyone with the same passion for music to buy this collection from him. Paul’s passion for music simply cannot overcome the fact that Paul has diabetes and is legally blind. This sad account of apathy is heartbreaking. Where are the world’s music lovers? Remove the buds from your ears and hear the plea of filmmaker Sean Dunne.

Photograph of Jesus – We have already had this short feature on our own Twitch video player in the past and it really is very amusing to watch over again. Much like the animation style of Osbert Parker, Laurie Hill also uses cutouts and creates all this wonderful and wacky imagery to go along with the absurd requests that an image archivist gets day in and day out.

Skin – The dying wish of a man in Australia is to have his full body tattoo preserved after his death and put on display in an art gallery. Not only was I overwhelmed with the artistry on this man’s body but also with his final request. Filmmaker Rhys Graham gathers together all of those who will be involved in this final rite and puts together a film that not only celebrates the beauty of our flesh but also the finality of death as the subject of this film sees firsthand what his final rite may look like once he has passed on. I dare not give that away. Skin is tremendously well done, I was also surprised how well shot this film was too. And oddly enough, though present through most of the film, we never get to see the face of the artist who has been responsible for this 'body of work'.