• 2010
  • 3:05
  • Canada

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All You Need is a Wall - 14

By Linda Besner

Dr. Geoffrey Rheaume conducts a tour of the 1860s patient-built wall outside Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. (more)

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  • 2010
  • 3:00
  • Canada

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All You Need is a Wall (of Noise)

By Chris Trimmer

A personal account of Hendrick’s adjustment to a hearing impairment, causing him to navigate a world of unwanted sound, is arranged with interviews of two friends recounting a noisy concert experience to help create a perception of what it’s like to live behind a wall of noise. (more)

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  • 2002
  • 29:38
  • Canada

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The Best of Ideas: Petula Clark

By Glenn Gould

Many people know of pianist Glenn Gould's unique and somewhat maverick contributions to the classical music world. (more)

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  • 2006
  • 14:08
  • Canada

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Who Is Vern Nash?

By Thelon Oeming & Steve Wadhams

The day Thelon Oeming moved into an apartment in a working class area of Toronto, he saw a hunched-back man shouting to himself in the middle of the street. (more)

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  • 2013
  • 2:59
  • CANADA

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Sel: Trois Façons (Salt: Three Ways)

By Kelly Jones

No one has an appetite for perfection and swearing like a Québécois in search of poutine. (more)

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  • 2006
  • 2:29
  • Canada

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The Iceberg

By Thelon Oeming

An old man fights his demons for 30 years. (more)

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  • 2010
  • 3:00
  • Canada

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All You Need is a Wall (in Plato's Cave)

By Sarah Boothroyd

A riff on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, in which humans are presented as prisoners who spend their entire lives staring at a cave wall, mistaking the shadows they see there for the totality of existence. (more)

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  • 2013
  • 3:02
  • CANADA

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The Sweet Pursuit

By Alex Kress

It's only human to crave more than the bare essentials in life, but for these vinyl collectors the hunt has become pure addiction. (more)

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  • 2010
  • 2:59
  • Canada

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I Didn't Know That (about hotel housekeepers)

By Mieke Anderson

Learning the A, B, C’s of housekeeping. (more)

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  • 2010
  • 3:00
  • Canada

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I Didn't Know That (Eyeborgs Really Exist)

By Britt Wray

A Canadian filmmaker who lost his eye replaces his prosthetic with a bionic camera-eye so he can shoot documentary video from his pupil. (more)

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  • 2010
  • 2:55
  • Canada

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Chain of Missing Links - 34

By Neil Sandell

A contagion of phone messages add up to an empty office. (more)

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  • 2012
  • 2:34
  • Nova Scotia

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Fire Engine Red

By Veronica Simmonds

This is a story about getting to know your neighbour, when your neighbour is a sound. (more)

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  • 2010
  • 2:59
  • Canada

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All You Need is a Wall - 16

By Frances Willick

In 2004, a group of Pride Day revellers gathered for a party on Creighton Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia and were treated to a riveting display of hermaphroditic slug sex. (more)

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  • 2002
  • 14:31
  • Canada

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A Voice of Warning

By Trisha Wilson & Anne Penman

A heroin overdose left Jade Bell blind, mute and unable to care for himself. Now Bell tours high schools in British Columbia, where his computerized “voice” speaks a loud warning to thousands of students. (more)

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  • 2005
  • 84:42
  • USA

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Radio Across Time Zones

By Julie Shapiro, Edwin Brys, Torey Malatia, Robyn Ravlich & Steve Wadhams

Radio transmissions are heard all over the world, from the largest urban centers to the smallest mountain villages. But what defines radio from a particular place, and what makes it different than radio from elsewhere? (more)

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  • 2004
  • 22:18
  • Canada

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In So Many Words

By Teresa Goff

Stephen Goff's life changed dramatically after a stroke left him with aphasia. Previously an outspoken father and salesman, the condition reduced his vocabulary to just a few words.  (more)

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  • 2009
  • 26:56
  • Canada

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My Life So Far

By Teresa Goff, Lindsay Michael & Neil Sandell

The village of Alert Bay, on Canada’s Pacific coast, is a study in paradox for the teens growing up there. They have a rich aboriginal culture, but live in grinding poverty. (more)

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  • 2006
  • 13:05
  • Canada

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Between Friends

By Jody Porter & Neil Sandell

Between Friends is the story of one woman’s coming to terms with being sexually victimized by her father. (more)

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  • 2006
  • 6:28
  • USA

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Muriel's Message

By Mira Burt-Wintonick

Memories of a much beloved grandmother resurface when a box of unlabeled audio cassettes is discovered in the basement. (more)

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  • 2010
  • 2:59
  • Canada

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Chain of Missing Links - 22

By Jessica Grosman

A series of archived Craigslist Missed Connections email messages are recorded and re-recorded and with each sent message the message deteriorates. (more)

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