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The Jabberwock

Lulu Keating, Red Snapper Films

An animated short adapted from the poem by Lewis Carroll.

James Wedzin • From the Spirit

Bill Stewart, Raymond Yakeleya, Earth Magic Media, Bill Campbell

Documentary on artist James Wedzin. He is known for his northern landscapes, animal imagery and northern lights.

Jane Ash Poitras • From the Spirit

Bill Stewart, Raymond Yakeleya, Earth Magic Media

Documentary on artist Jane Ash Poitras. Her work frequently explores the clash of Aboriginal and mainstream cultures.

JEFF WALL: In Order to Make a Picture

Lu Nelson, Elizabeth Yake

Slowing time down and creating obstacles to work through are central to Jeff Wall's working process. We have a rare opportunity to witness this in a film that follows the creation of two cinematically realized painterly photographs, Spring Snow and Woman with a Covered Tray.

Jericho and his Fortress

Robert E. Williams

Visual artist Robert Williams explores alternate perceptions of the world in this interpretation of a conversation he had with a local figure in Halifax.

Jesse Green • Storytellers in motion (Series 3)

Jeff Bear, Marianne Jones, Urban Rez Productions, Kristy Assu

In this episode of Storytellers in motion, musician Jesse Green is profiled.

Jim Hart • From the Spirit

Bill Stewart, Raymond Yakeleya, Earth Magic Media

Documentary on Jim art, one of the Northwest Coast's most accomplished artists.

Joane Cardinal-Schubert • From the Spirit

Bill Stewart, Raymond Yakeleya, Earth Magic Media

Documentary on Blackfoot artist and visual storyteller, Joane Cardinal-Schubert. Her multimedia works reflect a strong spirituality and have been described as visual stories of personal experiences, layered against a backdrop of social and historical issues.

John Farcy • From the Spirit

Bill Stewart, Raymond Yakeleya, Earth Magic Media

Documentary on John Farcy. John works in ink in a style known as "pointillism." He frequently draws on his experiences in hunting, fishing and trapping as a basis for his art.

John Rombough • From the Spirit

Bill Stewart, Raymond Yakeleya, Earth Magic Media

Documentary on artist John Rombough. As a young adult, John began to search for his birth parents. He discovered that his father, Alfred Catholique, was living in Lutsulk’e on the shores of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories and moved to Lutselk’e to reconnect with his family and cultural identity.

John's Untilted Clock

Mi-Hyang (Shine) Park

Using pencil on paper and 2-D computer animation, Shine Park creates a surrealistic depiction of how one's character is influenced by interactions with others.

Johnny Tootall

Shirley Cheechoo, Danielle Prohom Olson

Upon his return home from the Bosnian war, Johnny Tootall begins a spiritual quest for discovery of his own true self.

Joseph Lazare • Storytellers in motion (Series 3)

Jeff Bear, Marianne Jones, Urban Rez Productions, Kristy Assu

In this episode of Storytellers in motion filmmaker Joseph Lazare is profiled.

Le jour et la nuit

Gilbert Taggart

This classic animation follows an elfin flute player as he awakens the forest creatures with his music.

Journey for Lotus

Eunhee Cha

Journey for Lotus is a documentary about a Korean-Canadian taking a journey to find goodness in a traumatic historic period of Japanese colonization of Korea. This documentary unveils the truth about the Japanese colonialism of Korea (1910-1945).

Journey of Song • Ravens and Eagles: Haida Art (Series 1)

Jeff Bear, Marianne Jones, Ravens and Eagles Productions

Songs remain one of the strongest links to the nearly extinct Haida language. Three women explain how art is linked to songs and language and how all are intertwined with Haida culture.

The Journey of the Blue Buddha • Tibetan Medicine

Aerlyn Weissman, Tetsuya Itano, Long Tale Entertainment, MediAtelier, Producers on Davie, Cari Green, Harry Sutherland, Noriko Uchida, Ross D. Viner

The Journey of the Blue Buddha surveys the evolving practice of Tibetan medicine in today's Chinese-controlled Tibet, as well as in the exile community of Dharamsala, India, the Russian republic of Buryatia and North America.