No Free Breakfast is a monthly screening series of NFB short films where the audience picks the theme. This month’s theme: HANDS

We’ll watch nine NFB short films about hands (documentary, fiction, animated, experimental) spanning about 90 minutes.
At the end of the evening we’ll generate the next month’s theme and then we’ll all go home!

Pay-what-you-can // Tickets at No Free Breakfast: HANDS Tickets, Tuesday, July 7  •  7:30 PM – 9 PM | Eventbrite

Sneak peak at one film from this month’s program:

Assembly – directed by Jenn Strom (2012, 4 min) *Vancouver filmmaker!*

A flatbed editing table is snapped on. A woman’s hands reach in and out of the frame, cutting and editing a reel of film. She splices, scrubs, rewinds and rolls the sound and images. Fragments of animated archival footage flash across the screen: women walking in chains, protesting with placards, speaking at podiums. We hear bursts of words and the percussive whir and click of the Steenbeck—until a “message” is finally revealed.

Assembly is an experimental short, written and directed by Jenn Strom, featuring a rhythmic soundscape and paint-on-glass animation. It was inspired by Studio D filmmakers and is dedicated to the memory of Kathleen Shannon.

+ 8 more shorts!