Pokey Jones (screenwriter Don McKellar), a naive Canadian barber and aspiring jazz musician from Thunder Bay, meets Jackie Bangs (Valerie Buhagiar), a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse to New Orleans. Jackie and Pokey set out along Ontario provincial highway 61, coffin strapped to the top of the car, following Bob Dylan's famous U.S. Highway 61 south through the heart of the country. Chaos ensues thanks to the surreal characters encountered en route, the drugs secretly stashed within the body, and pursuit by the hirsute Mr. Skin (Earl Pastko), who believes he's Satan and who wants to claim the corpse for its soul, which he claims to have purchased sometime ago.

Featuring cameos and starring roles from a who?s who of the Vancouver independent music scene (including Destroyer?s Dan Bejar, Jason Zumpano and the New Pornographer?s Carl Newman), Blaine Thurier?s debut feature film follows a generous but gullible young woman (Corinna Hammond) who is sexually exploited by a pot dealer and his clients. At the same time, a demon-possessed virgin (Rob McBeth) falls in love with her, but his Christian youth group pastor (A.C. Newman) won't let him date her until she converts. While the potheads conspire, the Christians apply pressure -- will Lois be a saint or a sinner? Or will she learn there's really no difference? Winner of best feature film at the SXSW film festival (2000).

Divorced from his wife and reality, deluded eccentric Andrew (Robert Dayton) applies a magical philosophy to his romantic life in order to rise from his obsessions, become a successful lady's man, and achieve godhood. With the superhuman persistence of a door-to-door salesman, he tangles with obstacles thrown up by a resentful friend (Steve Wood), his lingering feelings for his wife (Cindy Wolfe), and the refusal of reality to co-operate with his plan. His determination brings him closer to his goals but fatal landmines are often hidden in fulfilled wishes. Featuring original music by A.C. Newman and The Sun City Girls.

It sounds like a joke: a bashful drag queen and a young schizophrenic bring out the best in each other. Robin (Craig Russell) is a hairdresser who hasn't quite gathered the courage to get on stage and do drag. But when an old school friend named Liza (Hollis McLaren) appears at his door in a robe and nightgown, having just run away from a mental hospital where she was voluntarily committed, her manic energy gives him the strength to act on his desires. He in turn gives her a stable, loving home – until he goes to New York to audition for a drag show and his spot-on impressions of Bette, Barbra, Carol Channing, and Mae West make a splash. Just as Robin's star rises, though, a pregnant Liza spirals into misery and madness. Outrageous may sound melodramatic, but in fact it achieves a rare realism – there's no Hollywood gloss on any aspect of the characters’ crazy but skillfully-rendered lives.

There are the damned, the doom generation. Stealing the group home station wagon, a quintet of jaded juveniles invade a closed down amusement park called Wonder World which for one day and night threatens to become Teenage WasteLand. Lovers Chloe and Darrin are there for more than fun and games: after a positive pregnancy test, she wants to end their lives with a spectacular double suicide. Uncouth pals Stick and Sanj are around to see if the pair will really go through with it, and Darrin’s little brother Justin, an unnervingly quiet sketcher, is using the trip as a jumping-off point to run away to Spokane. How much of this is mere Gen-Why poseur boastfulness, and how much of it is really going to happen?

Ramona (Valerie Buhagiar), who can’t drive, is sent to recover an errant band who are in danger of missing the final date of their tour. Hiring a taxi to drive her the hundreds of kilometers to get the job done, she meets a variety of characters along the way: a trainee serial killer (screenwriter Don McKellar’s brilliant breakout role) who's finding it hard to get his career off the ground; a film crew desperate for some live action gore; and a silent young man who refuses to speak since “he has nothing left to say any more.” Infused with the true independent spirit of low budget filmmaking, the conclusion wraps up the seemingly isolated plot lines in a
thumping final scene.

Clive Holden's collection of 14 film poems is an epic ride through a uniquely early 21st century landscape. Featuring music by Christine Fellows and Jason Tait and John K. Sampson (The Weakerthans), Trains of Winnipeg presents suburban and urban dystopias, explores the politics of form and the form of personal politics, and celebrates the raw joy of moving pictures, sound, colour and light.

A feature length bundle of two of director Ron Mann's counter cultural studies. Dream Tower is an incisive look into Toronto’s notorious Rochdale College, an eighteen storey high rise completed in 1968, and intended as a free college; instead Rochdale quickly turned into an experimental living environment peopled by artists, draft dodgers and hippies. Echoes Without Saying (28mins) looks at CoachHouse Press, an innovative Toronto-based publishing and printing house.

Sissy Boy Slap Party
Originally commissioned as a four-minute short in support of the Saddest Music in the World, this longer version is an exercise in grafting the Three Stooges onto a Kenneth Anger lilac bush. Now contains 50% more slapping.

The Workbooks
A collection of rarely seen Maddin shorts! Includes: Fuse Boy (4:00); Rooster (3:54); Zookeeper (3:53); Chimney (3:52); Audition 01 (5:04); Audition 02 (2:33).

Dead Father, The
A grey comedy about a boy who keeps forgetting, and a man who cheats on his wife by dying.

Sombra Dolorosa
In this Maxi-Mexi-Melancolour short, the widow Paramo attempts to prevent further familial tragedy and her daughter Dolores wants to join her father, the recently deceased Don Paramo, in death and by taking on El Muerto, Death himself, in the wrestling ring.