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Filmed in Snezhinsk, Russia, this piece observes a change in the environment as snow comes to blanket the local flora. Wind, perhaps as an agent of this change, is featured heavily, moving quietly over a pond, stirring among a spiderweb.

Recorded at Alice Lake in Squamish, Yumeng's piece is floral and fungal, focusing on mats of moss, mushrooms sprouting from logs, and ending with an undulating mass of leaves and detritus.

A movement between several distinct flora of Blue Mountain Park, and the insects gathered within. Pillbugs and ants dance within bark recesses, bees hover among windswept flowers.

The motions of the titular windy forest serve as a backdrop for several small, gentle displays. The slow drift of a mat of moss over a pond, ants marching between looming thorns, finally coming to rest on the stillness of a translucent-winged…

Recorded at Deer Lake Park, this piece focuses on the slower timescale of moss and decaying flora, speeding up time as leaves make ripples in a pond.

Whether warped in reflection by ripples across the lake, or moving over a flower, light is a major player in this piece. Recorded at sunset at Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park, light makes its movement evident across throughout the duration.

This composition begins with a primary focus on the smooth, languid motions of a crystal-clear stream, then finds itself in a still moment of contemplation with a katydid and an ant, washing her antennae. Recorded at Invergarry Park in Surrey.

A pensive study of the shoreline focusing first on small movements of sand and water, then moving out into the water amongst kelp and algae, with appearances made by small flies and crabs.

"A film created and produced by Kaylee Louie finds its catalyst over the course of isolation during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Being stuck in her home for the course of 2020, this film was the first time Kaylee has explored capturing movement,…

Beginning with the solitary march of an ant amongst a forest of grass, we follow the movement of water and sand to the rocky shore, small tableaus captured in beautiful compositions.

Focused on a very small scale, Alisa gives view into the worlds of kelp and sand at Wreck Beach. Prominently featured is the movement of small grains of sand and silt, running down a leaf or pulled to the sea in small rivulets.

Filmed at Wreck Beach starring the smallest of actors, flies swarming above a rock, a worm amongst glistening sea moss, and an ant on a leaf. Removed from the micro timescale, featured as well is the slow drift of sun across a spiderweb.

Day Sixty is a film made with Socially distanced protocols. All set ups were either 6 feet apart, or were shot with techniques such as an unmanned camera, in order to ensure that we were maintaining the strict Covid Guidelines in place in May of…

Recorded at Miller's Landing, this features a more removed view of several locations, the small movements within, finally underscored by a sense of human interruption by an amount of detritus.

Online Classes is a fun take on the new experience students today have when attending their classes online, from home.

Annika likes to download free computer apps on her (self-built, or so she claims) computer - and trying out DaVinci Resolve led her here somehow. For that same reason, she's also tried out digital art, graphics editing, coding, and other stuff…

Andy Wong is a co-producer of the fabulous QQ in BC. He was inspired to bring the Toronto Initiative to BC to be a part of something he thought was an incredibly special project, especially because he had a project he wanted to submit to this…

As the title suggests, this piece takes things slowly, using fades to move between locations at Wreck Beach. We begin on waves stirring kelp, moving to a tidal pool, then to the rustling of long grass in the beach's brackish soil.

Kaylee Louie is a Chinese-Canadian contemporary dance artist and filmmaker working in Vancouver, Canada*. She has completed her BFA in Contemporary Dance at Simon Fraser University. During her time there, Kaylee became inspired by multi-faceted…