James MacSwain Movies
- 1998
Beefcake
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A look at the 1950s muscle men's magazines and the representative industry which were popular supposedly as health and fitness magazines, but were in...
- 2006
Starboy
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A Space Opera.
- 2014
Here kitty kitty!
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Shot within the urban and industrial landscapes of Halifax, Canada, Here Kitty Kitty! is an improvised film that showcases the beautiful and bleak...
- 2023
Celestial Queer: The Life, Work and Wonder of James MacSwain
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A fittingly eclectic and colourful ode to Halifax treasure, multi-media artist James MacSwain, Celestial Queer documents MacSwain’s journey...
- 1998
Nova Scotia Tourist Industries
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The competition for tourist dollars is desperate! There has to be a new spin on how to entice tourists to our poverty stricken province of Nova...
- 2017
The Red Purse
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A glimpse into how young lives are destroyed by war.
- 2010
The Fountain of Youth
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One sip from the fountain of youth and old age disappears as you gain a new youthful vigor. This film animation weaves a story of two of our aging...
- 1984
Picnic
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A homosexual picnic
- 2004
Pitfall
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A depressed archaeologist is banished to work in Nova Scotia as punishment for taking too many drugs.
- 1996
The Executor
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This video dramatizes the story of three gay men as each of them takes an individual path that completes their own destiny.
- 1989
Amoeba Culture
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Funded through the Canada Council, this new media video, formatted on a Targa computer program, was one of several works created though the New Tools...
- 1984
Amherst
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Growing up gay in small town Nova Scotia in the 50s was the perfect training for survival. Shot on Super 8, the resultant grainy image brings a home...
- 1981
Little Known Curious Facts
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Also known as Atomic Dragons, this film animation confronts the environmental issue of atomic waste. Faced with the long life of atomic waste, where...
- 1984
Flowers
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In the garden the dreamer dreams about sweet smelling metaphors. Over the course of this film animation, transformations occur that dissolve human...
- 1990
The Medicine Show
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The Medicine Show utilizes narrative storytelling, mock interviews, and staged theatrical vignettes to create a satirical portrait of a day in the...
- 1997
Mother Marilyn
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This film is animated in the rough collage style that James MacSwain has made his own. Utilizing a series of vignettes, the film traces the story of...