Also held by "Moving Images Distribution" in video and 16mm formats: "This passionate and poetic work explores the social pressures experienced by a lesbian mother who is deaf. Dramatization, front screen projection, distorted sound, and optical printing effects convey a sense of the isolation, struggle, determination and love that characterize this woman's life. In particular, viewers are drawn into the world of this deaf woman by the filmmaker's manipulation of sound--removing soft consonants from spoken words and eliminating sound altogether when the speaker no longer faces the camera--to mimic the way a deaf person hears. The film "contains a marvellous passage where light rays leave their trace on silver halide crystals. This light writing is achieved by signing in the dark with a penlight as the voice-over translates the prose piece, 'Lullyby,' by W.H. Auden." (Maria Insell)" 20 min., 1987 [http://www.movingimages.ca/catalogue/Experimental/Experimental_t.html#RTFToC58a] The film also won honourable mention for experimental film at the 18th Canadian Student Film Festival in 1987 (Montreal): http://www.ffm-montreal.org/palmares/en_etud_1987.html. The director, Valerie Tereszko (who is also hearing impaired) continues to work in cinema.

Film by Fumiko Kiyooka. Also held by "Moving Images Distribution" in video, 16mm, and DVD formats: "Two women submerge themselves in memories of World War II while screening archival footage. One remembers the story of an aunt from Hiroshima whose father had been a member of the peace party when the military government forced its way into power before the war. The young woman recalls how her aunt left Japan for the safety of Canada, only to be interned with Canadians of Japanese descent at the outbreak of war. The other woman recounts the details of her own experience as a young nurse on the morning of August 6, 1945. Awards: Norman McLaren Award at Festival des films du monde, Award of Merit at the Chicago International Film Festival." 26 min., 1985 [http://www.movingimages.ca/catalogue/Canhistory/Canhistory.html#RTFToC6]. Also held by SFU Library's Special Collections/Rare Books in VHS format [http://troy.lib.sfu.ca/record=b2920774~S5a] According to Vancouver Sun article (p. F1, 30 August 1985; copy in reference material section of F-232 collection file): "Clouds, a short about Hiroshima and Japanese internment during the Second World War, won the $1,000 Norman McLaren award [at the Montreal World Film Festival]. The 25-minute, 16-millimetre film, is directed by Scott Haynes and Fumiko Kiyooka. Haynes graduated form SFU in May while Kiyooka was a second-year student."