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Joleen Mitton is on a mission to use fashion as medicine for Vancouver’s Indigenous community, showing us what it means to be in service to others.

Documentary | 12 min

Ancestral Threads

Ever Deadly weaves concert footage with stunning sequences filmed on location in Nunavut, seamlessly bridging landscapes, stories, and songs with pain, anger, and triumph - all through the expressions of Tanya Tagaq, one of the most innovative musical performers of our time.

Concerts and performances | 90 min

Ever Deadly

Filmed frame by frame, the landscape is deconstructed in a way that makes us lose our sense of reality and continuity. The horizon line becomes our only reference point to create a new motif that is both irrational and contemplative.

Drama | 7 min

Horizons

Dreams In Vantablack is an animated poetry series featuring the work of 12 Black youth, revealing their truths through evocative poetry with rotoscope and 2D animation styles.

Animation | 1 season

Dreams in Vantablack

A painting, thought to be the work of an iconic Indigenous artist, leads the rock star who buys it into the tragic and brutal world of an art forgery ring in Canada's far north.

Documentary | 115 min

There Are No Fakes

Experience the excitement of CBC’s returning hit BATTLE OF THE BLADES live and in-person. World-class athletes from Canada’s favourite sports — figure skating and hockey — pair up in a live, high-stakes figure skating competition for the charity of their choice.

Reality | 2 seasons

Battle of the Blades

A Halifax accountant with a penchant for precision immerses himself in the ancient art of sacred geometry. With a sweet sense of humour, Bert shares how his meticulous drawings helped him to heal.

The Artistic Accountant

An arthritic Nova Scotia woman works as a housekeeper while she hones her skills as an artist and eventually becomes a beloved figure in the community.

Drama | 116 min

Maudie

Art, Death & Taxes unpacks the art world’s greatest taboo: money. Eight acclaimed artists explore the economics of their practice, peeling back the curtain on all the work that goes into the work.

Documentary | 1 season

Art, Death & Taxes

The hues of life swirl around us every day, but it takes an artist's eye to decode them. In this evocative short film, writers Charles Demers, Chelene Knight, and Shazia Hafiz Ramji take us on a dreamy journey through ROYGBIV, sorting memories into the spectrum.

Specials | 13 min

Colour Study

"Portrait of Pockets" tells the tale of a capuchin monkey named Pockets Warhol, who uses his unlikely talent of painting to gain worldwide fame and save the primate sanctuary he calls home.

Portrait of Pockets

ART HURTS travels the country to find some of the most innovative tattoo artists working today - and all of them happen to be female or non-binary.

Art Hurts

Fit to be Tied chronicles the journey of Canada’s best balloon twisting artists as they take the stage at the 2018 World Balloon Convention in San Diego - the most prestigious event in the international balloon twisting community. Teams from across the globe are pitted against each other in epic battles of creativity and technique, from short individual twisting competitions to the large sculpture competition - an intense event that sees teams create balloon sculptures as large as a room. Canada’s Twisted Team is made up of balloon twisters from across the country. Despite huge geographical distances between them, they’re a close-knit team that uses extensive research and meticulous planning to prepare for their competitions. Their biggest challenge at the convention: twisting their way through 21,500 balloons in 27 hours on a quest to become the world large sculpture champions. This competition challenges teams to create enormous, whimsical creations that push the boundaries of balloons, built from carefully-executed plans in a race against time (where most competitors eschew sleep for more time on the convention floor). Twisted Team member Derek Wong also competes in the individual 12-minute event. The former high school IT manager goes head-to-head with his longtime hero, Japan’s Takehero Kai. In this single-person competition, twisters create one individual sculpture that’s judged for individual style. Derek must battle fatigue and rely on his well-honed skills, acquired through years of practice, if he is to have any chance at displacing  Kai, known as “the god of twisting.” Fit to be Tied is a story about an unconventional art form, but it’s also a story about belonging - a look at how an unusual skill has brought together a wonderful group of passionate people who have found a home in the balloon twisting community.

Documentary | 13 min

Fit to be Tied: A Story of Twisted Genius

Canadian painter William Fisk creates hyper-realistic paintings that look like photographs. Fisk: The New York Opening picks up where Fisk: Untitled Portrait left off, following him as he risks everything to launch his first major ‘vernissage’ - a showing of his best work in one of the city’s most prestigious galleries. Frank Bernaducci’s new Chelsea neighbourhood gallery will open with twelve of Fisk’s most recent works, valued at over $300,000 Canadian. These paintings will be displayed for consideration by some of the most select collectors and museum curators in the world - a first in Fisk’s career.

Biography | 12 min

Fisk 2: The New York Opening

New from CBC Arts, we profile ten Canadian artists from different cultural backgrounds, exploring their identity through dance, music, poetry, visual and performance art, and how they are redefining and reshaping Canadian art.

Biography | 1 season

Art is my Country

Interrupt this Program explores the underground art scenes of cities under pressure, with point-of-view docs that feature artists working amid tension, dissent, or political unrest.

Interrupt this Program

This art challenge series showcases 15 artists from across Canada: from painters to illustrators, graffiti artists to puppet makers, featuring a diverse group of artists from all backgrounds.

Reality | 1 season

Crash Gallery

Disrupting Design celebrates innovations in Canadian industrial, urban and graphic design and the ingenious renegades that create them. This digital series is hosted by Matt Galloway.

Disrupting Design

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