Lulu Keating: Shorts Collection
10 experimental shorts by Lulu Keating
Lulu Keating is one of Canada's most prolific and dynamic filmmakers, recognized for her compelling storytelling, unique cinematic vision, and significant contributions to the independent film industry. Since 1980, Keating has maintained a remarkably consistent output, creating at least one film a year. Her diverse body of work spans multiple genres: documentary, dramatic features and shorts, animation, and experimental films.
This collection includes a variety of experimental shorts directed by Lulu Keating between 2007 - 2022:
Dawson Town Melted Down (2007, 7 minutes)
Brain Clever (2009, 4 minutes)
DOG=GOD (2009, 4 minutes)
Her Man Plan (2010, 5 minutes)
Game for More (2015, 2 minutes)
Blanket’s Ode to Woman (2018, 2 minutes)
Foretold (2018, 8 minutes)
Snake Hips Lulu (2018, 3 minutes)
Don’t Bring Lulu (2022, 4 minutes)
Rear View (2022, 2 minutes)
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Dawson Town Melted Down
(2007, 6 minutes)
The filmmaker answers the question, why did you move to Dawson City, Yukon? The buildings are false fronts, relics from the past. Nothing is what it claims to be. What is real in this frontier town: the sense of place, the warmth of the community, the salve of a savage land....
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Brain Clever
(2009, 4.5 minutes)
China is the largest manufacturer in the world, and English translations of Chinese instructions often say more about the culture than they do about the product. This is evident with the Hand-Pressing Flashlight, a practical flashlight that requires no batteries. The instruct...
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DOG=GOD
(2009, 4 minutes)
A girl loves dogs. She wants to be one.
Shot on location in Dawson City and on Manitoulin Island, DOG=GOD is an experimental, musical, ecstatic ode to dogs and those who both master and worship them.
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Her Man Plan
(2010, 5 minutes)
In her search for a man, Stephanie discovers that in Dawson City the odds are good but the goods are odd.
Stephanie always knew the time would come when she would need a man to father her children. From her isolated northern cabin in the Yukon, she hitches up her dog team to f...
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Game for More
(2015, 2 minutes)
Film by Lulu Keating
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Blanket's Ode to Woman
(2018, 2 minutes)
This short experimental film created through stop motion filming, looks at a woman experiencing the hot flashes of menopause. The attentive care of a blanket is insufficient comfort for the ailing woman.
Director: Lulu Keating
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Foretold
(2018, 8 minutes)
There is so much that we don’t understand. An injured artist ponders a seemingly prescient dream. Is it possible that a warning has been sent by a friend who is dead?
Directed and Produced by Lulu KeatingFor educational licensing (DSLs) and educational DVDs visit https://mov...
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Snake Hips Lulu
(2017, 3:30 minutes)
SYNOPSIS
When Lulu Keating moved to Dawson City, Yukon, she wondered if she might be the reincarnation of a dance hall girl of the Klondike Gold Rush, Snake Hips Lulu. Keating's reflections on her life, devoted to the sexual revolution, reveal startling similarities.
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Don't Bring Lulu
(2022, 4 minutes)
The invitation to the party comes with a stipulation: don`t bring Lulu. However, Lulu has ideas of her own.The film is based on the 1920’s song about flappers who broke with Victorian era social restrictions, and smoked, drank, had sex and partied. What happened that this brief...