Ryan Steel

A freelance graphic designer encounters a rare type of crickets.

A mother remembers her brother as her son comes to terms with his partner.

This story surrounds a pivotal event: the sun does not rise for one day. While the world watches a new sun rise, mysterious events weave together the lives of a Sculptor, a Civil Servant and a Security Guard. Through varied landscapes and timelines, journeys through moments of grief are ignited. This film, shot over the course of a year on some broken Bolex cameras and features in-camera fx such as multiple exposures.

A deceased filmmaker experiences a posthumous dream in which he attempts to reunite with his wife. (Homage to Italian film director Federico Fellini in the year of the centennial celebration of his birth.)

KALIL HADDAD x RYAN STEEL B2B VIDEO MIXTAPE. FEATURING TEN CLASSIC SHORTS, PLUS THE ALL-NEW COLLAB "BAND PRACTICE".

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In 1986, three city blocks in downtown Winnipeg were demolished to make way for a shopping centre/utopian community space called Portage Place.

Experience an electrifying performance from Winnipeg's darling pop singer-songwriter and rising star Begonia. With unprecedented onstage access, the film dives deep into the heart of Begonia’s Polaris Prize shortlisted album Powder Blue.

After a bad day at work, a fairground performer sets out to disprove the theory of heredity so that he can marry his sister.

Cranks is a city symphony focused on several different characters living in the sleepy isolated town of Winnipeg. Formally, the film emulates the aesthetic of a photo album - each new scene a black & white tableau vivant of a new character and setting. Connecting the various characters is the letters they all wrote - very odd ones - to Peter Warren, the radio host of the infamous Action Line program, which was broadcast throughout Canada from 1971-1998. Cranks explores how journalists like Peter Warren, who pioneered an accusatory and belligerent style of reporting, how this angry way of tackling issues has trickled down into our culture, and has impacted and emboldened real lives.