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The article discusses the life and works of Polish Jew filmmaker Chantal Akerman who considered her films as her children. Among her films discussed include "Saute ma ville (Blow Up My Town)" which was about domestic suicide, the silent self-portrait "La chambre (The Room)," and the social documentary "Hôtel Monterey." It also talks about her fascination with her matrilineal lineage, her insatiable passion for films, and her predilection for liminal cinema.

The author discusses videos of queer children posted on the online video-sharing website YouTube. Citing various examples, the author argues that YouTube is one of the most important cultural archives documenting queer childhood. Particular focus is paid to videos of what the author terms "sissy boys" singing along to the songs of pop music divas like Madonna and Lady Gaga, including children such as Greyson Chance and Chris Crocker.

This article examines the works of Israeli artist Guy Ben-Ner, who achieved prominence with his sculpture and video "Treehouse Kit." Ben-Ner is interested in the dynamics of the domestic home and the nuclear family, and of his place as the artist-patriarch within them. His work is also about the limits of the imagination in transforming the strictly defined, constrained symbolic and physical spaces of family and home. Among his notable works are "Elia--A Story of an Ostrich Chick," "Berkeley's Island" and "Stealing Beauty."

The article reviews the films "Je veux voir (I Want to See)," by Joanna Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, and "Hunger," by Steve McQueen.

This article features Rirkrit Tiravanija and Harrell Fletcher, practitioners of socially collaborative art. Tiravanija was chosen to participate in the inauguration of the Ontario College of Art's Professional Gallery and a new initiative of the college called Nomadic Residents. The essence of his work is about creating a space for the public to simply be in a largely unstructured way or to socialize. Meanwhile, Fletcher served as a mentor to an eight-year-old boy who was creating his own design for a local sculpture park. The advantage of Fletcher's practice over Tiravanija is that he has moved past the dematerialization and de-aesthecitization of art. In addition, Fletcher avoids falling into the public-art trap.

The article deals with the appearance of underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger at the launching of Elio Gelmini's tribute documentary film "Anger Me" in Toronto, Ontario. According to the author, the filmmaker is known for being moody and unpredictable. At the event, Anger shared that he did not succeed in making a feature-length film version of the novel "The Story of O," by Pauline Réage. Anger also said at the launching that his teacher, Henri Langlois of Cinématheque Française, is humongous in body and spirit. The author says the documentary film is a first-person memoir.

The article presents an obituary for artist Bruce Conner.

The article reviews the exhibition "One, Some, Many: 3 Shows by Carsten Höller," featuring the works by Carsten Höller at the Shawinigan Space, Shwainigan, Quebec.