Gary Burns

The world of interconnected office buildings, apartment complexes and food courts (shot in all its fluorescent glory on digital video) is the backdrop for waydowntown, where young office workers Tom, Sandra, Randy and Curt, have all staked a month's salary on a bet to see who can stay indoors the longest. (Lot 47 Films)

A young man in Calgary, Alberta is multiphobic: nonetheless, he believes that he is the cause of the fear which is killing people around him. (imdb)

Something's happening on the edge of town. There's a desperate housewife in the parking lot, a musical chorus line mowing the lawn - and a loaded gun in the upstairs closet. Welcome to Radiant City, new film on 21st century suburbanites. (Odeon Films)

Bobby Comfort (James Marsters) escapes from prison, clears himself of all charges, and returns to a home life he finds unsatisfying. With the help of Comfort's old partner, they begin robbing posh New York City hotels, while second cousin and bumbling cop Phil Parris (Jason Schombing) thinks he can turn Comfort to the straight and narrow. (imdb)

A group of teenagers come together to indulge in that great Canadian pastime, the house-party, and find themselves literally confined to the kitchen trapped by an extraordinary well manicured carpet in the living room. Elsewhere, the parents of these kids have a dinner party of their own, where suburban pretense slowly melts away exposing childish obsessions (imdb)

In an effort to re-connect a pessimistic "Everyman" with humanity, a journalist takes him on a voyage of possibilities as seen through the eyes of leading thinkers in the arts and sciences. (imdb)

Two groups of suburban slackers drive around Calgary trying to score weed, while a third group attempts to retrieve instruments from a locked apartment. Along the way, there are discussions about women and haircuts, and a whole lot of suburban "scenery" (malls, roads, residential neighborhoods, arcades), such as it is.