“Prepare to face the power of the ultimate dimension!”

Breaking out of their imaginary purgatory and into temporal space, a disagreeable crew of aliens invade Canada, subjecting everyday life to the rules of cinema as a strategy for colonial domination.

Fragments of 434 Canadian feature films from 1970-1989 are folded into this found-footage feature, many of them scandalously rare, dominated by the much-maligned phenomenon of the ‘tax shelter’ or Capital Cost Allowance production. Under this policy, staid social realist traditions were assimilated and/or displaced by tentative, “commercial” stabs at genre, kinesis and effect. Taking Shelter is an overdue overview of a transformative moment in our national cinema.

Celebrate Canada Day in style with the world premiere of this impossibly Canadian epic!