The Little Free Cinema explores the intersections of film and architecture through a rejection of conventional cinematic space, represented in the multiplex, in reinventing the spectacle of cinema as public and accessible. The monthly curation is focused on Canadian experimental filmmakers.

Encouraging viewers to look through a peephole centered within an eye mimicking Toronto’s iconic “Neighbourhood Watch” signs, this microcinema exhibits contemporary Canadian experimental films that rarely, if ever, show within the public sphere. Inspired by the 24/7 public installation the Peephole Cinema (c. 2013) in Brooklyn, New York and Pleasure Dome’s portable analogue microcinema project, The Situated Cinema Project; in-camera, the Little Free Cinema references the design of the little free libraries found across residential spaces in Toronto. Increasing costs of venues for the exhibition of moving image work and the scarcity, or demolition, of affordable spaces for cultural and artistic production in the city were driving forces in the development of this microcinema project. Past and current programming includes established artists as well as emerging filmmakers.

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January 2026 - Rennie Taylor, Tape-stry (2023)
February 2026 - Mark Loeser, Sugar Beach (2011)
March 2026 - Barbara Sternberg, Through and Through (2026)
April 2026 - anivides (Cristal Buemi and Franci Duran), diario de verano (2025)
May 2026 - Cullen Ritchie, Green Pigeon Matte Moving (2023-2025)
June 2026 - Bruce LaBruce, The Bad Breast (2009)
July 2026  - Midi Onodera, Neighbourhood Watch (2026)
August 2026 - Chris Kennedy, Tape Film (2007)
September 2026 - Philip Hoffman, Deep 1 (2023)
October 2026 - Tom Taylor, Moon Dance (2019)
November 2026 - Kate Solar, Somewhere Real (2023)

TOPS 2026 – Mark Loeser, Pinhole Cinematography (1999)
TIFF 2026 – Philip Hoffman, Lindsay McIntyre, Martin Heath and Christina Dovolis