Edward Gohl

A modern-day silent film, a city symphony and a surreal odyssey into the numbing world of work, Bob Kotyk's I'll Be reflects life as it's lived today.

A short film by the co-writer of The Forbidden Room, Spirit Workers Union features a cast made up of numerous Winnipeg rail workers (both current and former), including the director's own father, who worked as a railway electrician for 37 years, to tell the story of a group of ghost workers who decide to form a union.

A border guard at the US-Canada crossing of Tolstoi, Manitoba falls victim to the effects of a strange weapon that separates her mind from her body. With her consciousness set adrift through the old Ukrainian Orthodox churches and tourist stops of Southeast Manitoba, she finds herself witness to a crime that, in her disconnected state, she’s powerless to stop.