Film Categories: Abstraction

  • Reruns of the Glow and Noise

    A pail of soil, spread on plastic, becoming grains of light.

  • Leaves Like Feathers

    Leaves Like Feathers A neo-Impressionist film. A painterly film. Leaves Like Feathers was shot mostly with an iPhone Pro Max manipulated to blow out the backgrounds (sunlight) to white, and cause foreground subjects to materialize, dissolve, flash, and ‘morph’ into the light—when shot with a moving camera. The subjects are plants, mostly ferns, which are sometimes described as having ‘leaves like feathers.’ This quote came to mind while I was shooting the film: Having condensed his vision to a small area of the surface of his own lily pond, Claude Monet realized that the fragment could indeed suggest not merely…

  • Broca

    Using poetry, interviews with psychologists and survivors, and corporeal imagery, Broca is an experimental documentary hybrid that explores how the mind-body connection is altered after trauma. The Broca’s Area in the brain is involved primarily in speech production. During a traumatic event or when trying to recall a traumatic event, this area shuts down. This makes it harder for a survivor to talk about what’s happened. Our project offers a platform for survivors to tell their stories both verbally and non-verbally.

  • diario de verano

    diario de verano is an exploration of neighborhood flora in Tkaronto, focusing on Kensington Market, Parkdale and Wallace – Emmerson, areas we live and move through. Experimentation with abstract movement and the physical, compositional properties of foraged materials, strengthened our community/kinship to the land and each other. Artistic practices were explored and shared through gathering rituals, stop motion animation and phytograms, creating complex layers of ourselves intertwined through our latinx identities in this short film. Language: plants

  • How To Burn A Cross

    A Super 8 experimental film transforms the ritual of cross-burning into a stark meditation on violence, spectacle, and inherited American terror.

  • E.C. Roe Expressway

    A Super 8 experimental film and a meditation on living in Windsor, Ontario under the influence of American television, blending dancers from a Detroit TV station with a quiet sense of hometown memory.

  • Danny in the Airship

    Danny in the Airship is a Super 8 experimental film test that blends home movies into an early meditation on space, time, and the memory of my brother Danny.

  • Phosphene

    Phosphene searches for the harmony between the acoustics and the image of sound. The film’s soundscape comprises natural and industrial sounds from the west coast of Canada. Inspired by these sounds, the image was created through cymatics – a process that visualizes sound vibrations through various liquid mediums.

  • A Heap of Broken Images

    This is a film about dreams: analogue, machines, anima and reanimation, nature, decay, and, if we are lucky, something new. Shot on 16mm and 35mm film and hand processed using many different analogue techniques.

  • Woven in Time

    Woven in Time features the wearable art creations of renowned Canadian fabric artist Evelyn Roth animated by her ‘moving sculpture company’ of dancers in collaboration with filmmaker Tony Westman. Evelyn won an ‘Etrog’ in the Best Art Direction category at the 1977 Canadian Film Awards for this timeless artistic classic. The allegorical visual narrative presents transformations of creatures that emerge from the sea, moving onto a vast desert landscape, then into a cocoon state only to be re-born into a lush landscape of color and eventual freedom.