Film Categories: art & artists

  • Death Of A Bathhouse

    Combining footage from the final days of St. Marc’s Spa with interviews from Toronto artists Sky Gilbert, Keith Cole, Brad Fraser, Drasko Bogdanovic and Shane MacKinnon, The Reading Salon looks at one of Toronto’s longest running bathhouses through the lens of the artist.

  • Fairyland

    A whimsical journey into a land of beauty and nonsense.

  • Aileron

    A take on the myths of Sisyphus and Ophiuchus. The filmmaker imparts the ending of a motion to a rolling ball and likening it to that of psychosis that can be described as a giant rolling boulder. This “boulder” is symbolized by a medicine ball in the film.

  • Arrested Decay

    A film based on a novella of the same name by the filmmaker. A video poem where nations of dilapidated buildings is the focus and the richest peaceful nation lives in substandard housing and has an inadequate food supply.

  • Dear Tree

    A video poem about clear-cutting forestry and its effects on the air we breathe. The film draws parallels between present day and the renaissance.

  • Drawing A Blank

    A psychedelic B&E leaves a sketchbook open and results in a lot of questions. A paradoxical sacrifice is made when one is committed to the page. Does one make high art, for the main stream or low brow art?

  • G/R/E/A/S/E

    What the hell is G/R/E/A/S/E? … a handmade décollage film / Vinyl and Celluloid Party / the last piece of the “Film Quartet” trilogy [with FILM QUARTET / POLYFRAME (2006-2008) & KINOSTURM KUBELKA / 16 variaciones (2009)] / a deconstruction / Sandy / Danny / Sanny / Dandy / … both faces at the same frame? / […] ? […] / A new (sub)versions film… all from the original Grease (1978) / a Re-Play [to – with] Grease? / A Musical? / Found Footage Film ? Appropriationism / Experimental Cinema must be serious only? / Inspired by Dziga Vertov, Mimmo…

  • Seeker Wing

    One person makes the long and difficult journey towards finding their own beauty. In trying to mimic the beauty of others around them, they repeatedly fail at their attempts to be something they’re not. Only when they muster the courage to look inward, do they find what they were looking for all along.

  • Inferno

    Dante’s fantasy of hell, and his yearning after the Epic Poetry form of Virgil, the Latin poet and the magnificent illustrations of Gustav Dore (the actual inspiration for the film). Presented on each of the 76 illustrated first edition plates, a fast-moving condensed version of Inferno takes place, with a voice speaking the appropriate lines of Dante, according to the Lawrence Grant White English translation.

  • Epilogue

    Epilogue: a section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened. A trip to bury my grandmother’s ashes results in an unearthing of things long obscured by time. Imbued with unanswered questions from the Lion series, Epilogue continues the biographical inquiry of The Weight of Snow and chronicles the aftermath of a dying matriarch and a family navigating cohesion.