Film Categories: dance

  • Changing Evan

    Is my daughter Evan like a puzzle? Just when I think everything is going well, either a germ will attack or a new emotion will surface. I hear that children change every week. When I was making this film, my daughter was invaded by the chicken pox virus. I was convinced that I must finish this film as quickly as possible because her health was directly linked to its completion. Honourable mention by the Canadian Film Centre at the 2006 Ottawa International Animation Festival.

  • FLOW

    A stuffed pig, a pregnant woman, and a polar bear are among the unlikely cast of FLOW, a playful and surreal video shot entirely underwater. Unfolding within a concrete triptych the players alternately drift and hurry, locked in a dance of beginnings and endings.

  • Hydromancy

    In search of the oceanic feeling: the fusion of subject and object. The oceanic feeling refers to the experience of feeling connected, the sensation of something unlimited and infinite, oceanic as it were. In “Hydromancy” this is made visual with abstract images of water, both a source of inspiration and a creative force. A water dance and dancing water combined. Waves of aspiration, inspiration and exhaltation. An exiting inner search to face the imaginary.

  • Everything

    A woman rants about god, bad haircuts, fame and money, while surreal images of her suburban life unfold beside her. Based on a poem by Janette Platana.

  • I Remember Now, We Never Danced, I Miss You, Good-bye

    Everyday movement, woven into a dance of memory and loss. Selected Screenings: International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2007; Seattle International Film Festival, 2007

  • Monsoon St., ‘77

    Monsoon St., ’77 tells the story of a day in the life of a young tomboy, Tina, who finds escapism in the rural desert of Arizona in 1977. To compensate for her unhappy surroundings, Tina lives in a rich imaginative world. She finds beauty in the natural landscape and comforts herself by summoning familiar figures from popular culture. These fantasies supply the happiness that is otherwise so lacking in her everyday life.

  • Twirl Girl

    “Twirl Girl” is a study of circular motion. It incorporates hand processing, xerography, rotoscoping and found footage in order to transpose the image of a woman dancing in circular fashion.

  • Breakdance Hunx (Market Value Mix)

    An homage to the cylists of the world and routes less traveled. Referencing The Smiths, Run DMC, and Kenneth Anger, this video follows six bike gangs through back alleys and side streets. The gangs travel to a park where a dance battle ensues.

  • Men’s Boutique

    “Men’s Boutique” contemplates what to do (and where to do it) as a gay man gets older.

  • Sports Bra

    Exercise is failure in action. RM Vaughan and Shannon Cochrane try to be fit, sporty, and active people, but bad wigs and poor co-ordination always get in the way.