Film Categories: Earth

  • migration

    A late summer prairie storm as heard from above… someplace between this atmosphere and the next…

  • Plethora

    “Plethora” is a documentary about stuff. Several individuals and professionals from psychologists to sociologists discuss the reasons why people obtain, collect , store, hoard and creat attachments to things. The movie examines the personal storage industry, consumerism, compartmentalization of private lives and containment of belongings from the past and for the future.

  • Tortured by Sidewalks

    “Tortured by Sidewalks” is a very simple film about portraiture. It is the first part in a series of North American landscape films that I have been shooting for the past few years. The central aim of the film is to make a filmic “sketch” of one of the most photographed landscapes on earth – Peggy’s Cove. The film was shot on Super 8 and Pxlvision in order to convey my reaction to this striking landscape.

  • Arc Light

    “Arc Light” is a film essentially about travel. It is the second part in a series of North American landscape films that I have been shooting for the past few years. The central aim of the film is to formally examine two of the most photographed landscapes on earth. Simple formal devices are utilized in creating this simple portrait of Niagara Falls and the Grand Canyon.

  • Shoulders on a Map

    “Shoulders on a Map” is a film about travel, form, and essentially my thoughts at the time towards Canada as a nation. It is the third part in a series of North American landscape films that I have been shooting for the past few years. The central aim of the film is to formally examine the Rocky Mountains on Super 8 film. Simple formal devices are utilized in creating this portrait. “An endless inventory of trees, snow, rocks and water rolls by onscreen in this experimental travelogue. Shoulders on a Map is a Super 8 homage to transportation, motion and…

  • Fragile

    “Fragile” is a video that deals primarily with theories of remembrance through a simple formal examination of the texture, rhythm, and colour of a city at night. Shot on HI-8, this video deals primarily with the relationship that is created between the abstracted imagery, and the linear soundtrack that records my mother reading to my sister and myself as children.

  • Negation

    “Negation” is an attempt to create an abstract document of where I live, Regina, Canada. During production there was one restriction while shooting – everything had to be shot in a 10-block radius from my house. The use of negative B/W imagery was utilized in an attempt to “look” at my familiar surroundings from a different perspective, and I felt that this formal choice would provide a more accurate representation of the location being documented.

  • Bad Karma

    A short experimental animated film. Using hand-drawn imagery and found imagery taken from many sources. All combined to present an apocalyptic portrait of the western industrialized 20th-century world.

  • Making Pictures

    “Making Pictures” is an experimental film that follows a fine art photographer being photographed by a documentary crew as he travels through China “making pictures” of massive industrial projects. The film contrasts the photographer and the laborers ‘at work’ and brings up complex questions about making art in that context. The film was photographed as a home movie on black and white super-8, hand-processed and blown up to 35mm for release. All of the lab work was done by the filmmaker including the optical printing and print processing. The texture of the film is as impressionist as the photographers’ work…

  • 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.