Film Categories: Ecology

  • memento mori

    A meditation on (im)mortality, mediated by a lifetime’s compendium of images, memento mori is a layered time-lapse exploration of the total photographs captured over the course of the filmmaker’s life – over 120,000 in total. This all-seeing archive is blended into permutations and combinations of subjects, objects, percepts, dreams, and experiences, to form an encyclopedic index of the possibilities of sight. “A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies,…

  • Serena Gundy

    Serena Gundy Park, in Toronto, so named for the late wife of Toronto businessman James Henry Gundy, who influenced the financial character of early twentieth-century Canada. Gundy had owned the parkland as a family estate, and upon his death in 1951, donated the land to the city in memory of his wife. In early spring, the trees remain bare from winter, on cusp of renewal. The film takes her name for its homophonic relation to the nursery rhyme Solomon Grundy (born on a Monday, christened on Tuesday, married on Wednesday…), which cycles through the days of the week that chart…

  • Bridge 1A

    An interstice.

  • Wastewater

    The North Toronto Wastewater Treatment Plant lies in thick brush downhill from a hydroelectric corridor. The eye bounces, guided by the vertical forms coming up out of the valley, and a low flame bridges these movements.

  • Blue Guitar

    Things as they are are changed upon the blue guitar.

  • Field

    An afternoon spent in an orchard picking fruit with family. “In the midst of beings as a whole an open place occurs. There is a clearing, a lighting.” – Heidegger

  • Gulf

    This film was shot on the north shore of Cuba looking towards the Gulf of Mexico, just months before 4.9 million barrels of oil was spilled by Deepwater Horizon between April 20-July 15, 2010. Wave patterns fill the frame, tearing apart the filmstrip itself. Selected Screenings: Berwick FIlm & Media Arts Festival, 2017 (Berwick-on-Tweed, UK)

  • Parhelion

    An elemental study of refracted light within the multiple states of water (solid, liquid, gas). Also known as a ‘sun dog’, a parhelion is a halo formed in the sky by the interaction of sunlight with atmospheric ice crystals.

  • Passage

    A lost portrait of my brother.

  • Reflections I

    A meditation on light and water; landscape as self-portraiture.