Film Categories: environment

  • White Condo

    In this hyper-real age of simulated imagery and self-curated surveillance, many artists are returning to metaphors of authenticity and duplication to investigate the particular character of this post-millennial moment. Theorists like Virilio have interrogated the ways in which contemporary seeing modifies experience, encouraging the extreme desire for other worlds and, essentially, for disappearance itself. White Condo is my ironic attempt to contribute to this complex terrain, a satiric project for exploring the myriad dysfunctional ways that we humans attempt to ‘master’ ourselves and our increasingly artificial environments.

  • The Season Word

    Still but twisting eye / from fall’s wither to first snow / where lives my wonder.

  • Mills

    The ruins of a nineteenth century farm in the brush off Moatfield Drive in Toronto – a stone shack without a roof and, not much further, a well, long since abandoned as a sewer. We made a quick inventory: splintering branches; stars and asterisks; coded tags.

  • Landform 1

    Studies in motion, made red, black and blue by tone and tint. To be present in a landscape is to turn from vision to a menacing rhythm.

  • On Sundays

    A record of textured surfaces and passing throughts on an uneventful Sunday spent in quiet contemplation at home, accompanied by the memories of defocused lights on a somnambullstic nighttime streetcar journey. Produced in collaboration with poet Goran Simic, commissioned by the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) for Poetry Projections II.

  • Routes

    Tree rhythms in the backyard of my parents’ house.

  • Midway

    Electric reveries forged from the pulsating lights on the Canadian National Exhibition.

  • Quanta

    Particles in space recorded during an afternoon on familiar waters. Quanta is an investigative record of patterns found in the observable Universe, as contained within the perceptions of a Bolex taken for an excursion in a rowboat. Special thanks to Ajla Odobasic.

  • Waterfilm

    Two film strips illuminated by passages of water: one aboard a ferry crossing the English Channel at day, the other on the banks of the Seine river at night. The soundtrack is generated directly by the projector ‘reading’ the images shot in Super-16mm.

  • Cairo In One Breath

    Every day, people are being replaced by machines. The adhan is a 1,400 year-old oral tradition in the process of unprecedented change in Cairo. After 60 generations, thousands of individual muezzins are being replaced by a single voice broadcast from a radio station as part of a plan of the Mubarak regime. As the Adhan Unification Project takes hold, Egypt undergoes Revolution and regime change. The film follows muezzins from when they heard rumors of the AUP through its implementation, which since 2010 has displaced thousands.