Film Categories: Families

  • Spermwhore

    This short film is a queer, feminist and experimental work that began in 2009 and came to fruition in the spring of 2013. Spermwhore is a queer experimental film about unwanted childlessness in a world where normative heterosexual relationships dictate who can become parents and in what way. When it comes to reproduction our merciless bodies reduce us to merely a set sex or given gender. But the longing for children is not limited to our bodies, and the possibility of pregnancy can be gifted, shared and undertaken together.

  • Family Image, The

    A poignant and powerful drama that takes a unique look at aging and its effects on family relationships.

  • Poem

    An ode to my daily environment, and the presences of two beings – one newly arrived, the other recently departed. Images cycle and combine into dream-like passages that reveal the infinite potentials of sight within the finitude of everyday objects.

  • Alberta

    Travels made in Banff and Jasper National Parks, on paths cut through mountains into sky. “A journey without arrival, in the great tradition of Canadian landscape travelogues.” – Richard Kerr

  • Absence is Presence

    Jelena, a young woman from Serbia who has a Bachelor degree in Economics, has been in Canada for a year. Without Canadian experience she works through so called “survival jobs” making her feel homesick. Her mother, Rada, comforts her in long Internet Skype calls telling her that she can always come back. One day, while walking her dog, Rada has a stroke in the streets of Belgrade. When she wakes up in the emergency she finds out that she has lost her dog and that her health issues might be more serious. Hiding the truth of her illness and the…

  • 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,…

  • 13 Related Sewing Machines

    Synopsis Why can’t I hear the sound of sewing machines anymore? A meeting with my family and the history of all their sewing machines. German: Warum hören wir den Klang von Nähmaschinen nicht mehr? In dem Film 13 Related Sewing Machines stiften wir Bekanntschaft mit einer Familie, in der die Nähmaschine immer zugegen war. Der Film ist dritter Teil eines fortwährenden Projekts über unsichtbare Frauenarbeit. I can´t hear the sound of your sewing machine anymore ist eine Hommage an meine Mutter und meine Großmutter und an alle die Frauen, die ständig ein schlechtes Gewissen haben, nicht auszureichen.

  • Wild Currents

    A tragic mistake jolts Teddy and Joanne into limbo. Their spirits bear witness to their past usage of household appliances, as if by electric charge they might uncoil their spectral presences from home and garden.

  • Stars Above (Part 1 of Trilogy: Sleep Cycles)

    Super – 8 filmstrips laid down the length of our long, dark hallway. Giggling as we fumble in the shadows. One flash and it’s done. While children sleep, in the tiny, fleeting window of time that we share, alone at last, the mystery and energy in these whispering, tiptoeing moments feed us.

  • Diving Aces (Part 2 of Trilogy: Sleep Cycles)

    Super – 8 filmstrips laid down the length of our long, dark hallway. Giggling as we fumble in the shadows. One flash and it’s done. While children sleep, in the tiny, fleeting window of time that we share, alone at last, the mystery and energy in these whispering, tiptoeing moments feed us.