Film Categories: Flicker + Strobe

  • Doorway for Natalie Kalmus

    ‘Doorway for Natalie Kalmus’ is a film centred around the use of colour in moving image technology, exploring the disorienting technicolour prismatic effects of the lamp house of a 35mm colour film printer. Through minute shifts across an abstract colour spectrum, punctuated by a mechanical soundtrack, the film evokes kaleidoscopic perceptual after-images (bringing to mind Paul Sharits, Dario Argento and the Wizard of Oz). Natalie Kalmus was the ex-wife of technicolour inventor Herbert Kalmus, and was the colour consultant for hundreds of colour films, including The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, the Red Shoes, Black Narcissus and many…

  • 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.

  • Apparent Wind (Part 3 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.  

  • Christian’s Curtains

    This video was created in response to Christian Lebrat’s installation “R1R2R3R4 (Who’s Afraid Of…)”. Through rapid camera movement, the installation’s panels are converted into flickering colourful textures reminiscent of Lebrat’s film Holon (1981).

  • 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)

  • Passage

    A lost portrait of my brother.

  • Seasons Fall

    Fragments of a forest trail – a path traveled many times, never the same way twice.

  • Luna e Santur

    “Originally commissioned as a short for Ben Coonley’s My First 3D Part 2 at Microscope Gallery, I expanded this project into what it currently is: hooded figures, violent passion, and stroboscopic tenderness brought on by a paranormal encounter I had in the summer of 2015.” –JGS ‘‘A visually assaultive threnody for losses never fully revealed and composed for monstrous times, LUNA E SANTUR mingles sex and death with the supernatural and subnaturalistic.’-Colin Beckett “Moon and sun are elliptically and stroboscopically conjured in Joshua Gen Solondz’s cloistered yet operatic Luna e Santur. In milky, hand-processed images, hooded figures recalling Magritte’s The Lovers enact a…

  • Stillness (Inertie)

    Through an innovative and unexpected approach to 16mm frame-by-frame cinematography, Pelletier offers a deconstructed and introspective view of portraiture. Idle faces come in and out of existence through a dance of light and texture, toying with our perceptual need to project our own image onto the abstract. Reminiscent of a meditative state, the concept of self can be fleeting.