Film Categories: found footage

  • Suburban Is a State of Mind

    Nostalgia appropriated from Hollywood soundtracks addresses the problem of artistic innovation in a post-modern age by using videotaped images projected from a broken Super 8 projector.

  • Two Eastern Hair Lines

    Sometimes, rifts between us are as wide as rivers, and sometimes, as small as hair lines. Using bleaching and painting techniques on found footage, “Two Eastern Hair Lines” explores communication, conflict and isolation. “West of the pass you will meet no more old friends.” – Tang Dynasty poem Awards: Jutra Nomination for Best Animation, 2004

  • Family Portrait

    Through re-photography and the combination of narration and imagery, “Family Portrait” deconstructs a family photograph and its ability to conceal a past rather than reveal one.

  • Cathode Ray Tube

    “Cathode Ray Tube” explores society’s obsession with television. While indulging in his favourite past time, Raymond’s brain goes into overdrive.

  • She was so young back then

    A rephotographed excerpt from “Fast Times at Ridgemount High” is reconstituted as seedy pornography.

  • Retrato Oficial 1 | Official Portrait 1

    After declared unfit to stand trial in England, former dictator Augusto Pinochet stands up out of his wheelchair and greets supporters.

  • Collage d’Hollywood

    “Assembled from a shoebox of movie trailers found at a dilapidated Saskatchewan drive-in… ‘Collage d’Hollywood’ unravels and reorganizes the tight grammar of Hollywood cinema into a multi-formed pastiche that fuses film and visual art sensibilities.” – Brett Kashmere “A mesmerizing film that demands to be watched again and again.” – Matthew Hays, Montreal Mirror “…histrionic horror and action movie trailers distilled into pure panic.” – Jason Anderson, Eye Weekly Selected screenings: Festival du nouveau cinéma, nouveaux médias, Montreal, QC, 2003; Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporaneo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, 2004; Nemo Festival, Paris, France, 2004; Images Festival,…

  • removed

    Using a piece of 1970’s porn film, nail polish and bleach, the filmmaker has created a new pornography, one in which the woman exists only as a hole – an empty, animated space.

  • Does this mean we’re going together?

    Part two of the artist’s trilogy exploring the depiction of sexuality in teen films of the 1980s, in which a scene from “Valley Girl” is re-worked.

  • Family Outing

    Using home movies to depict the inner feelings of a closeted adolescent, “Family Outing” attempts to negotiate a queer position within the conventional family structure. Its ravishing, optically printed images form a haunting commentary on childhood, alienation, love and ultimately renewal. “Bradley re-edits his source material with clinical precision to produce a film of enormous strength which, through image alone, acts as a kind of early warning system for the tsunami of coming out.” – 2001 Antimatter Festival of Underground Short Film & Video, Victoria, BC Selected screenings: “Short Film from the Canadian Underground” International Touring Program, 2002; Yorkton Short…