Film Categories: Landscape

  • Coming + Going

    A portrait of the energy of urban life in split-screen. “Coming + going” was shot on one roll of regular 8 film, with all editing and split-screen effects created in-camera. Selected screenings: Time Inside the Image [3], Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Jan. 31-March 31, 2007; Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, 2006; European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, 2006; Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, 2005

  • Underfoot & Overstory

    The Friends of Hickory Hill Park work to protect nearly 200 acres of unique urban parkland in Iowa City, IA. The organization’s mission statement must be produced, the inaugural calendar approaches. Nature images run parallel, collide and drift beside the demands of group writing and open space. “A film at once playful and thoughtful, visually deep and linguistically complex (and funny!). ‘Under Foot & Overstory’ weaves together a commmitment to activism with a love of looking at the natural world. The Friends of Hickory Hill Park, an Iowa City-based environmental group, work to protect a unique urban space and to…

  • You Are Not From Here

    “You Are Not From Here” is a record of a rapidly disappearing vernacular landscape. With an oblique narration about the process of gentrification, the film explores the notions of discovery, belonging and the meanings we project on our environment. Shot in Super 8 and narrated by Philip Horowitz. Selected screenings: Mix New York, 2005; Athens International Film Festival, Ohio, USA, 2005; Antimatter Film and Video Festival, Victoria, BC, 2005

  • Amour, l’Amour Shut the Door Por Favor

    “A surrealist delight, a playful series of human melodramas occurring in a single day. Beautifully shot in black and white, ‘L’Amour l’Amour’ features an eccentric cast of characters, archetypes that hint at larger narrative structures… This is the type of film that is both pure visual spectacle and profound philosophical statement, a wonderfully absurd mix of laughter and tears.” – Barbara Goslawski, Take One Magazine

  • Timbre

    “Timbre” is a short film exploring sensory perception within an urban environment. The public space of the city is deconstructed into the private experiences of four women and their unique connections made between sight and sound.

  • still | move

    “still | move” is a visual essay of the photographic album in which I sociologically explore the history of my family. Channeling through old postcards, torn letters, and discarded photographs, I document and archive the snapshots, the landscape where my father’s family lived, and the home movies shot by my grandfather. I mark myself, as a filmmaker and a member of the family, to understand the history and to chronicle the decay of a prairie railroad community. – Michael Rollo

  • Jane’s Window

    “My grandmother cherished her large dining room window for the opening it afforded her onto the world. From this perspective she would espy the arrival of friends and family, contemplate the change of seasons and reflect on time past. On the shelves of this window she collected mementos of a childhood in China, life as an artist, and the travels in between. Combining images of my own travels through Japan and China with images of the home my grandparents built, ‘Jane’s Window’ reflects on the passing down of memory, curiosity and creativity across generations.” (CK) Selected screenings: Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto,…

  • Flamingo

    In “Flamingo” an old lady tells the filmmaker about her life as they ride a Las Vegas bus: her arrival in the city in 1960, her career as a casino cashier and her recent personal tragedies. Her story is retold over Kodachrome Super 8 images of neon signs along the Las Vegas strip.

  • World’s Worst Architecture

    “I was pretty into him, but we weren’t looking for the same thing at all.” Against a backdrop of gritty black-and-white images two guys give their take on trying to connect in the city. Screenings: Inside Out (May 05), Reel Pride Halifax (July 05), Lisbon Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (Sept 05), London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (April 06), Frameline30, San Francisco (June 06), Outfest, Los Angeles (July 06), Milwaukee Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (Sept 06), Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (Oct 06).

  • Contact-Nature

    A day’s ritual of improvisational performance and contact dance, set amongst the forest, mountain and ocean landscapes of Cape Breton. An improvisational film in the sense of an “event” between dancers and filmmakers that expands upon the breathtaking environments.