Film Categories: Landscape

  • La Grande Dame (étude)

    A graphic and vertiginous portrait of la Place Ville Marie in Montreal, Canada. Originally shot on Super 8 and edited in-camera, blown up to 16mm for exhibition. Selected screenings: Media City Film Festival, 2012 (Windsor, ON); Images Festival, 2012 (Toronto, ON)

  • Memory Worked By Mirrors

    A mirror in the filmmaker’s backyard reflects his childhood home. The black frame of the watermarked mirror becomes a mysterious portal, distorting brick, branch, and flesh into an amorphous hodgepodge. A self-portrait.

  • Christ Church – Saint James

    In the spring of 1998, Christ Church – Saint James, a historic black church in Toronto’s Little Italy, was destroyed by arson. All that remained were walls and a pit, and over subsequent years, the site was overtaken with graffiti. This film has taken on the layered form of the site itself: the space and its surfaces becoming tangled and multiple, the grid of a stone-filled window giving geometric form to simultaneously occurring images of concrete, nature, waste, paint, and sky. Music by John Butcher.

  • Manor Road

    Trains travel to and from a fixed point in space beneath a variable coloured horizon.

  • on the day it started there wasn’t a cloud in sight

    it was about 10 minutes to five o’clock when it descended upon the city.

  • Akin

    “Akin” marks the first creative collaboration between Toronto-based artist Chase Joynt (Everyday to Stay) and NYC-based filmmaker Brooke Sebold (Red Without Blue). With haunting suburban visuals backed by the rich sounds of Toronto based-band Ohbijou, “Akin” powerfully engages in a relationship between an Orthodox Jewish mother and her transgender son as they navigate silent secrets of a shared past. Hauntingly beautiful. Rarely have I watched a film that is such a perfect union of parsimony and punch. It left me breathless. – Michelle Stone Perfectly timed and sequenced, “Akin” is so resolutely personal in it’s detailing. Joynt points to a…

  • little fountains

    A meditation on cultural appropriation and nature’s myth. Prompted by Roland Barthes’ “Mythologies”, the videomakers have found a microcosm of the new age wasteland within little fountains. The work is an object focused meditation within a young woman’s life is brought to attention.

  • Barge Dirge

    Built in 1972, The Rothesay Carrier, one of the largest sea-faring vessels of her kind ever constructed, spends one long lonely year trapped by ice in a Canadian Arctic hamlet. Subsequent to the shooting of this footage, she was crushed and melted for scrap. A portrait study of an object explored through the structure of film editing and the structure of the object itself.

  • Scaffolding (Andamio)

    Eduardo, a snob publicist who lives cranky most of the day and David, a shy student of literature are neighbors in a building under construction. After 6 months hardly greet a scaffold intercede between them causing unexpected reactions in each. Spanish with English subtitles

  • Second Phase

    In observing the volatility and liquid nature of what appears to be solid, “Second Phase” exists as a discovery of form through process and quietly observes a community space that remains constant amongst all the things that pass through it.