Film Categories: Landscape

  • Drive: automatic/standard

    A film about cars, monster trucks, and the North American driving landscape.

  • Canadian Pacific

    Vancouver harbour, with its railyards, mountains and passing ships, is a vista in fluid transformation as three winter months are reviewed in ten minutes. What interested me about the shot were the horizontals: train tracks, the water, the mountains, the sky. In the way those four elements would change. (DR) Can be projected alone or in double-screen format with Canadian Pacific II.

  • Cape Breton Endangered Spaces, The

    This film documents the large scale clear-cutting on public lands on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia and areas that are still uncut that are in urgent need of wilderness preservation.

  • Japan: Kesei Line Single Take

    This film is part of an ongoing series of 16mm films simply called “Japan.” “Kesei Line Single Take” is a visual poem; its imagery (of passing Japanese landscape) is at times like that of Abstract Expressionist painting. This entire film is comprised of one take- there are no cuts, no camera moves, no exposure, focus, or shutter adjustments. “Absolutely captivating.” – Tor Lukasik-Foss, Art Gallery of Hamilton

  • Caress

    April light, naked silvery branches, craggy bark, towering in a blue sky. How do you embrace a tree that has given you four years of pleasure? Two weeks before I moved away, I filmed its portrait with my camera, bending its light in passionate strokes.

  • Oil Wells: Sturgeon Road & 97th Street

    Highlighting the repetitive nature of oil wells in northern Alberta, this film documents a sighting common to the Canadian prairies.

  • Serenade of Reflective Moments, A

    The film explores the relationship between still and moving urban landscape images. These images provide a glimpse of what is around us and let us experience the city in a new light.

  • Soleil, Le

    A cyclical journey on foot, bicycle, and car with a tunnel of darkness and a majestic celebration of light through natural elements and spectacular landscapes.

  • If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now

    “If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now” is about the divisiveness over land, the relationship of public and private space in small-town America, and the concept of home. Using documentary strategies, landscape stills are juxtaposed to stories “ripped from the headlines” of a small-town newspaper. The struggle over public space described in the stories reflects universal concepts of space, privacy and property ownership.

  • Saskatchewan Part 2 (That’s My Wonderful Town)

    Brian Stockton’s series of eccentric autobiographical short films continues with “That’s My Wonderful Town,” an ode to Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada – past, present and future. The Supers return for part 2 with another stunning musical score, and the filmmaker’s son, Keaton L. Stockton, appears as “Kindergarten Brian.” “Saskatchewan Part 2” also features special appearances by Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, and David Letterman’s gas pump jockey, Dick Assman. Filmed in glorious 35mm Panavision®, this is Saskatchewan like it has never been seen before.