Film Categories: Sound Art + Music

  • Slice of Primal Pie

    “Slice of Primal Pie” takes on the challenge of capturing the excitement and spirituality of the percussion group Primal Rhythm in film. Using mixed mediums (Super 8mm, 16mm, animated 35mm stills, colour, b&w, infrared) the images were first shot and edited, then Primal Rhythm composed live to them in the recording studio. As a result this “visual rhythm film” has a very organic feel, as opposed to the traditional slick approach to music videos. “Slice of Primal Pie” is as much about the universal appeal of their music as it is about these self-proclaimed “urban primates.”

  • Urda/Bone

    Intoxication, stillness and desire unfold from a train in Frankfurt to a room in Vienna. A woman (Urda) and a man (Bone) on separate travels meet. Their affects mingle, creating a zone between their bodies in which something happens. Something that belongs to neither one nor the other, but is a third creation. Somewhere between dreaming and being awake, where possibilities are held and lost. This is Urda/Bone. Music by Sparklehorse. Produced with the support of the National Film Board of Canada (FAP) and the Ontario Arts Council (OAC).

  • Animal Nightmares

    “Animal Nightmares” is a conceptual music film which explores the spiritual connection between man and nature. The conflict between man and animal states, extinction and existence, conjures the sad truth that our survival in the modern world is not a given. Featuring music and animation by Paul Watson.

  • Street Sweeper Suite

    A night in the life of a street-sweeping machine as it roams from one street to the next in its endless search for litter. With an original score by Legion of Green Men.

  • Chants

    With a soundtrack of Gregorian chant, the beauty of crucifixes is, through optical printing, made even more sparkling, glowing, and other-worldly.

  • breath

    A beautiful cameraless film based on the text and structure of a haiku, “breath” explores the interplay between sound, image and written word. The soundtrack is created by an optical light reading of three haikus and one short poem, all written by ninth-century Japanese poetesses. The film’s structure is based on the five-seven-five syllabic composition of a typical haiku.

  • Eat Cake

    The mysteries of milles-feuilles and the pleasures of pastry dolloped with whipped cream shall not come between us, nor shall custard tarts tear us apart. No, we will savour them together. Drizzled in chocolate sauce and jam-filled for eternity, we are brothers of a sweeter tooth.

  • Red Brick

    “Red Brick” takes place in a psychic netherworld in which things take place paradoxically. Dancers, singers and other performers appear – pixilated, freeze-framed and swish-panned – while an artist constructs visual pieces in real time. A montage of constantly shifting images that refer to the score creates a pastiche of memories and archetypes. Choreographed by Bill James. Music by Michael J. Baker, performed by Arraymusic. Featuring Marie-Josée Chartier, Marc Richard and Barbara Hannigan.

  • Sick in the Head

    An unprofessional examination and diagnosis.

  • Keith Cole is the New Lisa Lisa

    An attempt at creating a perfect world which contains many Keith Coles.