Film Format: 16mm

  • (ab) NORMAL

    “In ‘(ab)NORMAL’ the relationship spectrum, from paranoid avoidance to smothering and overwhelming attention, is traced through four pixilated sketches.” – Toronto International Film Festival

  • Adagio

    Music as sensuous and longing as a fragrance. Phrases that rise and fall slowly at first, then more and more passionately. A love poem. And also a study of the relation between film phrases and musical phrases. As in the music, the film uses only fades and dissolves between statements. Based on Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings.”

  • Babylon Series #2

    Out of the vagueries of sometime beseeming repetitive light patterns, and the delicately variable rhythms of thought process, the imagination of The Monumental and of the Ephemeral are born to mind hard as nails.

  • Plein Air Etude

    An ecstatic, kinetic formal study of light, colour, and movement shot in the region of the Montreal River which so inspired members of the Group of Seven.

  • Politics of Perception, The

    Selected for the 11th Paris Biennale of Modern Art and included in the collection of numerous museums and universities, “The Politics of Perception” is a film essay concerned with the language of the film medium. At its point of departure, it is a meditation on the images, sounds, rhythm and sub-text of the “entertainment” film. A Hollywood discourse is stripped of its fleshly covering to reveal the mechanics of its manipulations, at the same time liberating the kinematic and photochemical energies “trapped” in its representational content/form. At its apogee it is an invocation of the forms and textures of film…

  • Porcaria

    The year is 1968 and Joaquim and Amalia Quinteiro are just your average young new immigrant couple, drawing blood over money matters and overdosing on culture shock. Into their nest of perfect domestic bliss flies the ever popular, handsome young university student border, Joao. Amalia gets a job and Joaquim’s already flagging machismo shoots off the exit ramp. Perhaps only Joao’s devilish derriere can buttress this poor male ego. A love triangle of unusual proportions, “Porcaria” demonstrates a total lack of resistence to new world charms that has the fish jumping off the walls.

  • Portfolio

    Peter R. Herring, an aspiring young photographer, decides going to school is probably the best thing for him to do with his life. At first Peter’s focus is simple, but he soon discovers a world having certain bureaucratic pitfalls which are inescapable. Opening a “Bad News” bill one morning, Peter discovers that the Bureau of Time-Management has declared him deliquent in his obligatory “Time-payments” and it has no choice but to “deduct time from his life.” Having time zapped away from him makes Peter late for everything. Being late causes disaster to stike, as he loses both his girlfriend and…

  • Portrait of Lydia

    The emotional life of a young art student is expressed in Freudian terms through a succession of images and symbols, constantly combining themselves into famous paintings and sculptures. A barrage of images that tell different stories to different viewers.

  • Portrait of Small Hydro, A

    A sister film to “Water Power,” “A Portrait of Small Hydro” concentrates on three hydro entrepreneurs who bought up old dam sites in New England and rebuilt them for production of power. In 1978, the US Congress passed the Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) which requires utilities to buy power at fair rates from private producers. With a guaranteed return, investors scurried all over the country looking for suitable sites. Charles MacArthur found his “bottomless oil well” in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. In1977, his 600 kw output was worth $12,000 a year. In the early 1980s, it was worth $120,000. But,…

  • Potters at Work

    In Japan, a man works with his sons and apprentices fashioning pots. A woman scoops off water from a clay settling tank while another lifts out heavy, wet handfuls of clay. An ancient brick kiln is walled up at night. Working with understanding and affection, refusing such aids as commentary and music, th filmmaker, creating from the pattern of the potter’s work, shows precisely how pots are crafted and has captured a vision of creativity radically different from western concepts of art-making.