Film Format: 16mm

  • If You Stand With Your Back To The Slowing Of The Speed Of Light In Water

    Images from an aerial tram leaving Manhattan are followed by images of a nearly static bird, of bugs fighting, and of light bending as it passes through glass. Near the film’s end the tram lands in Manhattan, as if it had reversed direction; as in all of Murray’s films, the images and the editing can pull several ways at once. There are no absolutes, and even the light by which we see is altered by the material it passes through.” – Fred Camper “The film aims to illuminate a vital sense innate to perception where inversion is counterbalance and focal…

  • Destroying Angel

    “Destroying Angel” is an experimental documentary that relates two stories of illness, and weaves them into a filmic tapestry of family history, memory and loss. The narrator, confronted with his own mortality, guides us through a landscape of recollections, dreams, close friendships and family ties. Narratives about present-day events interplay with lyrical reminiscences of the past. Eventually, just as the past always informs the present, the two styles of narrative begin to merge. In the end, we are left with a moving portrait of the struggles involved in dealing with AIDS, cancer, memory and intimate relationships. “What was clear from…

  • Défi des étoiles

    “Ladies and Gentlemen: Would you please now rise for our Canadian troops in the Persian Gulf War…for our Gold Medal – winning team, and for our Country?”

  • 8 by Richard Kerr: Made in Quebec 2000-2009

    Contains: Pictures of Sound (11:30 min. 1998) i was a strong man until i left home (27:30 min. 2000) Collage d’Hollywood (8:30 min. 2003) Décollage d’Hollywood (9 min. 2004) Le bombardement du port des perlesn(9 min. 2004) A Universe of Broken Parts (11 min. 2007) Action: study (5 min. 2008) De mouvement (6 min. 2009)

  • Disobey

    A young man decides he can no longer sit by while his people are being brutalized. disobey is an unsettling look at the seeds of hatred and the complex zone between justice and revenge. — Media Wave Film Festival

  • Tziporah

    “Tziporah” is the Hebrew work for a bird. The film is another cinematic reflection on loss and grief. Premiere: October 2007, New York Film Festival: Views from the Avant Garde January, 2008, Rotterdam International Film Festival April 6, 2008, San Francisco Cinematheque April 27&29, 2008, San Francisco International Film Festival September 6,2008,Toronto International Film Festival:Wavelengths Program October, 2009, FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic October, 2009, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland

  • This Unnamable Little Dream: or a Traced Sketch of Two Brothers

    a personal narrative inserted into an homage to the Brother’s Quay commissioned for the Splice This Remake This program.

  • Stained

    Clear film dyed and stained with household products; tea, beat juice, etc. created for the Halifax Experimental Music Festival (HEMF 8)

  • Surface Tension

    snow, water, christmas lights, and shopping malls created for the afcoop Super 8 Xmas screening

  • Dishes

    measuring time in coffee spoons created as a part of the Ladies Film Bee with Helen Hill