Film Format: 16mm

  • Here

    an exploration of presence created as a part of the Ladies Film Bee with Helen Hill

  • Maternal Record Not Fully Recorded, A

    super 8 home movie footage captures memories not otherwise remembered while other memories never materialize in the tangible home photo archives

  • Dialogue with Vision: The Art of Spring Hurlburt and Judith Schwarz, A

    An innovative half-hour film featuring two contemporary Canadian women artists at work. Spring Hurlbut and Judith Schwarz have exhibited their large site-specific sculptures throughout the world. The film gives the viewer a unique opportunity to examine the often intangible creative process which an artist explores on the way to completing a work of art. No ordinary documentary, compelling visuals and a haunting soundtrack make “A Dialogue with Vision” a pleasure for all.

  • Girl’s Nervy, The

    Exuberant rhythms are created for the eyes in this nostalgic study of the single film frame, through cutting, pasting, and painting clear and photographed film images. Fleeting shapes in lush, spattered color flicker and dance to big band beats.

  • White Palace

    My early performances in thriller genres are reconsidered in a rehabilitation of images in this film. Though once renounced by me as complicit and misogynist, my filmed body is treated as recoverable for liberation of my memory.

  • Diaries Notes and Sketches: Lost, Lost, Lost

    NOTE: Includes reel #1 and reel #2 only. 60 minutes total. Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shot ten frames, on others ten seconds, on still others ten minutes. Or I shoot nothing. When one writes diaries, it’s a retrospective process: you sit down, you look back at your day, and you write it all down. To keep a film (camera) diary, is to react (with your camera) immediately, now, this…

  • Utopia Blob Thing

  • anamnesis

    “anamnesis” is a handmade diary film exploring home, memory, and history through heavily processed painterly sequences. The film was shot at the Independent Imaging Retreat (the Film Farm) in Mount Forest, Ontario. Selected Screenings: Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, 2009 (Montreal, QC); Berlin International Film Festival, Forum Expanded Section, 2009 (Germany)

  • Uphill Descent, The

    A visual meditation on the natural cycle that leads the viewer through an underworld landscape and culminates in a violent, colorful rebirth.

  • Refraction Series

    “Refraction Series” offers an experimental approach to optics, using simple materials and techniques to generate a range of images of pure light and color in motion. The film is inspired by the ideas of early scientists who investigated the nature of light and visual perception, particularly the experiments and writings of the tenth-century Arab mathematician/scientist Ibn al-Haytham and the English mathematician/scientist Isaac Newton. Selected screenings: TIFF Wavelengths Programme, 2009; Media City Film Festival, 2010; WNDX Winnipeg, 2010