Film Format: 16mm

  • Divine Mannequin

    “‘Divine Mannequin’ combines the media qualities of video and film with the graphic quality of an animated charcoal line drawing. The images – a subjective point of view of a runner, looped images of buildings and spheres, and a high angle close-up of a man’s face – are placed in a matte frame within a film frame. Rimmer’s film also underlines the human experience with the soothing rhythms and sounds of the runners’ stride, pace and breathing. The spectator is swept along with the aesthetic of everyday movement.” – Maria Insell

  • It Only Hurts When I Cry

    A queer re-imagining of the classic “Beach Blanket Bingo,” set to a rousing musical number by Donna Loren.

  • Kinestasis

    “KINESTASIS” consists entirely of advertising still images. These are collaged and heavily image-processed to achieve a phantasmagoric effect. The multiplicities of advertising images are occasionally juxtaposed with quickly morphing “slit-scan” images of skulls in mass graves. Multiplicities as viewed from opposing sides of the capitalist coin.

  • Lacuna

    Lacuna: 1. an empty space or a missing part; a gap; an absence. 2. a discontinuity in an anatomical structure. Selected screenings: WNDX Festival, Winnipeg, MB, 2009; Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, Montreal, QC, 2009

  • Divine Solitude

    A performance film featuring dancer-choreographer Nana Gleason, whose solo works are an incisive and spellbinding alchemy of modern Western dance forms and Far-Eastern traditions. “Nana Gleason makes of her art an almost monastic exercise that follows its own set of gestural imperatives. Most notable is the way she flirts with a nameless physical otherness, sometimes through the use of physical extensions (a single platform boot, an extra long arm). She is a compelling figure, lovingly revealed in Lariviere’s film.” – Robert Everett-Green, The Globe & Mail “Lariviere, supported by the discreet cinematography of Peter Mettler and Kemp Archibald, has kept…

  • Ciao Sienna, Ciao Bella

    A hand-drawn animation using various markers, ink, stamps and pens. Susy Raxlen, a professional master printer, tackes clear 16mm leader. Music by Oscar Peterson.

  • RIFF

    RIFF is a short portrait of a Chicago-based tap dance team; three women who call themselves ‘Rhythm Iss’ These Bold women use dance as their voice, choosing to express themselves through tap. Their movements give life to a message of empowerment and celebration. In this film we drop into their practice space to experience the raw beauty of their dance rehersal.

  • No. 5 Reversal

    “Photographed in reversal, hinting at psychodrama, lyric pastorale, structural film, ethnographic document and home movie this fragmented travelogue ranges from coast to coast before plunging south of the Canadian border. Begun with the bedside manners of two women photographed in close up, NO. 5 quickly relegates its protaganists to a stammered recitation on the soundtrack, a radio collage of pop tunes, natural sounds and white noise. Its studied compositions and stunning b/w photography close with an image of its maker framed between ruins of her own site, glimpsing worlds in construction.” – Mike Hoolboom

  • Division

    Erotic Feminism. A short sexy film which pauses briefly to reveal the inner subjectivity of the female/filmmaker. Starring Steve Butson and Kika Thorne, camera by Timo Reiman, lights by Jerry Shallow.

  • Lot 22, Concession 5

    Hand-processed 16mm film imagery, tinted, toned, and transformed, is combined with memory fragments of a rural past to create a visual poem about family, place, and time. Filmed at Philip Hoffman’s Independent Imaging Retreat in Mount Forest, Ontario in 2008, with sound design by Edmund Eagan. The title refers to the lot and concession number of my great-grandfather’s farm in Westport, Ontario, as recorded in the 1911 census. The voice is a fragment of the past, taken from an old recording of my father, Leonard McCann, who passed away in 1992. Selected screenings: 8th International Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris,…