Film Format: 16mm

  • Doubt

    “Doubt” combines a large range of formal techniques, from collage animation to trance psychodrama to structuralism to diary film to found film in some very humorous ways. Under it all, the film tells the vague story of a man’s search for happiness within a chaotic world which seems bent on restricting all joy.

  • Bright and Dark

    “It is an abstract exploration of the chemistry dancing inside us like light in sealed dark places.” (EE)

  • Dream of Naming , A

    Colliding visions of woman as the Venus, the child, the grotesque, the rebel, the victim and the poet defy us to examine our own contradictions. This expressionistic film is a visual interpretation of the poem “a dream of naming,” written and performed by Judy Radul. “An extraordinarily beautiful, endlessly confrontational film.” – Toronto Festival of Festivals

  • Tourist of memory

    In this journey through time and place – an Ottawa snowstorm, Niagara Falls, and the filmmaker’s childhood home – recollections come unbidden and half-articulated, of trains, marshes and wind turbines, resolving at the inexpressible place where memory lies. A stand-alone chapter of the video essay, “In Between (remembering and forgetting),” “Tourist of memory” was filmed in 16mm, Super 8 and video, with sound design by Edmund Eagan.

  • Importance of Hortense, The

    Hortense Gordon was a teacher as well as an artist, and studied abstract painting under one of the great teachers of that movement, Hans Hoffman. As an artist who makes figurative images, even in what is known as “experimental” animation, I had to do some research not only on Hortense, but on abstract painting. Also, researching Hortense turned up as much about her teachings (and, by extension, Hoffman’s) and philosophies as her work, so in the end I felt I was working through the film as a pupil. These are my exercises. Part of the TAIS Eleven in Motion program.

  • In Between (remembering and forgetting)

    Composed of nine film and video chapters made between 2004 and 2010, “In Between (remembering and forgetting)” journeys through an abstract landscape marked by half-glimpsed memories and fragments of the past. Using multiple formats and a fluid episodic structure, the work expands beyond the personal to create an enigmatic piece where the viewer’s own experiences and memories resonate. The result is a sustained poetic meditation on family, place and time.

  • Hokees

    “Hokees” is about Anahida, a contemporary Armenian woman, pregnant with the child of her Turkish lover who is haunted by the past. An artistic blending of the real and unreal, the past and present are tightly woven into emotionally visual experience. In Armenian, Hokees literally means “soul” or “spirit.” Writer: Aaron Martin | Producer: Brent Barclay | Editor: Mark Baxter Cinematographer: Kim Derko | Cast: Arsinée Khanjian, John Mighton and Linda Gizirian Awards: Gold Prize for Experimental Drama, Houston Film Festival, 2000; Best Short Film, AFFMA Film Festival, 2001

  • Complete Works of Joyce Wieland, The: 1963-1986

    Available for purchase in the CFMDC Shop: https://www.cfmdc.org/shop. This 5-disc set brings together for the first time the film works of Joyce Wieland (1931-1998), largely regarded as one of Canada’s most influential and important artists. Spanning a period from 1963 to 1985, the collection includes sixteen shorts and two feature films made from new high-definition digital transfers. A multi-disciplinary artist who produced work in a wide variety of media, Wieland’s intelligent and irreverent explorations of female sexuality, domestic life, ecology and Canadian nationalism put her at the forefront of feminist practice. Wieland made her mark in the film underground in…

  • Afloat at Dawn

    A tiny baroque ode to fleeting darkness and pretty make-believes. Partly made in Fredericton with the support of the New Brunswick Film Co-op , the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec’s artist-in-residence Program, the National Film Board of Canada’s Filmmaker Assistance Program and TAIS, the Toronto Animated Image Society. Music arranged and recorded by Marc-André Simard. Selected screenings: Anim’ est International Animation Festival, Special Mendion of the Jury, 2010; Les rendez-vous du cinéma québécois (Montreal, QC) 2010; Festival du n nouveau cinéma (Montreal, QC), 2009; Interfilm Berlin, 2009

  • Keratin Reserve

    A film diary. 673 finger/toe nails saved, a large mess of 16mm rescued from darkroom garbage bins. The former adhered with nail polish topcoat to the latter, optically printed, and finished as a print.