Film Format: 16mm

  • Spiral Transition

    “Spiral Transition” is a candid, compelling and interwoven documentary that explores the filmmaker’s relationship with his mother and how it is changing and evolving as he transitions genders.

  • Rhythm 93

    A Pre-Raphaelite portrait of the visionary state as arising from nervous breakdown. Filmed in bitter winter in England’s bleak post-Thatcher years, using only natural light, the camera’s focus and exposure shift continually in a subversive riff on classical cinematic match-cutting. Perhaps something occurs, but what? Winner, Director’s Choice, Black Maria Film Festival (1994).

  • Rhythm 92

    “The square is the sign of a new humanity. It is something like the cross of the early Christians.” — Theo van Doesburg, upon greeting Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling in Klein Kolzig, 1920 Today’s visual imagery is split body from soul, images employed expressly for their representational value in a linguistic manner; form an afterthought. “Rhythm 92” reverses this, intermingling camera images with light, flare and color in an orchestration of pure form, foregoing meaning. (San Francisco)

  • Kino-i

    A cinematic self-portrait in two parts. In the first half, a half-silvered mirror was placed between the filmmaker and the camera. In the second, the mirror was removed. “Know that the complete secret of prophecy for the prophet is that he suddenly sees the form of his self standing before him, and his self forgets and becomes transported from him, and he sees the form of himself before him speaking with him and proclaiming the future.” – Rabbi Nathan, as related by Moses ben Jacob of Kiev in the Shushan Sodot, 1509.

  • 10-17-88

    Optically printed collage of found and archival footage, with audio collage by John Shaw. (Chicago) “You are never alone, because you are full of all the memories, all the conditioning, all the mutterings of yesterday; your mind is never clear of all the rubbish it has accumulated. To be alone you must die to the past. When you are alone, totally alone, not belonging to any family, any nation, any culture, any particular continent, there is that sense of being an outsider. The man who is completely alone in this way is innocent, and it is this innocence that frees…

  • Eastern Avenue

    Filmed in Berlin, Portugal and Switzerland, “Eastern Avenue” is an experiment in approach for the maker of “Scissere.” In an attempt to explore the nature of intuition, the filmmaker traveled through familiar and foreign landscapes, using impulsive reactions as the motivation for guiding the camera through the different environments. The result is a sensuous, lyrical trip ranging from the ruins and walls of a freak civilization called Berlin, to the former edge of the earth and its endless sea beaches, Portugal. The structure and innate “story” of the film are dictated by the chronology of the experiences and the perceptions…

  • Fish Don’t Talk

    I am sent to camp as a nine year old. I CANNOT SWIM! MY PARENTS HAVE GONE TO EUROPE FOR SIX WEEKS.!! IT IS 1954, and I have not been away from home much … so I refuse to swim and fish off the dock. My mother writes in her trip book. It is the only book she will write. I catch a big fish. The camp director takes my picture… They should have taken me to Europe with them.I would have behaved. (Rick RAXLEN)

  • Genesee

    Shot in the Genesee Valley of New York State on regular 8mm to commemorate the last rolls of Kodachrome. The colours of the leaves and the film stock are augmented by orange colour filters, boosting the contrast and highlighting the rich saturated yellows, reds and orange of stock and season.

  • Analogies: Studies in the Movement of Time

    This film uses a variety of multiple-screen formats to create an intriguing series of visual riddles. The film consists of a series of simple camera movements that are rendered “diachronically” – several different aspects of the action are presented on the screen at once. By playing with time delays between these images, new kinds of space, action, gesture and temporality have been found. Generated from structural principles, the film is both lyrical and sensual and provokes a new understanding of time and cinema. “…a sensual piece of visual music… staggered imagery in everflowing Godardian movements, enhanced by sumptuous colour and…

  • 33 Teeth

    Eddie is a hormonal 14-year-old boy living alone with his mother in the suburbs. One day after school, he accidentally spies on his attractive older neighbor, Chad, as he steps out of the shower and measures himself with a red comb. Not long afterward, Eddie is the victim of a verbal slur by Chad’s friend Tim. This inspires Eddie to enact some creative retaliation. Winner of the Audience Award at the MiMi LGBT Short Film Festival 2012.