Film Format: 16mm

  • See You Later / Au Revoir

    “The action depicted here is simplicity itself; a man (Snow himself) rises from his desk, puts on his coat, says goodbye to a woman typing at a nearby desk, and leaves the room. But what took a mere 30 seconds in ‘real’ time had been recorded with a Super Slo-Mo video camera (developed for sports broadcasting) and further processed before the final transfer to film, being expanded to a full 18 minutes. With the continuous right-to-left pan in smooth and constant motion, taken from a fixed tripod position, the whole image- with arriving and departing frame details- is fully equal…

  • Seeing in the Rain

    Photographed through the windshield of a Vancouver city bus and edited according to the rhythms of the bus’ windshield wiper, the film transforms the linear “narrative” of the bus ride into a temporal construction that can be described as cubist. The effect of the cutting strategy on the actual temporal organization of the film is as remarkable as its effect on our sense of time. (R. Bruce Elder – Image and Identity) “[Gallagher’s] film embodies the essence of cinema; movement, rhythm and the poignance of ephemeral gestures.” – J. Hoerman

  • BBQ Muslims

    In this short comedy, two Canadian Muslim brothers are sleeping in their home when the barbecue in the backyard blows up. They are immediately suspected of being dangerous Middle Eastern terrorists and their neighbourhood turns against them. This film was inspired by events following the Oklahoma City bombing.

  • Self Portrait (by H. Gayer)

    “Self Portrait” is a pixillated film that takes the filmmaker’s head on a whirlwind tour. In ten short minutes the background changes from waves and woods to Eastern mosaics, Indian architecture, and European monuments, while the figure of the head alters its appearance. A soaring soundtrack employs pan-global elements as well, including samples of Balinese and Tibetan chants, Inuit throat singers, and various choirs. The film illustrates oppositions between natural and man-made environments, the monumental and the ordinary, as well as history and timelessess. Underlying all this is a concern with spirituality and morality that gives this personal film a…

  • Serenity

    A visual symphony in which the striking notes include: hoodoo formations created by eons of erosion that give a strong sense of decay, by Japanese gardens whose layouts provide a structure and acts as a tool for quiet contemplation, and by birds which act as a symbol of man’s soaring spirit and other-worldliness. Music and soundtrack by Darryl Miller.

  • Sex Without Glasses

    “The quintessential boy meets girl story, ‘Sex Without Glasses’ is a tale about relationships – of various kinds. This film has everything from alphabets (manual) to zithers, and features some of Toronto’s most celestial bodies.” – Anna Gronau

  • Sexual Meditation: Room with a View

    Directly in the tradition of “Sexual Meditation No. 1: Motel…” this “sequel” does explore further the possibilities of nudes in a room… (SB)

  • Beach Events

    This film completes a trilogy of landscape/poetry films, which include “Waterworx” (1982) and “Landfall” (1983), and was shot near the family home on the Northumberland Strait in Prince Edward Island. In writing the text for “Beach Events”, I wanted to challenge the cinema’s dominant present tense by imitating primitive “event” poetry, referring superficially to action present on the screen, but gradually slipping out of synchronization with its referent. This practice, together with reading a kind of sub-conscious, internal monologue (also based on the film’s events, but only those past and future), helps the viewer transcend the spectacle of the present,…

  • She Is Away

    The film’s projected time is the basic material of this film and is wrought into a simple form which, by its radically reductionist structure, transforms the material of the dramatic form into a tone poem of waiting and anticipation. (RBE)

  • Sheep

    A man counting sheep as he sleeps. I have never seen sheep as I sleep. The sheep relax the man, he falls into a deep sleep. You are wide awake, moving through the man, maybe sleeping counting sheep. The alchemy, the dream, the scene. (CB)