Film Format: 16mm

  • Entelechy

    A complex work that portrays three evolutionary states in human development – Physicality (harmony with the environment); Intellectuality (disharmony with the environment); Spirituality (unity with the environment).

  • Light Study

    “Light Study” is a poetic examination of the wetlands, forests, and ecosystems of the Niagara Escarpment. Meticulously filmed over several seasons, it explores the unique landscape of the Bruce Trail using 16mm single frame photography. Here, nature presides over an ephemeral human element, its primordial essence both medium and agent of light’s eternal change. Soundtrack composed by Graham Stewart, member of the experimental music collective Viosac. Selected screenings & awards: Valle D’Itria Film Festival, Best Animation Award, North America (Italy, 2014); 3rd Delhi Shorts International Film Festival, Special Mention, Documentary (India, 2014); Summer Slam Film Festival, Jury Award, Best Documentary…

  • Entropiscape

    A synthesis of visual, aural and kinetic elements that evolve from one state into another. Although no statement is made within its content, the film does follow a curve with a beginning, middle and end.

  • Goin’ Ape

    A man driven to the edge seeks refuge in a go-go bar while sleaze bags plot against him. He saves a girl he once knew from unspeakable perils.

  • Regarding

    Regarding is a film inspired by scene no. 50 from The Red Violin (1998). In this free adaptation, the violin has been changed into a camera, an object that ignites a young woman’s passion for fame. **The dialogue and music from the film were re-mixed with permission from the producers of the film, Rhombus Media**

  • Ephemeral Solidity

    This is one of the most elaborately edited of all the hand-painted films of late – a Haydenesque complexity of thematic variations on a totally visual (i.e., un-musical) theme. This film is composed of 35mm hand-painted images reduced to 16mm film, single-frames, shots of two, three, four frames and, occasionally, slightly longer shots, all interspersed with a variety of calculated lengths of black leader which cause a flickering of abstract patterns in rhythmed darkness.

  • de(con)struct

    Double exposed and edited entirely in camera this work plays with ideas of gender expression and creation while addressing the possibility of conflicting aspects of one’s self identity: the perpetual construction and deconstruction of gender.

  • Far From

    Constructed with repetitions and variations in reference to the musical form of a nocturne, Far From is an accumulation of the layers, density and noise of existence. The film evokes the ghosts of lives lived and the traces of lives being lived, rising. French Synopsis: À l’instar d’une nocturne, les variations et les répétitions du film « Loin de » agencent les couches, la densité et les bruissements de l’existence – les fantômes de vies passées et les traces de vies toujours présentes, en devenir.

  • Colour Theory

    Goethe’s colour theory dealt with the optics of colour relations while Rudolf Steiner’s and Kandinsky’s theories attribute emotional, musical, and spiritual affects to colour. North American Natives see personality traits, states of mind, seasons, races and the four directions in the four colours: red, yellow, white, black. What’s in a name, what’s in a word? A world of colour

  • Love Me

    Using only text-on-screen, Love Me distills the emotions of an earlier film, Beating: emotions conflict, confuse and are difficult to reconcile. The texts ‘speak’ unsaid and unsayable thoughts, impolitic or just impolite. They are suppressed exclamations from past injustices and hurts; angers surface which are interrupting, erupting and demanding of attention.