Film Format: 16mm

  • Reflections II

    A meditation on light and water; landscape as self-portraiture.

  • Seasons Fall

    Fragments of a forest trail – a path traveled many times, never the same way twice.

  • Discovery of Canada, The

    She constructs a symbolic tale of tenderness and violent tendencies to describe her uneasy relationship with the man, the land, the French and those who were there before her. “A disturbing allegory of invasion and conquest where the traps of simple binaries begin to loosen through an investigation of the invader.” – Susan Lord and Marian McMahon

  • Faust 3 : Candida Albacore

    Music by Doll Parts. Sound by Rick Corrigan. Just as the word “Idyll” of Faust’s Part 2 is rooted in the Greek “idein” / “to see,” so is “Candida” in “candidatus,” as used in “the white robed army of martyrs” of the “Te Deum,” as well as “Albicare” / “to be white” or “Albicore” out of the Portuguese (of Arabic origin) designating a kind of tunny (or white tuna): thus, Faust’s 3 is white / white as well as (from sugar’s “white”) candy, and fish: it is the modern Walpurgisnacht to Faust, but the daydream of “his” Emily: it exists…

  • Faust 4

    Music by Rick Corrigan. This is the imaged thought process of young Faust escaping the unbearable pictures of his broken romantic idyll, mentally fleeing the particulars of his dramatized “love,” Faust’s mind ranging the geography of his upbringing and its structures of cultural hubris – the whole nervous system “going to ground” and finally “becoming one” with the hypnagogically visible cells of his receptive sight and inner cognition … all that I could give him of Heaven in this current visualization of these ancient themes. (Stan Brakhage)

  • 350 MYA

    In Terra Long’s 350 MYA, a sheet whips before the camera, shaped by the same wind that forms the rigid, undulating lines of sand below it as the film conjures the continued presence of the now-vanished Rheic Ocean in the Tafilalet region of the arid Sahara Desert.

  • Ants on a Log

    A look at the popular children’s novelty snack (celery, Cheeze Whiz, raisins) as it is swarmed by real ants on an actual log. The piece aims to stimulate discourse on human objectification of nature and ecological hierarchy. Though humans may be able to create triumphant scientific accomplishments like Cheez Whiz, the ants’ ability to organize and colonize will long out live that of the humanity. This film can be screened also be screened as 16mm loop.

  • Faust Film: An Opera: Part 1

    A collaboration between composer Rick Corrigan and Stan Brakhage, featuring Joel Haertling as Faust, Gretchen LeMaistre as Gretchen, Phillip Hathaway as Faust’s friend, and Paul Lundahl as Servant. This is the realization of a 30-year-old dream (grant applications and fragments of script from the 1950s published in Brakhage’s “Metaphors on Vision”), a wish of the young filmmaker to film a “modern” Faust (quite opposite of the traditional Fausts) which finally came to a fulfillment as unpredictable and as absolute as, say, three decades of living experience.

  • Conservatory

    Stamens and pistils are lit in rapid succession behind the dome of the Palm House at Allan Gardens in Toronto. The plants trade colour, making alien scenes in the conservatory. Solid forms, too near to the eye, become muddied and indistinct, in constant passage, but the dome and the grid are fixed.

  • Assembly

    Assembly is a short film that illustrates the struggle of the working class in Peru, in relation to the global workers movement. The grainy images, canted shots, still images and Russian montages offer a captivating five minutes of social reality in the fight against Neoliberalism. This film was commissioned by the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) with the goal to capture the spirit of Super 8 and celebrate LIFT’s 30th anniversary.