Film Format: 16mm

  • TARTARUGHE D’ACQUA

    The town of Asti, Piemonte, in Italy, has in its park a very small pond in which there are a great number of turtles, a species « Trachemys scripta » and « Trachemys scripta elegans » protected by the Movimento Nationale U.N.A. Onlus Uorno-Natura-Animali. In spite of the very limited space in the pond, a spirit of well-being prevails, all is calm while each turtle tries to find its place even if it means falling into the water every now and then.

  • Film In Which There Appear

    “The richest frame I have seen in any film when you take into consideration all movements, lines, the beautiful whites and reds and blacks.” – Jonas Mekas, The Village Voice

  • The Queen of Material

    A short procession of colorful material and a mysterious woman lit by the sun. A paean to Kenneth Anger.

  • The Spectre Watches Over Her

    A reaction to the seminal text by Swiss anthropologist Paul Wirz entitled Exorcism and the Art of Healing in Ceylon, this high contrast hand processed film considers a history of colonialism and ethnographic practices in South Asia. At my mother’s village, I re-staged an exorcism once performed on her in the early 1960s when she was a little girl. Possessed by the lecherous entity known as the Kalu Kumara, the Sanni Yakuma healing ritual was performed over a 12-hour period.

  • Kaleidoscope

    Kaleidoscope explores depression in an otherwise vibrant life. It is an original film poem edited to 16mm hand-processed B&W film that has been manipulated through tinting, toning and other cameraless techniques to reflect the fluctuations of living with a mood disorder. Footage collected during the Film for Artists and Film Farm residencies in 2016.

  • Anna and Ariel

    A short drama about loss, friendship and memory. This film presents a crucial fragment from the connecting lives of two characters. Anna is an elderly woman of European Jewish origin, who as a child witnessed a family tragedy. Over time she has learned to conceal her sadness from everyone including herself. Ariel is a young Canadian-born woman who has recently moved into Anna’s building. When Ariel comes across a hidden item from Anna’s childhood, Anna must acknowledge her past. This discovery leads to a breakthrough in the friendship between the two women.

  • Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour

    A document of what happened when a group of radical “Jesus freaks” from Berkeley met conservative Christians in seminaries and colleges across the U.S. “He manages to set off a uniquely hypnotic experience. The viewer discovers the possibility of looking at the film like a ‘winkie’ toy, seeing first one view then flashing to another. Because all footage is sound sync, this screening process hones our responses, until we see more in Land’s three-frame sequences than we would in hour-long doses of ‘normal’ time. Like the study of signs, this study of seconds yields a knowledge of people and truth…

  • Fin, La

    “La Fin” is a first film. It’s an exercise in style where metaphors are mixed freely to create, from a banal morning scene, a world increasingly surreal and unusual. By a wink of an eye, the film then liberates itself from its own symbolic collar to envisage, if not going beyond the limits set by and for the individual, at least a sense of humour that exorcises us from the traditional themes of alienation in our modern world.

  • Potamkin

    In 1933, at age 33, Harry Alan Potamkin died of complications related to starvation, at a time when he was one of the world’s most respected film critics. In his writings, he advocated for a cinema that would simultaneously embrace the fractures and polyphony of modern life and the equitable social vision of left radical politics. This film-biography is assembled out of distorted fragments of films on which he had written, an impression of erupting consciousness. At the Odessa steps, trampling gives breath to the child. The bullet miraculously reforms the face. The Cossacks march backwards, retreating unseen into their…

  • Final News Report

    In this film, one evening’s TV news broadcast from an American channel is juxtaposed with the soundtrack of daily game shows, commercial messages and other found sounds from television viewing. How and what events get capsulated into the 30-second clip? What are the messages of such reductions? Certain themes of militarism, arms use, and the deployment of new weapons recur as symbols of American manhood and popular culture. The film suggests that the choice of news events and the way they are reported reveals more than mere facts. This reductive process necessarily contains the hidden ideology of our times, how…