Film Format: 16mm

  • First Dispatch from Atlantis

    An animated journey through the lands of the dead. Using collage and multiple exposure, “First Dispatch …” creates a dryly humorous but subtly menacing environment, with references to ancient civilizations, religion, and war. Related to the work of Max Ernst, Joseph Cornell, and Larry Jordan.

  • First Hymn to the Night – Novalis

    This is a hand-painted film whose emotionally referential shapes and colours are interwoven with words (in English) from the first “Hymn to the Night” by the late 18th century mystic poet Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg, whose pen name was Novalis. The pieces of text which I’ve used are as follows: “the universally gladdening Light…As inmost soul…it is breathed by stars…by stone…by suckling plant…multiform beast…and by (you). I turn aside to holy Night…I seek to blend with ashes, Night opens in us…infinite eyes…blessed love.” (SB)

  • Blue Cigarette

    When filming smoke, in color, cinematographers must avoid the “blue smoke” phenomenon. “Blue Cigarette” is a direct cinema experience on 16mm film, it takes the same time of a cigarette burning and is filled with cigarette burns. The strip was tortured, scratched, punctured, erased, colored, and animated: an exploration on the volatility of the film medium, as if it was itself a cigarette and one could smoke it all the way.

  • Pulp Revelation

    “Pulp Revelation” is a surreal tale born from the bizarre realm of the Bible’s Revelation prophecies. A cryptic vision of the second coming of our maker…but did we make the maker? Is redemption, betrayal and rebirth a never ending cycle for mankind? A grand yet intimate journey of memory, faith and the zenith of artificial intelligence.

  • horses in the year of the dog

    Twin portraits, an immediate love between new friends considering motherhood under the roof of a fierce matriarch and Cheru the dog shortly after birthing five pups. A swim, a birth, a love and a loss developed in Hibiscus and Lavender and saturated in deep blues.

  • Fist Fight

    A frame-by-frame collage of everything imaginable. First shown in a New York production of K. Stockhausen’s Originale Track from these performances. “Breer…contemplates and manipulates ‘still’ images from his past in what is apparently a moving family album. Black-and-white photographs of his wife as a girl, of himself at his work table… are scrambled together with fragments of cartoons, a handwritten letter passing too fast to be legible, fingers, a bare foot, a mouse in a cartoon trying to turn on a lamp, and a real mouse falling through space – to isolate a few of the more striking images.” –…

  • My Fuzzy Valentine

    Put the Playboy centrefold in the hands of a Dyke and she will make her into a monster. A pulsating world of bug-eyed lesbian sasquatches and vaginal caves created from reclaimed textiles. Visual artist Allyson Mitchell’s shape-shifting materials and colors explode off the screen on hand-processed and scratched 16mm film.

  • Bubba

    BUBBA shows the portrait of an old man (the filmmaker’s grandfather), altered in several, increasingly abstracting ways. The first way the man is shown is through composite imaging, and the use of masks while shooting 16mm on a Bolex camera, achieving surreal, distorted, cubist-like impressions of the face. The second effect was achieved by sandwiching the negative print and positive print of the original portraits and printing them using a Model J printer. The third, and final effect was generated by hand processing the negative/positive hybrid, alongside negatives from a previous film. The concluding effect is a feeling of the…

  • Five Feminist Minutes

    A compilation of 16 short films on feminist issues made by independent Canadian women filmmakers. Contents: 1. Family secrets / by Lorna Boschman and Kim Blain 2. New shoes / by Ann Marie Fleming 3. Escapades of one particular Mr. Noodle / by Sook-Yin Lee 4. A letter from Violet / by Elaine Pain 5. Too tough / by Marie Annharte Baker 6. No choice / by Christene Browne 7. We’re talking vulva / by Shawna Dempsey and Tracey Traeger 8. Exposure / by Michelle Mohabeer 9. Prowling by night / by Gwendolyn 10. Shaggie / by Janis Cole 11.…

  • Flamingo’s Bigi Wonderland

    A portrait of “Flamingo”, an elderly Flemish emigré who has constructed an elaborate wonder-world of painted and recontextualized junk-objects on the grounds of his apartment building in Toronto. In taking a contemplative “tour”, the film emphasizes the continual process of metamorphosis and revision that animates the garden under the care of its energetic founder.