Film Format: 16mm

  • Special of the Day

    In an event designed specifically for the film, two of the most renowned young chefs working in Canada, Jamie Kennedy and Michael Stadtlander, come together to collaborate on a special meal for a surprise guest. As contemporaries who also happen to be old friends, the chefs complement each other’s distinct visions as they work side-by-side in the highly charged atmoshphere of a restaurant kitchen. In a subtle cherography of action and sensitivity, their work unfolds in the film like a performance, conjuring up a delightful visual treat. The chefs pepper the action with their own insights, shedding light on the…

  • Speck

    This new release print version of “Speck” is relatively true to the original 1989 version. Over the years many attempts were made to remake the film into a new work. Gradually the filmmaker realized that the new experiments, although interesting, were too closely tied to the original work. A compromise was made so that the best of the new experiments were incorporated into this final print. Initially, the idea was to have three synchronized Super 8mm films printed in superimpositions to one strip of 16mm. Given the inherent possibilities and limitations of the process, the A-B-C- rolls tended to favour…

  • Spend It All

    A rich portrayal of the lives and music of the French-speaking Cajuns of Louisiana, featuring the Balfa Brothers, Marc Savoy and Nathan Abshire.

  • Spirit Matters

    “Spirit Matters” is a silent monologue on the simultaneous perception of space and time. The film was constructed without a camera by writing directly on clear celluloid and then “translated” by refilming the resulting strips on a light table so that they appear as “subtitles” beneath the original inscription. The film functions as both process and object – an interactive experiment in reading, writing, and seeing.

  • Spring

    This brightly hued cine-poem is a walk through the natural world, its slowly gathered rounds of superimposition conjuring a season of renewal and re-awakening.

  • Sprout Wings and Fly

    This touching tribute to Appalachian culture profiles legendary, old-time fiddler Tommy Jarrell. His unpretentious folk wisdom is interlaced with family scenes and reminiscences, plus plenty of old-time music.

  • Square Inch Field

    “‘Square Inch Field’ surveys the micro-macro universe as contained in the mind of man. In that square inch field between the eyes… Rimmer projects a vision of the great mandala of humanity’s all-time experience in space/time… powerful aesthetic integrity.” – Gene Youngblood

  • Square Root of Negative Three, The

    “A barrage of intense optical printing …the cinematic equivalent of a psychotropic drug trip.” – John Griffen, The Montreal Gazette “… makes a bold effort to actually blow your mind ….” – San Francisco Bay Guardian

  • Staccato

    Love, sex and death in Paris. The films were built frame-by-frame in-camera, each being a 100 foot roll. No cuts were made. Number 1-Esmeralda: A rampage through cathédrale Notre-Dame, with thanks to Victor H. Always nice when Esmeralda asks Quasimodo “Pourquoi m’avez-vous sauvé?” isn’t it… Number 2-Jezebel: Not a rampage but a secret run through rue st-Denis and Montmartre, le Moulin Rouge, Place Pigalle. The sex trade in Paris as seen from a dark and bright night. Number 3-Shiva: Not a secret run but a flight through the sprawling, centuries-old cemetery, Père Lachaise. A landscape of old glass, old iron…

  • Standard Time

    “In Snow’s ‘Standard Time’ a waist-high camera shuttles back and forth, goes up and down, picking up small, elegantly-lighted square effects around a living room very much like its owner: ordered but not prissy. A joyously spiritual little film, it contains both his singular stoicism and the germinal ideas of his other films, each one like a thesis, proposing a particular relationship between image, time and space.” – Manny Farber, Art Forum