Film Format: 16mm

  • Out In the Garden

    Set in and around the house and garden of a middle-aged upstate New York academic, Grenier’s intimate experimental documentary portrait explores, in an innovative form, the thoughts and feelings of one man dealing with AIDS. Awards: Michael Moore Award, Best Documentary, 16th Atlanta Film & Video Festival 1992; Cash Award at the 1992 Edison Black Maria Film & Video Festival; Cash Award at the 23rd Sinking Creek Film Celebration Part of the TALKING PORTRAITS series.

  • Oxford Hotel

    The shape of the film is determined by an innovative optical printing technique which forms a rhythmic pattern, a kind of vibrating image that results in a dazzling display of colour, movement, and interplay of form and space.

  • P.M.S. (Positioning My Sexuality)

    A self-reflective escape investigating both contemporary society’s portrayal of the male role model and the position of the filmmaker. Inspired by discourse surrounding the nature and function of societal roles and media representation, “Positioning My Sexuality” challenges conventions affecting all males.

  • Avocado Vegetarian Turtle, The

    A scientific report about a bizarre, new creature and its life cycle, told from a child’s point of view. On one level it is amusing, on another, the new creature can be seen as a symbol of healing the fragmentation of living with and within different worlds.

  • Painting with Light (Leach)

    The craft and art of stained glass is presented in an entertaining cinematic style. From the early stages of design through the choice and cutting of glass to the glazing and cleaning of the finished panel, all are detailed through the expression of artist Robert Jekyll.

  • Paper Age and Ancient Flight, The

    It was in Egypt 4000 years ago when mankind first developed the aircraft. Using the pyramids as launch pads, ancient civilizations had mastered the air before the invention of the wheel. For over a thousand years cultures around the world used papyrus, or paper, to construct simple yet effective means to travel through air. Is it possible that this age of paper thrived for so long, but has remained virtually unnoticed? In in-depth interviews, William Deiches describes how he rediscovered this ancient technology. While researching pyramid contruction, he stumbled unexpectedly onto secret plans for hot air balloons, gliders and hang…

  • Paranoia Corridor

    This film is an elaborately hand-painted step-printed work composed primarily of luminescent greens and blues in constantly shifting symmetrical shapes which suggest, rather than delineate, passage through a corridor. An increasingly menacing evolution of patterns is finally interrupted by a series of static shapes which almost appear to be symbols of resolution, ending on an almost-thigh-bone image.

  • Parcelle

    The French term “parcelle” refers to a fragment, particle or bit. Filmed frame-by-frame in the camera, the film rests upon the alternate appearance and duration of tiny coloured squares and circles placed on a black background. Inserted in series between plain white or coloured frames, the particular arrangement of the items on separate frames forms, when projected on the screen, certain visual relationships producing a specific perceptual experience.

  • Away

    “The story of a man’s search for a long-lost brother set against the backdrop of a famously deranged movie production, ‘Away’ draws from everything from Conrad and Chris Marker to Coppola and daytime TV for its inspiration. Yet, given the diversity of these influences, it remains a sharply focussed and emotionally intimate work: Steve’s search for his brother is after all a search for something like home or self, a truth that rings with perfect clarity through the din of craziness swirling around it.” – Geoff Pevere “An addictive mixture of fact, fiction and found footage, all whipped – through…

  • Pas de Trois

    “The question of whether certain kinds of film formalism tend to be sexually reactionary is encapsulated in this little triptych. Each of the three sections includes three kinds of information. In the first section, we see single frames of strippers dancing, single frame clusters of red and then yellow, and single frame clusters of what looks to be a light source. The imagery and clear colours mix retinally, and with the flickering light source, makes this section reminiscent of looking into a movie projector. In the second section we see live action footage of a little girl presumably competing in…