Film Format: 16mm

  • Through the Green Fuse

    “Through the Green Fuse” is a winterscape, a journey of rhythms: trees, ice floes, rushing water and a solitary figure. The film is based on a madrigal by Monteverdi that is itself based on a poem by Petrarch. Music and image intermix to speak of passions, beauty and solitude. It is a film in which voices celebrate, ice imprisons, water invites and the figure journeys. “…and so that my suffering may not reach the shore/A thousand times each day I die, a thousand I am born….”

  • Ties That Bind, The

    “The Ties That Bind” tells the story of a woman who lived in Germany during the Second World War, and like most Germans has had to pay the price ever since for letting Hitler’s actions continue unchallenged. This woman is the narrator of the film as well as the filmmaker’s mother. “The best of New Directors/New Film Festival…The film is an original: a moving and courageous tribute from a achild to a mother’s beleaguered memory.” – David Edelstein, The Village Voice, April 1985 “‘The Ties That Bind’ is a scrutiny both of a mother/daughter relationship and the demands of natural…

  • Time’s Wake (Once Removed)

    Described as “a collection of ‘windows’ on a personal past” “Time’s Wake (Once Removed)” incorporates material from an earlier version. On the earlier version: made from material I collected through the years when I went back to visit my parents at L’Ile d’Orleans, Quebec. It includes both home movie and other types of footage. In this film, the camera “I,” in extension with home movie reality, is a living participating entity. The film represents an endearing but removed artifact, a strange contradiction between liveliness and frozenness. (VG) “A beautiful film that frames the landscape with multiple devices (camera, window, trees)…

  • Bible Plus

    Animated mosaic tiles, shaped by a magical hand, tell a witty, slightly irreverent history of man.

  • Tiny Bubbles

    A discreet sharing of secrets.

  • to bear oneself

    In the style of underlit plasticine on cel, “to bear oneself” is a short animated film about a bear who wants to be a man. His attempt to join the human crowd fails and the bear finds himself alone in despair. Ultimately he decides to accept himself as he is and starts acting like a bear.

  • To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror

    Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) was a French chemist who gave the first accurate scientific explanation of the mysteries of fire. He also proved the law of conservation of matter, which states that matter can be neither created nor destroyed. His work and this film are situated between modern chemistry and alchemy. The film stages a drama of abstraction and theoretical realism. La vie quotidenne seen photo-chemically and musically. This film is a materialist projected-image conservation of matter. (MS)

  • TODESSTREIFEN – ein deutscher Film (TS VV III) | THE DEATHSTRIP – A German Film (TS VV III)

    An experimental narrative moving across inner borders and inner edges.

  • Together and Apart

    A delightful musical drama about sexual and professional choices, “Together and Apart” is a tale of reunited lovers and has the cast singing part of the narrative in bed, across dinner tables, and on the road. Micah Barnes has composed an original score for this daring film.

  • Toile, La / Shade

    “‘Shade’ is a near exhaustion of the possibilities between camera (aperture, focus) and nature (sun, wind). It is a beautiful study-poem on the undying presence that renders the world perceptually. In this minimal area, the variations are pursued with quiet doggedness, each frame revealing the secret of the next.” – Mike Reynolds, Berkeley Barb