Film Format: 16mm

  • Touched

    “Touched” utilizes studio, verité and animation techniques. The bulk of the film was shot in Brockville in March, 1970, at a junior grade school. It attempts to show the reactions and relationships of children in an environment that encourages creativity.

  • Tough Bananas

    As many people know, a “banana” is slang for an acculturated Asian who is yellow on the outside but white on the inside. “Tough Bananas” is a film by Chinese Canadian director, Keith Lock, from a nihilistic script written by Andy Xu. The story is about the friendship between two fourteen-year-old boys that comes into existence and blossoms, but is ultimately destroyed by betrayal. Bob Lin and Ted Wang meet in their schoolyard on a fateful day when Bob is bullied by bigger boys. It is Ted who heroically comes to his rescue, and after that Bob and Ted become…

  • Tournesols Colores, Les

    “Les Tournesols Colores” is a differently timed and coloured version of “Les Tournesols”.

  • Big Deal, So What

    Set in the polyester 70s, “Big Deal, So What” is a deceptively simple look at the social dislocation of Rachel – a skeptical teen whose discontent sets the story in motion. Rachel leaves home and endures a number of subtle miscues, mild mishaps, and astrological misfortunes. Much to her chagrin, it is an unexpected gesture of goodwill from mother to daughter that brings her to the threshold of post-suburban independence. This is a playfully poignant film about what life is not supposed to be like.

  • Tournesols, Les

    The film presents a field of sunflowers. The focus is adjusted frame-by-frame in succession according to a series of patterns on particular plants situated in different parts of the field. The diverse configurations placed on separate frames of the filmstrip appear, when projected successively, simultaneously on the screen. Thus, filmed one after another at different focal lengths, the sunflowers combine during projection to form one spatio-temporal image.

  • Tower, The

    “The Tower” is a short animated film reminding people why they speak in different languages. It will provoke discussions concerning language rights and raises the question of whether or not two people who speak two different languages can get along peacefully.

  • Trace

    The memory of a nearly perfect evening. (RBE)

  • Traces

    “Traces” synthesizes two trains of cinematic thought – the imagist/poetic/abstract tradition and the conceptual/critical tradition – to create a formal yet lyrical work which traces the story of light coursing through the world. Inherent in the methodology of this film is a critique of media representations of life and light. Therefore “Traces” is a composite, a setting one beside another of different kinds of representation: abstract, documentary, narrative and poetic. This setting side-by-side allows the spectator both the pleasure of engaging in the movement and development of the film and at the same time a critical purchase from which to…

  • Traces Stepped

    “Traces Stepped” intends to explore the affective relation between time and the moving-image through Bergson’s notion of “la dureé,” or duration.

  • Trains of Thought

    My primary concern when making “Trains of Thought” was the cinematic portrayal of isolated characters. The four individual sequences are essentially temporal portraits; the characters are seen in the context of their relationship to the passing of time. They neither interact with other characters nor do they encounter consequential narrative events. Rather than using a clearly defined narrative relationship to connect the four episodes, I have employed various formal and thematic devices to unify the separate sequences. The use of shared imagery, common formal techniques such as the variations on fixed camera perspectives and the complementary nature of the various…