Film Format: 16mm

  • space

    Freeze-frames and radio sounds from a Greyhound bus-trip around the United States in June ’75. Optically-printed images of the Oregon coast, streets of San Francisco, California highways, Tijuana, the Grand Canyon, Texas, Louisiana, Washington D.C. and New York jazz.

  • Transformation

    Emshwiller was formerly a painter. Here his animated abstract paintings pass through evolving styles and techniques.

  • Transition

    A spontaneous piece produced without intellectual supression, allowing the dance movement and visual treatment to take its own course.

  • Big Key, The

    A comedy about a piano player who vents his creative frustrations in various ways, causing havoc. With Phil Shreibman, Len Udow and Mary Jane Card.

  • Transitions

    “Transitions” is a film of inner life and speaks of time, reality, power. It depicts the disquieting sensations of being between – between falling asleep and being awake, between here and there, between being and non-being. These metaphysical themes are evoked by the central image of a woman in white over which layers of images and sound (voices) are superimposed.

  • Trapline

    “Trapline” represents a new way of considering film as a vehicle of projected movement… The film is composed entirely of static camera shots. “Ellie Epp’s ‘Trapline’ (1976) maps another way out of structural film toward a cinema of delicate implication.” – Bart Testa, Canadian Encyclopedia “Several filmmakers continue to explore space and landscape on film…. Ellie Epp’s ‘Trapline’ (1976) is the most cooly beautiful of all: filmed in the Silchester Road Public Baths, London, it sets a sequence of geometrically organized shots, outwardly but gently alive with light changes, ripples and reflections, within the continuous, distantly reverberant sound space of…

  • Tree Tale

    “Tree Tale” is a film about people and the places that affect them. It is also about how people change a space when they occupy it for a long time. A girl climbs a tree, stays awhile, then finally comes down again.

  • Treefall

    “Treefall was originally made for a dance performance at the Vancouver Art Gallery, April, 1970. Structured in the form of two loops of high-contrast images of trees falling, reprinted and overlapped.

  • Trees and Elevators

    An expressionistic documentary contrasting technology (elevators) and the natural environment (trees). The filmmaker makes no judgement concerning these two, but rather tries to show the interconnections between the natural and technological worlds.

  • Tremors

    Tall buildings and cars are photographed using the Kinemacolor process (employing colour filters and a water lens). Sturdiness jousts with fragility, past with present, alienation with tenderness, abrasiveness with sensuality, red with green. The camera is moving in the slick of space. Shapes vibrate selectively from the image; others flash as vibrations vary in rhythm and intensity.