Film Format: 16mm

  • What Ignites Me, Extinguishes Me

    An industrial psychedelic self-portrait, created with original footage shot in deserted factories on the south side of Chicago, manipulated extensively through optical printing.

  • What Isabelle Wants

    Utilizing human pixillation, Isabelle’s demand to nurture conjures a variety of sensations… perverse, kitsch, sweet witch voodoo?

  • What Wants To Be Spoken, What Remains To Be Said

    What Wants To Be Spoken, What Remains To Be Said uses an imaginative and lyrical narrative to interweave three stories: The Canadian Legend of Marguerite de Roberval; the daily life of an unknown pioneer woman; and the versions of these histories as presented by a museum tour guide. In representing what has been lost, What Wants To Be Spoken, What Remains To Be Said seeks to affirm a place in history for women and acknowledges the act of the imagination in the mediation of the past. What Wants To Be Spoken, What Remains To Be Said is produced and directed…

  • When East Meets East

    A documentary that looks at post-colonial identity, in particular Chinese identity and its construction in the international cinema of ethnic Chinese. Canadian filmmaker Kalli Paakspuu and student activists from China’s pro-democracy movement, Kevin Feng Ke, used an hermeneutic approach and double-voice techniques to expand our notions of the Chinese by surveying the 90’s cinema from Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, United States and Canada. The filmmakers question the taken-for-granted identity within ethnic communities, weaving a geographic and cultural reality that is uniquely contradictory and inhabited by multiple identities living outside national boundaries.

  • When the Light Grey Man Carries Your Luggage

    Based on the poem of the same name by Joe Rosenblatt (Governor-General Award Winner) and read by the poet in the film. Environmental and electronic sounds, found footage and footage shot for the film combine with the poet’s voice to evoke the eerie landscape of the poem in an original interpretation. The usual poetic questions regarding existence, love, death and bureaucracy are cleverly broached.

  • When the Mind Hears

    “When the Mind Hears” is part of an ongoing body of work in both photography and film. This work was motivated by the challenges I face in communicating to my daughter who is deaf. It stems from my observation and my own experiences of growing up different. This black-and-white film is an abstract response to visual memory and sensory development. (AH) “…with distance, respect and the unromantic gaze, children are observed: they run with an unshakable sense that the earth will support them. Underwater shots of a swan swimming, webbed feet pushing against the water moving it aside to propel…

  • When Women Are Crazy

    Three women spend a summer’s afternoon in a garden overshadowed by a convent and the towers of the Roman Catholic Basilica. Six words – Truth, Beauty, Strange, Charmed, Up and Down – provide the basis for visual and poetic metaphors about sex, death and crazy women.

  • Where

    “Where” is a film carved from a period of intense personal introspection. Images incessantly search for roots, reverberate into the past, present, and future, inquiring into the mysterious, stirring perceptions, and discover where there are more questions than answers.

  • Black Vision

    … inspired by the only passage in Jean Paul Sartre’s writings which has ever specifically concerned me – the passage from “Nausea” wherein the protagonist sits in a park and imagines his own suicide. (SB)

  • Where Does Mess Come From?

    “A hybrid of narrative and performance, film and video that uses a baroque train trip to suggest the eruption of chaos behind every stray desire. Loose enigma gets its due here, but it is when the tape is plainest – as in a sequence where a woman reveals fantasies of men that approach ‘Cosmo’ dimensions – that things get most fascinating.” – Cameron Bailey, NOW “Where Does Mess Come From?” is a story of chaos in its most pedestrian form. The constant breakdown of order in the universe is also the constant breakdown of order in our lives. The need…