Film Format: 16mm

  • Wold Shadow, The

    “Wold” because the word refers to “forests” which the poets later made “plains,” and because the word also contains the rustic sense “to kill”…this then my laboriously painted vision of the god of the forest. (SB)

  • Blossom: Gift/Favor

    (Dedicated to Doug Edwards) All titles dominate linguistically: in that sense, any film would be better left unnamed. This little handpainted work attempts to BE a visual “flowering,” and as it is (as Film is) a continuity art, it would seek some visual corollary of the whole growth process (root, stem, leaves, blue sky and the blood-gold growth of the meat/mind-electricity of the film-maker) – but without mimic of either flower or thought process… clear thru to film’s clear “blossoming” in the passage of light.

  • Woodbridge

    “Woodbridge” is a deeply personal exposé of family life within the context of first generation Italian-Canadian Roman Catholics. The film revolves around the journey of a boy from early childhood through adulthood. It highlights the conflicts of growing up in the space between two cultures with radically different customs and values. While this film documents the particular experiences of one child, it is a reflection of a sociological phenomenon common to many Canadian children. “Woodbridge” is different from most other documentary work primarily because the camera adopts the role of the protagonist. It represents the viewer with a multitude of…

  • Work Bike & Eat

    “Work, Bike, Eat” is about youth and being young. The intention in making the film was to catch people and the relationships between things in as natural a way as possible, and to minimize the apparent intrusion of the filming process into the subject matter. The story is really a collection of vignettes from everyday life: getting a job, eating a meal at home with your parents, chance meetings with strangers, taking a nap. A carefree camaraderie pervades the film.

  • World in Focus

    In “World in Focus”, the screen becomes the two-dimensional support of an amazingly versatile three-dimensional object (an atlas) which contains in turn two-dimensional pictures of other three-dimensional objects. The uniform use of a close-up lens creates often ambiguous or nearly unidentifiable images (from the atlas), emphasizing the rhythms, volumes, angles and movements obtained from the handling of the book.

  • X

    A profound and powerful experimental, personal film of one woman’s despair, rage and exhibitionism; a baroque fugue of identity chanting growing from women’s pain to a holistic, self-healing naming ritual.

  • Yeelen

    A young woman looking at herself presents troubling, touching episodes of stark self-reflection. “Yeelan” is an introspective, short, high contrast black-and-white film.

  • Yelling Fire

    “‘Freedom of Speech’ does not include the right to yell ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theatre” (U.S. Supreme Court Justice O. W. Holmes). All existence as displacement: Violence. The rhythming of simple existence.

  • Yggdrasill Whose Roots Are Stars in the Human Mind

    This film, a combination of hand painting and photography, is a fulsome exposition of the themes of “Dog Star Man.” In that early epic I had envisioned The World Tree as dead, fit only for firewood; and at the end “Dog Star Man” I had chopped it up amidst a flurry of stars (finally Cassiopeia’s Chair): now, these many years later, I am compelled to comprehend Yggdrasill as rooted in the complex electrical synapses of thought process, to sense it being alive today as when Nordic legend hatched it. I share this compulsion with Andrei Tarkovsky, whose last film “The…

  • Yonge Street

    In this film, Anderson walks down Yonge Street from Bloor Street to the waterfront, recording the shifting intensities of the cityscape. “It’s as if you had flowed down Yonge Street along with the pollution of life and in the terror of the tunnel met death, and finally felt your body emptied with the rest of the waste into the lake. As the camera peacefully scans the water there is a feeling that everything is being cleansed…” – Rick Hancox, Cinema Canada