Film Format: 16mm

  • BOOKCASE

    The idea for “BOOKCASE” came out of my desire to educate myself by creating a catalogue of film techniques. I was attempting to distill the elements of film to a pure state by stripping away any meaning from the images, to explore film as simply the masking and filtering of light. For subject matter I shot things which had, at one time or another, struck a chord within me. In doing so, I realized that I was also creating a catalogue of my own memories. I have always seen memories as discreet units of light, not unlike books on a…

  • Platform

    “‘Platform’ focuses on the meanderings of a hip prima donna (Kimberly Pike) who picks her platformed feet up from cords tangled on the floor of a studio filled with movie lights of all shapes and sizes. A tight, hard-edged and extremely self-reverential work of mixed media influences.” – Donna Lypchuk, eye Magazine

  • Birds of Paradise, The

    This is a hand-painted work which involves a variety of colours applied within gouged and scratched shapes which approximate both swift shifts of bird-shape (legs, beaks and feather-spreads especially) and the Bird of Paradise flower-form as well, the former tending to metamorphize into the latter across the course of the work.

  • Bouquets 1-10

    “Bouquets 1-10” consists of ten one-minute films covering a variety of subjects. The procedure entails using the film strip as a canvas with the freedom to film frames on any part of the strip in any order, running the film through the camera as many times as needed. Each bouquet of flowers is also a bouquet of frames, mingling the plants to be found in a given place with activities that happen to be there at the time. Bouquet 1: The Mount Ventoux, from top to bottom over a distance of twenty miles: yellow poppies and mountain flowers mix with…

  • Freeze-Up

    Rescued from the filmmaker’s storage loft, this early Hoffman film is an allegory of modern man, journeying into an urban electronic maze, seeking human contact in a landscape of store mannequins and disco dancers.

  • Vacancy

    Set in the once-utopia of Brasilia, “Vacancy” looks out at a world where personality is no longer possible.

  • Death Threat

    A comic farce about Yasmeen Siddiqui, a young Muslim woman. She has just written her first novel and can’t understand why no less than fifty-nine publishers would reject a romantic epic like “The Unquenched Wench of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.”

  • Eve-olve!

    A short clay-animated film which takes a humorous look at the phenomenon of Social Darwinism. The arbitrariness of the selection process becomes evident as three different characters are selected for or against, on the basis of quite dubious criteria. The ubiquitous hand of Darwin deals summarily with each character.

  • TV Did This to Me

    Some people are too attached to their televisions. This film uses photocopies to animate one girl’s intimate afternoon with her TV set. As the world around her explodes with excitement, she remains plugged into the main drain. This is a love letter to a girl and the boob tube.

  • Candy Kisses

    Two girls going through a break-up try to avoid bitter drama and embrace the sweetness of why they liked each other in the first place. Through stop-motion animation their hearts burst and candy tears fill the screen to perform a sad crazy dance.