Film Format: 16mm

  • So Beautiful

    A bittersweet love story about modern-day romance versus suicide. Late one night, a woman returns to the apartment she used to live in with her now ex-boyfriend. She knocks on the door and under the impression no one is home, lets herself in and begins to gather her belongings. On her way to the bathroom she passes the bedrom door and glimpses her ex-boyfriend’s naked, sleeping body. Then in the bathroom she finds an an emptied bottle of sleeping pills in the sink. She goes into the bedroom to confront him and during their dialogue they make up and fall…

  • Dark Tower, The

    This hand-painted step-printed film begins with streaks of glare light and vibrantly colored forms apparently in the sky for in as much as there appears, frame center, the tapered shape of a tower, a silhouette as it were against the backdrop of the flaring sky. As this shape of tower disappears, the conflagration of scratches and paints seems grounded and takes on the semblance of a battle of knights, their lances, horses, et al, often against a scattering of star-like flecks until finally the silhouette of the tower reappears as if much closer, certainly thicker and straight-sided. The film finishes…

  • Vision Point

    Visionary film. Experimental landscape animation: Moving time-lapse, telephoto cropping, and laborious re-registration create a surreal portrait of Western Canada. The “vision point” occurs when object and subject fuse, dissolving the distinction between the view and the viewer.

  • Smack

    Part documentary, part fiction, and highly experimental, Steve Sanguedolce’s “Smack” follows the story of three brothers (Antonio, Sybil and Zed) as they try to find their way in the world. The brothers exercise their youthful autonomy in defiant ways, exploring all that is forbidden (drugs, crime, violence). Their teenage years are filled with unhealthy, dangerous and criminal behaviour that eventually begins to pull them apart. The stories are told by actual subjects talking about their own lives, and range from religious transformations to heroin overdoses; they are funny, frightening, horrifying and all real. Toronto-based director/cinematographer Steve Sanguedolce matches these interconnected…

  • Rape

    A painful story of a follow-up interview with a rape victim, Anita. In an effort to get to the truth, the police officer, Detective Voss, has the difficult task of asking probing questions about an event Anita would much prefer to forget. No less disturbing than the questions he asks is the truth that is finally revealed.

  • Way I Sees It, The

    “Stares and catcalls from construction workers – a springtime hassle for some women with the right feminine look. This work makes us watch the achievements of that look and underscores in its very construction using humorous sound metaphors.” – Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, Toronto, 1999

  • KAIN UND ABEL – eine Moritat | CAIN AND ABEL – A Moral

    We are shown how God sows the seeds of discord and divides mankind into good and evil. –What hast thou done? The voice of my brother’s blood is crying to you from the ground. “A queerly provocative retelling of the Bible story about a man’s bloodlust for his brother.” – MIX New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film & Video Festival, 1995 “‘Cain and Abel: A Moral’ (1994) retells the story of the Bible’s most notorious brothers, questioning the roles of discord and resistance (and featuring an extraordinary birth scene not to be missed!), all in a style that hovers…

  • MEIN ZWEITER VERS. | MY SECOND VERS.

    My first video take – a film, that rhymes between the lines. In German with English subtitles.

  • Vibrant Marvels

    “We did not come into this world. We came out of it…” – Lyall Watson, Gifts of the Unknown We rarely think of the past which occurred before our birth, yet our body and mind seem to remember it well. “Vibrant Marvels” reaches back into our subconscious memories and reminds us of the innateness of dance and music, that resonates in us from generation to generation and which we first encountered while we were in the womb. The membrane of our mother’s belly acted as a resonating drum to which rhythms we responded, as we pushed to become a part…

  • Minus

    “Minus” is a hand-processed, uncut, singular stream of movements. To take away: either to leave remnants of light or to leave remnants of rhythms. Entirely hand-processed and unscathed by the blades of the splicer. This is Chong’s first 16mm film. Inspired by Ritchie Hawkin’s Concept albums.