Film Format: 16mm

  • Reflections on Black

    “Male-female interactions in a bleak and oppressive New York tenement; includes scratching on the film’s surface, as an early Brakhagean ‘metaphor on vision.’” – Marilyn Jull

  • Regards

    The film confronts our modes of composing and communicating information by continuously asking “What is it?” and providing a range of possible interpretations of the phenomena it depicts.The three characters who appear in the film are female and it is through them, in large part, that the film’s ideas are communicated. This indicates a “female voice” but leaves open the question of an exclusively female point of view or mode of preception.

  • Région Centrale, La

    “This new, three-hour film by the Canadian Michael Snow, is an extraordinary cinematic monument. No physical action, not even the presence of man, a fabulous game with nature and machine which puts into question our perceptions, our mental habits, and in many respects renders moribund existing cinema: the latest Fellini, Kubrick, Buñuel etc. “For ‘La Region Centrale,’ Snow had a special camera apparatus constructed by a technician in Montreal, an apparatus capable of moving in all directions: horizontally, vertically, laterally or in a spiral. The film is one continuous movement across space, intercutting occasionally the X serving as a point…

  • Relativity

    A man wonders, measures, views relationships, people, places, things, time, himself. A sensual journey through a series of subjective reflections. “The artist’s search for meaning of his own existence is never-ending and takes many forms. Ed Emshwiller’s remarkable epic, ‘Relativity,’ continues this exploration with extraordinary frankess and rare technical skill.” – Willard Van Dyke

  • Rembrandt, Etc. and Jane

    Here are four films, the interrelationship of which constitutes a complex quarto-thought-process: Not that the four sets-of-thinking are “parallel” in any sense, or that themes of each film inter-weave meaningfully in the three others, but rather as four “mobiles,” each seen separately, might be remembered as turning all at one in the same space without interfering with each other. (SB)

  • Remedial Reading Comprehension

    “The whole of ‘Remedial Reading Comprehension’ is a film of short phrases in an ambiguously didactic sequence. Dream inspiration and academic education are conflated and the viewer is constantly reminded of his status as a reader.” – P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film

  • Return to Departure: The Biography of a Painting – Or Watching Paint Dry and Other Realisms

    “This innovative feature documentary deals with both painting and documentary filmmaking as fictional processes. While the camera records, in extreme close-up, the chronological development of the super-realist painting, ‘Return to Departure,’ a multi-level asynchronous soundtrack builds up a parallel sound portrait of the (unseen) artist at work – a rambling, cheerfully free-associating monologue interspersed with radio music, children’s voice, telephone interruptions. “Gradually, we see more and more of the surface of the painting and of the working artist; beautifully shot and manipulated footage conveys the mixing of pigments, minute accumulation of figurative detail, endless compromises between vision and canvas. By…

  • Reunion in Dunnville

    This film started out as a community project involving my students at Sheridan College. On one level, it documents a remarkable reunion of people from as far away as Australia and New Zealand who converge on a small town in rural Ontario, where 2,436 Allied pilots received their training during World War II. A subtext emerges in the dialectic between our own newsreel footage of the event in 1979, and home movies shot by the veterans, including reunions at the base before it became a giant turkey farm. This allows for some revealing interruptions of conventional documentary codification, and serves…

  • Revival

    A vivid cinema-verité documentary on street-corner revivalism in Toronto, this film probes the compulsions of self-appointed voices in the wilderness. Fast-paced, beautifully edited.

  • Revolutions, d’ Ebats Amoreux, Eperdus, Douloureux

    “Three women live communally together, fixing up their new apartment, watching TV, preparing food. One is a television personality, another a young girl (a daughter?), and the third – a lover? As we watch these women go through their daily lives, hear the voices and almost – the intimacy of the film is so intense – breathe their air, we form impressions of them and their relationships. “The viewing of the film compares to coming upon a photo-album left behind in an empty house. Without ever having known the subjects of the photos, you would nonetheless form an idea of…