Film Format: 16mm

  • Canadian Pacific

    Vancouver harbour, with its railyards, mountains and passing ships, is a vista in fluid transformation as three winter months are reviewed in ten minutes. What interested me about the shot were the horizontals: train tracks, the water, the mountains, the sky. In the way those four elements would change. (DR) Can be projected alone or in double-screen format with Canadian Pacific II.

  • Matter of Gravity, A

    For some women in our “look young, look perfect” culture, the “Big Four 0” is anticipated with anxiety. The film is a comment on this phenomenon.

  • Bear Girl: Dog Boy

    Animal folklore is portrayed through cut-out animation in order to paint the complexities of surviving as a sexual being in the Twenty First Century.

  • How Beatrice Came Clean

    “How Beatrice Came Clean” is an off-beat urban fairy tale about Beatrice, a young woman who is living in Washington Square Park. One morning she follows the beautiful and self-assured Joanne to a nearby laundry. This leads her on a journey that touches on the themes of redemption, love, and the trials and tribulations of household cleaning products.

  • Burning

    A multiplicity of diverse images – cut together rhythmically flicker with energy fire, light, life. “Your life is like a candle. Whether you are aware of it or not, it is burning.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  • Cherries in the Snow (an Ode to Joan Nestle)

    An ode to Joan Nestle and all the other fabulous femmes who came before me.

  • I Can’t Go Home

    A western Canadian cult favorite, this film introduces the Screaming Banana in a testosterone-filled animated film about confusion, escapism, and directionless rage.

  • Canadian Pacific ll

    Designed as a companion piece to “Canadian Pacific.” Shot from a window two storeys higher, on the fourth floor of the next building east from the artist’s studio of the previous year: December 1974 to February 1975. Can be projected alone or in double-screen format with Canadian Pacific.

  • Réveille (Wake Up)

    This simple and engaging animated film tells of an event which changed the course of French history in North America: the deportation of the Acadians, or “neutralist French,” from Nova Scotia by the English and Americans. The French Canadians are burned out of their homes, displaced to Louisiana. The image of soldiers/oppressors transformed into children’s toy soldiers has been called one of the most quietly powerful moments in animation history. The anger and poinancy of “Reveille” is enhanced by a haunting Acadian folk song.

  • Head Stick ‘em

    One morning, Tallulah Bighead discovers she’s out of Head Stick ’em, the sticky goo that holds her watermelon head on her tiny neck. Helped by her oddball cats, Tallulah struggles to keep her head from falling off and getting into mischief.