Film Format: 16mm

  • Oil Wells: Sturgeon Road & 97th Street

    Highlighting the repetitive nature of oil wells in northern Alberta, this film documents a sighting common to the Canadian prairies.

  • Sperm Whale

    We are surrounded by impermanence. A series of images: an erect penis being manipulated, a man walking along a desolate beach, another man in repose on his apartment rooftop, and another man at poolside – all subjects seem to be in pursuit of understanding of their environment, and long-term satisfaction is an impossible state to achieve.

  • Death to All Film

    This essay on the passion and predicament of Soviet avant-garde filmmaker Dziga Vertov is constructed with playfully meticulous adherence to the Word of Vertov and the concept of the documentary essay-film. Vertov’s obsession and despair are explored through a montage of diary excerpts and challenging imagery, fully supported by appropriate bibliographical referencing and a comprehensive index.

  • without leave

    “Evans and Fodor use toned and manipulated film stock and disjunctive visual narrative to powerfully convey the sense of movement, urgency and exhilaration in this story of service-men going AWOL.” – Antimatter Festival

  • Gymnopedies

    The theme is Weightlessness. Objects and characters are cut loose from habitual meanings, also from tensions and gravitational limitations. A lyric Eric Satie track accompanies the film. Such a portrait seems necessary from time to time to remind us that equilibrium and harmony are possible, and that we will not dissolve into a jelly if we allow ourselves to relax into them. A horseman rides through the landscape, through the town, but never arrives anywhere in particular. An acrobat swings on a rope above a canal in Venice, and is content just to swing there. Nothing threatens to disturb them.…

  • Locks Part Two: Dread Execution!

    The gaze – taken into the hands of four women who craft, document and participate in a ritual dread locks removal. This super-low-budget film subtly subverts the hegemonic forms of production by optically printing miniDV, 16mm and Super 8 to hand-processed 16mm.

  • Moonlight Sonata

    Animated to the rhythms of Eric Satie’s Gnossienne V. The moon and moonlight are the guiding lights of this visual interpretation, and I have kept the backgrounds in soft greens and blues. Only the cosmic tumbler, whose enigma is emphasized by his red colour, breaks this pattern. Satie’s music simplified and refined the imagery, made it the celestial circus I have always dreamed of. “Moonlight Sonata” begins a new phase in my animation. I am finally getting in touch with the real poetry possible here. All works of art seem to come ready-made with their own sets of rules. And…

  • Marilyn and Media

    Marilyn Monroe, roboticized by copy-protection, is captured and trapped forever by the media and the medium of celluloid.

  • Parade

    A hand-made film that explores a 21st-century ritual celebration – Toronto’s Gay Pride Parade (2000). The contrast between the images’ archival quality with the 90’s dance music makes us wonder whether we are watching an event of some forgotten culture, or something urban and modern.

  • Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The

    Using the cut-out style of animation, I tried to marry the classic engravings of Gustave Dore to the classic poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge through a classic narrator: Orson Welles. It’s a long opium dream of the old Mariner (Welles) who wantonly killed the albatross and suffered the pains of the damned for it. (LJ) Original narration by Orson Welles; made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. “The film, far from being a mere visual accompaniment to the poem, has an integrity of its own. Throughout the film, serpents, butterflies and other creatures from Jordan’s…