Film Format: 16mm

  • Suburban Is a State of Mind

    Nostalgia appropriated from Hollywood soundtracks addresses the problem of artistic innovation in a post-modern age by using videotaped images projected from a broken Super 8 projector.

  • Urban Caustic

    Toronto, love it or hate it; the overwhelming chaos of the city, the noise and smog. Shot in three different mediums – miniDV, 16mm and Super 8 – hand-processing attempts to subvert the reign of video and “take back film” by shooting video onto film. The processes involved in making this film rely on the physical interaction with the film, creating a personal and intimate chemical reaction. The random rhythm of the optical printing, the scratchy, worn-out look of the hand-processing and the aural collage evoke an emotional and experiential response to living in this crazy town we call Toronto.

  • Eros and Wonder

    “Eros and Wonder” is an extended journey into image manipulation which uses a hybrid of analogue and digital techniques. Chemical transformations of the image are combined with electrical modifications to produce a fantasia of vibrantly coloured alchemical forms that suggest an erotic wonder at all the world’s surfaces.

  • Carry on Crime and Punishment

    A short story for children, adults, and human societies; a five minute “moral adventure” about two dognappers who steal a valuable singing dog in Southern Ontario.

  • Elegy

    “Elegy” is a dance WITH film rather than ON film. The cinematic and choreographic elements work together to evoke a poem of lament or mourning- a poem that explores the inextricable link between life and death.

  • I Think I’m Coming Down with Something

    Getting, giving, getting, giving… Getting crabs doesn’t make you a bad person, it just means you were unlucky.

  • Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian

    Like Ezekiel’s vision in the valley of the dry bones, a typos of a new beginning. In among all the feelings of loss and deprivation there occur intimations of final culbute général, of the dissolution of time, of a now that vanishes between the no long and the not yet. A “meditation that deals with the state of human consciousness in the postmodern world….a truly monumental film.” – Katie Russell “Transcends conventional form in an accessible, exciting shape that is likely to change the way all of us see movies.” – Robert Haller

  • Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World Part 2: The Sublime Calculation

    The antitype. Towards origins. Finding the beginning in the end. In the end – in that tremendous Vulgate phrase – ludens in orbe terrarum.

  • Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods

    The absence of knowledge of the Good is madness. Still, in our age, Being manifests itself only in the mode of absence. “It is a time of the gods that have fled and the god that is to come. It is a time of need, because it lies under a double lack and a double Not: the No more of the gods that have fled and the Not yet of the god that is coming” (Heidegger).

  • Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing

    What is given us and draws from us our loving is Goodness itself.