Film Format: 16mm

  • Self-Images

    “Self-Images” explores the theme of personal loss and coming to terms with death. The work builds on images of the filmmaker, his father, and his grandfather. This is a hand-processed film.

  • Stills + Moving Pictures = Story

    This film explores the relationship between moving and still images and how the two evolve into a story. The filmmaker is of the opinion that memory is really just still and moving images that get continually played and replayed in the mind. Part of the film is hand-processed.

  • Moment with Maria, A

    Cognisant that memories fade and lose their sharpness, “A Moment with Maria” was made. Having a record not only allows one to share the moment with others, but also permits the event to be re-experienced and explored anew. The film is about a brief moment with Maria.

  • Cat Food

    “A cat eats its methodical way through a polymorphous fish. The projector devours the ribbon of film at the same rate, methodically. The lay of Grimnir mentions a wild boar whose magical flesh was nightly devoured by the heroes of Valhalla, and miraculously regenerated next morning in the kitchen. The fish in Wieland’s film, and the miraculous flesh of the film itself, are reconstructed on the rewinds to be devoured again. Here is a dionysian metaphor, old as the West, of immense strength. Once we see that the fish is the protagonist of the action, this metaphor reverberates to incandescence…

  • Under the Shadow of the Samurai’s Sword

    An exploration of the connection between oppressor and oppressed. It serves as a metaphor for the fear of death that many minorities face living under oppressive societies.

  • Serenade of Reflective Moments, A

    The film explores the relationship between still and moving urban landscape images. These images provide a glimpse of what is around us and let us experience the city in a new light.

  • Night Blue

    Maani is restless. Nina is obsessed. Maani shuttles from hotel to airport on the international fashion circuit, while Nina holes up in her studio, dreaming of designs for her antique fabrics and delicate beads. This morning Maani arrives at Nina‘s studio and finds herself curiously suspended. She wants to stay, but Nina is sure she cannot. The characters and story in this film are the result of a collaboration between the actors and director in seven months of improvisation.

  • Cat Swallows Parakeet and Speaks!

    A gothic romp through a crumbling hospital. The last time you saw a tabloid, maybe the headline read “Man Gives Birth to Nine-Pound Baby Girl,” or perhaps, “Melt Fat Away As You Eat Your Favorite Foods!” Taking such absurd claims as its starting point, “Cat Swallows Parakeet and Speaks!” puts the “Arabian Nights” saga through a surreal feminist revision. In the classic tale, a mythical character must tell stories to survive a man who is trying to murder her and all other women. In this version, Scheherazade is a strikingly beautiful model recovering in hospital after an ulcer operation. She…

  • Pustulations

    “Pustulations” is a short animated film using the painting-on-glass technique. It is about one woman’s compulsion to pick at her skin and the purulent, pustular world beneath it. Awards: National Film Board of Canada Award for Best Emerging Canadian Film or Video Maker, Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, ON, 2004 Also available on FEM CRIT.

  • Resurrectus Est.

    “Resurrectus Est.” is a hand-painted film which suggests, from the first, a spread of fragments of plants and flowers, individual petals and bits of twig with multiple colors, with much green “leafiness.” This gives way to solid yellows and browns of, or suggesting, dried grass and earth (the decay, as it were, of the above mentioned fragments); but then again, and so spaced with clear light whites as to appear airy, wind-blown, somesuch, miniscule fragments of plant life, gradually enlarging to fill-the-frame. Amidst the many floral and earthen tones, there is a particular ethereal pale, almost phosphorescent, blue which so…