Film Format: 16mm

  • She was so young back then

    A rephotographed excerpt from “Fast Times at Ridgemount High” is reconstituted as seedy pornography.

  • Retrato Oficial 1 | Official Portrait 1

    After declared unfit to stand trial in England, former dictator Augusto Pinochet stands up out of his wheelchair and greets supporters.

  • Hey Kitty

    A light, comedic romp that follows the trials and tribulations of the Glamourpuss (Dawna de Nottbeck) as she meanders through ever-odder situations in her hunt for the elusive “Kitty.”

  • Chambers: Tracks and Gestures

    An intimate portrait of Jack Chambers, a major figure in the Canadian cultural landscape, a man who has been called Canada’s finest painter. Within a carefully constructed narrative of the artist’s life, this visually lyrical film includes the full range of his work from the age of thirteen until his death. The story is told in Chamber’s own words and in narration, and these voices are balanced by interviews with several of the people who were close to Chambers at different times in his life. “Chambers: Tracks and Gestures” combines new footage evoking the artist’s youth in London, Ontario, his…

  • Leche

    This film, hand processed and hung to dry on the clothesline, examines details of the life of one family, living on an isolated dairy ranch in Central Mexico. Uman’s “Mala Leche” (2003) is a companion piece. Spanish language with sub-titles.

  • Mala Leche

    This film follows members of the family presented in Uman’s earlier film “Leche” (1998). Now living in California’s agricultural Central Valley, they continue to work with dairy cattle but under very different circumstances.

  • Private Movie

    A love story in three parts. This film tells of a woman’s journey of love, with nostalgia, pets, places and men.

  • Hand Eye Coordination

    “Hand Eye Coordination” explores the manual manipulations upon the film body, examining the cinematic result of mechanical interventions. This film tells the story of its own making.

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    Using a piece of 1970’s porn film, nail polish and bleach, the filmmaker has created a new pornography, one in which the woman exists only as a hole – an empty, animated space.

  • In the Garden

    A quiet moment with the plants. A home-grown film: shot in my garden, processed in my basement, and dried on the lawn. (LF) Selected screenings: Anthology Film Archives, New York, 2007; Images Festival, Toronto, ON, 2004; Pleasure Dome New Toronto Works, Toronto, ON, 2004; “Textured Traces,” Foreman Art Gallery, Montreal, QC, 2005; Best of the LIFT $99 Film Festival Tour, various locations, 2005