Film Format: 16mm

  • City of Dreams

    “City of Dreams” is the story of Marcel “Bambi” Commanda, an Ojibway man from Rama First Nation. Marcel sits in a prison cell, reciting a passage from his life. The film touches on his marginalization and displacement in the urban environment, the loss of culture, language and traditions, and his attempt to regain what he has lost. A poet, performer, drummer and emerging film and video maker, Marcel passed away in 1994 just after filming was finished. Selected screenings: Sundance Film Festival, USA, 1999; International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Cuba, 1996; Figueira da Foz International Film Festival, Portugal,…

  • 4x8x3

    8mm unsplit. Streetcars circle. The ferry leaves and returns in one gesture. Camera and character dance. Selected screenings: The Independents “Recent Work Roundup,” Cinematheque Ontario, Canada 2004; Best of the LIFT $99 Film Festival Tour, Canada, 2004

  • Moving Violation

    Shot in Pixelvision and digital video, “Moving Violation” is an examination of the texture, rhythm and beauty that resides hidden within a community. It is a document of our disintegrating past, as a downtown area is slowly demolished to make room for parking. Selected screenings: Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2003; Viper International Film Festival, 2003; Reykjavik Short Film Festival, 2002 Awards: Best Experimental, Saskatchewan Showcase, Canada, 2002

  • Ripples in the Snow

    “Ripples in the Snow” deals with issues of dislocation, presence, absence and memory. It is also, on a basic level, a document of Britski’s influences – the prairie landscape, his family, and filmmakers Michael Snow, Richard Kerr, David Rimmer and Bruce Elder. Selected screenings & awards: Best Independent Film & Best Experimental Film, Cascadia Moving Images Festival, Canada, 2000; Figueira da Foz International Film Festival, Portugal, 2000; Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA, 2001;

  • Family Outing

    Using home movies to depict the inner feelings of a closeted adolescent, “Family Outing” attempts to negotiate a queer position within the conventional family structure. Its ravishing, optically printed images form a haunting commentary on childhood, alienation, love and ultimately renewal. “Bradley re-edits his source material with clinical precision to produce a film of enormous strength which, through image alone, acts as a kind of early warning system for the tsunami of coming out.” – 2001 Antimatter Festival of Underground Short Film & Video, Victoria, BC Selected screenings: “Short Film from the Canadian Underground” International Touring Program, 2002; Yorkton Short…

  • Chartres Series

    A year and a half ago the filmmaker Nick Dorsky, hearing I was going to France, insisted I must see Chartres Cathedral. I, who had studied picture books of its great stained-glasswindows, sculpture and architecture for years, having also read Henry Adams’ great book three times, willingly complied and had an experience of several hours (in the discreet company of French filmmaker Jean-Michele Bouhours) which surely transformed my aesthetics more than any other single experience. Then Marilyn’s sister died; and I, who could not attend the funeral, sat down alone and began painting on film one day, this death in…

  • Exteriors

    “Exteriors” is a portrait of a young woman and the landscape she inhabits. It is about the walls people construct, real or imaginary. “Poignant and poetic, the work engages our notions of the ‘moving image.’” – Photophobia Film Festival 2000 Selected screenings & awards: Best First Film, $100 Film Festival, Calgary, AB, 1999; Brisbane International Film Festival, Australia, 1999; Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, 1999; Rotterdam International Short Film Festival, Netherlands, 1999

  • You would make a good lawyer

    “You would make a good lawyer” is a film about employment, and the cages we all inhabit. The title is taken from a fortune that I kept receiving from fortune cookies, which seemed to capture the irony of my predicament perfectly. (JB) Selected screenings: Figueira da Foz International Film Festival, Portugal, 2000; Telluride International Experimental Expo, USA, 2000; Award for Best Experimental, Saskatchewan Showcase, Canada, 2000; Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, 2000

  • Transfixed

    “Transfixed” is a meditative film that celebrates the beauty found within the small details of existence. “‘Transfixed’ evokes the boundless joy of the vicarious unlimited experience of childhood, while at the same time reminding us of life’s accelerated velocity and transitory nature.” – Antimatter Underground Film Festival, 2002 Selected screenings: Honorable Mention, Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA, 2003; Reykjavik Short Film Festival, Iceland, 2002; Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, 2002; Yorkton Short Film Festival, Yorkton, SK, 2003

  • Shooting Star

    “Shooting Star” is a film about mortality, a moving x-ray of small and grand gestures alike. “A lovely, enigmatic tribute to Canadian hockey legend Rocket Richard. Jason Britski manipulates images to… create a short that feels like a visual poem.” – Eye Weekly, Toronto, 2003 Selected screenings: Dawson City International Short Film Festival, 2003; Huesca International Film Festival, Spain, 2003; Toronto International Film Festival, Canada, 2003; Split International Film Festival, Croatia, 2003