Film Format: 16mm

  • Distemper

    “Distemper” is a visually stunning dance film that deals with the emotional complexities of nightmares and suffocation. Directed by John Albanis and choreographed by Kimberley Cooper, it features music by Amon Tobin (the track “Rhino Jockey,” from his critically acclaimed album SUPERMODIFIED). Selected screenings: Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film, Toronto, ON, 2004; Constellation Change Screen Dance Festival, London, UK, 2005; Dance Camera West Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, 2005

  • Amour, l’Amour Shut the Door Por Favor

    “A surrealist delight, a playful series of human melodramas occurring in a single day. Beautifully shot in black and white, ‘L’Amour l’Amour’ features an eccentric cast of characters, archetypes that hint at larger narrative structures… This is the type of film that is both pure visual spectacle and profound philosophical statement, a wonderfully absurd mix of laughter and tears.” – Barbara Goslawski, Take One Magazine

  • The Passion of Rita Camilleri

    “The Passion of Rita Camilleri” is a 24- minute cinematic vision seen through a child’s eyes. Rita is eight years old, a Maltese Canadian and a Roman Catholic. She is able to see Jesus fly, her sister’s brassiere turn into wings, and a local mutt become a demonic beast. Lonely and insecure, she becomes even more lonely when her best friend Diane dies in a house fire. During and after the funeral, Rita is filled with awe and questions until Diane appears at her window as an angel. Rita is still alone but not as lonely. With the reassurance of…

  • Move Click Move

    Deanna Morse has produced over thirty films and videos since the early 1970s. This DVD is an interactive journey through her work, featuring 36 short animated and experimental works and hundreds of production stills. “MOVE CLICK MOVE is not only a terrific teaching/learning tool, it is also a tribute to the visual arts” – Mike Allore, Michigan VUE). For Sale Only. INTRODUCTION: HOW ANIMATION WORKS, 2001 move click move (2:13) SAMPLE THE FILMS About this DVD (6:59) 27 “making of” stills FUN SHORTS! MONKEY’S T-SHIRT, 1990 Embedded figures puzzle (1:31) 8 “making of” stills NIGHT SOUNDS, 1991 Scared of the…

  • Benediction

    A filmmaker’s exploration of fleeting existence. Filtered through a personal story, “Benediction” is a last attempt to pay homage to those things left and leaving. When faced with the realization of her grandfather’s mortality, a young filmmaker journeys to find meaning in the wake of absence and loss. Is she trying to hold on to something that was never there? Winner of the Norman McLaren Prize at the Festival des Films du Monde in Montreal. Winner of the Kodak Award for Best Cinematography in a Canadian Short at the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, 2006. Screened at the Toronto International…

  • Timbre

    “Timbre” is a short film exploring sensory perception within an urban environment. The public space of the city is deconstructed into the private experiences of four women and their unique connections made between sight and sound.

  • Damaged Goods

    A short non-narrative 16mm experimental animated film. Utilizing various animated techniques such as back light sand, hand scratch, rotoscoping, photocopy manipulation and charcoal& paint on newsprint. All combined to created a dream that is complimented by the sound track in a personal/ Sisyphian internal journey.

  • Condensation of Sensation

    Once in a while, a vision comes a moving painting, an extension of the eye that sees… the body that feels wide awake from what might have been the actuality of REM, a rollercoaster of emotions. Walking through a life of words association with images, mass production of ideas no connection with sensation, just an unnatural conversion of feeling a loss of identity a sense of self through words in these frames are the essence of my sensation carefully nurtured and felt over and over again out of these frames these frames and you. These sensations are what are common…

  • still | move

    “still | move” is a visual essay of the photographic album in which I sociologically explore the history of my family. Channeling through old postcards, torn letters, and discarded photographs, I document and archive the snapshots, the landscape where my father’s family lived, and the home movies shot by my grandfather. I mark myself, as a filmmaker and a member of the family, to understand the history and to chronicle the decay of a prairie railroad community. – Michael Rollo

  • Confession

    “Firstly, I revealed in salutary confession the secret filth of my misdeed, which had long been festering in stagnant silence; and I made it my custom to confess often, and thus to display the wounds of my blinded soul…” (Petrarch, 1352, in a letter to his brother). I wish to avoid any “classical” misunderstandings of the above quote by stating clearly here that any sacrifice of love is, yes, “filth” or at the very least “misdeed.” An academic reading of Petrarch tends to bias thought that there are kinds of love which might be wrong: I do not believe this.…