Film Format: 16mm

  • Walk For Walk

    Lockhart’s unparalleled understanding of the fantastic and grotesque combined with her completely original aesthetic sensibilities create and inhabit an animated landscape where a seemingly endless parade of kooky little creatures walk themselves straight into trouble, but always find a way out. Enter the surreal, ever-changing world of “Walk for Walk”, a colourful, tripped-out animated landscape filled with catchy songs, eyeball kicks, goofball characters, and a great variety of babies: Warm Baby! Mister Baby! Rich Baby! And more! Created using over 1000 hand-painted paper cutouts, puppets and backgrounds. Selected screenings: Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film, Durham, ON, 2006; Rendezvous with Madness…

  • Zero Degrees of Separation

    “George Orwell, in his wildest dreams, could not imagine a place like this.” EZRA, ZERO DEGREES OF SEPARATION Described by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz as a film “bursting with concern about identities – sexual, national, political, generational, cultural, class, ethnic and more,” Elle Flanders’ feature -length documentary “Zero Degrees of Separation” breaks from the sensationalistic media coverage of violence in the Middle East by examining the current conflict through the eyes of two mixed Palestinian and Israeli gay couples. Courageous and outspoken, their relationships are as complex and volatile as the politically charged world around them. Selim, a Palestinian, and…

  • SIENA

    This short film was created especially for the Third International Short Film Festival of Siena in Italy, held in November, 1998. It was designed as an opening sequence to introduce the festival and was shown at the beginning of each of the ten in-competition screenings. The film begins with dream-like images of Siena at night. Through the combined rhythm of waving banners, galloping horses and distant voices, sound and image evolve into a world of cinema.

  • Jane’s Window

    “My grandmother cherished her large dining room window for the opening it afforded her onto the world. From this perspective she would espy the arrival of friends and family, contemplate the change of seasons and reflect on time past. On the shelves of this window she collected mementos of a childhood in China, life as an artist, and the travels in between. Combining images of my own travels through Japan and China with images of the home my grandparents built, ‘Jane’s Window’ reflects on the passing down of memory, curiosity and creativity across generations.” (CK) Selected screenings: Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto,…

  • Spare Change

    a 3 minute cameraless animated film. telling of the myth of the phoenix using every day objects

  • Bindi

    “Bindi” is a non-dialogue, narrative short film, which explores a mother’s choice to take her own life, while leaving her young daughter to deal with the aftermath alone.

  • Battle for Arthur, The

    Harry, a grumpy and socially withdrawn fish store owner is tricked into selling his favourite fish. In his quest to retrieve him, Harry realizes that there are much bigger fish in the sea.

  • Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time)

    “Consolations (Love is an Art of Time)” comprises “The Fugitive Gods,” “The Lighted Clearing,” and “The Body and the World.” “For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind. And now, go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever” (Isaiah 5:17, 30:8). This quotation was presented to me as the final paragraph of a review of “Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World.” I have read it…

  • Alone

    A raw, haunting glimpse of a crucial moment in the lives of three people. “Alone” is a poetically stylized portrait of abandonment and despair.

  • Contact-Nature

    A day’s ritual of improvisational performance and contact dance, set amongst the forest, mountain and ocean landscapes of Cape Breton. An improvisational film in the sense of an “event” between dancers and filmmakers that expands upon the breathtaking environments.