Film Format: 35mm

  • SSHTOORRTY

    “SSHTOORRTY” is the image of a staged event which has been divided into 2 halves each superimposed (sound and picture) one on top of the other. The title is the word SHORT superimposed on the word STORY. It’s a “painting” about a painting in which Before and After become a Transparent Now. Arrival and Departure are unified. Selected screenings: Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru, 2006; Split Festival of New Film, Croatia, 2006; Video Ex, Zurich, 2006; Musee National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec, QC, 2005

  • Rebuttal

    A brief history… At the Annecy International Animation Festival of 2005, a short abstract animation entitled, “Spiral” was presented in the opening night ceremony. The “unknown” abstract filmmaker, J.W.Murton, was credited with this work. “Spiral” was introduced at the opening ceremony as a rare abstract film made in the tradition of Walter Ruttman and Oscar Fleshenger. Sounds very good…. except… The real author of “Spiral” was none other than Bill Plympton. His real motive for making this film,-contempt – both for abstract films and filmmakers and the funding that goes with the territory. And now, it’s time for a Rebuttal!

  • 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,…

  • Cave, The

    After my first experience in a dark cave, I remember brief glimpses of images that were imaginary and real. No duplicate film prints or video copies of “The Cave” exist. This hand-made 35mm silent original film is intended to change and evolve with each projection.

  • Shaving Shania (2004 Images Fest Trailer)

    This silent 35mm film can be installed and projected as a continuous loop or just as one single viewing. “Shaving Shania” was commissioned as a trailer for the Images Film and Video Festival in 2004. The word IMAGE is broken down into the phrase, “I AGE” and is laid over found footage of a 1960’s film idol in a state of “cinematic”ecstasy.

  • Spare Change

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

  • Raw

    a 5 min cameraless animation film . fossil documents moving through time and space.

  • Trains of Winnipeg – 14 Film Poems (Feature Length)

    “Idiosyncratic, independent and supremely inventive… One of the finest non-narrative movies ever made in this country.” – Jason Anderson, Eye Weekly GertJan Zuilhof, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Jan. 2005: “A visually opulent, almost hypnotic film, for which the word poetic really is justified for a change. This hybrid film is made up of fourteen film poems, each of which has the character of an individual short film, but in tone and approach they are all clearly related. Without a doubt, the film fits into the tradition of the experimental film, but it also has an epic quality rare within this…

  • Love in the White City

    “Made with a camera the size of a deck of cards carried in my pants pocket for one year, the ‘White City’ beckons, repulses and quakes with portent. The original poem was commissioned by CBC Radio in 2002 on the theme, ‘Love in Winnipeg’ – it began at 3 am in mid-February at 30 below, on a drive home through an empty, wind-swept, snowbound city. An audience member in my home town asked me why this film in particular was so dark, so sad. I said I didn’t find it to be so, but I wish I’d said something to…

  • Trains of Winnipeg (the short)

    “An epic audiovisual poem. Trains as kinetic sculpture and kitsch, found sound art, a film-maker’s fetish or a Romantic’s wet dream: O take me to far away places, the rhythm in our plastic hearts, as we are also machines. Tortured cello, the scraping wheel, old cameras, film and rail as parallel tracks through the remnants of the industrial age. ‘Trains of Winnipeg’ uses multiple film gauges and digital formats in a collage of colliding and looping vantage points on this brief, ever-moving, moment in history.” Music by Emily Goodden.