Film Format: Digital File

  • Cairo Calling

    Ahmed’s tranquil life in Montreal goes into a tailspin when his meddling mother visits from Cairo with a single purpose in mind… Selected screenings: Out Takes Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, New Zealand, 2005; Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival, 2005; Hamburg Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival, 2005, Pink Apple Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Switzerland, 2005 Audience Award at the 2005 Fresno Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. Audience Award at the 2005 Montreal Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

  • Fidanzata, La

    Just as Lolo, a gay Italian-Secondo, is getting ready to spend a romantic evening with his lover, his Italian Nonna makes an unexpected appearance. Un homosexuel d’origine italienne, Lolo, s’apprête à passer la soirée avec son amant. Or, voice que Mémé passe à l’improviste et met Lolo dans une situation épineuse.

  • Tabula Rasa

    “Revisiting footage he shot more than ten years ago in an American high school, Vincent Grenier combines deftly manipulated and layered images with oblique commentaries delivered by students and instructors. The socializing process of education is made visible in the architecture, surfaces and colours of the school, ‘in the ambiguous quality of appearances so assiduously cultivated by institutions’ (Grenier).” – Images Festival, 2005 Initial footage shot with the helpof a production grant from the Canada Council. Selected screenings & awards: Jury’s Citation (2nd Prize), Black Maria Film & Video Festival; 2nd Prize, Media City 11, Windsor, Ontario; Views from the…

  • Multiple Selves of Hannah Maynard, The

    A glimpse into the unique, eccentric mind of a pioneering Canadian photographer, Hannah Maynard (1834-1918). Born in England, Maynard immigrated with her family to Vancouver Island in 1862, where she set up her own portrait studio. After the sudden death of her youngest daughter, she produced a troubling series of experimental images that reflected her haunted state – an attempt to contact her beloved daughter’s spirit. Considered overly bold and unconventional, Maynard experimented with such techniques as collage, multiple exposure and photo-sculpture. She developed a surreal vision, a world obsessed with children and death, but also the spiritual possibilities of…

  • 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

  • Arc Light

    “Arc Light” is a film essentially about travel. It is the second part in a series of North American landscape films that I have been shooting for the past few years. The central aim of the film is to formally examine two of the most photographed landscapes on earth. Simple formal devices are utilized in creating this simple portrait of Niagara Falls and the Grand Canyon.

  • Shoulders on a Map

    “Shoulders on a Map” is a film about travel, form, and essentially my thoughts at the time towards Canada as a nation. It is the third part in a series of North American landscape films that I have been shooting for the past few years. The central aim of the film is to formally examine the Rocky Mountains on Super 8 film. Simple formal devices are utilized in creating this portrait. “An endless inventory of trees, snow, rocks and water rolls by onscreen in this experimental travelogue. Shoulders on a Map is a Super 8 homage to transportation, motion and…

  • Fragile

    “Fragile” is a video that deals primarily with theories of remembrance through a simple formal examination of the texture, rhythm, and colour of a city at night. Shot on HI-8, this video deals primarily with the relationship that is created between the abstracted imagery, and the linear soundtrack that records my mother reading to my sister and myself as children.

  • Negation

    “Negation” is an attempt to create an abstract document of where I live, Regina, Canada. During production there was one restriction while shooting – everything had to be shot in a 10-block radius from my house. The use of negative B/W imagery was utilized in an attempt to “look” at my familiar surroundings from a different perspective, and I felt that this formal choice would provide a more accurate representation of the location being documented.

  • Game On

    “Game On” examines the glory of competition, the tension between opponents, the strategies of the game, the sweat of the players, the taste of victory. Shot on Super 8 with music by Kids on TV.