Film Format: Digital File

  • Flush

    The film follows Abagail through the intake process into an eating disorder inpatient program. We glimpse her struggle with anorexia, bulimia and self harm and how they have thoroughly affected her entire life. We see her deepest most intimate thoughts she rarely shares with anyone; and through her memories, we delve into her private past. Based on the true story of the directors own life, eating disorder, and hospitalization; Flush is a candid look at living with the struggle and pain of a debilitating disorder.

  • AbRuPtiOns

    AbRuPtiOns is a short abstract-musical film set to an original score by the composer-animator. Forms and shapes blink on and off in a complex rhythmic structure.

  • Watergazing

    Watergazing is as old as humanity. It is the practise of calmly and peacefully studying the water, its motion and its shimmerings in order to experience images rising from our own depths. The flowing water becomes a metaphor for time, which assists the practised watergazer in seeing into the past and the future.

  • Brain Heart Lungs

    A meditation on the end of life. Brain Heart Lungs is a visual music film set to an original score by the composer-animator. In an era of electronic imaging, transplants, and implants, much has changed in the contemporary view of our physical selves. Brain Heart Lungs delves under the skin, beyond race, religion, and gender into the world of organs and their contemporary meanings.

  • XircaNoX

    It is an abstract musical narrative in which the hunting instinct plays out in an other-world setting. XircaNox inhabits a mysterious and challenging world full of art historical images. Set to an original score by the composer-animator, XircaNox is a significant addition to the artistic genre. Art history images include iconic works by Van Gogh, Holbein, Fragonard, Rodin, Manet, Da Vinci, Velazquez, Renoir, Ingres, Michelangelo, and more.

  • Eight In One

    A study in synesthesia, matching colour and motion and gesture to sounds, correlating the auditory and the visual in relation to personal experiences with synesthesia.

  • Nine In One

    A study in synesthesia, matching colour and motion and gesture to sounds, correlating the auditory and the visual in relation to personal experiences with synesthesia.

  • Stillness (Inertie)

    Through an innovative and unexpected approach to 16mm frame-by-frame cinematography, Pelletier offers a deconstructed and introspective view of portraiture. Idle faces come in and out of existence through a dance of light and texture, toying with our perceptual need to project our own image onto the abstract. Reminiscent of a meditative state, the concept of self can be fleeting.

  • Pilgrimage (Pelerinage)

    A simple walk in the park can become a spiritual experience, a moment of discovery, a pilgrimage. This film explores the meditative nighttime allure of the Parc Lafontaine in Montreal, Canada, turning this public space into a dark sanctuary.

  • 6500

    The color temperature of different light sources is measured in Kelvin. 6500 Kelvin corresponds to the value of overcast daylight and is used as a standard for the neutral registration of white surfaces. Unconsciously the human eye adapts to different light conditions, while cameras need adjustment through white balance. 6500 is a short video essay on the relativity of words, questioning the application of absolute values in an argument, visualized through a play on colors, their spaces, and their highly subjective perception. Quotes from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s “Remarks on Colour” emphasize this rhythmic flickering and slightly absurd conversation between colour and…