Film Format: Digital File

  • Devil Lives in Hollywood, The

    As the narrator sings of her confusion and disillusionment about the way the world is run, iconic images are presented and dismembered for both comic and unsettling effect. Conveyor-belt happy hamburgers cause heads to explode into love, flying deer are used for target practice and superman eats ice cream in his wheelchair. I’d like to share share, pretend I care but there’s no superheroes and I just don’t give a I wanna be a super model, a super model model, super model

  • Dance, The

    “With an irresistible humour, Rimmer speculates in “The Dance” on the nature of the film loop. We see a (1920’s) couple whirling around a dance floor at a dizzying pace… Even after the technical building block of the film is evident, the vertiginous effect remains… Uncanny in its ability to evoke complexity of responses from a simplicity of means.” – Art and Cinema, #2

  • David Roche Talks to You about Love

    David Roche looks out from the screen and starts to talk about love as he rises in the freight elevator to his lofty abode. From the first few sentences, it’s clear that here’s a literate, witty script executed by an actor/writer who, in conjunction with the filmmaker, knows how to convey his autobiographical, deja-vu views. Poignant. Beautiful. Cynical. It is an insight into human relationships for those of all persuasions.

  • Turumba

    “Set in a tiny Phillipine village, ‘Turumba’ focues on one family who traditionally made papier-mache animals to sell during the Turumba religious festivities. One year, a German department store buyer shows up and purchases all their stock. When she returns with an order for 500 more (this time with the word ‘Oktoberfest’ painted on them), the family’s seasonal occupation becomes year-round alienated labor. Increased production, however, creates inflated needs. Soon, virtually the entire village has gone to work on a jungle assembly line, turning out papier-maches mascots for the Munich Olympics. “Long before the town band learns to play ‘Deutschland…

  • Artifices #1

    Luminous traces obtained through in-camera optical manipulation of nocturnal imagery.

  • Reverberlin

    A wonderful concert by CCMC at Kunstwerke, Berlin, June 27, 2002 with a digital moving image composition by Michael Snow. Technical Assistance by Paul Cormack. Using images by Dan Browne, Lee Brunet, Teri Wehn Damisch, Pierre Tremblay, Mani Mazinani, Aleck Snow, Michael Snow. CCMC: Paul Dutton – soundsinging, harmonica John Oswald – alto saxophone, saxo-voice Michael Snow – piano, radio Music un-edited, un-modified as it was played. Concert sponsored by Freunde Guter Musik, Berlin

  • Chaises, Les

    “With Vincent Grenier’s LES CHAISES (2008), the suspended moment is loosened and stretched, and like the wind that blows throughout, there’s no sense of where it starts or stops. The HD views, which should quiet once and for all any remaining skeptics of the medium, are appropriately breathtaking; under the rustling leaves of a quiet afternoon subtle gradations of light and shadow, red and green, form. “In one recurring shot, Grenier fixes on the vinyl surface of a red chair, inviting us to sit and get lost in the image. The mottled reds, seemingly endless in their variation, fill the…

  • wandering through secret storms

    In the not-so-distant future an old government archive is discovered. As workers sift through the files in an attempt to put them into context, a storm locked up since the past is unleashed. Thanks to the generous support of The Ontario Arts Council [Media Arts Section].

  • Behind the Shadows

    Outside the window a storm like no other is taking shape. BEHIND THE SHADOWS documents the imagined moment when the delicate balance between natural and developed worlds began to shift. Looking back upon an event yet to occur, time inside this threatened world is caught in an endless loop. Seeming to have no end, it stutters… repeats… extends. As if caught in a void between dream and reality, characters struggle to reconcile threats from the outside environment Inspired by natural disaster horror movies, BEHIND THE SHADOWS examines how popular media has shaped our understandings of fear. Commissioned by The Images…

  • Diminished

    “A delicately structured non-verbal poem about loss, time and memory…Faded images lap-dissolve against ‘small sounds’ and enigmatic sub-titles like voices from the past. A documentary of the heart.” – Gene Youngblood