Film Format: Digital File

  • Puccini Conservato

    “Puccini Conservato” (Canada/Italy) was commissioned by the Lucca Film Festival for the 150th anniversary of the famous Italian composer’s birth. In this delightful video, the Canadian master offers a witty visual and sonic commentary to Puccini’s La Bohème.

  • brouillard #1

    Thirty-two passages from a small path in the woods towards the edge of a lake are layered onto one another.

  • Bridge Kids

    In the near future there are no adults, a tree house becomes a door to another dimension, and rocks release intuitive powers. Documentary, historiography and mythology collide and transform in a 16mm film showing a world of telepathic children interpreting technologies. A meditation and absurd collage of media, sci-fi cliché, and performance, “Bridge Kids” connects a research documentary on J.B Rhine and the history of ESP/ Parapsychology, with a science fiction drama portraying an adolescent’s connection with the dead.

  • Ville – Quelle Ville?

    “Ville – Quelle Ville?” reflects a satirical view of city life, commonplace and redundant. Urban life is portrayed as a series of rituals: coming of age in an environment shaped by generations, obscured by the constant barrage of everyday life. The film randomly touches upon key events familiar to everyone in North America, a melting pot of human experiences. As in any city there is an aspect of alienation, here displayed through the eyes of a young woman caught in the web of her own daily existence. “Ville – Quelle Ville?” (4 min.,1984): While Onodera’s earlier work explored the possibility…

  • Starlings (at Nightfall)

    In Peter Dudar’s hypnotic and vaguely menacing “Starlings (at Nightfall),” we are witness to a strange intersection between the forces of nature and a man-made structure. A single, static, eight-minute-long shot documents the spiraling flight of thousands of starlings around a power transmission tower at dusk. “Suppose we wanted to understand the flocking behaviour of starlings…. What is remarkable about the starlings behaviour is that, despite all appearances, there is no choreographer and, as far as we know, no leader. Each individual bird is just following local rules.” – Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth Steam Whistle Homebrew Award,…

  • I remember my dreams by the colour they are…

    With a soundtrack gleaned from composer Delia Derbyshire’s classic “Inventions for Radio” series for the BBC, Magnusson crafts a collage of oil-slide projections and family snapshots illustrating the qualities of dreams, memory and colour. (Images Festival catalogue, 2011) Selected screenings: Images Festival (Toronto, ON), 2011; Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, 2010.

  • Crash Points 3

    “Crash Points 3” is based on “Crash Points,” a performance created by Peter Dudar during his partnership with dancer/choreographer Lily Eng. As Missing Associates, they were part of the experimental dance scene in art galleries during the 1970s and 1980s. “Crash Points” was essentially a non-competitive track and field event in which the perimeter of a gallery was used as a running track. Hurdles coming down (“crash points”) triggered interactions between the performers. “Crash Points 3” uses footage from two earlier “Crash Points” films-digitized and extensively re-edited. With contemporary video techniques, Dudar both re-interprets and enhances the performance.

  • Daybreak

    Inverted Super 8 and video footage paints a hauntingly beautiful portrait of Saskatchewan’s northern forests. “Daybreak” is an attempt to strip different images down to their basic elements, to examine their photographic possibilities, and their connection to a larger “Canadian” identity. Original score by Jason Moberg. Selected screenings: Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival (Toronto, ON), 2011; Antimatter Film Festival (Victoria, BC), 2011

  • 349 (for Sol LeWitt)

    “A digitally animated version of Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #349, which was commissioned by Toronto’s Mercer Union gallery in 1981. Recreating LeWitt’s geometric vocabulary and primary colour palette, 349 careens through emblazoned emblems, lifted from walls and transported into dialogue with LeWitt’s exploration of spatial systems and human emotion.” – Andréa Picard, Toronto International Film Festival

  • Au Plus Proche

    “Au Plus Proche” is a meditation on mourning, in which a gay actor, who has tragically lost his lover, makes a radical life decision while performing Molière on stage.