Film Format: Super 8

  • Applying and Removing

    Applying: a nude woman is painted completely black. Attention concentrated on the process of going from white to black. Removing: she washes herself off in the bathtub, and goes from black to grey to white. Seemingly austere, the film is resonant on many levels, and each viewer brings to it his/her own associations.

  • Aturquesada

    Aturquesada is a performance-based project playing with the colour tealquoise, a word coined by the artist to describe a greenish colour that exists in between turquoise and teal. This performance takes place in a snowy landscape that is typical during Canadian winters. The violence inflicted upon the main character and her demise is absurd and humorous. This performative project is inspired by the artist’s connection to the winter Canadian landscape as an immigrant, as well as the emotionally violent nature of a brutal cold winter. This symbolic death by tealquoise is also part of a larger body of work that…

  • Helium

    Commissioned by the 8 Fest for its 10-year anniversary, “Helium” is a dual-projector work that explores the worlds of competitive bodybuilding and balloon fetish. Originating from a deep fascination of the ability to derive such intense pleasure from otherwise innocuous objects or activities, “Helium” observes inflation, lust, and explosion.

  • Membrana Mortis (Dead Film)

    “Membrana Mortis” is a meta-film, a chaotic assemblage of re-photographed and chemically manipulated image fragments culled from a damaged roll of film that was nearly un-projectable. The films title suggests a two-fold intention – here process and existence pre-suppose one another, at once an elegy to a dead film and observance of new genesis. This film was commissioned by the Independent Filmmakers Cooperative of Ottawa with support from the Canada Council for the Arts for Origin 8, a program commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Super 8 format.

  • 5 cité de la Roquette

    When I returned to 5 cité de la roquette, I found a sign on the gate announcing the reconstruction of the building. In the days that followed, I came back in early morning or evening, when crews were not working, to film the stairwells, the stones, the doors, to stand on the landings, to listen to the sounds of the empty building, to watch the light at the windows, to hear again the songs of this place.

  • Four Vignettes

    Four everyday scenes presented as sequential images with generative sound. A home made optical Theremin transmutes the visual to the audible twenty-four times per second. This film was created during TR:AFICC, a residency in TRUCK Gallery’s CAMPER, and was a prototype and proof-of concept for the expanded cinema work Circles of Confusion.

  • Fin, La

    “La Fin” is a first film. It’s an exercise in style where metaphors are mixed freely to create, from a banal morning scene, a world increasingly surreal and unusual. By a wink of an eye, the film then liberates itself from its own symbolic collar to envisage, if not going beyond the limits set by and for the individual, at least a sense of humour that exorcises us from the traditional themes of alienation in our modern world.

  • Heads or Tails

    “Heads or Tails” is composed of the heads and tails clipped from black-and-white Super 8 films Kyle has hand-processed over the years. The clips were arranged by flipping a quarter 8 times and then splicing in either a head or a tail selected at random, as determined by the coin toss.

  • Vapor

    “Vapor” is an insubstantial film – diffused matter suspended in air – a cinematic dew point where time and space are distorted and compressed. Pinhole images coalesce into something recognizable and just as quickly fade into the mist of emulsion from which they came.

  • Gadflies

    A reunion after twenty-five years.