Film Format: Super 8

  • Mayo Jar

    Super 8 footage of deserted and destroyed family businesses along the lonely Trans-Canada Highway accompanies a haunting song about betrayal and loss. Originally made for the 2002 Splice This! Super 8 Film Festival, Toronto.

  • Old Lady

    “There is more tenderness packed in each frame of this mini-opus of amour than a shelf full of ‘Titanic’s. Using a quick-witted blend of voice-over, pop jams and Super 8 signage, O’Brien stares unflinchingly at her 35-year-old mirror, wondering aloud about cruelties gathered beneath the name of love. Inspiration arrives via grandmother Alice, who found happiness when a teen sweet heart picked up a fifty-year-old promise, and Charlotte… who fell in love for the first time late in life.” – Mike Hoolboom

  • Hunter-Gatherer

    A traditional slide show disintegrates into fragmentary forms. Using re-photographic methods that mimic the mechanics of recollection, the artist’s family slide images are reframed, distorted and hand-processed. An attempt to grasp a personal memory surrounding the taking of the originals.

  • Hideous Monster

    The family doggie freaks me out.

  • Travel Film

    The artifacts of filmed footage, photographs and postcards are used to construct a personal travelogue that consciously misrepresents the empirical truth of their contents. All of the picture and sound elements contained in this work were collected on the filmmaker’s travels.

  • Soul Circus

    Dylan Griffin ventures into a world of chaos and beauty when he takes a job on the production crew of the world’s only African-American circus. Armed with a Super 8 camera, he documents the last day of a cross-USA tour as ringmaster Casual Cal talks about life with the Soul Circus.

  • Come Alive

    A mock commercial which documents the growing problem of pollution on the beaches and deserts of Baja, Mexico. We truly are a “Pepsi generation.”

  • Cathode Ray Tube

    “Cathode Ray Tube” explores society’s obsession with television. While indulging in his favourite past time, Raymond’s brain goes into overdrive.

  • Meat

    A taxidermist talks about his philosophies on life and his experiences during more than 25 years in a small but competitive business.

  • Sink or Swim

    Finally, straight out of the archives, this rare historical footage has been recovered from the National Synchronized Swimming vault. Ballet arms, jazz hands and strangely perfect routines make up the performances of six talented women, the “Sassy Synchronized Swimmers.” This team virtually walks on water during the Golden Cap Championship in the Banff National Park.