Film Format: Super 8

  • Machine Guts

    An eerie, arresting story conceived by a deer. Narrated by Bill Burns.

  • Jimmy

    Jimmy has sandy hair, velvety brown eyes, and needle marks that freckle the baby smooth skin of this thin arms. Jimmy is twelve years old… and a heroin addict.

  • Tantrum

    A whiney asshole rollerblader has a fit for all to see.

  • Keep the Fuckin’ Quarter Lady

    An uptight lady-driver, on a lonely snowy road, is tricked into stopping her car by an enerprising young squeegee kid. As the feckless youth cleans her windows to a spit-polish shine, things turn ubly. This lady’s class is showing and it ain’t pretty.

  • fetching

    Personal footage of the filmmakers’ friends and family, woven together with images of their dogs fetching a stick, combine to create a view into the emotional landscape of love. Selected screenings: Squeaky Wheel “Global Super 8 Day,” Buffalo, NY, 2003; Splice This! Super 8 Film Festival, Toronto, ON, 1998

  • Ripples in the Snow

    “Ripples in the Snow” deals with issues of dislocation, presence, absence and memory. It is also, on a basic level, a document of Britski’s influences – the prairie landscape, his family, and filmmakers Michael Snow, Richard Kerr, David Rimmer and Bruce Elder. Selected screenings & awards: Best Independent Film & Best Experimental Film, Cascadia Moving Images Festival, Canada, 2000; Figueira da Foz International Film Festival, Portugal, 2000; Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA, 2001;

  • You would make a good lawyer

    “You would make a good lawyer” is a film about employment, and the cages we all inhabit. The title is taken from a fortune that I kept receiving from fortune cookies, which seemed to capture the irony of my predicament perfectly. (JB) Selected screenings: Figueira da Foz International Film Festival, Portugal, 2000; Telluride International Experimental Expo, USA, 2000; Award for Best Experimental, Saskatchewan Showcase, Canada, 2000; Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, 2000

  • Evanesce

    What happens when a filmmaker loses his sight? “Evanesce” is a collage of fading Super 8 footage shot during the past decade. Phelan confronts the possibility of never seeing again and tries to make sense of the memories trapped in pictures that are disappearing before his very eyes. Selected screenings: Retour d’images Paris, France, 2003; London Disability Arts Film Festival, London, England, 2003

  • Eat Cake

    The mysteries of milles-feuilles and the pleasures of pastry dolloped with whipped cream shall not come between us, nor shall custard tarts tear us apart. No, we will savour them together. Drizzled in chocolate sauce and jam-filled for eternity, we are brothers of a sweeter tooth.

  • i am rubber

    A super 8 home-style movie about a girl’s first driving lesson. Winner of the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film at EyeLens 2000; 2nd Place for Post Secondary Experimental at Cascadia Festival of Moving Images; Vancouver, BC;Honourable Mention for Best Experimental at the National Student Film & Video Festival in Regina, SK. Screened at the New York Queer Film Festival; InsideOut Film Festival in Toronto; Splice This! Super 8 Film Festival in Toronto; Images Film Festival in Toronto and the Canadian International Annual Film Festival.