Film Format: Super 8

  • Tracy Love

    It’s not really stalking, but it is an obsession. She’s not my girlfriend, but I love her like one. I dare you to watch this and love her too.

  • Neurotic in Black and White

    Made for a program about the number thirteen. Trying to come up with the perfect idea can tie you up in knots.

  • Sick in the Head

    An unprofessional examination and diagnosis.

  • Don’t You Worry, It Will Probably Pass

    “Are you there? A girl who is attracted to both boys and girls?” “Don’t You Worry, It Will Probably Pass” is an unencumbered look at three girls who responded to this ad in an internet chat room. This was the same classified ad the filmmaker, Cecilia Neant-Falk, had placed in a magazine some 15 years earlier when she too was a lonely and confused teenager. Using the internet this time, she begins her exploration of the coming out experience for a new generation of queer girls. From the overwhelming response to her ad, she found three young women, My, Natalie…

  • Coolie Gyal

    In this coming-out story, an honest and sincere letter is read from a daughter to her parents. A familial montage is incorporated with a heartfelt narrative filled with the expectations and anxieties of a young woman.

  • original message

    Travelling home by train, Petra reflects on a long-distance relationship with a woman she loves. Through the text of her lover’s email messages, the entire course of a relationship is revealed. Italian, French and Spanish sub-titled versions available.

  • July’s Wet Dreams

    A hand-processed recipe for a fountain of youth. Comprised of one continuous slow-motion shot, “July’s Wet Dreams” reveals several silhouetted figures amidst a fountain’s watery spray. The hand-processed Super 8 material was manipulated using a variety of coloured toners and application techniques to accentuate the liquid tactility of the image. An evocative portrait of a summer’s day. Honourable Mention for Best Experimental Short, Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival, 2005

  • Gay Men and Hair Loss

    A look at the director’s fascination with gay men’s hair histories.

  • Nocturnal Admissions

    A home’s movie. A 153-year-old home collects and reveals the traces it inhabitants have left behind. A contemplation of the home-movie genre, “Nocturnal Admissions” explores the idea of home as a vessel of remembrance, silently collecting and holding the experiences of those who have lived there. An assimilation of old and new , it meshes past and present homes, film and digital technology, and a nostalgia which invokes the future.

  • Fifty Feet that Shook the World

    This stop-motion homage to the silent, Russian classics takes a twisted look at the on-going war between film and video (imagine Jan Svankmajer remaking Potemkin!). Originally made for LA Flicker’s “Attack of the 50 Foot Reels” (one roll of Super 8 film, edited in camera, sound created without seeing the footage). Awards: Ann Arbor Film Festival 2004, Best Animation; Athens Independent Film Festival 2004, 2nd Place Animation; Humboldt Film Festival 2004, Honorable Mention