Film Format: Super 8

  • E.C. Roe Expressway

    A Super 8 experimental film and a meditation on living in Windsor, Ontario under the influence of American television, blending dancers from a Detroit TV station with a quiet sense of hometown memory.

  • Film Scroll

    “This Super 8 film was first presented as part of a ritual performance where I am naked and pull a white piece of fabric out of myyoni, pin it up and project the film onto it from reverse, while speaking the words on the film. The performance was part of a collective recreation of Carolee Schneeman’s ‘Interior Scroll.’ Each of us did a personal variation based on her 1975 performance. Schneeman’s piece included a letter to a filmmaker who criticized her work. My ‘letter’ is to an ex-partner who criticized me and my work, leaving me with feelings of inadequacy…

  • Rembrandt, Etc. and Jane

    Here are four films, the interrelationship of which constitutes a complex quarto-thought-process: Not that the four sets-of-thinking are “parallel” in any sense, or that themes of each film inter-weave meaningfully in the three others, but rather as four “mobiles,” each seen separately, might be remembered as turning all at one in the same space without interfering with each other. (SB)

  • Schizy

    “Schizy” is Barbara Hammer’s first film and is about her own coming-out process.

  • Sketches

    Brief songs of light and line.

  • Snow Search

    “Snow Search” finds four performers searching for each other, each carrying one quarter of a photographic portrait of Michael Snow. A lyrical exploration through the city and an homage to Michael Snow.

  • Trio

    “A woman and two men in conversation are seen individually, each one constituting one of three ‘movements,’ arranged according to the traditional musical cycle of fast-slow-fast. This film includes early passages of ‘moving visual thinking,’ as Brakhage begins to explore further the possibilities of this form. (The second movement is composed of images of Stan Brakhage which were photographed by filmmaker Bruce Baillie.)” – M.J

  • UR Lucky

    I placed a medallion on the sidewalk and filmed whoever happened along to pick it up. The film is about not being able to have control over the event, and the acceptance of this fact. This is the first film in my Performance Trilogy, a series of films which also include “Snow Search” and “Making a Scene.” (MD)

  • Window

    “The tensions between containment and expansion, inner and outer, surface and depth, reflections and projections, implicit in any window, are felt as rhythmic movements of colour and light within the projected frame.” – M.J.

  • Airs

    This film rises out of my struggle to photograph the ephemeral qualities of varied air (as many Greek philosophers experienced such) and to arrange the resultant textures/tones of film (in sharp conjunction with images hard-edged as words can be) so that it be true as breath itself to the necessities of music.