Genres: Animation

  • Listen

    A daughter’s “coming out” to her mother falls on deaf ears. Sometimes people just don’t want to listen. Awards: Best Canadian Female Short Award & Audience Choice Award for Best Short, Inside Out Festival, Toronto, 2004; Best Short Film for the 2005 Brussels Lesbian & Gay Film Festival; First Prize Animation, Planet Out Short Movie Awards 2005 Also available on QUEERS ON THE VERGE.

  • Rats and Welfare

    Set to a potent activist song by Zoe Chilco, “Rats and Welfare” takes aim at corporate greed and the rats in power.

  • Amazing Amazons, The

    A campy combo of live action and animation, “The Amazing Amazons” follows a day in the life of a contemporary female super hero. Aimee is in the midst of a typical Amazon day – fighting censorship, taking out macho attitudes and exposing lies – when her fellow Amazon Amanda rattles her to the very foundation of her Amazon soul.

  • Chronic

    “Chronic” explores the idea of body as machine. It is inspired by the work of Etienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge, who studied motion with photography before the advent of motion picture cameras. Copied on a photocopier, the images in the film have a high contrast, low-res look that refers to the developing technologies used by these photographic pioneers.

  • Nesting Season

    Affectionate bunnies romp through the seasons, displaying the cycles of lesbian desire.

  • Sea Horses and Flying Fish

    A one-minute animation treat that celebrates the art of sound poetry as Christian Bök recites words from Hugo Ball, one of the leading pioneers of phonetic poetry.

  • Brand New Triathlon, The

    Busy. Got to keep busy. Busy is good, not busy is bad. So we play at a new triathlon: bowling, cricket and tai chi – a veritable ironman or woman’s dream.

  • Gay Men and Hair Loss

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

  • Post mark lick

    “Post mark lick” is “a love-song to the pre-digital age of postal correspondence and photogram animation” (Images Festival, 2003). It explores the materiality of the postage stamp and the fleeting narratives of letters and postcards.

  • Jetsam

    An exaltation of the everyday, made using the photogram technique of exposing objects directly onto film; Wire mesh, fibrefill, salt, paper, steel wool, cherry blossoms, grease, spit, bubble wrap, tea leaves, washer rings and a drain-stopper chain are transformed in the process.