Genres: Animation

  • Clean

    A brief look at one man’s obsession with cleanliness.

  • Net 06

    A cameraless film animation. An analogue digital collision.

  • Foodie

    Born into a murky world, jettisoned into flourescence, Foodie is all emotion, all merchandise, all pressure and all pleasure. Foodie waddles through emotional worlds that are hungry and stuffed, cozy-mean, cocooned and exposed. Foodie is the perfect consumer who is simultaneously socially conscious and suspect. Watch Foodie, struggling to stay within boundaries of good and proper, worrying all the time, trying to live forever with too much and not enough.

  • Chronicle Re-Constructions

    “I believe that filmmakers in the future will have to establish an archaeological approach to their subject matter. Instead of photographing images, we may have to dig them from the ground, and paste them together – film will look like today’s Dead Sea Scrolls.” – Steven Woloshen

  • Cut

    “Cut” is a short animated film about a woman who gets a haircut on lunch and gets more than she bargained for.

  • Mr. Edison’s Ear

    “An inventive exploration of the visceral nature of sound and how we learned to capture and reproduce it over time. Anchored by the discovery of the phonograph by the brilliant-and deaf-inventor Thomas Edison, this visual and conceptual collage of rich archival footage and animation playfully traces the birth of technological reproduction and the beginnings of our modern, audio-drenched world.” – Gisèle Gordon (Hot Docs Canadian Spectrum programmer) Selected Screenings: Canadian Spectrum, HotDocs, 2008; DOK Leipzig Festival, 2008

  • Richard Reeves: A Compilation of Cameraless Animation Films

    A DVD compilation of cameraless animation by a master of the genre. All of the images and sounds are created by drawing, painting, etching or applying shapes directly onto the film. “A master of scratch animation, Reeves extends the tradition of visual music first explored in Canada by Norman McLaren. This is sublime work of cinematic dexterity” (Philip Hoffman). Titles: Garbanzo (2 min. 16mm 1992) Zig Zag (1 min. 35mm 1993) Linear Dreams (7 min. 35mm 1997) CFMDC Trailer (30 sec. 35mm 2000) Sea Song (4 min. 35mm 1999) OIAF 02 Signal Film (30 sec. 35mm 2002) 1:1 (2.5 min.…

  • Rostrum Press: Materials Testing

    In “Rostrum Press: Materials Testing”, I use the Oxberry 16mm animation stand as a mechanism to test the response of a variety of objects and materials to the downward pressure of the camera. A professional animation stand is a large, heavy machine, with a powerful motor attached to move the camera up and down. Each shot in “Rostrum Press” is essentially a self-contained little film in which the camera moves inexorably closer to its object, one-eighth of an inch closer between each frame and the next, until contact is made and the object is pressed down towards the rostrum table…

  • Shelley

    “Shelley” draws on the work of Shelley Niro to meditate on the relationships between nature, Western ideals, cultural production, and Native life in Canada. Commissioned for CFMDC ReGeneration.

  • La Vie en Pellicule

    “‘La vie en pellicule’ is film about a promise I made my son at his birth. He was born at the end of the year 2006 when negatives of family snapshots and precious moments are rare. I promised him that he would grow up with negatives as records of our lives.” – Lise Beaudry Commissioned for CFMDC ReGeneration. Image description: A scratched, blue-tinted archival image of two girls playing in a swimming pool.