Genres: Animation

  • Fish Don’t Talk

    I am sent to camp as a nine year old. I CANNOT SWIM! MY PARENTS HAVE GONE TO EUROPE FOR SIX WEEKS.!! IT IS 1954, and I have not been away from home much … so I refuse to swim and fish off the dock. My mother writes in her trip book. It is the only book she will write. I catch a big fish. The camp director takes my picture… They should have taken me to Europe with them.I would have behaved. (Rick RAXLEN)

  • 349 (for Sol LeWitt)

    “A digitally animated version of Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #349, which was commissioned by Toronto’s Mercer Union gallery in 1981. Recreating LeWitt’s geometric vocabulary and primary colour palette, 349 careens through emblazoned emblems, lifted from walls and transported into dialogue with LeWitt’s exploration of spatial systems and human emotion.” – Andréa Picard, Toronto International Film Festival

  • Bol (Speak!)

    A cyclist meets a stranger in the market. A boy waits for his mother to return home. A man wakes up to find that his face is being stolen by shadows. Three separate encounters become the departure point for “Bol (Speak!),” a short dramatic experimental triptych on the nature of violence. Inspired by the Pakistani Marxist poet, Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poem Bol, and drawn from real events, the film uses still photographs, puppets and folk dance to comment on the increasing ubiquity and tenor of violence in South Asia. It is a gradually escalating experience of violence. All three chapters…

  • Perception

    An experimental animation exploring the disconnect between one’s own perception of self and how one is seen by the rest of the world, specifically facing the journey of transition from female to male.

  • When the Sun Turns into Juice

    Inspired by a metaphor the filmmaker’s daughter uses to describe the setting sun, the film became an homage to Gordon Webber, a Quebecois animator and architect. A cameraless animation created by painting on film.

  • Bol 1 (the Cyclist)

    A cyclist meets a stranger in the market. “Bol 1 (the Cyclist)” is the first of three separate encounters that make up “Bol (Speak!),” a short dramatic experimental triptych on the nature of violence. Inspired by the Pakistani Marxist poet, Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poem “Bol”, and drawn from real events, this segment uses still photographs to comment on the increasing ubiquity and tenor of violence in South Asia. The extended triptych, “Bol (Speak!),” is also available for distribution through CFMDC.

  • A+

    Cinema finds its accounts in an uncommon ledger, whose lines and tabulations conceal the greatest love of all.

  • Edge of Extinction

    “Gone the way of the whooping crane.” Once a symbol of certain extinction, today a sign of hope. The whooping crane is here depicted in a combination of rotoscope images, slides, photographs, line drawings, and multiple exposures.

  • Burning Star

    Dedicated to my father, who asked that I make a more colourful work. Made during my residency at the now defunct Experimental Television Center, “Burning Star” is a colourful implo/explosion of the twelve sided star. The title refers to Kenji Onishi’s “A Burning Star.” – Joshua Gen Solondz Winner Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film, Ann Arbor Film Festival, MIchigan, U.S.A. (2013)

  • Graphic

    Handpainted, optically printed film. Guitar pedal loops.