Genres: experimental

  • Safety

    From our disaster-proof Eastern cities – through vast, impenetrable grain fields – to the fortress shores of our Pacific Coast – America is finally safe.

  • Firefly, A

    Based on a poem by Souvankham Thammavongsa, “A Firefly” plays with words, letters and optical sound. Produced for LIFT Poetry Projections 2007.

  • Time Being I-IV

    Brief moments of being, fleeting bits of the surrounding chaos. These four short films (each 1.5 to 2 min. long) can be shown separately, or one after the other on one reel.

  • Once

    Poetry. Film. Light. Life. An excerpt from Rilke’s “Ninth Elegy” introduces this silent film which evokes the beauty and brevity of life. Images shimmer in an uncanny light. We catch glimpses only. Silent with sound preface.

  • Four Toronto Films

    The suite of four short films explores ideas about framing, centred round the attempt to find a necessary correspondence between the facts of the camera apparatus; fixed, rectangular frame and aspect ratio, and the work’s subject matter. A related idea concerns the figuration within the films of the manner in which the camera creates its own pro-filmic. To this end, there is a more or less recurring theme of frames within frames. Three of the four sections were filmed in, or within a stone’s throw of, the house in Toronto where I stayed while completing the work as an artist…

  • Shit Storm

    Based on a notorious ‘art scandal’ from 2007, writer/artist RM Vaughan recounts how rich and powerful members of the art world turned on him when he wrote his true thoughts about the mundane work proffered by the so-called Vancouver School. Art doesn’t have to be pretty, but does the art world have to be so ugly?

  • Quartet

    “Leading British avant-garde filmmaker Nicky Hamlyn is known for evoking the beauty in the everyday. His ‘Quartet’ comprises four variations on the same twenty shots of a flat, all beautiful ‘still lives.’ In the first two sections of the film, each shot contains an element of the subsequent shot, forming a necklace of images. These are strung together through a studied and sensual accumulation of time and space, both on the screen and in the imaginary. Thereafter, a release from structure compels us from contemplation toward memory and re-creation.” – Andréa Picard, Toronto International Film Festival

  • Moose Jaw: There’s a Future in Our Past (DVD Release)

    Available for purchase in the CFMDC Shop: https://www.cfmdc.org/shop. “Appropriate to a context of Canadian de-confederation, MOOSE JAW is at once a statement of the filmmaker’s own maturation; a regionalist dirge on the fatality of economic dependency; an excavation of our ever-vanishing collective past; and the ironic deconstruction of all the above.” – Michael Dorland, Art Gallery of Ontario Moose Jaw was a frontier boom-town flourishing on the Canadian Pacific rail line forging Canada as a “Dominion” in the late 1800s. But as rail gave way to the jet age, Moose Jaw began to decline. Now, museums dot the landscape (along…

  • Out & About with Brewer & Berg – A Multidimensional Travelogue

    “Out & About with Brewer & Berg – A Multidimensional Travelogue” is a philosophical travelogue of Europe with two zany guys in an amazing filmed documentary of their vision quest in search of a new mythology that includes gay and lesbian consciousness. “Out & About with Brewer & Berg” is where Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell meet Dan Rowan and Dick Martin. It’s where “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” meets Carlos Castaneda and David Attenborough. It’s where “My Dinner with André” meets the “On the Road” films with Crosby and Hope. Replete with riveting graphics, insightful quotations and a…

  • Full Stop Hilltop

    A man’s elliptical story of the places he’s seen, the people he’s been and the water he’s drank.