Genres: experimental

  • Voiliers et Coquelicots (Poppies and Sailboats)

    Little is necessary for everything to appear differently. The date, the hour, the weather, the space’s layout, one’s glance or presence of mind can make everything change. The boats sail out of the Vieux port in Marseille to be amongst the poppy fields. Il suffit de peu pour que tout apparaisse autrement. Date, heure, météo, regard, disposition des lieux, présence d’esprit … tout peut changer. R.L.

  • Habitat

    In this film we move away from the notion of a work based on a preconceived filming procedure ajusting the visual characteristiques of the image in order to approach the temporal dimension of a pond full of frogs. In front of such creatures that tend to be elusive there arises a question of more general interest as to how can one record moments that are meanful, how can one render visible, present a moment that is alive and connect the items forming the different recorded moments up together ? On s’éloigne dans ce film d’une œuvre dont la forme est…

  • Bouquets 21-30

    BOUQUETS 21-30 is a part of the ecological BOUQUETS series, consisting of one-minute films composed in the camera by weaving the characteristics of different environments with the activities there at the time. The filming basically entails using the film strip as a canvas with the freedom to film frames on any part of the strip in any order, running the film through the camera as many times as needed. Thus each bouquet of flowers is also a unique bouquet of film frames. BOUQUET 21 was filmed in a tiny paradise which took years to create, La Baraque, an organic farm…

  • Soft Place to Fall, A

    Caustic, tender and poignant, “a soft place to fall” is a dance film that investigates a couple’s shifting relationship. This dance tells the passionate story of a man and a woman and the humour and peril of becoming vulnerable to each other as they move through states of obsession and determination.

  • Garden of Earthly Delights, The

    “The Garden of Earthly Delights” is visual duet consisting of a 16mm film and a 16mm photogram self-portrait collage. It is inspired by the earthly pleasures and wonders as revealed in the vibrant marvels of Stan Brakhage’s cinema, and in the central panel of the 1504 triptych by Hieronymous Bosch titled “The Garden of Earthly Delights.” Commissioned for CFMDC ReGeneration. Selected Screenings: International Film Festival Rotterdan (2009); WNDX Festival (Manitoba, Canada, 2009); Kunstencentrum Buda (Budapest, 2009); CFMDC ReGeneration Touring Program (Canada, 2008)

  • 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.

  • Secret Weapons

    “Secret Weapons” is an experimental animated filmic essay that tries to work through the emotional and political confusion that has shaped the way I, and many other young Queer Aboriginal artists, relate to the world. After looking at the films of Mike Hoolboom, my thoughts began to centre on the experiences of growing up under the fear of AIDS in the 1990s, and of the cultural loss and grief that has cycled through the Native community since colonization began. I divided the image into four channels to reference Hoolboom’s film “Frank’s Cock,” while also reinterpreting the framework of the four…

  • Afghanimation

    Women in Afghan refugee camps make woven rugs that tell a story of war. The intent of these rugs is unclear. Are they anti-war or an affirmation of military power? Are they made as tourist trinkets for soldiers and “peacekeepers,” or are they somber prayer rugs? The weavers of these rugs are anonymous to Western collectors because the rugs are attained through intricate channels of trade. This kind of silencing of the artists’ voices and the political ambivalence of their intent can be read as a metaphor for the Canadian military presence in Afghanistan. “Canadians don’t know what the Canadian…