Genres: experimental

  • Necessary Games: Triptych

    A dynamic collaboration between Restless Dance Theatre and screen media company Closer Productions, NECESSARY GAMES is a triptych of dance works made specifically for the screen. The young members of Restless ensemble, who predominantly have an intellectual disability, worked with the Closer Productions team to develop these polished films. With three different takes on intimacy and connection and three explorations of the games we play, NECESSARY GAMES delivers honest, idiosyncratic movement and documents compelling interactions. The triptych forms a complete work, or each film is available separately. Awards: Best Experimental Short Film at the Melbourne International Film Festival (2009), Best…

  • Necessary Games: Moths

    A dynamic collaboration between Restless Dance Theatre and screen media company Closer Productions, NECESSARY GAMES is a triptych of dance works made specifically for the screen. The young members of Restless ensemble, who predominantly have an intellectual disability, worked with the Closer Productions team to develop these polished films. With three different takes on intimacy and connection and three explorations of the games we play, NECESSARY GAMES delivers honest, idiosyncratic movement and documents compelling interactions. The triptych forms a complete work, or each film is available separately. Part 1: MOTHS: Two men collide in a dank night world, drenched with…

  • Necessary Games: Sixteen

    A dynamic collaboration between Restless Dance Theatre and screen media company Closer Productions, NECESSARY GAMES is a triptych of dance works made specifically for the screen. The young members of Restless ensemble, who predominantly have an intellectual disability, worked with the Closer Productions team to develop these polished films. With three different takes on intimacy and connection and three explorations of the games we play, NECESSARY GAMES delivers honest, idiosyncratic movement and documents compelling interactions. The triptych forms a complete work, or each film is available separately. Part 2: SIXTEEN: A coming-of-age game about nervousness, joy, desire and intimacy, and…

  • Necessary Games: Necessity

    A dynamic collaboration between Restless Dance Theatre and screen media company Closer Productions, NECESSARY GAMES is a triptych of dance works made specifically for the screen. The young members of Restless ensemble, who predominantly have an intellectual disability, worked with the Closer Productions team to develop these polished films. With three different takes on intimacy and connection and three explorations of the games we play, NECESSARY GAMES delivers honest, idiosyncratic movement and documents compelling interactions. The triptych forms a complete work, or each film is available separately. Part 3: NECESSITY: A game between two girls eternally bound together. They trace…

  • Memory Fade

    A new dual-screen work by Canada’s alchemical master, “MEMORY FADE” works and re-works media images through hand-processing, tinting and toning. Richly textured and layered scenes of disaster and destruction, including news footage from 9/11, are relentlessly repeated, forming a lament for humankind’s lack of memory and fading reason. With a sound composition by Dan Browne.

  • Kinestasis

    “KINESTASIS” consists entirely of advertising still images. These are collaged and heavily image-processed to achieve a phantasmagoric effect. The multiplicities of advertising images are occasionally juxtaposed with quickly morphing “slit-scan” images of skulls in mass graves. Multiplicities as viewed from opposing sides of the capitalist coin.

  • Conchitas

    Slippery, colourful gummy bears and hundreds of little conches are used to construct a barrier against the stillness of a summer day. Two landscapes are juxtaposed, one of Georgian Bay in Lake Huron and the other of Veracruz Beach in Panama City. Two voices narrate an intimate conversation about the fear of dangers hidden deep in salty waters. Spanish with English subtitles.

  • Lacuna

    Lacuna: 1. an empty space or a missing part; a gap; an absence. 2. a discontinuity in an anatomical structure. Selected screenings: WNDX Festival, Winnipeg, MB, 2009; Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, Montreal, QC, 2009

  • House of Olga, The

    The roots of invasive vines threaten the preservation of Casco Antiguo’s declining heritage buildings in the historic district of Panama City. While the area continues to gentrify rapidly, Olga quietly tends to the plants amidst her home of ruins. “THE HOUSE OF OLGA” documents an unorthodox traveler in search of the perfect dwelling. Spanish with English subtitles.

  • ON COLOR I: lukrezia

    References the nude subject of Lucretia in the allegorical work by German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 – 1553). The distorted visual is juxtaposed with an orthodox choir of monks and the sound of funeral church bells.