Genres: experimental

  • Figs in Motion

    Two men become six ballerinas and several horses in a bestial, impromptu corps de ballet. A delightful riff on the imagery of Edgar Degas and Eadweard Muybridge, featuring original music by Bryce Kulak and the Wet Secrets. “Figs in Motion” is a collaboration between Edmonton filmmakers Trevor Anderson and aAron munson which was originally commissioned by the Art Gallery of Alberta.

  • Doctor’s Dream, The

    Jacobs has restructured an existing film, “The Doctor,” into “The Doctor’s Dream”. The new film starts with the shot which was numerically the middle shot in the old film. It then proceeds to the shot that came before that middle shot, then skips over to the other side to the shot that followed the middle shot and keeps skipping back and forth. Finally, at the end, you see the beginning shot of the original film followed by the end shot. “To watch ‘The Doctor’s Dream’ is to witness a narrative unfolding forward and backwards in turns… a deconstructive Frankenstein of…

  • Old Ink

    Using primarily the black and white drawings of Harold Town and riffing on the original drawings by primitively animating their contents, this short, abstract, primarily black-and-white piece eschews continuity and embraces the non-linearity of the drawn/painted etched line. Part of the TAIS Eleven in Motion program.

  • Last Run

    A blind man’s journey along a winter trail is repeatedly intersected with the path of a running man. When the former takes notice, he is compelled to move towards the elusive figure. Time and time again, he tries to catch the man just out of his reach, each time a little faster and more determined than before. Whether or not he gets there, however, will depend on his frame of mind.

  • Post Card

    “POST CARD” is a love letter in black-and-white film. It was shot over a five-year period during which time Beatriz and I made several moves before separating. While living in a studio apartment in Chicago over a year later I began to write letters to her I would never send. The film represents my ongoing effort to come to terms with her loss. I was partly inspired by Jacques Derrida’s book, “Post Card”, in which he presents philosophical reflections as though they took the form of lover letters written on post cards that get lost along the way, expressing the…

  • Leaving Me

    An abstract journey through the fabric of the brain, revealing the fragile elements of self that are contained within.

  • AurA

    “AurA” is as an experimental documentary that explores a friend’s 8-year struggle with mental and physical health. Following a seizure on a soccer field, and the discovery of a brain tumour, life goes from bad to worse when one loses hope for the future.

  • Nightlight

    A lovely time-lapse portrait of landscapes and people at night, featuring both loneliness and connection and ending with a fireworks display. “Nightlight” was shot on expired black-and-white Double Super 8 film and processed as negative, the gelatin layer of the film stained red. Jury Award, Dresdner Schmalfilmtage / Dresden Small Format Festival 2010

  • Strips

    A vintage erotic film is cut into strips and then reassembled. As the strips are displaced and manipulated, an abstraction occurs. Part of the TAIS Eleven in Motion program.

  • M

    “M” is a film of assemblage, juxtaposition and manipulation of hand-drawn animations that were scanned, manipulated and combined. The resulting images were printed on paper and reworked, then organized according to their level of complexity and the movements that constitute them. Small architectures appear and overlap. Brief nebulas arise, the most complex structures sometimes recalling constellations and other stellar clusters.