Genres: experimental

  • Doubt

    “Doubt” combines a large range of formal techniques, from collage animation to trance psychodrama to structuralism to diary film to found film in some very humorous ways. Under it all, the film tells the vague story of a man’s search for happiness within a chaotic world which seems bent on restricting all joy.

  • Les Nanas

    Shot on one reel of Super 8mm and edited in camera, “Les Nanas” is a visual interpretation of a piece of music by avant-garde musicians, the Artie Smudges Trio, which follows a day in the lives of three doll-like women.

  • Travelogue

    This video was taken using a small digital still camera on multiple bus trips between New York City and Upstate NY. The bus’ many large windows afforded dramatic reflections to this perched passenger, feeling as if floating through the landscape. Lulled by the noises of the tires on the road, the incessant tremors, muffled conversations and trying to keep digital camera steady while being thrown from side-to-side, visual wedges kept uncannily intersecting and gesturing.

  • High Level Bridge, The

    Edmonton’s High Level Bridge has a morbid notoriety; it’s a frequent spot for suicides. Anderson pays homage to the people and events surrounding an odd landmark. Selected screenings: Toronto International Film Festival, 2010; AFI Fest Official Selection 2010, Honorable Mention for Best Live Action Short Film; Sundance 2011 “Edmonton’s High Level Bridge is a frequent spot for suicides. Trevor Anderson documents the bridge’s history and its place in collective psychology with insight and wit. Finding humour in dark territory, The High Level Bridge showcases chilling shots of the North Saskatchewan River, and pays homage to the people and events surrounding…

  • Bright and Dark

    “It is an abstract exploration of the chemistry dancing inside us like light in sealed dark places.” (EE)

  • As Above So Below

    Simard’s lovely animation explores the tensions between the extraordinary and the ordinary, and the search to transcend everyday experience. Inspired by the art of Alexandra Luke. Part of the TAIS Eleven in Motion program. Selected screenings: London International Animation Festival, 2011; Melbourne International Animation Festival, 2011; Anima Mundi, 2010; Animafest Zagreb, 2010.

  • Eleven in Motion: Abstract Expressions in Animation – DVD Release

    Commissioned by the Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS), this programme is a personal and original response to the work of the Painters Eleven by talented and accomplished animation artists from across Canada. The animators have themselves researched and chosen from the Painters Eleven an artist with whom they feel a personal connection. Similar to experimental animation in Canada, which was once a highly regarded mode of expression before commercial animation usurped the stage, the Painters Eleven have largely fallen out of the public spotlight. In commissioning short animated works that draw from, respond to or are inspired by seminal works…

  • Dream of Naming , A

    Colliding visions of woman as the Venus, the child, the grotesque, the rebel, the victim and the poet defy us to examine our own contradictions. This expressionistic film is a visual interpretation of the poem “a dream of naming,” written and performed by Judy Radul. “An extraordinarily beautiful, endlessly confrontational film.” – Toronto Festival of Festivals

  • Tourist of memory

    In this journey through time and place – an Ottawa snowstorm, Niagara Falls, and the filmmaker’s childhood home – recollections come unbidden and half-articulated, of trains, marshes and wind turbines, resolving at the inexpressible place where memory lies. A stand-alone chapter of the video essay, “In Between (remembering and forgetting),” “Tourist of memory” was filmed in 16mm, Super 8 and video, with sound design by Edmund Eagan.

  • Recipes for Reconstruction: The Cookbook for the Frugal Filmmaker – Institutional Sale

    Special Book and DVD Set Veteran animator and filmmaker Steven Woloshen introduces a variety of simple artistic strategies to create decay and to re-assemble damaged film prints into new experimental visions. This book includes a special DVD (NTSC) with nine short films created specially for this do-it-yourself, “hands-on” manual. An excellent resource for film production courses and workshops. Featuring nine chapters & accompanying films: 1. Chronicle Reconstructions: Creating Reconstructions 2. Zero Visibility: Reproducing Decay and Damage 3. La Dolce Vita: Hasty Archaeology 4. Scrapbook: Correcting Correlations 5. Fleeing Rotland: Revitalizing Obsolete Gauges on 35mm Film 6. The Homestead Act: Using…