Genres: experimental

  • Overcome

    Porn star, Ryan Russell is rotoscoped in this performance about ego and Eros. In the tradition of the peepshow a private sexual performance is made public. A lone figure enters the frame, smirks at the camera and gets down to business. Is he simply there to entertain himself or is this a performance for the viewer? It eventually goes terribly wrong when he quite literally drowns in his own ego. “Overcome” is a looped installation, but it is also available as a 1.47 minute piece. For installation pricing, please contact: bookings(a)cfmdc.org.

  • Starlings (at Nightfall)

    In Peter Dudar’s hypnotic and vaguely menacing “Starlings (at Nightfall),” we are witness to a strange intersection between the forces of nature and a man-made structure. A single, static, eight-minute-long shot documents the spiraling flight of thousands of starlings around a power transmission tower at dusk. “Suppose we wanted to understand the flocking behaviour of starlings…. What is remarkable about the starlings behaviour is that, despite all appearances, there is no choreographer and, as far as we know, no leader. Each individual bird is just following local rules.” – Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth Steam Whistle Homebrew Award,…

  • Ride This Country

    “Ride This Country” observes the interplay between man, machine and landscape during a long day of work. Festival premiere at Media City Festival (Windsor, ON), 2011

  • Au pays des esprits (Home of the Buffalo)

    Constructed from Canadian prairie archival images taken between 1920 and 1940, this film lyrically explores a son/daughter’s relationship with his/her father and the family’s relationship to their land.

  • L’Internationale

    In a foreign landscape, futuristic factories and boreholes harvesting geothermal steam serve as beacons of familiarity in the face of an unknown future. Selected screenings: Best Experimental, Chicago Underground Film Festival; Signal & Noise Media Art Festival (Vancouver, BC), 2011; Honorable Mention, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, 2011

  • I remember my dreams by the colour they are…

    With a soundtrack gleaned from composer Delia Derbyshire’s classic “Inventions for Radio” series for the BBC, Magnusson crafts a collage of oil-slide projections and family snapshots illustrating the qualities of dreams, memory and colour. (Images Festival catalogue, 2011) Selected screenings: Images Festival (Toronto, ON), 2011; Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, 2010.

  • Eleven in Motion: Abstract Expressions in Animation – Program

    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…

  • Seeking Single White Male

    Become absorbed in this study of a brown body in (queer) white spaces.

  • Manholes (Brian)

    The “Manholes” series takes a pan of a single male figure and fragments it into a grid of peepholes. The microscopic mapping of the body is intimate yet clinical. The cascading body parts create a kaleidoscope of changing skin tones. It is difficult to find the point of origin on the subject’s body, though occasionally signifiers make it possible; an eye, a nipple or the toes suddenly orient the viewer. The quiet audio combines electric currents, rushing water and vocals that mimic the visual energy and its meditative quality. “Manholes (Brian)” is a looped installation, but it is also available…

  • Manholes (David)

    The “Manholes” series takes a pan of a single male figure and fragments it into a grid of peepholes. The microscopic mapping of the body is intimate yet clinical. The cascading body parts create a kaleidoscope of changing skin tones. It is difficult to find the point of origin on the subject’s body, though occasionally signifiers make it possible; an eye, a nipple or the toes suddenly orient the viewer. The quiet audio combines electric currents, rushing water and vocals that mimic the visual energy and its meditative quality. “Manholes (David)” is a looped installation, but it is also available…