Genres: experimental

  • Arrival, The

    In this satirical short, a close-knit community is rattled by an invasion of the queerest kind. Eyewitness accounts reveal the terror that has befallen the members of an Asian-American church, leaving them fragile and shaken. “The Arrival” is a hilarious take on LGBT issues that cleverly mixes fact and fiction.

  • Abstract Random: Mi Nah Wanna

    “me nah wanna hear dem chat bout violence, if you can’t take care of the children, it’s time to raise a generation, YO, the whole world is listening…” ABSTRACT RANDOM: rap electro dub hop + bring-back-cool feminist political. An all-female Toronto-based group composed of Jamilah Malika (vocals), LoverSun aka F.Nocera (producer, vocals, visuals) and Ayo Leilani (vocals). AR’s new music video for the rhythmic “Mi Nah Wanna.”

  • When the Sun Turns into Juice

    Inspired by a metaphor the filmmaker’s daughter uses to describe the setting sun, the film became an homage to Gordon Webber, a Quebecois animator and architect. A cameraless animation created by painting on film.

  • Bliss Out

    A light-drenched black and white roadmovie, charting interior and exterior peregrinations made through the City of Angels in 2003/04. (Antimatter Film Festival catalogue, 2009)

  • Dead to You

    The end of a relationship is like death, and the demise can haunt the participants as much as any specter. “Dead to You” uses ghost-detection documentary form to examine the painful aftermath of love.

  • Nous

    Filmed over a nine-year period, a close look at how we build relationships and how relationships build us. A bi-lingual film in French and English. Optical printing done during an artist residency at Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto in 2005.

  • Towards a Vanishing Point

    Footage shot in Coba, Mexico and the Siwa Oasis in Egypt and a found film from California serve as inspiration for a series of sketches on the notion of the vanishing point. Commissioned for LIFT’s 30th Anniversary Celebration.

  • Sing As We Go

    The city’s wavering light is its pulse and its extinguishment. A voice booms out with unsure finality, on unfirm foundations.

  • Off Route 2

    The scene of a car accident serves as a backdrop to an exploration of trauma and the often-anticlimactic aftermath of personal tragedy. A woman hangs inverted in silence, inhabiting the space of wildlife in the forest. This is as much a performance of endurance as it is a fictional construct; the execution of the film demanded that the artist hang upside-down from a seatbelt for extended periods of time in sub-zero weather.

  • Caribou

    “Caribou” is an 11-minute science fiction experimental portrait of Saskatchewan. Structurally it is a journey from the forests of northern Saskatchewan to the Badlands in the south.