Genres: experimental

  • La Grande Dame (étude)

    A graphic and vertiginous portrait of la Place Ville Marie in Montreal, Canada. Originally shot on Super 8 and edited in-camera, blown up to 16mm for exhibition. Selected screenings: Media City Film Festival, 2012 (Windsor, ON); Images Festival, 2012 (Toronto, ON)

  • Eclipsed: Still Life #4

    “Eclipsed” is a structured journey through the territory of audio and visual overtones. Colour flows creep up the screen, and are replaced instantaneously by other flows and flares of colour. On the sound track we hear a prepared piano piece, which draws the ear into the intense and elongated space of dense and powerful, yet subtle and ethereal, overtones. “One perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception” (Charles Olson).

  • Maya Deren’s Sink

    “Maya Deren’s Sink” explores Deren’s concepts of space, time and form through visits and projections filmed in her LA and NY homes. Light projections in Deren’s intimate space evoke a former time and space providing entree into the homes of an influential filmmaker we will never know. The film reclaims the spaces that inspired her work in order to share it with audiences. Time and space are collapsed as film locations of the 40’s are re-imagined in the present. Performances by an actor based on Deren’s film and writing as well as overlooked biographical insights reveal a creative personality untouched…

  • when the smog-filled wind began to howl

    We know now that in the early years of the twenty-first century this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man. [adapted from Orson Welles’ adaptation of HG Wells’ War of the Worlds (Orson Welles And Mercury Theatre On The Air, Columbia Broadcasting System, 8:00 To 9:00 P.M., Sunday, October 30, 1938)]

  • Bol 1 (the Cyclist)

    A cyclist meets a stranger in the market. “Bol 1 (the Cyclist)” is the first of three separate encounters that make up “Bol (Speak!),” a short dramatic experimental triptych on the nature of violence. Inspired by the Pakistani Marxist poet, Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poem “Bol”, and drawn from real events, this segment uses still photographs to comment on the increasing ubiquity and tenor of violence in South Asia. The extended triptych, “Bol (Speak!),” is also available for distribution through CFMDC.

  • Even if my hands were full of truths

    “Even if my hands were full of truths” is the third part of a series by the artist about the legacy of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. This component is a mirror that contemplates how memory might or might not become history, using excerpts from now-declassified CIA correspondence and a photo-montage taken at the Museum of Human Rights and Memory in Santiago. Rotterdam International Film Festival, DINAMO: True/False, 2019

  • Bol 2 (the Rape)

    A boy waits for his mother to return home. “Bol 2 (the Rape)” is the second of three separate encounters that make up “Bol (Speak!),” a short dramatic experimental triptych on the nature of violence. Inspired by the Pakistani Marxist poet, Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poem “Bol”, and drawn from real events, this segment uses puppetry to comment on the increasing ubiquity and tenor of violence in South Asia. The extended triptych, “Bol (Speak!),” is also available for distribution through CFMDC.

  • Bol 3 (the Mask)

    A man wakes up to find that his face is being stolen by shadows. “Bol 3 (the Mask)” is the final of three separate encounters that make up “Bol (Speak!),” a short dramatic experimental triptych on the nature of violence. Inspired by the Pakistani Marxist poet, Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poem “Bol”, and drawn from real events, this segment uses folk dance to comment on the increasing ubiquity and tenor of violence in South Asia. The extended triptych, “Bol (Speak!),” is also available for distribution through CFMDC.

  • A+

    Cinema finds its accounts in an uncommon ledger, whose lines and tabulations conceal the greatest love of all.

  • Edge of Extinction

    “Gone the way of the whooping crane.” Once a symbol of certain extinction, today a sign of hope. The whooping crane is here depicted in a combination of rotoscope images, slides, photographs, line drawings, and multiple exposures.