Genres: experimental

  • where she stood in the first place.

    Situated at the geographic centre of Canada, Baker Lake, Nunavut is the only inland settlement in the Canadian Arctic. Fixing its gaze on this stark landscape, McIntyre’s haunting and sparse film uses hand-wrought black-and-white 16mm film in a meditation on place and personal histories.

  • ada

    An observational video portrait of an Inuk elder, patiently knitting. A study of the passage of time. FAVA Award for Outstanding Documentary, 2012

  • Memory Worked By Mirrors

    A mirror in the filmmaker’s backyard reflects his childhood home. The black frame of the watermarked mirror becomes a mysterious portal, distorting brick, branch, and flesh into an amorphous hodgepodge. A self-portrait.

  • Christ Church – Saint James

    In the spring of 1998, Christ Church – Saint James, a historic black church in Toronto’s Little Italy, was destroyed by arson. All that remained were walls and a pit, and over subsequent years, the site was overtaken with graffiti. This film has taken on the layered form of the site itself: the space and its surfaces becoming tangled and multiple, the grid of a stone-filled window giving geometric form to simultaneously occurring images of concrete, nature, waste, paint, and sky. Music by John Butcher.

  • Manor Road

    Trains travel to and from a fixed point in space beneath a variable coloured horizon.

  • on the day it started there wasn’t a cloud in sight

    it was about 10 minutes to five o’clock when it descended upon the city.

  • Where Are the Dolls

    “Where Are the Dolls” follows a woman as she embarks on a late-night journey through an unfamiliar urban landscape, searching for something she cannot name. The film is inspired by the poem “Where are the dolls who loved me so….” by Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911 – 1979). An impressionistic dream that emerges from the woman’s subconscious, the film navigates issues of femininity, intimacy and sexuality. It features Megan Follows in the lead role, known to audiences around the world as “Anne” in “Anne of Green Gables.”

  • Forsaken

    In “Forsaken”, Phillips again abstracts images selected from found footage, this time exploring such techniques as contact printing and hand tinting and toning. Muscle men, machinery, and building climbers become foreboding figures in this darkly apocalyptic film.

  • Burning Star

    Dedicated to my father, who asked that I make a more colourful work. Made during my residency at the now defunct Experimental Television Center, “Burning Star” is a colourful implo/explosion of the twelve sided star. The title refers to Kenji Onishi’s “A Burning Star.” – Joshua Gen Solondz Winner Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film, Ann Arbor Film Festival, MIchigan, U.S.A. (2013)

  • Deviations from the Wheel

    Percussive reedit of military tech videos and their heavy metal soundtrack.