Genres: experimental

  • her silent life

    A version of family. From mother, grandmother, great-grandmother to me, stories flow through our matrilineal heritage to explore the remarkable life of my Inuk great-grandmother.

  • Hawker, The

    “When I was a kid in Singapore, the same person served me chicken rice every day. I didn’t know if that person was a man or a woman, and that was awesome.”

  • Not Waving But Drowning

    I was too far out all my life and not waving, but drowning.

  • Focus Woman

    “Focus Woman” is a celebration of the independent art house theater and the tasks of a lone projectionist as well as an exploration of gendered work place violence through the feminist lens.

  • though she never spoke, this is where her voice would have been.

    An autotopographical portrait of someone through what was left behind and what is missing.

  • How to Make a Phantastik Film

    A look at the traditional 50s housewife and her attempts at counter-culture. Brought to you by Phantastik.

  • little fountains

    A meditation on cultural appropriation and nature’s myth. Prompted by Roland Barthes’ “Mythologies”, the videomakers have found a microcosm of the new age wasteland within little fountains. The work is an object focused meditation within a young woman’s life is brought to attention.

  • all-around junior male

    A single-subject portrait of a young Nunamiut athlete through the practice of his sport, which focuses on the materiality of film and its surface textures. Image description: A dramatic image of a Nunamiut man’s face, in black-and-white with a sepia tint. One side of his face is brightly lit and the other is in dark shadow.

  • Barge Dirge

    Built in 1972, The Rothesay Carrier, one of the largest sea-faring vessels of her kind ever constructed, spends one long lonely year trapped by ice in a Canadian Arctic hamlet. Subsequent to the shooting of this footage, she was crushed and melted for scrap. A portrait study of an object explored through the structure of film editing and the structure of the object itself.

  • 1857 (Fool’s Gold)

    Four types of visual forms appear in this film: photographed scenes, written texts, mathematical symbols and numerals. The course of the film is charted by the transformations which these images undergo. The film has a narrative form, but… one that is developed purely in terms of the manipulation of the colour characteristics of the images. The texts included in the film are drawn from Ezra Pound’s “Cantos.” They serve, in the first place, to involve the spectator in the process of reading. Furthermore, Pound’s text is ideal for exploring fairly completely the range of relations that can exist between image…