Genres: experimental

  • Solar Sight III

    “In SOLAR SIGHT III I have continued the dream-like form of disparate animated scenes, each with its own ‘romantic-with-an-edge’ slightly surreal flavour. Scenes are sometimes run-on, sometimes separated by brief periods of darkness to relax, as in breathing, the viewing eye. There are no fancy superimpositions now, nor excessive visual trickery. Only comparatively straight forward presentation of the improbable images, which have formed themselves in my improbable mind.” — Lawrence Jordan

  • Hoshi Neko (Little Star)

    This 16mm B&W cut-out animation borrows narrative tropes from early Atari video games, silent films, and anime cartoons, offering a weird story and hybrid aesthetic. The narrative is based on the imagined adventures of the singer’s lost cat, Hoshi. Hoshi eats a koi fish, who emerges angry from his digestive system. The koi enlists the help of a pug to exact revenge, and the three characters embark on an epic chase through the cosmos. Their journey brings them through wormholes and across poisonous planets where their skin is melted off by acid rain.

  • Par vos yeux (through your eyes)

    tu touches ce qui t’entoure dans un lieu partagé avec la camera; à travers ce que tu touches, à travers une chambre, un escalier, un autre corps, comme ca tu commences à exister, à vivre, à désirer – à travers cette mort de toi-meme et cette naissance d’une troisième, cette naissance de l’invisible. you touch what surrounds you in a space shared with the camera; through what you touch, across a room, a staircase, another body – you begin to exist, to desire – through this death of yourself and this beginning of a third, this beginning of the invisible.

  • Elegy

    Amidst the ghosts of his cultural roots, Popovich creates a lyrical and loving light monument dealing with separation, change and death. “Part diary, part travelogue, part memorium for a friend’s death, ‘Elegy’ deftly and poetically blends the private concerns of the filmmaker, a discovery of roots in his native Yugoslavia, and the insubstantiality of remembered moments.” – Kass Banning, Now Magazine Screenings: Toronto Festival of Festivals; Krakow Film Festival, Poland; International Documentary Film Festival of Nyon, Switzerland; Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan; 5 Jours du Cinéma Indépendent Canadien, Montreal; CBC-TV

  • Queen’s Quay

    Red, green, blue, and yellow grids track the horizon, left and right. The colours mix.

  • Snakegrass

    Snake grass lines a forest path. The camera passes toward the entrance to the woods. It staggers and repeats as the scene is saturated in colour.

  • Balinese Rebar

    Birds in flight break through rusted clouds and translucent buildings. Rebar at a construction site seems to snake through sunlit puddles.

  • The Order of Ideas at the Leslie Street Spit

    On the paths that cut through Toronto’s Tommy Thompson Park, at the foot of Leslie Street, an assortment of terrains collide: thicket, pebbled shorelines, muddy vistas, and fertile earth with beds of wildflowers. A giant duck crosses the horizon. A radio transmission of Shooby Taylor, the human horn, travels with us.

  • Selected Works by the Loop Collective: Volume 1

    A selection of films produced between 2005-2011 by members of The Loop Collective, a Toronto-based group of independent filmmakers, musicians, dancers and multimedia artists who strive to connect cinema to related interdisciplinary art forms. 1. fugitive l(i)ght 2. c: won eyed jail 3.Thaw 4. Parícutin 5.Quanta 6. Shapes Eat Shapes 7. Levitas 8. Spiders in Eden 9. The Changing Light 10. Christ Church – Saint James 11. Thought Form 12. Morning 13. Many Glimpses 14. Movement / Stasis (documentation)

  • Elementary Phrases

    This is a hand-painted and elaborately step-printed collaboration between filmmakers Stan Brakhage and Phil Solomon. After many months of working together step-printing the painted strips of film by Brakhage, Phil Solomon re-discovered the following passage which helped clarify their process and inspired the editing wich then began: “The profound nature of this concept will be better understood, and the positive study of it more successful, if we think of such an organization, in its temporal aspect and scope, as corresponding exactly to what is called in music the phrasing; distinguished both from the melody (which is based on the differences…