Genres: experimental

  • The Films of Jack Chambers (Vol. 1-3)

    Available for purchase in the CFMDC Shop: https://www.cfmdc.org/shop. This 3-volume set brings together for the first time the complete film works of Jack Chambers (1931-78), largely regarded as one of Canada’s most important visual artists. With a well-established career as a painter, he embarked on a short-lived but significant career as a filmmaker in the mid-1960s. Chambers’ artistic practice was described as “perceptual realism” and stood in counterpoint to the dominant abstract styles of his day. He completed five films in his lifetime.

  • Model Fifty-One Fifty-Six

    Model Fifty-One Fifty-Six displays the physical changes of the maker’s heart since being born with the congenital disorder, Transposition of the Great Vessels. This chronicle showcases a movement from human to cyborg that connects personal vulnerability to 1980s science fiction.

  • In Passing

    A short lesbian art erotic film about a chance encounter between two women, complete strangers to each other, in the city of Belgrade. An impulsive attraction between them is driven by a strong sensual connection and the story of pursuit builds up quickly in one afternoon and enchanting night. Free of dialogue and with an original musical score, this short film can be likened to a fantasy or dream.

  • you rub me the wrong way

    you rub me the wrong way was created as part of SOUND + VISION TORONTO produced by Basement Arts. This project paired 5 local filmmakers with 5 local bands/musicians and 1 local neighborhood. I was asked to interpret and adapt a song by the potent forces behind post-punk band Pants & Tie in Toronto’s dynamic Kensington Market.

  • beth olem | house of the world

    two super 8 camera rolls capturing the beth olem cemetery in detroit on the site of GM’s “Poletown” plant, only open 4 hours per year.

  • Patterns: For some reason, it really tickled me.

    An experimental new media performance that travels through the magical places of memory and mind to find a new consciousness of love. Amot, a widowed butcher’s daughter, tries to find the logic of her own love story. She pieces together different memories and observes the magical patterns of love in life. With the help of other personalities, Amot will remember her teenage love, play with her first pet dog, and feel the force of a romantic relationship. She will travel through her own life, from remembering her parents’ death to finding the love of a lifetime, from being tickled by…

  • Everything Everywhere Again Alive

    “Everything Everywhere Again Alive” is a nature film with a difference. It is about a concept of nature which is communicated by a series of very simple images. These very simple images are used like building blocks of ideas to build a complex representation of nature as well as diaristic events taking place in the film. “Everything…” is an elaboration of two films by painters Jack Chambers (Circle) and Joyce Wieland (Solidarity) and in another sense, Michael Snow (La Region Centrale). “Everything…” is about space and the meaning of the infinite as it is used in Chinese painting. The shape…

  • By The Time We Got To Expo

    A meditative journey through Expo 67, re-visiting a significant moment in Canadian history using manipulated imagery taken from educational and documentary films. Footage has been re-worked using tints, toners and photochemical techniques to create a vibrant collision of colours, textures and forms.

  • Lunar Almanac

    “Lunar Almanac initiates a journey through magnetic spheres with its staccato layering of single-frame, long exposures of a multiplied moon. Shot in 16mm Ektachrome and hand processed, the film’s artisanal touches are imbued with nocturnal mystery”. —Andréa Picard, TIFF Wavelengths, 2014 Image description: A series of images of the full moon in a grid of four filmstrips taken from the film Lunar Almanac. The moon is white or pale yellow against a black background, in some instances obscured by tree branches or clouds. One section is coloured deep orange-red.

  • The Little Deputy

    Trevor tries to have a photo taken with his father.