Genres: experimental

  • Tabu V (about which one cannot speak)

    About which one cannot speak … I gotta breathe heavily, have to yawn. I’m afraid of the operation, of what I’m experiencing. I only hope I live. A God, belief in a God could help me now. Lord Almighty! It’s not as ironic as it sounds.

  • Tales from the Vienna Woods

    “Tales from the Vienna Woods” looks at a 19th-century romance through the courtship letters of a suitor. He writes of the role of women, money, clothes, shoes, keys, marriage – in short, all the preoccupations of his life. Among these, what is normal is debatable, not only for today’s society, but also for the society of the period. Through found images and period photographs, the setting shifts from the Austro-Hungarian Empire to the 20th century, ending with Hitler’s Germany. This is a collage film which combines slide projections and live footage against musical variations on a famous Viennese waltz.

  • Tall Dark Stranger

    A drug encounter between a P.E.I. farmer and a hippie from “Upper Canada” who thinks he’s Christ. Has a great trip sequence.

  • Tangled Garden

    “Tangled Garden” is an experimental documentary triptych exploring representation, desire and meaning from a queer perspective – a glance, which is philosophical, political and erotic. Produced from 1992 to 1994. “Tangled Garden, Act I, Scene II” (12 min. 1993) begins the filmmaker’s journey by exploring the history of the purebred Jersey cow, and suggesting that when we look at the “other,” it is often ourselves we see reflected back. “Tangle Garden, Act II, Scene II” (13 min. 1992) examines the male nude in the history of Western Art, and offers a personal interpretation of the eroticism inherent in these images…

  • Tangled Garden, Act II, Scene II

    Enter an imaginary gallery of male nude figures where homoeroticism in the history of Western Art is uncovered, as the patrons become part of the exhibit. The film teases and tantalizes as it explores masculinity and desire through a queer reading of the male nude traditionally censored. This experimental documentary constructs a desired desiring body using key works from a lover’s discourse, including denial, difference, fear, lust and rapture.

  • Tapas

    “Tapas”, a film about the Spanish Civil War, uses techniques of experimental cinema within a documentary format. This poetic remembrance of the War and its aftermath is told through the voices and stories of various generations of refugees gone to America.

  • Technilogic Ordering

    Collaborators: Heather Cook and Steve Butson. A televisual “diary” of the time during the Persian Gulf War. Short fragments of images collected have been edited together, then spatially and rhythmically manipulated through the mosaic function on a VHS recorder. Inexorable motion as “seen” through TV, from the gulf between everyday broadcasts and everyday every day. Swelling panic.

  • Telephone Film, The

    “Not enough attention is paid to photogenic objects. A telephone receiver, for instance…” Louis Delluc. The inability to communicate leads to Atomic disaster. Discount to Peace Groups.

  • Tell Me What You Saw

    “After the success of his feature film ‘Masala,’ Srinivas Krishna returns to personal filmmaking with ‘Tell Me What You Saw’, a lush meditation on bucolic pleasures and a formally precise and emotionally engaging study of the properties of light.” – Toronto International Film Festival , 1994

  • Temporary Arrangement, A

    The film began as an experiment: to study the human form suspended in a body of water – a search for commonality. It was also an attempt to express with film the complexities within an individual, the multiple points of view of the human psyche. However, during the filming, a shift occurred in the agenda. Individual dramas unfolded as each person had to confront their ability – or inability – to relinquish control to the water. A personal narrative evolved as I intimately observed my friends and family coming to terms with this natural force. Looking repeatedly at these scenes…