Genres: experimental

  • Fever

    “Fever” plays with the film convention of “it was only a dream,” positioning the audience/viewer as both the (mind’s) eye of the dreamer, and as the voyeur of the same naked, sleeping figure. In fact, much of the piece explores looking, as dream figures gaze upwards captivated by something unseen, inter-cut with the camera examining the sleeper’s body. The film culminates with the dream looking back at the dreamer, startling him to wakefulness. Perhaps longing is really the theme here, as the camera caresses a body the viewer can’t touch, a dog chases a fox frozen in a glass case,…

  • Fluids

    6 years ago two artists attempted to make a queer, sci-fi porno: it failed. What emerged 6 years later out of its campy/tragic/melodramatic ashes is this erotic experimental documentary; a meditation on the intersections of failure and fetish as well the meticulous, accidental processes of constructing of cinema and identity

  • Experiments In Light

    This short explores light as a meditative state while encouraging the viewer to take a moment to be present within themselves. Taking footage from my narrative self portrait A Celebration of Darkness (2015) and recutting it to refocus on the various macro shots of crystals as an expansion on the theme of light and darkness. The images in this short was made possible by the LIFT/ImagineNATIVE 16 mm Film Mentorship in 2015, it’s post production was funded by the Ontario Arts Council Access and Development grant in 2016 and completed as part of my Media Artist in Residence with Workman…

  • 5 cité de la Roquette

    When I returned to 5 cité de la roquette, I found a sign on the gate announcing the reconstruction of the building. In the days that followed, I came back in early morning or evening, when crews were not working, to film the stairwells, the stones, the doors, to stand on the landings, to listen to the sounds of the empty building, to watch the light at the windows, to hear again the songs of this place.

  • Four Vignettes

    Four everyday scenes presented as sequential images with generative sound. A home made optical Theremin transmutes the visual to the audible twenty-four times per second. This film was created during TR:AFICC, a residency in TRUCK Gallery’s CAMPER, and was a prototype and proof-of concept for the expanded cinema work Circles of Confusion.

  • Folded River

    An empty canoe floats down a river. A landscape turns inward: time and place are enfolded. Two images converge producing a third, unseen image; a vanishing memory.

  • The Canoe

    A woman finds refuge in an empty summer home when her camping trip is interrupted by a storm.

  • Empty Nightclub

    Drawing on footage from Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, “Empty Nightclub” is a maze of urban streets, dark corridors and dance floors. The video weaves scenes from Orlando, San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Toronto to take the viewer on a mysterious journey. Are we looking for the party or are we desperately searching for the exit?

  • Class Order Family Tribe

    “Class Order Family Tribe” is a 26-minute experimental documentary about my my Native American [Ute, Apache, Pueblo] family’s shifting strategies for survival after leaving the reservation and moving to Central California in the 1950s. Moreover it is a look at heterosexuality, machismo and binary gender roles as strategies for survival and how in my new native generation queerness and gender fluidity are new forms of survival. This silent film is told exclusively through 8mm film shot by my native family in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. I insert myself into the film as a textual narrator creating a link between…

  • Heartbreak

    “Heartbreak” is a tribute to black mothers. It was written and produced in response to the constant threat of brutality they and their children (particularly boys) live under. Through poetry and the voice of a 5-year-old boy it relates the very real physical and psychological toll that violence has on black bodies and black souls.