Genres: experimental

  • Wherefrom the Shadows That Are Forms Fall

    The film is set amongst the eroding, forested cliffs of a creek. The images are a direct response to Linsey Wellman’s soundtrack of layered saxophones and electronics, which filmmaker Matthieu Hallé listened to for the first time while exposing each frame.

  • Cohabitat

    An absurdist take on the concept of rewilding, Cohabitat imagines the home as host to a growing number of organisms gradually redefining our environment, whether we’re aware of it or not.

  • Ruthless

    Ruthless (2019) Go back in time and witness a ruthless tale of unrequited love. The black and white film was shot on 16mm Bolex film camera using a KODAK 7222 Double-X Negative film, and processed by Niagara Film Lab in Toronto. Filmed in a few hours and is inspired by the Dogme 95 cinema movement. Thank you to The Marías, The Independent Filmmakers Co-operative of Ottawa (IFCO), Kodak, Pudgyboy’s, Marie-Hélène Villeneuve, Justin Pariat, and Warwick Walton. Screenings: September 2019 – The Independent Filmmakers Cooperative of Ottawa at Headquarters (Ottawa, Canada) November 2019 – A Night of Misfit Films at Onyx…

  • PSYCHE

    A meditating man contends with the forces of his mind.

  • The Names of Things

    A bed-bound woman’s year passes as a day: her time is no longer measured by the increments of a clock but by the quality of weather outside her window. Objects emerge and merge in the gloom; the old woman dissolves and reforms. Her muteness, her glaucomas and her inactivity render things indeterminate. By naming objects, animal and phenomena we reduce and delineate them, and so separate ourselves from the world around us. Shot at ISO 409,000 the image is granulated by pixelation and noise and any discreteness an object or thing might possess is confused by the digital processes of…

  • Contents under Pressure

    An anxious young party-goer finds love at a party, but after committing a party faux pas, is destroyed in a washing machine accident. From here, the project pivots, self-conscious and needing to recast its hero, who quickly has an existential crisis (“what’s my motivation?”). A poetic, quirky, singular meditation on identity and personal history, populated with the beautiful vistas of Atlantic Canada.

  • Manifestarsi

    The film investigates within the microscopic dimension the material component of billboards posted in Milan. The author, through a peculiar perspective – achieved with a unique optic – goes beyond the limits of vision, inviting us to fall into the alienating but enveloping physical structure beyond the mythical surface of the images. The cinematic result is an atmosphere that is not abstract but informal. Where the material reflects a visual condition devoid of perspective references on which to base metaphysical foundations: here the process suspends the essence.

  • Dein ist

    A lecture on language in German.

  • V.

    All the paperback novels I remember.

  • Ever Wanting (for Margaret Chung)

    Inspired by San Francisco’s first Chinese American female physician, this film envisions the euphoria and despair of Margaret Chung and her insatiable desire for women and celebrity through her forays into drugs, sapphic surgeries, and queer flights of fancy. Image description: A black-and-white archival image toned warm purple, showing a woman dancing with arms raised to the side and skirt flared out in a circle.