Genres: experimental

  • Gertrude & Alice in Passing

    This experiment in point of view, narrative structure, and time attempts to reproduce cinematically Gertude Stein’s notion of a “continuous present.” In four rhyming shots/scenes, it suggests the development of a relationship over many years. Based on biographical details from the lives of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, with improvised performances by Jackie Burroughs and Anne Anglin.

  • Red Tunnel (紅色隧道)

    To celebrate Grandma Wu’s birthday, the villagers assembled plastic tarps around the village—a canopy that resembled a red tunnel. Weaving inside and outside of the canopy, a secret mechanism of domination may be glimpsed. Entrapped under a makeshift space, the villagers waver between laughter and labour as poetics intermittently exceed the banality of life.

  • 1000 Brazils of Truth

    Filmmakers Sheena Rossiter and Sandro Silva perform a spoken word song that’s dedicated to São Paulo, a megacity full of paradoxes. Through archive footage they filmed between 2011 and 2017, Sheena and Sandro show the highs and lows of a country that goes from being an emerging market, economic powerhouse, to one on the brink of collapse. By the time the filmmakers decide to leave Brazil in 2017, it is a country in the midst of a seemingly never-ending political corruption scandal and the worst economic recession in over eight decades. But, despite the shortcomings, Sheena and Sandro still miss…

  • The Space Shuttle Challenger

    Through found footage, The Space Shuttle Challenger entwines the Challenger disaster, Guantanamo Bay, Chile’s coup d’état and the experience of being 16. It reflects on the personal impact of large events in world history and small moments of hope that survive.

  • Mer Bleue

    A pathway through time captures the changing of seasons and the evanescence of love. Mer Bleue was shot on 16 mm and video at the Mer Bleue bog in Ottawa, Canada.

  • What Comes Between

    What Comes Between is an examination of personal memory and loss rooted in the filmmaker’s birth place – Chile – and her departure from that country long ago. The work is a collage film created with found footage from personal and historic sources, and original hand printed and tinted footage.

  • Presque Vu

    Lush hand-crafted film footage and HD images combine to reveal a mysterious past through remnants of a memory that is almost remembered, but which never fully develops. Language note: Presque Vu is without language or dialogue. There are words spoken in a mysterious language, but they are not intended to be understood.

  • Before

    With intricate hand-printed 16 mm footage, Before is a dark ode to the possibility and impossibility of love. It reflects on time, inner worlds and soft landings we find in desolate moments in life.

  • Justice

    This animation is about the symbiotic relationship humans have with earth and about a mother’s journey to seek justice for her child. The big foot tramples on a baby flower before it has the chance to flourish. Her mother journeys through the roots of the earth and sprouts into various forms of life as the tries to cling onto the memory of her child one last time. Together, the plants expel a seed from the bosom of a rose and plant the seed of Justice into the earth. Animation is created with charcoal on paper by Jesi Jordan. ‘Justice’ musical…

  • Recollection – Premonition

    Am I him or am I not? Did I know her or did she know me? I’m not certain who they are yet I feel I have always known them and I can’t help but wonder what became of them. A figure appears then dissolves as the film becomes a memory map. Another figure then appears and merges into the topography of the aged film before once again the first figure briefly reappears. In March 2020 the Province of British Columbia declared a State of COVID-19 Emergency. Since that time I’ve been projecting and recording some of my family’s regular/super…