Genres: experimental

  • Tremors

    Tall buildings and cars are photographed using the Kinemacolor process (employing colour filters and a water lens). Sturdiness jousts with fragility, past with present, alienation with tenderness, abrasiveness with sensuality, red with green. The camera is moving in the slick of space. Shapes vibrate selectively from the image; others flash as vibrations vary in rhythm and intensity.

  • Trilogy, A

    “In 1986 Sternberg completed ‘A Trilogy’ – a moving and complex work which philosophically narrates the separation of mother and son. Composed of a number of apparently separate and discrete elements – Sternberg brings them together in a masterful weave of archaic ritual, home movie, dramatic interlude and speculative address. At the heart of this intertextual weave is the filmmaker herself and her teenaged son. As he reaches the age of consent, and prepares to make his final deposition of leave taking, this film is a reminder of all that has passed between them, and hints at what might lie…

  • Trio

    “A woman and two men in conversation are seen individually, each one constituting one of three ‘movements,’ arranged according to the traditional musical cycle of fast-slow-fast. This film includes early passages of ‘moving visual thinking,’ as Brakhage begins to explore further the possibilities of this form. (The second movement is composed of images of Stan Brakhage which were photographed by filmmaker Bruce Baillie.)” – M.J

  • Big Show, The

    “The Big Show” is a light reading letter for its audience, offering up in a succession of printed intertitles, language as the event that “takes place.” Processed by hand in the filmmaker’s bathtub, the titles struggle to speak beyond a surface hopelessly disfigured in their development.

  • Tryst Haunt

    This is a hand-painted film photographically step-printed so that the thicket-like lines of paint are “played off” against some centered pale-hued areas of paint in such a way as to suggest a clearing in a forest of branches (which is, in the repetitive form of the whole film, only fleetingly seen) – a trysting place which flits through the mind like a ghost. (SB) Note: Must be rented with “The Harrowing”; rental price covers both films.

  • two forms

    “two forms” is a sensual and meditative study of tw interlocking hands, ambiguous in gender. Black-and-white extreme close-ups suggest other corporal forms and textures. Reminiscent of the photography of Stieglitz and Weston, this film explores communion as a territory where the ambiguity of gender roles and identity can be embraced.

  • Two Thousand Years Today – A Parable

    This film is a dramatic interpretation of the problem we all have in attempting to defy or conform to our environment – whether we consider environment to be our natural surroundings or the people and lifestyles surrounding us. The old “boy-meets-girl” narrative is twisted into a metaphor of the sexual and/or religious escapism which is often the result of our floundering amidst this timeless conflict.

  • Two Tone (Double Aquarelle)

    Surreal semi-symmetrical imagery of a blonde female French Olympic swimmer, in and out of the pool.

  • Two/Doh

    “Two/Doh” is an evocative poetic pastiche exploring the public and private spaces of desire, and its intersection with the cultural and erotic connections between two women of different origins: Persian/Armenian and South Asian/Sri Lankan.

  • Tyranny of Architecture, The

    A group of Muslim women cross a dirt road in an oasis on the Sahara Desert. The camera scans the frosting-like architecture of Venice. “We do not always choose to live where we do, and if we are so lucky as to choose the abode we can not often choose the locale.” A personal history of relations with various environments is the voice-over for a series of optically printed images which were originally shot in Venice and Tunisia.