Genres: experimental

  • Sand In Her Shoes

    A fantastical, lyrical exploration of a woman’s healing journey created through evocative visual images and sound incorporating elements of ritual and dream. Filmed in the Chihuahua Desert of New Mexico and in a constructed room with trees growing out from the walls. The details of texture, light and colour in the treatment of physical space and the creation of environments become metaphorical expressions of emotion.

  • This is a Crisis

    An anonymous bureaucrat traipses around the City of Toronto, repurposing hostile architecture as their playground. Featuring spliced audio of former mayor John Tory’s victory speeches from 2014, 2018, and 2022 municipal election nights, bleak scenes are juxtaposed with a heavy-handed narrative of progress and inclusion. Documented on January 31, 2023—weeks before Tory would resign—this public performance and accompanying video artwork offer a critique of procedural fetishism, the surveillance and criminalization of poverty, and what cities become when they leave the most marginalized behind.

  • Over the Island

    On the island of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the act of leaving has become ingrained into the culture. Since the closure of its main industries, the Glace Bay coal mine and the Sydney steel plant, many young families have been forced to relocate, migrating thousands of miles in the pursuit of work. ‘Over the Island’ is an experimental documentary that follows a mother traveling back home to the island, and a filmmaker attempting to connect the past with the present. This film deconstructs the concept of ‘home’, and investigates how one’s sense of belonging, self identification and familial relationship are…

  • Abstract Horror

    Abstract Horror is part documentary, part speculation about the new forms of religion and spirituality mediated by new technologies. It takes inspiration from the current philosophical and scientific discourse, and it borrows heavily from the aesthetic of New Age esoteric cults.In particular, the film is a portrait of philosopher Nick Land, one of the founding fathers of leftist accelerationism who has in recent years left the West for China to become an adamant alt-right supporter, trying to bring about the end of civilization. The film is built around a conversation with Land who in its course talks about the abstract…

  • Glide

    * official selection Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn 2024 * official selection Athens Animfest – 3rd Prize Experimental Competition * official selection Les Sommets du cinema d’animation, Montreal * official selection The West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film FestivaL A meditation on the radically different means of creation available to us, Jason Zumpano’s latest short “Glide” is an invitation to the mythopoetic and the various materials, from the painterly to the digital, that bring it into existence. Against Matisse-like colour palettes and impressionistic-resolutions, the central figure of “Glide” is a woman floating on a lantern-helmed rowboat. We float through various angles and…

  • The Big Film Series

    A collection of nine 35mm hand-processed film portraits, shot using an early motion picture hand-cranked camera. ​The Big Film Series was first exhibited as an expanded cinema series reminiscent of the dawn of cinema. In these performative film screenings, Leopoldo Bloom would create an intimate screening experience by operating a hand-cranked projector among the audience rather than anonymously from an isolated projection booth. While working as a lab technician at Colorlab, Bloom was able to produce restoration prints of the camera originals in this collection, enabling the portraits to be screened at 24 frames per second.

  • June

    June is a film diary shot on the west coast of the United States during the first few years of the twenty-first century. It is a silent visual accompaniment to my first book How to Transition on Sixty-Three Cents a Day. This hand-processed 35mm Ektachrome slide film was shot using still photographic cameras.

  • Apres Meg, D’

    “Grenier’s “D’Apres Meg”, departs from the routine of structuralist cinema. Through the repetition and fragmentation of physical gesture, wild sound and snatches of conversation, Grenier elicits narrative possibilities from otherwise disparate elements. Repetition is, after all a form of insistence. In “D’Apres Meg” small hand gestures are microscopically observed in their everyday context, a garden conversation, a construction site, a gallery setting. By taking our common peripheral vision of events seriously, Grenier produces an evocative enigma. From these images and bits of conversations, which are equally mundane, a new kind of disinterested seeing can be engaged. One that does not…

  • Hammu

    Hammu is the name of the hamster I had as a child. It seemed it was my only friend and being to identify with. One day it disappeared from the cage and was never to be seen again; that event marked the end of my childhood, of unreserved trust and commitment. The work is a visualization of memories I have about the event ,of obsessions, tediousness, and loss. (SV)

  • ARK

    Ark describes a time when we had a front row seat where it seemed that we could see everything yet it felt as if we were seeing nothing at all. Over the years I’ve found fewer and fewer animals when I go out into nature to look at this or to film that. In the last year I haven’t found any wild animals and I’ve rarely heard any birds. So where have all the other animals gone? What has happened to them and what is going to happen to us? The human niche or ecological polis of human society has…