Genres: experimental

  • Hybrid

    “‘Hybrid’ shows, in near-documentary fashion, the planting of flowers crosscut with a looming military presence viewed in photographs. This polarity of life and death, still and motion, courses throughout the film until its final eruption into colour drafts between a war-scarred generation of Vietnamese children and a flowering London stalk. A defiantly personal response to a war whose images haunted the public imagery of the 60s, ‘Hybrid’ stands in answer to any who feel an irreconcilable divide between art and politics…” – Mike Hoolboom “The Vietnam War was very upsetting to me: I did not agree with the American presence…

  • Arabic Numeral Series – Arabic 12

    This series of films, each extraordinarily unique from every other (except “0 + 10” going together) is inspired and governed by strata of the mind’s moving-visual-thinking different from that of the “Roman Numeral Series” or perhaps one should say that the Arabic Numerals come to fruition thru some tree-of nerves separate from that which gave birth to the Romans (as it is physiologically deceptive to think of thought as existing in “layers”). The Arabics range in length from approximately 5 min. to 32 min. and may be projected at 24 fps as well as 18, tho’ the latter speed seems…

  • I …

    “Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.” – William James, The Principles of Psychology This is a hand-painted double-step-printed film (i.e. each frame repeated once) which begins with some ephemeral forms and pale tones reminiscent of the “blues” of frothing ocean breakers, the dun “yellows” of the beach, and a complexity of fleeting inter-mixed various other colors and lines suggestive of a variety of vegetable and animal life such as might appear within a sea scape.…

  • I … Dreaming

    Music by Joel Haertling and Stephen Foster. This is a setting-to-film of a “collage” of Stephen Foster phrases by composer Joel Haertling. The recurring musical themes and melancholia of Foster refer to “loss of love” in the popular “torch song” mode; but the film envisions a re-awakening of such senses-of-love as children know, and posits (along a line of words scratched over picture) the whole psychology of waiting. (SB)

  • I Smiled Too

    Inspired by natural rhythms and daily thoughts. A playful poetic gesture of images and audio.

  • I Take These Truths

    This film is entirely hand-painted and is composed of such an evolution of variably coloured shapes that their inter-action with each other should constitute a purely visual “self evident” (as prompted by the title): everything beyond the title is as far removed from language as I could possibly make it: and thus it is, to me, practically impossible to describe. Each frame is printed twice, so that its effective speed (24 fps) is 12 frames per second. A variety of organic and crystalline painted shapes (painted on clear leader, thus as if brilliantly back-lit in a blazing space of light)…

  • Absence

    “This film is about ‘nothing.’ Hints of dramatic ‘loss’ are imaged throughout, but the primary effect of the film is to give, through fleeting and ephemeral visions, a sense of something which almost exists but unhappily doesn’t.” – Marilyn Jull

  • Arabic Numeral Series – Arabic 13

    This series of films, each extraordinarily unique from every other (except “0 + 10” going together) is inspired and governed by strata of the mind’s moving-visual-thinking different from that of the “Roman Numeral Series” or perhaps one should say that the Arabic Numerals come to fruition thru some tree-of nerves separate from that which gave birth to the Romans (as it is physiologically deceptive to think of thought as existing in “layers”). The Arabics range in length from approximately 5 min. to 32 min. and may be projected at 24 fps as well as 18, tho’ the latter speed seems…

  • I, a Dog

    An autobiographical film ballad about dodging dog dung in New York City while dreaming of Prince Edward Island. “A hit with audience and jury…an absurd, irreverent report on canine pets and their owners (or vice versa)… Hancox’s spiky sense of humour was well received.” – Martin Melina, Montreal Star

  • I.D.

    Part I, Prologue: 10 min Part II (Joanne): 10 min Part III (Milton): 17 min Part IV (Steve and Nadra): 19 min “I.D.” was filmed in Binghamton, N.Y. The main participants are, in order of appearance: Gayle Gorman, Joanne Thorne, Milton Kessler, Steve Grietzer, David Gresalfi, and Larry Klien. Dedicated to Lorie Blandin. Part 1 was produced in part by SUNY at Binghampton Cinema Department. Part II, III and IV wih the help of the Canada Council, over a number of years. A driving interest in this film has been the raw material of conflicts between the persona and the…