Genres: experimental

  • Winter Last July

    A personal ‘travelogue’ of Australia frames images of palm trees, ferries, flags and dark corners of light and shadow drawing a solitary exploration. “A flag waving gracefully in a series of dissolves and double exposures underlines the poetic reality evoked in Winter Last July, reinforced by the filmmaker’s own haunting piano soundtrack” (Ann Arbor Film Festival 1984)

  • Winterlude

    “Winterlude” was the first film completed on a rear-screen rephotography system (optical printer) that I built in the summer of 1975. The film introduces a vague narrative context that remains latent throughout the main body of the film and is finally revealed in the closing sequence. The core of “Winterlude” consists of a series of landscapes containing juxtaposed live-action and painted visual elements through which trains appear, travel across the frame and disappear. (LM)

  • Wold Shadow, The

    “Wold” because the word refers to “forests” which the poets later made “plains,” and because the word also contains the rustic sense “to kill”…this then my laboriously painted vision of the god of the forest. (SB)

  • Blossom: Gift/Favor

    (Dedicated to Doug Edwards) All titles dominate linguistically: in that sense, any film would be better left unnamed. This little handpainted work attempts to BE a visual “flowering,” and as it is (as Film is) a continuity art, it would seek some visual corollary of the whole growth process (root, stem, leaves, blue sky and the blood-gold growth of the meat/mind-electricity of the film-maker) – but without mimic of either flower or thought process… clear thru to film’s clear “blossoming” in the passage of light.

  • Woodbridge

    “Woodbridge” is a deeply personal exposé of family life within the context of first generation Italian-Canadian Roman Catholics. The film revolves around the journey of a boy from early childhood through adulthood. It highlights the conflicts of growing up in the space between two cultures with radically different customs and values. While this film documents the particular experiences of one child, it is a reflection of a sociological phenomenon common to many Canadian children. “Woodbridge” is different from most other documentary work primarily because the camera adopts the role of the protagonist. It represents the viewer with a multitude of…

  • Work Bike & Eat

    “Work, Bike, Eat” is about youth and being young. The intention in making the film was to catch people and the relationships between things in as natural a way as possible, and to minimize the apparent intrusion of the filming process into the subject matter. The story is really a collection of vignettes from everyday life: getting a job, eating a meal at home with your parents, chance meetings with strangers, taking a nap. A carefree camaraderie pervades the film.

  • World in Focus

    In “World in Focus”, the screen becomes the two-dimensional support of an amazingly versatile three-dimensional object (an atlas) which contains in turn two-dimensional pictures of other three-dimensional objects. The uniform use of a close-up lens creates often ambiguous or nearly unidentifiable images (from the atlas), emphasizing the rhythms, volumes, angles and movements obtained from the handling of the book.

  • X

    A profound and powerful experimental, personal film of one woman’s despair, rage and exhibitionism; a baroque fugue of identity chanting growing from women’s pain to a holistic, self-healing naming ritual.

  • Yearbook

    The length of a pop song, because it’s about the insidious way pop music begins to describe the moments of four lives. Romping through high school in four kilts and kisses, these girls truncate a feature film into the length of a pop song. Starring Janine Fung, Louise Liliefeldt, Nicole Pena and Christina Zeidler.

  • Yeelen

    A young woman looking at herself presents troubling, touching episodes of stark self-reflection. “Yeelan” is an introspective, short, high contrast black-and-white film.