Genres: experimental

  • Road Ended at the Beach, The

    In making this film I collected images and sound over six years of travel (not continuous) through Canada. Keeping daily both filmic and written records, I focused on people and places, my relationships to them, and the changes that occurred between each visit. I would collect these images freely: later to examine and make meaning of during the editing process. In this film I started to consciously pursue the relationship between a formal chronicle of events and my memory of those events. (PH) “The film is a series of ‘telling’ incidents in which events, which fall short of expectations, are…

  • Roadshow

    Shot entirely using a Steadicam. A video version of a dance piece by the Karen Jamieson Dance Company.

  • Rochdale College 1970

    Rochdale College was an experiment with new ideas and ways of living while being conventionally forced to live within the old, dead civilization and its structures. The results inevitably show confusion and angered disillusionment. The new ideas and ways, never allowed time to evolve and produce positive results, were smothered for the sake of convenience and convention. The film is ultimately a nostalgic reminiscence of the Sixties.

  • ROM (Royal Ontario Museum)

    Objects on display at the museum are viewed, initially by a constantly moving camera that never fixes on anything for long. In the latter half of the film the camera continues to move, but concentrates on a specific artifact. Two kinds of scanning.

  • Roman Numeral Series l

    The Roman Numerals are nine films, commonly described as “abstract,” which explore the possibilities of making equivalents of “moving visual thinking” – that pre-language, pre-picture realm of the mind which provides the physical grounds for image making (imagination). Thus the very substance of the birth of imagery. (SB)

  • Roman Numeral Series ll

    The Roman Numerals are nine films, commonly described as “abstract,” which explore the possibilities of making equivalents of “moving visual thinking” – that pre-language, pre-picture realm of the mind which provides the physical grounds for image making (imagination). Thus the very substance of the birth of imagery. (SB)

  • Roman Numeral Series lll

    The third in this series of Imagnostic Films seems particularly magic to me in as much as I cannot even remember the photographic source of these images or, thus, of having taken them. (SB)

  • Roman Numeral Series lV

    The Roman Numerals are nine films, commonly described as “abstract,” which explore the possibilities of making equivalents of “moving visual thinking” – that pre-language, pre-picture realm of the mind which provides the physical grounds for image making (imagination). Thus the very substance of the birth of imagery. (SB)

  • Roman Numeral Series lX

    The Roman Numerals are nine films, commonly described as “abstract,” which explore the possibilities of making equivalents of “moving visual thinking” – that pre-language, pre-picture realm of the mind which provides the physical grounds for image making (imagination). Thus the very substance of the birth of imagery. (SB)

  • Roman Numeral Series V

    The Roman Numerals are nine films, commonly described as “abstract,” which explore the possibilities of making equivalents of “moving visual thinking” – that pre-language, pre-picture realm of the mind which provides the physical grounds for image making (imagination). Thus the very substance of the birth of imagery. (SB)