Genres: experimental

  • Castro Street

    Inspired by a lesson from Erik Satie; a film in the form of a street – Castro Street running by the Standard Oil Refinery in Richmond, California … switch engines on one side and refinery tanks, stacks and buildings on the other – the street and film, ending at a red lumber company. All visual and sound elements from the street, progressing from the beginning to the end of the street, one side is black-and-white (secondary), and one side is colour – like male and female elements. The emergence of a long switch-engine shot (black-and-white solo) is to the filmmaker…

  • Untitled

    An abandoned farmhouse serves as a catalyst for the exploration of childhood, fabricated memory, and domestic architecture. As a girl moves from one decaying room to the next, anxiety induced by physical spaces is reflected, and ultimately destroyed.

  • Echoes

    A woman reflects on the off-beat moments and stirrings of girlhood experiences that shaped her life. Available on DVD on the compilation “Artist Spotlight Series: Michelle Mohabeer.”

  • Garden in Khorkhom

    “Garden in Khorkhom” is an impressionistic documentary inspired by the works of Armenian-American painter Arshile Gorky. The film is a tapestry of footage provided by Atom Egoyan’s “Ararat” and footage shot by Torossian. It is an homage to Arshile Gorky, focusing on his relationship to Armenian art and his mother.

  • Self-Images

    “Self-Images” explores the theme of personal loss and coming to terms with death. The work builds on images of the filmmaker, his father, and his grandfather. This is a hand-processed film.

  • Stills + Moving Pictures = Story

    This film explores the relationship between moving and still images and how the two evolve into a story. The filmmaker is of the opinion that memory is really just still and moving images that get continually played and replayed in the mind. Part of the film is hand-processed.

  • Moment with Maria, A

    Cognisant that memories fade and lose their sharpness, “A Moment with Maria” was made. Having a record not only allows one to share the moment with others, but also permits the event to be re-experienced and explored anew. The film is about a brief moment with Maria.

  • Cat Food

    “A cat eats its methodical way through a polymorphous fish. The projector devours the ribbon of film at the same rate, methodically. The lay of Grimnir mentions a wild boar whose magical flesh was nightly devoured by the heroes of Valhalla, and miraculously regenerated next morning in the kitchen. The fish in Wieland’s film, and the miraculous flesh of the film itself, are reconstructed on the rewinds to be devoured again. Here is a dionysian metaphor, old as the West, of immense strength. Once we see that the fish is the protagonist of the action, this metaphor reverberates to incandescence…

  • Under the Shadow of the Samurai’s Sword

    An exploration of the connection between oppressor and oppressed. It serves as a metaphor for the fear of death that many minorities face living under oppressive societies.

  • Serenade of Reflective Moments, A

    The film explores the relationship between still and moving urban landscape images. These images provide a glimpse of what is around us and let us experience the city in a new light.