Genres: experimental

  • Bedroom Suite

    Freud was wrong – it is actually all about colour and form. A hyper-aesthetic sexploration trilogy with appearances by Jiva MacKay, Belleisabelle and Petra Chevrier. “Bedroom Suite” was made in response to Canada Custom’s definition of “obscenity.”

  • Urda/Bone

    Intoxication, stillness and desire unfold from a train in Frankfurt to a room in Vienna. A woman (Urda) and a man (Bone) on separate travels meet. Their affects mingle, creating a zone between their bodies in which something happens. Something that belongs to neither one nor the other, but is a third creation. Somewhere between dreaming and being awake, where possibilities are held and lost. This is Urda/Bone. Music by Sparklehorse. Produced with the support of the National Film Board of Canada (FAP) and the Ontario Arts Council (OAC).

  • Mayo Jar

    Super 8 footage of deserted and destroyed family businesses along the lonely Trans-Canada Highway accompanies a haunting song about betrayal and loss. Originally made for the 2002 Splice This! Super 8 Film Festival, Toronto.

  • All Flesh Is Grass

    “Susan Oxtoby’s film “All Flesh Is Grass” is one of the most aptly tragic visions of life-on-earth I’ve recently seen – one of the most perfect step-printed hand-held (hold your hand’s eye) pain’s taking orders-of-metaphor perhaps yet created through any conscious arrangement of symbols inasmuch as Susan evolves much of the aesthetic of Arthur Lipsett free of his symbolic cynicism; and she holds the camera personally to her ‘heart’ in a way Joseph Cornell would have, I’m sure, had he been able to work with the camera directly: in other words she has not distanced herself by using ‘found footage’…

  • Fartasia

    “Fartasia” was made by running film through a sewing machine. The result is, as the filmmaker says, “surprisingly organic.”

  • Kill Road

    “Enduring a dysfunctional family requires stamina, wit and sharp survival instincts, as demonstrated in this anguished ode to family peculiarity. A pixilated tale of a girl whose off-kilter parents become lost in a mission to nurse a raccoon – an unfortunate road-kill victim.” – Images Festival, 2004 AWARDS: Images Prize for Best Canadian Media Artwork in the Festival, Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, 2004

  • Two Eastern Hair Lines

    Sometimes, rifts between us are as wide as rivers, and sometimes, as small as hair lines. Using bleaching and painting techniques on found footage, “Two Eastern Hair Lines” explores communication, conflict and isolation. “West of the pass you will meet no more old friends.” – Tang Dynasty poem Awards: Jutra Nomination for Best Animation, 2004

  • In the Dark

    A meditation on birth, silence and the American cinema, sealed with a kiss. A single gesture into light.

  • neige noire

    16mm dual-projection “Carl Brown makes celluloid dance. [His] new film work will burn colours so deeply into your brain, you’ll be watching a light show inside your eyelids for hours. Titled Neige Noir (‘Black Snow’), a name that conjures up Toronto winters but actually refers to the trenches of the First World War, the piece is a visual feast… “It opens with a calming sequence of manipulated representations of a swimmer and the sea set to a lulling jazz tune, and then crashes into a steady techno and white noise assault with pulsating images. Brown radically alters the celluloid itself,…

  • Invitation au Voyage, L’

    the fishing boats are out in the water the fish are caught brought into shore the men haul the catch off the boat the boat once again goes out to catch and the cycle continues for centuries this pattern has repeated it’s cycle like the tides which roll in and out a story which draws its energy from the sun the moon draws the tides the men work and die and it continues take a moment stretch your eyes and imagine just imagine all stories are true – Carl Brown