Genres: experimental

  • Retrato Oficial 1 | Official Portrait 1

    After declared unfit to stand trial in England, former dictator Augusto Pinochet stands up out of his wheelchair and greets supporters.

  • Street Sweeper Suite

    A night in the life of a street-sweeping machine as it roams from one street to the next in its endless search for litter. With an original score by Legion of Green Men.

  • Collage d’Hollywood

    “Assembled from a shoebox of movie trailers found at a dilapidated Saskatchewan drive-in… ‘Collage d’Hollywood’ unravels and reorganizes the tight grammar of Hollywood cinema into a multi-formed pastiche that fuses film and visual art sensibilities.” – Brett Kashmere “A mesmerizing film that demands to be watched again and again.” – Matthew Hays, Montreal Mirror “…histrionic horror and action movie trailers distilled into pure panic.” – Jason Anderson, Eye Weekly Selected screenings: Festival du nouveau cinéma, nouveaux médias, Montreal, QC, 2003; Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporaneo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, 2004; Nemo Festival, Paris, France, 2004; Images Festival,…

  • Leche

    This film, hand processed and hung to dry on the clothesline, examines details of the life of one family, living on an isolated dairy ranch in Central Mexico. Uman’s “Mala Leche” (2003) is a companion piece. Spanish language with sub-titles.

  • Mala Leche

    This film follows members of the family presented in Uman’s earlier film “Leche” (1998). Now living in California’s agricultural Central Valley, they continue to work with dairy cattle but under very different circumstances.

  • Private Movie

    A love story in three parts. This film tells of a woman’s journey of love, with nostalgia, pets, places and men.

  • Hand Eye Coordination

    “Hand Eye Coordination” explores the manual manipulations upon the film body, examining the cinematic result of mechanical interventions. This film tells the story of its own making.

  • removed

    Using a piece of 1970’s porn film, nail polish and bleach, the filmmaker has created a new pornography, one in which the woman exists only as a hole – an empty, animated space.

  • In the Garden

    A quiet moment with the plants. A home-grown film: shot in my garden, processed in my basement, and dried on the lawn. (LF) Selected screenings: Anthology Film Archives, New York, 2007; Images Festival, Toronto, ON, 2004; Pleasure Dome New Toronto Works, Toronto, ON, 2004; “Textured Traces,” Foreman Art Gallery, Montreal, QC, 2005; Best of the LIFT $99 Film Festival Tour, various locations, 2005

  • Chameleon

    A highly personal film, focusing on a young man’s struggle to cope with the feelings that arise upon learning of the death of a friend.