Genres: experimental

  • Does this mean we’re going together?

    Part two of the artist’s trilogy exploring the depiction of sexuality in teen films of the 1980s, in which a scene from “Valley Girl” is re-worked.

  • MISORDER DISORDER

    A comic short about love and illness. Shot on shimmering black-and-white stock, MISORDER DISORDER follows one man’s bizarre morning bathroom routine and his hesitant female love interest.

  • If Anyone Should Happen to Get In My Way

    This animation was shot from hi-con coloured Lomo photographs of a girl in various animal states, licking her wounds. A meditation on female anger.

  • Machine Guts

    An eerie, arresting story conceived by a deer. Narrated by Bill Burns.

  • Glitter

    Dancing in a parking lot never looked so good. Lights, camera, action!

  • Chants

    With a soundtrack of Gregorian chant, the beauty of crucifixes is, through optical printing, made even more sparkling, glowing, and other-worldly.

  • WVLNT (Wavelength for Those Who Don’t Have the Time)

    WAVELENGTH For Those Who Don’t Have the Time: Originally 45 minutes, now 15! Michael Snow’s film “Wavelength” has been acclaimed as a classic of Avant Garde filmmaking since its appearance in 1967. In February 2003, Snow created a new work consisting of simultaneities rather than the sequential progressions of the original work. WVLNT is composed of three unaltered superimpositions of sound and picture.

  • breath

    A beautiful cameraless film based on the text and structure of a haiku, “breath” explores the interplay between sound, image and written word. The soundtrack is created by an optical light reading of three haikus and one short poem, all written by ninth-century Japanese poetesses. The film’s structure is based on the five-seven-five syllabic composition of a typical haiku.

  • cockroach

    “Cockroach” is a handmade, cameraless animated film constructed with basic materials found around the home – newspaper, ink and Kool-Aid. Using cockroaches as a metaphor for language, it chronicles the pervasiveness and endurance of these primordial creatures. Text by Christian Cotroneo (“It’s a bug’s life in downtown Toronto,” originally printed in the Toronto Star) is used to create the soundtrack.

  • Ungnome, The

    What’s that in the garden? Oh my God Martha! The garden gnome’s come to life and it’s coming after us!