Genres: experimental

  • Galaxy Girls

    Selected screenings: Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, Toronto, ON,1997; Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival, Toronto, ON, 1997; Cinematheque Ontario “The Independents” Series, Toronto, ON, 1997; Pleasure Dome “It’s Not Easy Being Green Darlene,” Toronto, ON, 1997

  • soulsucka

    Chrome, fur, shades, shoes – it’s an all-femme action-packed ride. Sexy, trashy and aggressive. Selected screenings: San Francisco Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, USA, 1998; MIX New York Gay & Lesbian Experimental Film & Video Festival, USA,1997; Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Australia, 1997; 10e Rencontres video art plastique, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie, 1996; Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, Toronto, ON,1997; Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival, Toronto, ON, 1997; Cinematheque Ontario “The Independents” Series, Toronto, ON, 1997; Pleasure Dome “It’s Not Easy Being Green Darlene,” Toronto, ON, 1997

  • desire

    The kettle isn’t working. Maybe it’s broken, maybe it’s over-used, or maybe it’s just naughty! This woman has found domestic bliss and no one’s gonna take it away from her.

  • 4x8x3

    8mm unsplit. Streetcars circle. The ferry leaves and returns in one gesture. Camera and character dance. Selected screenings: The Independents “Recent Work Roundup,” Cinematheque Ontario, Canada 2004; Best of the LIFT $99 Film Festival Tour, Canada, 2004

  • Moving Violation

    Shot in Pixelvision and digital video, “Moving Violation” is an examination of the texture, rhythm and beauty that resides hidden within a community. It is a document of our disintegrating past, as a downtown area is slowly demolished to make room for parking. Selected screenings: Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2003; Viper International Film Festival, 2003; Reykjavik Short Film Festival, 2002 Awards: Best Experimental, Saskatchewan Showcase, Canada, 2002

  • Ripples in the Snow

    “Ripples in the Snow” deals with issues of dislocation, presence, absence and memory. It is also, on a basic level, a document of Britski’s influences – the prairie landscape, his family, and filmmakers Michael Snow, Richard Kerr, David Rimmer and Bruce Elder. Selected screenings & awards: Best Independent Film & Best Experimental Film, Cascadia Moving Images Festival, Canada, 2000; Figueira da Foz International Film Festival, Portugal, 2000; Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA, 2001;

  • Family Outing

    Using home movies to depict the inner feelings of a closeted adolescent, “Family Outing” attempts to negotiate a queer position within the conventional family structure. Its ravishing, optically printed images form a haunting commentary on childhood, alienation, love and ultimately renewal. “Bradley re-edits his source material with clinical precision to produce a film of enormous strength which, through image alone, acts as a kind of early warning system for the tsunami of coming out.” – 2001 Antimatter Festival of Underground Short Film & Video, Victoria, BC Selected screenings: “Short Film from the Canadian Underground” International Touring Program, 2002; Yorkton Short…

  • Chartres Series

    A year and a half ago the filmmaker Nick Dorsky, hearing I was going to France, insisted I must see Chartres Cathedral. I, who had studied picture books of its great stained-glasswindows, sculpture and architecture for years, having also read Henry Adams’ great book three times, willingly complied and had an experience of several hours (in the discreet company of French filmmaker Jean-Michele Bouhours) which surely transformed my aesthetics more than any other single experience. Then Marilyn’s sister died; and I, who could not attend the funeral, sat down alone and began painting on film one day, this death in…

  • Exteriors

    “Exteriors” is a portrait of a young woman and the landscape she inhabits. It is about the walls people construct, real or imaginary. “Poignant and poetic, the work engages our notions of the ‘moving image.’” – Photophobia Film Festival 2000 Selected screenings & awards: Best First Film, $100 Film Festival, Calgary, AB, 1999; Brisbane International Film Festival, Australia, 1999; Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, 1999; Rotterdam International Short Film Festival, Netherlands, 1999

  • You would make a good lawyer

    “You would make a good lawyer” is a film about employment, and the cages we all inhabit. The title is taken from a fortune that I kept receiving from fortune cookies, which seemed to capture the irony of my predicament perfectly. (JB) Selected screenings: Figueira da Foz International Film Festival, Portugal, 2000; Telluride International Experimental Expo, USA, 2000; Award for Best Experimental, Saskatchewan Showcase, Canada, 2000; Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, 2000