Genres: experimental

  • Garden of Stone

    Kathak dancer Joanna Das performs this tale of the journey to the mythical Garden of Stone, a sacred landscape that is at once barren and deeply contemplative. The film is an exploration of colour, form and movement within a constantly changing environment. “Garden of Stone” is a story of transformation and spiritual epiphany performed in one of the most beautiful and dynamic forms of classical Indian dance. Music by Eric Cadesky with Ed Hanley and Kurt Swinghammer.

  • Icarus

    Shot on two hand-cranked Bolex cameras, this film captures segments from “Wind,” part of a performance cycle about the four elements choreographed by Bill James. Inspired by the Greek myth of Icarus, who fell from grace after flying too close to the sun, this work contrasts post-industrial waste with stunning images of artifice. Music by Tom Third. Performed by Yvonne Ng, Shannon Cooney and Robert Glumbek, with Fung Shui Tong and Dionysos Himel-Savopoulos.

  • All My Life

    One continuous moving shot. “…Even though much of his reputation may rest on his multiple imagery compositions, [Bruce Baillie] has the power to create compelling and evocative work of disarmingly simple form, like the superb “All My Life” – Lenny Lipton, Berkely Barb

  • Child’s Garden and the Serious Sea, The

    In poet Ronald Johnston’s great epic “Ark,” in the first book “Foundations,” the poem “Beam 29” has this passage: “The seed is disseminated at the gated mosaic a hundred feet/below, above/long windrows of motion/connecting dilated arches undergoing transamplification:/ ‘seen in the water so clear as christiall’/(prairie tremblante)” which breaks into musical notation that, “presto,” becomes a design of spatial tilts: This is where the film began; and I carried a xerox of the still unpublished ARC 50 through 66 all that trip with Marilyn and Anton around Vancouver Island. As I wrote him, “The pun ‘out on a limn’ kept…

  • Sand

    “Japanese narration, snail-like aliens, teenage gossip and a dreamlike, grainy style of sand animation mingle in this strange and beautiful short.” – Chris Gehman, Images Festival, 2002 In Japanese with English sub-titles. Selected screenings & awards: Best Short Film, Cinemanila International Film Festival; Antimatter Festival of Short Film & Video; Vancouver Underground Film Festival; Festival de Cinema de 3 Ameriques, Quebec City, QC, 2005

  • Road Trip

    Late-night musings about the perfect road trip take form in animated photographs and a story that is all road trips combined.

  • i am rubber

    A super 8 home-style movie about a girl’s first driving lesson. Winner of the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film at EyeLens 2000; 2nd Place for Post Secondary Experimental at Cascadia Festival of Moving Images; Vancouver, BC;Honourable Mention for Best Experimental at the National Student Film & Video Festival in Regina, SK. Screened at the New York Queer Film Festival; InsideOut Film Festival in Toronto; Splice This! Super 8 Film Festival in Toronto; Images Film Festival in Toronto and the Canadian International Annual Film Festival.

  • Tracy Love

    It’s not really stalking, but it is an obsession. She’s not my girlfriend, but I love her like one. I dare you to watch this and love her too.

  • Neurotic in Black and White

    Made for a program about the number thirteen. Trying to come up with the perfect idea can tie you up in knots.

  • Tran Scan

    A stunning cross-Canada journey. A sequence of 112 specially designed telescopic time-lapse scenes form a seamless “flight” across the continent from Pacific to Atlantic. A new way of seeing. A celebration and a memorial. “The telescope becomes a microscope… and a stethoscope.” – SXA “A hypnotic meditation on landscape and perspective.” – Seattle Weekly “Reminiscent of extreme IMAX films, Tran Scan has beautiful scenery and cinematography of the highest caliber. Undoubtedly the most labor-intensive travel film ever created. No still image can convey a sense of this film.” – POV Magazine Selected screenings & awards: Silver Remi Award in Cinematography,…