Genres: experimental

  • paradise falls, new mexico

    “The desert wind from America’s Southwestern ghost towns blows through the film’s emulsion, stripping away the myth behind the imagery of shoot-outs, outlaws and the lone gunmen from Hollywood Westerns.” – Images Festival, Toronto, 2004 Note: 16mm dual-projection Selected Screenings: Time Inside the Image [3], Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Jan. 31-March 31, 2007

  • Little Life, A

    Hatch, eat, fly, die. The life of “phaenicia sericata,” the green bottle fly. A little life, a short film. No dialogue. Suitable for all ages.

  • Nocturno

    A woman struggles with the emptiness of her life, her emotional landscape reflected in the images around her. Through macro photography of a bread-making process, a seemingly mundane domestic scene is transformed into something sensual and deeply emotional. Selected screenings & awards: CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto, 2005; Jury’s Pick, CSIF $100 Film Festival, Calgary, AB, 2005; Best Canadian Film or Video Award, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, 2004; Doug Wandrei Award for Best Lighting Design, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2004; Mill Valley Film Festival, Mill Valley, CA, 2003; Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax, NS, 2003

  • Norman: Turn, Climb, Norman

    Norman is a character who is lost in an ambiguous dreamlike nowhere space where he obsessively turns, climbs and twists. The gritty, hand-processed aesthetic reflects Normans’ intense psychological state. The film is divided into three short sections: Turn, Climb and Norman.

  • Sick in the Head

    An unprofessional examination and diagnosis.

  • Keith Cole is the New Lisa Lisa

    An attempt at creating a perfect world which contains many Keith Coles.

  • Child-Play

    Set in an imaginary nameless space that closely resembles the Caribbean, “Child-Play” is an allegorical Dream Tale paralleling the “innocence” of childhood and the elder phases of existence. Ateesha Mansara, a woman in her late sixties, has lived a life colonized by her own fears about the threat of usurpation of her identity by the Dutchman Spirit of a child molester, whom she had previously met when she was a girl of ten. The spirit of Georgie De Root revisits Ateesha fifty years later in a final attempt to lay “claim” to her soul. Or does he? Available on DVD…

  • I Don’t Exist

    “I Don’t Exist” succintly shows one girl’s feelings of isolation, invisibility and anger on the streets of Hackney. Excellent camerawork makes this piece a small gem.

  • Triage

    “Triage” is a unique dual-projection collaboration by Michael Snow and Carl Brown. Each of the artists worked to a specific duration, but were otherwise unaware of any details about the other’s film. So, an experimental film in the true sense of the word! With a sound composition by John Kamevaar.

  • Bug Girl

    Part science movie, part storybook, “Bug Girl” is an ecological fable. While searching for her lost cat, a young girl accidentally swallows a bee. Macrocosmic and microcosmic worlds collide and the young girl enters the biotech garden. Here, innocence is lost and her journey transforms into a visual tumble through nature, biology and consciousness. “Bug Girl” is primarily intended to be an installation piece shown in a gallery context. However, it can also be screened as a single-channel work. For the installation, the image is projected onto a circular screen with surround sound. Contact the CFMDC for fees and technical…