Genres: experimental

  • Amazing Amazons, The

    A campy combo of live action and animation, “The Amazing Amazons” follows a day in the life of a contemporary female super hero. Aimee is in the midst of a typical Amazon day – fighting censorship, taking out macho attitudes and exposing lies – when her fellow Amazon Amanda rattles her to the very foundation of her Amazon soul.

  • Chronic

    “Chronic” explores the idea of body as machine. It is inspired by the work of Etienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge, who studied motion with photography before the advent of motion picture cameras. Copied on a photocopier, the images in the film have a high contrast, low-res look that refers to the developing technologies used by these photographic pioneers.

  • Fine Romance (In Three Parts), A

    A fine, if undefined, romance – told with lots of kissing, vivid colours and Ella on the soundtrack.

  • July’s Wet Dreams

    A hand-processed recipe for a fountain of youth. Comprised of one continuous slow-motion shot, “July’s Wet Dreams” reveals several silhouetted figures amidst a fountain’s watery spray. The hand-processed Super 8 material was manipulated using a variety of coloured toners and application techniques to accentuate the liquid tactility of the image. An evocative portrait of a summer’s day. Honourable Mention for Best Experimental Short, Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival, 2005

  • Choice Chance Women Dance

    A film-poem by a man who attempts to understand and express some of the concerns of women in the early ’70s: woman with woman, woman alone, woman as mother, woman as scientist, woman as dancer. An impressionistic documentary, using pixillation, superimposition, interview and dance-film techniques.

  • Sea Horses and Flying Fish

    A one-minute animation treat that celebrates the art of sound poetry as Christian Bök recites words from Hugo Ball, one of the leading pioneers of phonetic poetry.

  • Brand New Triathlon, The

    Busy. Got to keep busy. Busy is good, not busy is bad. So we play at a new triathlon: bowling, cricket and tai chi – a veritable ironman or woman’s dream.

  • To the Happy Few

    “A mind-expanding image jam that uses decades’ worth of found footage. The visuals of croaking frogs, 1950s’ housewives, fake suns and much more are structured around a mystical mandala and perfectly set to a Bollywood beat.” – Images Festival, 2004 “A punchy, satirical ride that mixes food, sex and violence in perverse Kuleshevian suggestions, all with great comedic timing. A great example of film giving birth to itself in hybrid, mutated forms.” – Genevieve Yue, What the Eye Sees, 2003 Awards: Hessian Film Prize for Best Short Film, 2003; Honourable Mention, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2004

  • Post mark lick

    “Post mark lick” is “a love-song to the pre-digital age of postal correspondence and photogram animation” (Images Festival, 2003). It explores the materiality of the postage stamp and the fleeting narratives of letters and postcards.

  • Jetsam

    An exaltation of the everyday, made using the photogram technique of exposing objects directly onto film; Wire mesh, fibrefill, salt, paper, steel wool, cherry blossoms, grease, spit, bubble wrap, tea leaves, washer rings and a drain-stopper chain are transformed in the process.