Genres: experimental

  • Flora’s Film

    In 1873, Eadweard Muybridge, commonly referred to as “the father of the motion picture,” succeeded in photographically freezing a horse mid-gallop. One year later, he shot and killed his wife’s lover. Using an evocative collection of found footage and sounds, Wilson channels the voice of Flora Muybridge, imagining her response to her husband’s act and subsequent acquittal at trial.

  • buffalo lifts

    Awash in sumptuous colour, a herd of buffalo desperately try to hold on as they struggle to cross the film frame.

  • Chomont’s Selected Shorts #1

    FOR SALE ONLY Contains: Ophelia The Cat Lady Phases of the Moon (The Parapsychology of Everyday Life) 6 min. COL. SILENT VIDEO ONLY With Lloyd Newell. ” … It is a film poem and nothing else. A small miniature film poem, a jewel, if the word masterpiece is oo stuffy.” (Jonas Mekas, The Village Voice) Oblivion A Persian Rug 4min. COL SILENT 1969 VIDEO ONLY Filmed In Switzerland.

  • Clamp

    A sexually explicit experimental video. The goal of this work was to create an anti-pornographic work that celebrated marginal sexualities. The subject ignores the viewers’ participation in her pleasure, creating a hermetically sealed auto-erotic experience.

  • Sans Titre

    Optically printed, hand-processed and painted, this film records the space of light. It attempts to remove the Form of abstraction from Matter and thus place the viewer in a virtual temporo-space. The last minute of the film is comprised of clear leader. After this, the projector remains running with no film passing through its gate for 30-60 seconds. This flickering white light completes the film’s projection. Note: Running time ranges from 6 to 8 minutes; the exact running time will depend on how long the projector is left running at the end.

  • Shape of the Gaze, The

    A hand-processed and optically printed film. I manipulate the film process to disrupt viewing expectations on a textual and aesthetic level. This re-positions the subject and discourse of gender ambiguity available in the gaze. Specifically, I attempt to interrupt and re-shape the triadic gaze operating between the subject, viewer and filmic apparatus. By shifting the discourse of the gaze, the film implicates viewers in the gazes between the lesbian filmmaker and her self-identified butch subjects. “Post riot-grrl ethos informed a number of the best works… [including] Maïa Cybelle Carpenter’s hand-processed vision of lesbians and machines, ‘The Shape of the Gaze.’”…

  • Site Visit

    Entirely hand-processed and hand-painted, “Site Visit” visually evokes a series of fantasy maps and the imaginary “sites” visited by following the paths laid out. Metaphorically the process of the film depicts the impossibility of concretely mapping disease in the human body, especially the emotional consequences. The degradation of the emulsion through bleaching is parallel to the slow degradation that occurs in the body stricken with cancer.

  • Geometry of Beware

    One-minute of found footage of Mutt and Jeff from 1926 is literally reconstructed via paper prints from photocopies and pen and ink drawings. “Crazy, nifty, funky, fun…” – Michael Hope, Programmer, Cinecenta

  • Deadpan

    Described as “the jauntiest meat-is-murder movie ever made” and “irrational,” “Deadpan” deals with dinner-table angst from the fifties. Laughter is forbidden. Anxiety reigns. Cow tongue is served. What to do? Awards: Funniest Film, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2002; Jutra Nominee, Best Animation, 2001

  • U-Champs

    Mutt and Jeff rubber stamps, 35mm motion picture, scratch-on-film and Felix the Cat are all combined in a hodge-podge tribute to the letter U.