Genres: experimental

  • Benediction

    A filmmaker’s exploration of fleeting existence. Filtered through a personal story, “Benediction” is a last attempt to pay homage to those things left and leaving. When faced with the realization of her grandfather’s mortality, a young filmmaker journeys to find meaning in the wake of absence and loss. Is she trying to hold on to something that was never there? Winner of the Norman McLaren Prize at the Festival des Films du Monde in Montreal. Winner of the Kodak Award for Best Cinematography in a Canadian Short at the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, 2006. Screened at the Toronto International…

  • Timbre

    “Timbre” is a short film exploring sensory perception within an urban environment. The public space of the city is deconstructed into the private experiences of four women and their unique connections made between sight and sound.

  • Surrender

    Stop! In the name of love where did our love go? My world is empty without you – you are everything and everything is you. You keep me hanging on upside down. Remember me? It’s my turn. I’m still waiting. I’m gonna make you love me. I’m coming out. I hear a symphony. Doobedood’ndoobe, doobedood’ndoobe, doobedood’ndoo. A film about the pressures of modern love.

  • Damaged Goods

    A short non-narrative 16mm experimental animated film. Utilizing various animated techniques such as back light sand, hand scratch, rotoscoping, photocopy manipulation and charcoal& paint on newsprint. All combined to created a dream that is complimented by the sound track in a personal/ Sisyphian internal journey.

  • Condensation of Sensation

    Once in a while, a vision comes a moving painting, an extension of the eye that sees… the body that feels wide awake from what might have been the actuality of REM, a rollercoaster of emotions. Walking through a life of words association with images, mass production of ideas no connection with sensation, just an unnatural conversion of feeling a loss of identity a sense of self through words in these frames are the essence of my sensation carefully nurtured and felt over and over again out of these frames these frames and you. These sensations are what are common…

  • SSHTOORRTY

    “SSHTOORRTY” is the image of a staged event which has been divided into 2 halves each superimposed (sound and picture) one on top of the other. The title is the word SHORT superimposed on the word STORY. It’s a “painting” about a painting in which Before and After become a Transparent Now. Arrival and Departure are unified. Selected screenings: Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru, 2006; Split Festival of New Film, Croatia, 2006; Video Ex, Zurich, 2006; Musee National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec, QC, 2005

  • Confession

    “Firstly, I revealed in salutary confession the secret filth of my misdeed, which had long been festering in stagnant silence; and I made it my custom to confess often, and thus to display the wounds of my blinded soul…” (Petrarch, 1352, in a letter to his brother). I wish to avoid any “classical” misunderstandings of the above quote by stating clearly here that any sacrifice of love is, yes, “filth” or at the very least “misdeed.” An academic reading of Petrarch tends to bias thought that there are kinds of love which might be wrong: I do not believe this.…

  • Walk For Walk

    Lockhart’s unparalleled understanding of the fantastic and grotesque combined with her completely original aesthetic sensibilities create and inhabit an animated landscape where a seemingly endless parade of kooky little creatures walk themselves straight into trouble, but always find a way out. Enter the surreal, ever-changing world of “Walk for Walk”, a colourful, tripped-out animated landscape filled with catchy songs, eyeball kicks, goofball characters, and a great variety of babies: Warm Baby! Mister Baby! Rich Baby! And more! Created using over 1000 hand-painted paper cutouts, puppets and backgrounds. Selected screenings: Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film, Durham, ON, 2006; Rendezvous with Madness…

  • Happy Birthday Hannah

    An irreverent look at diapers and dolls, ‘Happy Birthday Hannah’ is a delightfully funny animated short about Suzy, a rag doll who celebrates her owner’s birthday by painting her room.

  • Der Fus Tort

    A 21st-century take on the tower of Babel story, this zany animated tale combines modern Yiddish storytelling with the hottest of new media. From angel’s foot cake to angels’ cheese cake, this delicious serving of new Yiddish film comes complete with a high fat, double, double ending. “Whimsical drawings and Yiddish humor animate this charming tale. ‘Der Fus Tort’ is a treat for all ages.” – Susan Alper, Director Montreal Jewish Film Festival Yiddish /w English subtitles