Genres: hand-processed

  • Eye of the Beholder, The

    “The Eye of the Beholder” is a stream-of-consciousness montage of images created from light and shadow. It was made in conjunction with LIFT’s Second Annual $99 No Excuses Film Festival. Segments of the film are hand-processed.

  • Locks Part Two: Dread Execution!

    The gaze – taken into the hands of four women who craft, document and participate in a ritual dread locks removal. This super-low-budget film subtly subverts the hegemonic forms of production by optically printing miniDV, 16mm and Super 8 to hand-processed 16mm.

  • Parade

    A hand-made film that explores a 21st-century ritual celebration – Toronto’s Gay Pride Parade (2000). The contrast between the images’ archival quality with the 90’s dance music makes us wonder whether we are watching an event of some forgotten culture, or something urban and modern.

  • Urban Caustic

    Toronto, love it or hate it; the overwhelming chaos of the city, the noise and smog. Shot in three different mediums – miniDV, 16mm and Super 8 – hand-processing attempts to subvert the reign of video and “take back film” by shooting video onto film. The processes involved in making this film rely on the physical interaction with the film, creating a personal and intimate chemical reaction. The random rhythm of the optical printing, the scratchy, worn-out look of the hand-processing and the aural collage evoke an emotional and experiential response to living in this crazy town we call Toronto.

  • Self-Images

    “Self-Images” explores the theme of personal loss and coming to terms with death. The work builds on images of the filmmaker, his father, and his grandfather. This is a hand-processed film.

  • Stills + Moving Pictures = Story

    This film explores the relationship between moving and still images and how the two evolve into a story. The filmmaker is of the opinion that memory is really just still and moving images that get continually played and replayed in the mind. Part of the film is hand-processed.

  • Under the Shadow of the Samurai’s Sword

    An exploration of the connection between oppressor and oppressed. It serves as a metaphor for the fear of death that many minorities face living under oppressive societies.

  • Serenade of Reflective Moments, A

    The film explores the relationship between still and moving urban landscape images. These images provide a glimpse of what is around us and let us experience the city in a new light.

  • Cruising

    “Cruising” is a hand-developed hybrid between a slide show and a film, which at only 6 fps may still be the fastest you’ve ever had to check out the action. Encouraged by its reception by the 1999 SPLICE THIS! Super 8 Film Festival workshop series, it’s being used as an experimental blueprint for more intervalominous film narratives. Could 6 fps be the speed of perception in the ‘00s?

  • Poppa (Toxic 2)

    “Poppa” is about the contradictions of fatherhood. On one hand, a man craves the control and predictability of mathematics. This part of the “job” is presented in the form of layered nursery rhymes, sung in numbers. On the other hand, control will always elude those who seek it. When control is lost, the joy of surprise, the essence of fatherhood, can be found. This is demonstrated in “Poppa” through the image, made up of film of my son William when he was 10 months old. The film is processed by hand in a plastic bucket and then chemically tinted and…