Genres: Installation

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Amoré

    Regular 8 film goes through a camera once, then gets flipped and run through again. When processed, the film is split down the middle and spliced end-to-end. I performed (unrehearsed) for a regular 8 camera as a boy as the film ran through the first time, exposing the right side of the film. Then I flipped the reel around AND flipped the camera around as I performed as a girl (in reverse) on the left side. I processed the film by hand and did not split it, so that the performances happen side-by-side. There is no editing in this film…

  • Film Scroll

    “This Super 8 film was first presented as part of a ritual performance where I am naked and pull a white piece of fabric out of myyoni, pin it up and project the film onto it from reverse, while speaking the words on the film. The performance was part of a collective recreation of Carolee Schneeman’s ‘Interior Scroll.’ Each of us did a personal variation based on her 1975 performance. Schneeman’s piece included a letter to a filmmaker who criticized her work. My ‘letter’ is to an ex-partner who criticized me and my work, leaving me with feelings of inadequacy…

  • Coming + Going

    A portrait of the energy of urban life in split-screen. “Coming + going” was shot on one roll of regular 8 film, with all editing and split-screen effects created in-camera. Selected screenings: Time Inside the Image [3], Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Jan. 31-March 31, 2007; Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, 2006; European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, 2006; Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, 2005

  • 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.

  • Born Queer: dear doctors

    Born Queer: dear doctors is a 5 minute, black & white, intersex, experimental, spoken-word, video-art piece.

  • Business as Usual

    Vision. Leadership. Expertise. Monster. Who the hell is running things anyway? Is he man or beast, machine or god? Toronto, New York, London, Tokyo – “BUSINESS AS USUAL” invites you along for a psychotic ride through the financial power capitals of the world. Witness the omnipresent executive citizen as he (it) imitates you with his bizarre rituals of behavioral dysfunction. Description – “BUSINESS AS USUAL” If a Corporation were to be embodied in a human being, how would it act? What would it do? What would it look like? Described as an art-film version of ‘The Corporation’, “BUSINESS AS USUAL”…

  • hysteria

    An unstable community leads to accusations and panic. Re-considering the Salem witch trials of 1692. Then doesn’t always seem so far off from now. “In ‘hysteria’, Christina Battle refers obliquely to the contemporary political climate using schoolbook illustrations of the Salem witch trials. She works the surface of the film in distinctive ways, lifting the emulsion to add new wrinkles to the image one frame at a time.” – Chris Gehman & Andréa Picard, Toronto International Film Festival Made with the support of LIFT & the New Directions in Cinema Series, 2006. Selected screenings: Toronto International Film Festival, 2006