Genres: Installation

  • three hours, fifteen minutes before the hurricane struck

    Inspired by the diorama-like boxes of Joseph Cornell, and with text taken from victims of hurricane Katrina, “three hours, fifteen minutes before the hurricane struck” imagines moments just before a violent weather storm. “three hours, fifteen minutes before the hurricane struck” is part of a larger project titled “weather series one (hurricanes)”, a mixed-media installation with works on paper, film, video and small objects. Made with the support of LIFT & the New Directions in Cinema Series, 2006.

  • FLOW

    A stuffed pig, a pregnant woman, and a polar bear are among the unlikely cast of FLOW, a playful and surreal video shot entirely underwater. Unfolding within a concrete triptych the players alternately drift and hurry, locked in a dance of beginnings and endings.

  • Pepere’s Chairs

    The story of Pepere’s Chairs was conceived by my mother, visual artist Maryse Maynard. It is a playful tale about a group of chairs that once belonged to her ancestors. Once the film had been recorded and edited, it was projected onto hand-embroidered canvases which served as the screen. Maryse had embroidered the canvases with chairs, and every once in a while, an embroidered chair could be glimpsed floating in the background of the film.

  • Sports Bra

    Exercise is failure in action. RM Vaughan and Shannon Cochrane try to be fit, sporty, and active people, but bad wigs and poor co-ordination always get in the way.

  • Mean

    “Mean” is a diptych made from Super 8 film and old video footage. The pun of the title comes from the extra levels of “meaning” we attach to nation, religion, sports teams, and even to art genres like film and video. The hockey players were shot in Super 8 off a TV set and then subjected to cheap and crude “toy-like” effects – the result seems to capture the tragicomic nature of hockey fights (and of artists arguing). With the fans, the favourite kind of hockey fight results in 100% domination, with the complete humiliation and psychological disintegration of the…

  • Glide

    “Glide” is a short experimental animation depicting ice skating. A lone skater appears on the crisp white ice, making her way around the oval of the rink and the loop of the film. Drawn with India ink on watercolour paper, the fluid strokes of the skater’s motion is echoed in the watery brush strokes and the pools of dark glistening ink. Each time around the rink/loop, the frame rate of the animation is slowed down thus extending the skater’s motions and revealing more details in the drawings. Calming and meditative, “Glide” celebrates in the simple magic of ice skating as…

  • Numerology

    A short animation that unveils the mysteries of lesbians through the occult arts. NUMEROLOGY is a humorous critique of attempts to stereotype the lesbian community. Using the clean, minimal aesthetic of vector animation, numbers and letters become small characters whose actions subvert the expected course of the narrative. The content of the piece migrates from external to internal stereotypes and promotes the perception of individuals within a category. Selected Screenings: Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg, 2009 (Germany); Pittsburgh Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 2009 (Pittsburgh, USA); image + nation Festival, 2009 (Montreal, Canada)

  • Borders

    “Borders” is an intimate exploration of the bodies belonging to six queer individuals. This animation, made up of hundreds of high-resolution photographs, unabashedly examines the evidence of physical change and transformation: top surgery scars, tattoos, and other traces. The bodies are fragmented, as are the stories affiliated with these traces, and identities remain delightfully elusive. “Borders” is available as a single-channel work or as an extended installation.

  • Figs in Motion

    Two men become six ballerinas and several horses in a bestial, impromptu corps de ballet. A delightful riff on the imagery of Edgar Degas and Eadweard Muybridge, featuring original music by Bryce Kulak and the Wet Secrets. “Figs in Motion” is a collaboration between Edmonton filmmakers Trevor Anderson and aAron munson which was originally commissioned by the Art Gallery of Alberta.

  • Bathers, The

    Three naked bathers gather at the river on a warm day in September. The film was a commission from Ladyfest Ottawa and the Independent Filmmakers Cooperative of Ottawa. Eight women were given the theme of sexuality and two rolls of Super-8 film. I wanted to capture something wild and free, unfettered by society – human sexuality in nature.