Genres: narrative

  • King County

    “King County” follows Camile Schwartzbaum as she leads her community theatre company in a frantic search for a bad 80s movie to turn into the next Broadway Smash ala XANADU.

  • Midnight Matinee

    A stop-motion animated film that illustrates the artistic journey of a capricious camera and the personal discovery of its true potential. The camera character discovers a magical flash, which to its surprise can bring any inanimate object to life. Using the newly found magical wand the camera character acts as a movie making maestro by recruiting objects in the house as cast and crew before creating a film. Saturated with stunning visuals and supported by a swinging score, “Midnight Matinee” is sure to stimulate the senses.

  • Somebody Is Watching Us

    Two young men, Alliocha and Bruno, have anonymous sex in a public bathroom and are prematurely separated when one loses his nerve. Bruno fears they’ve been watched. Later, the two men are reunited by chance in the same English as a Second Language class for new Canadian immigrants. Alliocha, the young extroverted Russian, tries to provoke his potential partner, Bruno into having a relationship. But their lack of common language leads them into a unique clash of cultures. One day, an unexpected event brings them together again and both men are forced to confront their assumptions of each other.

  • Disobey

    A young man decides he can no longer sit by while his people are being brutalized. disobey is an unsettling look at the seeds of hatred and the complex zone between justice and revenge. — Media Wave Film Festival

  • White Palace

    My early performances in thriller genres are reconsidered in a rehabilitation of images in this film. Though once renounced by me as complicit and misogynist, my filmed body is treated as recoverable for liberation of my memory.

  • Sparklene

    This is a story of the transformative effects of sparking, speculative frenzy. It questions whether embodied contact with objects and living creatures can occur outside fixed clichés of perception so that eyes can have multi-sensory effects.

  • Accidental, The

    This film is about inappropriate attention to sensory experiences other than the visual while driving and in response to an accident. Sound, touch and taste may disrupt safety to others and might threaten public order when not kept in check by the dominion of the visual. Dogs know all about this.

  • New Atlantis

    Landscape and drive-thrus transformed by real estate speculation are reanimated with magical thinking and an embodied language written in breath on a windshield. “A bird’s mind can hold only one sample. How to come here and how to return. This loop has been corrupted by blooming rot. The cat knows the curse to reset it.”

  • Uphill Descent, The

    A visual meditation on the natural cycle that leads the viewer through an underworld landscape and culminates in a violent, colorful rebirth.

  • Q – Case

    Daniel and Eli are about to have their five-year anniversary, but little does Eli know that Daniel has been hiding a dark secret all those years. Meanwhile, an FBI agent has been put into a coma under mysterious circumstances. Evidence leads Agent Mueller and Dina Pendrell to investigate the presence of “Extra Queerestrials,” but are they chasing after the wrong suspect? Will Eli and Daniel get their Happy Anniversary? Selected Screenings: Out on Screen, 2009 (Vancouver, Canada); Reeling Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 2009 (Chicago, USA); Pittsburgh Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (Pittsburgh, USA)