Genres: short

  • Before

    With intricate hand-printed 16 mm footage, Before is a dark ode to the possibility and impossibility of love. It reflects on time, inner worlds and soft landings we find in desolate moments in life.

  • Justice

    This animation is about the symbiotic relationship humans have with earth and about a mother’s journey to seek justice for her child. The big foot tramples on a baby flower before it has the chance to flourish. Her mother journeys through the roots of the earth and sprouts into various forms of life as the tries to cling onto the memory of her child one last time. Together, the plants expel a seed from the bosom of a rose and plant the seed of Justice into the earth. Animation is created with charcoal on paper by Jesi Jordan. ‘Justice’ musical…

  • Recollection – Premonition

    Am I him or am I not? Did I know her or did she know me? I’m not certain who they are yet I feel I have always known them and I can’t help but wonder what became of them. A figure appears then dissolves as the film becomes a memory map. Another figure then appears and merges into the topography of the aged film before once again the first figure briefly reappears. In March 2020 the Province of British Columbia declared a State of COVID-19 Emergency. Since that time I’ve been projecting and recording some of my family’s regular/super…

  • Spark

    When the universe began it erupted into a vast array of fundamental particles such as neutrons, electrons and protons. These particles decayed or combined over time to create everything that our senses perceive today while framing all the we desire and feel. Spark definition: An abrupt electrical discharge that occurs when a sufficiently high electric field creates an ionized, electrically conductive channel. Image description: Silhouette of a person’s head against a field of green with sparks of white. Their hair is haloed by the light.

  • Transit – Destination

    Cities are where people tend to nest. This is where we can engage in the greatest range of pursuits while being provided a reasonable likelihood of day to day sustenance. While not apparent for the most part, cities require far flung resources making them islands or something akin to a space station. Cities are also de facto barriers for many other animal species, especially those that require migration routes to survive. Note: The voices are Kent Tate and a friendly passerby engaging in a conversation about birds while he was filming some office towers.

  • Focal point

    We live in a holographic world. It is a busy, busy place with much to do, with not enough time to do it. We also live in a world where a host of entities are vying for our attention. With so much competition to retain our gaze a clutter threshold is a very real hazard. I have always been sensitive to movement. There is either too much movement or too little movement, so I try to seek a balance, or at least make efforts to set aside moments where I can calm my overstimulated nervous system. I am partial to…

  • Wave

    Tender memories of a first gay embrace, of shock and exhilaration-and disavowal-animated against the waves of a deep blue lake. This animated biography tells the story of the artists’ first encounter with another boy. This was not the way his life was planned and he hoped that this feeling would eventually pass. He waited years until he finally met someone who would change his life forever.

  • Evidence of Wind

    The filmmaker impulsively starts capturing the image and sound of wind. He realizes the only way to capture the wind is to show, instead, trees in motion. The limitation becomes the motif for philosophical contemplation of how we understand the nature of truth that can be learned from something else than the truth itself. The assemblage of the meditative narration, electronic music and the images of swaying trees, leads the journey through a paradoxical, yet thought-provoking experience. The enduring time reveals the moments of reflecting on our belief in the world in a time of uncertainty.

  • Revolve

    Revolve reimagines the jazz standard “All of Me” to be an assertion of femme for femme desire rather than the self effacing ballad Billie Holiday popularized. Revolve uses the pole as a conduit through time and space to make a love offering to Holiday asking “why not” love and have our full selves loved.

  • Woven Account

    After the artist’s own gaybashing in the Bay Area, they wondered what it would take for their story to make the news. Allegra went on to research reported instances of hate violence targeting LGBTQIA2s+ individuals in the archives of 16 local print and online newspapers. After going through nearly two years of archives – the artist discovered only 33 articles detailing individual hate crimes or stories concerning hate crimes legislation for the broader LGBTQIA2s+ community in the Bay Area. Where they could get their hands on the physical news articles detailing hate crimes, the artist spun that newsprint by hand…