Genres: short

  • What You Are Out Here For

    * No Normal Festival 2023 * Official Selection International Portrait Festival 2022 * Gallery Stratford Installation 2022/23 * Official Selection Recontres Internationales Traverse Festival 2022 * Official Selection Athens Animfest 2022 * Official Selection Forest City Film Festival 2021 * Carbon Art & Design Installation 2021 * Bark Park/Washing Machine Outdoor Installation NYC 2021 * Official Selection Van Der Plas Animation Festival & Installation 2021 Springboarding off original illustrations by the internationally renowned artist Jason McLean, What You Are Out Here For experiments with experimental film-making itself, putting McLean’s art for the first time into motion. The open-ended and coming-of-age…

  • Water Over Glass

    * Official Selection Antimatter Film Fetsival 2020 * Official Selection Vancouver International Film Festival 2019 (nominated Best of BC Film Award) In Water Over Glass, the tension of a mind adrift and in conflict with itself is captured and bookended visually by the vast mutability of sea and sky, where water and air surfaces suggest both static and the dissolution of the individual. A doppelganger, a crime scene and the tidal erasure of what might have taken place: discomfiting moments in a bright, almost psychedelic, arc. Assembled from 16mm, super 8, and digital video, stop-motion collage and digital compositing animation,…

  • Freak Folks

    Struggling with anxious thoughts, six individuals wander alone through the city in the late hours of the night. “Freak Folks” is an introspective and therapeutic experience that celebrates the human resilience and emotional connections between apparent strangers.

  • Electric Water

    This experimental documentary is a meditation on the poetics and politics of water, moving between the filmmaker’s personal heritage from the Adriatic Sea and the Haudenosaunee perspective on Niagara Falls. While our connection to water is disrupted by pollution, dams, and the tourist’s gaze, there are stories and sights that lead back to water’s power and teachings. Image description: Several figures stand silhouetted against a large rushing water fall (Niagara Falls).

  • Goldstar

    An intimate look at the difference between love and relationships.

  • Wood and Metal Bars

    A meditative experience through colour, form, and sound. The animation was created by painting ink directly onto 16mm film. This music video was created for Toronto chamber music composer Frank Horvat. The musical composition is performed by Canadian percussionist Beverley Johnston. Image description: An abstract image featuring blue tones in various textures, with a black-outlined circular shape in the centre and bright pink blotches at the bottom.

  • Saving Gorillas. One Sip At A Time

    Uganda is home to the critically endangered mountain gorillas surrounded by people near their protected habitat who are also struggling to survive. Doctor Gladys Kalema – Zikusoka realized that the farmers were not being given a fair price for their coffee, which led them to use the national park to meet their basic family needs for food and fuelwood. Thinking about new opportunities for the African Community as well as saving the gorillas from diseases and poaching, she founded a social enterprise so humans and gorillas could coexist.

  • The Shadow of My Life

    Hanna, a recent immigrant to Canada from Iran, struggles with depression as she tries to process memories of Iran and find her place in a new country. As she rediscovers her passion for painting she finds inspiration from other artists. Told in graphic monochrome animation with occasional striking splashes of red. Image description: A graphic drawing in stark black-and-white depicts a woman and her shadow considering themselves in a mirror.

  • Pinhole Park

    “Pinhole Park” was created using a 35mm film tin modified into an outward-looking 59-pinhole camera that registers images on a single film loop mounted in the tin. Each loop is exposed in one moment with 59 pinhole “lenses” to create as many distinct images that, when presented in series, create a panning of the landscape in various directions. The work was exposed on outdated black-and-white 35mm print stock acquired from Archives Canada discards, and processed by hand in Caffenol chemistry, a less environmentally impactful developer made with coffee, vitamin C, and washing soda. The film and photographs document a city…

  • A Nice Big Zero for You

    Doughnut destruction that started as a lark but got a bit grim. Also an ode to the JK Optical Printer, and a meditation on human cruelty and expendability.