Language: No dialogue

  • Kalendar

    A short documentary which explores life in a small Ukrainian village.

  • Tobacco Shed

    “Tobacco Shed” is a record of the facades of a large agricultural building, housing tobacco-curing ovens. The near-uniform framing, and the relationship of the shots to each other, is determined by the regular forms of the building, and by the intention that the film be a complete record of the building’s outer surfaces. The sound is a single continuous recording made inside the shed from a fixed position. Thus a contrasting relationship between outside and inside is established through a corresponding relationship between image and sound, in such a way that the intrinsic contrast between these two modalities is emphasised.…

  • Cavalos Selvagens (Wild Horses)

    Two young lovers, live in a tiny apartment, struggling everyday to find reasons to stay together. As they are incapable of living apart, they choose to live silently.

  • Les Nanas

    Shot on one reel of Super 8mm and edited in camera, “Les Nanas” is a visual interpretation of a piece of music by avant-garde musicians, the Artie Smudges Trio, which follows a day in the lives of three doll-like women.

  • Travelogue

    This video was taken using a small digital still camera on multiple bus trips between New York City and Upstate NY. The bus’ many large windows afforded dramatic reflections to this perched passenger, feeling as if floating through the landscape. Lulled by the noises of the tires on the road, the incessant tremors, muffled conversations and trying to keep digital camera steady while being thrown from side-to-side, visual wedges kept uncannily intersecting and gesturing.

  • Tourist of memory

    In this journey through time and place – an Ottawa snowstorm, Niagara Falls, and the filmmaker’s childhood home – recollections come unbidden and half-articulated, of trains, marshes and wind turbines, resolving at the inexpressible place where memory lies. A stand-alone chapter of the video essay, “In Between (remembering and forgetting),” “Tourist of memory” was filmed in 16mm, Super 8 and video, with sound design by Edmund Eagan.

  • Fiesta Brava

    A new cameraless animation from a master of the art. A fiesta for the senses!

  • William’s Creatures

    With joyful spontaneous energy, “William’s Creatures” sets on boundaries in this light-hearted and fun adaptation of one of painter William Ronald’s later works. With an oceanic setting of bizarre and unusual sperm creatures playing their performance to the improvisational score Brotherhood of Adventure (Tiny Orchestra Trio), “William’s Creatures” will prove to tickle your pickle for a full three minutes!! Part of the TAIS Eleven in Motion program.

  • Traffic Flow II

    Inspired by the art of Oscar Cahén. “Traffic Flow II” is an abstract animation tightly choreographed to a soundscape evocative of mid-20th-century Toronto. Part of the TAIS Eleven in Motion program.

  • Inner View

    Kazuo Nakamura’s art has its roots in the visual patterns found in nature. His keen interest in science and mathematics was a way of rediscovering the structure of our world. In this animation, Jenkins attempts to recreate Nakamura’s work using paint on glass animation. A selection of Nakamura’s paintings and sculptures have been animated as if they are being created in front of our eyes, like constantly growing and evolving plants. Set to music performed and composed by Paul Intson, with Ron Korb improvising on flute. Part of the TAIS Eleven in Motion program.