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  • Daybreak

    Inverted Super 8 and video footage paints a hauntingly beautiful portrait of Saskatchewan’s northern forests. “Daybreak” is an attempt to strip different images down to their basic elements, to examine their photographic possibilities, and their connection to a larger “Canadian” identity. Original score by Jason Moberg. Selected screenings: Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival (Toronto, ON), 2011; Antimatter Film Festival (Victoria, BC), 2011

  • 349 (for Sol LeWitt)

    “A digitally animated version of Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #349, which was commissioned by Toronto’s Mercer Union gallery in 1981. Recreating LeWitt’s geometric vocabulary and primary colour palette, 349 careens through emblazoned emblems, lifted from walls and transported into dialogue with LeWitt’s exploration of spatial systems and human emotion.” – Andréa Picard, Toronto International Film Festival

  • Genesee

    Shot in the Genesee Valley of New York State on regular 8mm to commemorate the last rolls of Kodachrome. The colours of the leaves and the film stock are augmented by orange colour filters, boosting the contrast and highlighting the rich saturated yellows, reds and orange of stock and season.

  • When the Sun Turns into Juice

    Inspired by a metaphor the filmmaker’s daughter uses to describe the setting sun, the film became an homage to Gordon Webber, a Quebecois animator and architect. A cameraless animation created by painting on film.

  • Bliss Out

    A light-drenched black and white roadmovie, charting interior and exterior peregrinations made through the City of Angels in 2003/04. (Antimatter Film Festival catalogue, 2009)

  • Caribou

    “Caribou” is an 11-minute science fiction experimental portrait of Saskatchewan. Structurally it is a journey from the forests of northern Saskatchewan to the Badlands in the south.

  • Lines on a Slow Decline

    “Lines on a Slow Decline” is a portrait of my neighborhood; shot within a 5-block radius on Super 8 film and full-format VHS video.

  • Dark Horse Candidate

    “Dark Horse Candidate” is a time-based project that is intended to be a portrait of one specific location over the course of one full year. One shot per day was selected in the editing process (365 shots in total), and each one appears in sequence according to the calendar year.

  • Witchcraft

    “Witchcraft” is an examination of the nostalgic, and darker implications of my family’s Super 8 “home movies.” It is an extension of an earlier work, “Down Payment on a Dead Horse,” which is rooted in a quote from Ernest Hemmingway – “All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”

  • Nightfall

    “Nightfall” is a formal portrait of the Canadian winter landscape, shot on Super 8, VHS, DVCAM, and 16mm.