This film explores and shares a secret that the filmmaker has kept from everyone in the village.
Filter Films
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This tiny film is a poem which recapitulates many of the ideas presented in the earlier films and serves as a tiny song/verse to remind the viewer of the things that have come before and the things which will continue in the future.
Coda
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In the near future there are no adults, a tree house becomes a door to another dimension, and rocks release intuitive powers. Documentary, historiography and mythology collide and transform in a 16mm film showing a world of telepathic children interpreting technologies. A meditation and absurd collage of media, sci-fi cliché, and performance, “Bridge Kids” connects a research documentary on J.B Rhine and the history of ESP/ Parapsychology, with a science fiction drama portraying an adolescent’s connection with the dead.
Bridge Kids
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A macho man romance, “The Main Event” is a dramatic short about two pro wrestlers, Righteous Ted and The Axe, who fall in love inside the ring.
Main Event, The
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A story-within-a-story. Dolly is a woman trapped and isolated in a house with her man and friends; their fantasy seems to be about a Russian philosopher, his wife, student and servant. The wife is rescued by a dying vampire. Dolly is advised by her female friends to leave but is actually abused by all. When she almost does leave, the helplessness of her man in his search for the Cheez Whiz stops her. A satire on stereotyped women, men, film and filmmakers in a 20-minute “tragi-comedy.”
Dolly Cake
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Where all is static motion; where music and light become one; where change and motion become one; and where the end is the beginning. Black-and-white cut-out animation with touches of color. Ladies of the past encounter science and natural phenomena.
Beyond Enchantment
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“City Under Siege” examines contemporary representation of war in the media. The particular image under investigation first became predominant in the broadcast news media during the Gulf War. It is of a wide, high angle shot, recorded at night from the roof of a building looking out over a city, usually Baghdad. The shot stays static while the city below is bombarded in a fire show. There does not appear to be any life represented down there, no blood or exploded body parts. There doesn’t even seem to be a camera operator as the image never moves or reacts to a bomb dropping. The shot is almost green which denotes the low light “night vision” used to photograph it. The image has an abstraction to it, like it could be from a computer game. Is it even real? Ticker tape text scrolls along the bottom of the image, streaming text quotes from a variety of sources, from Marshall McLuhan to Buddha, that ruminate on the media and society in lieu of the usual breaking headlines and stock market figures. The image loops back around to a dark, quiet city and the cycle is repeated. “City Under Siege” consists of 1 continuously looping DVD. The video image is displayed on multiple TV sets that are stacked on top of each other in a street facing window. If the exhibition space has no street-facing window that can be viewed by the public, the TVs may also be suspended from the ceiling like those found suspended in airport terminals with the news displayed on them.
City Under Siege
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“Blue” serves as the filmmaker’s exploration of the sights, sounds, form, and function of the historical Johnson Street Bridge in Victoria, BC. Built in 1924 as a bascule-style drawbridge, designed by the same company that would later build the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, “Big Blue” is currently at a politically controversial crossroads. After sitting for years in dire need of seismic upgrades and maintenance, Victoria city council pressed forth with an expensive plan for demolition and replacement. While citizens fought back with a petition, which forced a referendum, demolition remains the official course of action. Also presented as a video installation and/or screened with live musical accompaniment by composer Jeff Morton.
Blue
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A hypnotic mass self-portrait from within the runners’ chute at the end of the 2009 Ottawa Marathon. The dramatic enactment of an endless final reward cycle in our inevitable tumble, together and alone, towards the unknown: connect, release, repeat.
Chute
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A loose narrative comprised of both found and shot footage derails conventional uses of familial images and forms the residue of a looming traumatic experience. The anxieties of parenthood feed an undertow of tension that heightens awareness to the vulnerabilities of the children we bring into this world.
Still Life
