“A powerful visual tribute to a lost loved one. Superimposing hand-processed film footage with home movie imagery, director Tara Khalili conveys an eloquent personal message of mourning. Funerary footage mixes with that of a quiet home, resulting in sensitive reflections on loss and remembrance.” – Alex Rogalski, Hot Docs Festival 2010 “Even Flowers Wake Up in the Morning” is a filmic expression of my feelings about the absence and death of my Iranian grandfather. Memories of him flicker in my head as if I were watching a projector shining old film clips in a dark theater. In this film, I cut together fragments of memories to express what he meant to me and to assimilate the reality of his passing. I shot the empty house a year after his death in Tehran. The funeral footage was shot by a relative, since I did not have the courage to go to his funeral. – Tara Khalili
Filter Films
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Special Book and DVD Set Veteran animator and filmmaker Steven Woloshen introduces a variety of simple artistic strategies to create decay and to re-assemble damaged film prints into new experimental visions. This book includes a special DVD (NTSC) with nine short films created specially for this do-it-yourself, “hands-on” manual. An excellent resource for film production courses and workshops. Featuring nine chapters & accompanying films: 1. Chronicle Reconstructions: Creating Reconstructions 2. Zero Visibility: Reproducing Decay and Damage 3. La Dolce Vita: Hasty Archaeology 4. Scrapbook: Correcting Correlations 5. Fleeing Rotland: Revitalizing Obsolete Gauges on 35mm Film 6. The Homestead Act: Using the Earth to Create Decay 7. Editorial: Contact Printing and Film Looping 8. Vista: Abstraction and Reorientation 9. The Rosetta Stone: Creating Hybrid Images ISBN 978-0-9866231-0-3 137 pages, perfect-bound paperback, colour and B&W DVD included Copyright Steven Woloshen, Scratchatopia Books, 2010 Pricing: Post-Secondary Institutions & Libraries: $375.00 (includes educational PPR) Artist-Run Centres: $84.99 (includes educational PPR) Individuals (personal use only): $40.00 All prices + shipping and applicable taxes
Recipes for Reconstruction: The Cookbook for the Frugal Filmmaker
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A mother breastfeeds her child. A woman peels an orange. Originally created for installation, “The Wheel” has also screened as a single-channel video work.
Wheel, The
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This film is presented in chronological order, revealing the world the filmmaker is discovering in her quest to become an immigrant in the land her great grandparents abandoned over 100 years ago.
Unnamed Film
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This film explores the idea of the consistency of land use over time. In the exact location of where the filmmaker is living and realizing this project, trypillian people lived over 5,000 year ago. A modern day, post soviet brick factory in the village uses the exact same process to make bricks that the trypillian people used to make pots. Through this same process, and the unexplained burning of the trypillian homes, we have fired clay remnants of their presence in this village in very large numbers. A reknowned local archeologist talks about these people and their relationship to land, clay and black gold.
Clay
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A search for the elusive Sasquatch. The first chapter in an ongoing series.
Tracking Sasquatch (field report #1)
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An ambitious civil servant wakes one morning to find his nose is missing. Surrealism and fantasy collide with mundane bureaucratic reality as he attempts to recover it. Based on the story by Nikolai Gogol.
Nose, The
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Konrad is a bright young boy, kind of heart and full of joy, but…he has a terrible addiction that can only end in one painful and bloody way! See him SUCK! See his Mother SCREAM! See the terrible scissors go SNIP-SNAP! Filmed in frightening 2D Shad-O-Vision. Not for the faint hearted.
Suck-A-Thumb
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“This film’s themes are as vast as its subject matter and techniques: the relationships between man and his surroundings, of the personal to the general, of seeing to perception.” – Fred Camper “The film breathes and is an organic and surging thing… it is a colossal lyrical adventure-dance of image in every variation of color.” – Michael McClure
Dog Star Man: Prelude
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This short film is a poetic meditation on the end of life as represented by the filmmaker’s grandmother. The grandmother, in her rocking chair, reaches out for the single light that illuminates her, expressing her determination and also, as the light goes out, the reconciliation to her own death.
Ampoule Brulee, L’
