Three naked bathers gather at the river on a warm day in September. The film was a commission from Ladyfest Ottawa and the Independent Filmmakers Cooperative of Ottawa. Eight women were given the theme of sexuality and two rolls of Super-8 film. I wanted to capture something wild and free, unfettered by society – human sexuality in nature.
Filter Films
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An animated meditation on the theme of satyriasis, the excessive and often uncontrollable sexual desire in men. Through the archetype of the cowboy code, “The Secret Loves of Jesse James” explores how the masculine discourse of the West is balanced upon a razor’s edge of intimacy and violence.
Secret Loves of Jesse James, The
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A stop-animation piece constructed from found photographic sources pays homage to Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, Jean Genet and Fassbinder’s “Querelle.”
Poised and in the Throes
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“Delphinium: A Childhood Portrait of Derek Jarman” is a stylized and lyrical coming-of-age portrait of Derek Jarman’s artistic, sexual, and political awakening in post-War England. Part biographical narrative, part experimental collage, part personal meditation on the most controversial and important modern British artist and activist, the film finds in Jarman’s childhood the stirrings of creative and individual epiphany that inspired a remarkable life. Written and directed by Matthew Mishory, the film was shot in Super 8 and HD by cinematographer Lili Wilde and features an original score by Arban and Steven Severin of Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Glove. Eastman Kodak Grand Prize for Best Short Film, 2010 United States Super 8 and DV Film Festival
Delphinium: A Childhood Portrait of Derek Jarman
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A 43-year-old woman, her 21-year-old boyfriend, her unhappily married sister, an aging mother and a burgeoning lesbian niece take a ride into discontent one winter’s afternoon. Selected Screenings: Toronto International Film Festival, 2009; Vancouver International Film Festival, 2009; Inside Out LGBT Film & Video Festival, 2010 (Toronto, ON)
5 Dysfunctional People in a Car
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“LLOYD ____FEIN MUST DIE” is protest porn. Using appropriated imagery from the Internet and Sammy Davis Jr.’s classic signature song ” I’ve Gotta Be Me,” “LLOYD ____FEIN MUST DIE” is a choreographed sexual roundelay about the destructive greed and vanity of a vilified banker. Summoning an orgy of images to relieve anger sexually, the film’s cathartic Freudian release posits a retreat to private joy as a valid response for populations depressed by avaricious powerbrokers in capital economies.
LLOYD ____FEIN MUST DIE
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“A month’s wandering, hitch-hiking towards Eastern Europe with a few rolls of 16mm film, a microphone and an old Bolex camera. An intuitive recollection of sounds and images from the journey’s chance meetings and landscapes. One conviction leads me on these roads: different forms of assocation between sound and image are possible. The recording device is at the heart of the encounters as the emotional barometer of an atypical journey. From car to car, the film unfolds and finds its way, slowly drawing a self-portrait.” – Sébastien Demeffe
Riding Along
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Abby has just had her first sexual experience with a woman and confides in her older, outspokenly lesbian sister Emma, expecting some kind of sound advice…
Rockin’ The Rainbow
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After moving apartments, Paula and Sue are experiencing strife in their relationship. Sue, ever the fixer, decides that the way to make Paula happy is to get married, but Paula finds her own resolution.
Immature
