“AurA” is as an experimental documentary that explores a friend’s 8-year struggle with mental and physical health. Following a seizure on a soccer field, and the discovery of a brain tumour, life goes from bad to worse when one loses hope for the future.
Filter Films
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An abstract journey through the fabric of the brain, revealing the fragile elements of self that are contained within.
Leaving Me
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“POST CARD” is a love letter in black-and-white film. It was shot over a five-year period during which time Beatriz and I made several moves before separating. While living in a studio apartment in Chicago over a year later I began to write letters to her I would never send. The film represents my ongoing effort to come to terms with her loss. I was partly inspired by Jacques Derrida’s book, “Post Card”, in which he presents philosophical reflections as though they took the form of lover letters written on post cards that get lost along the way, expressing the uncertainty of meaning and the blurring of private and public.
Post Card
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A blind man’s journey along a winter trail is repeatedly intersected with the path of a running man. When the former takes notice, he is compelled to move towards the elusive figure. Time and time again, he tries to catch the man just out of his reach, each time a little faster and more determined than before. Whether or not he gets there, however, will depend on his frame of mind.
Last Run
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Using primarily the black and white drawings of Harold Town and riffing on the original drawings by primitively animating their contents, this short, abstract, primarily black-and-white piece eschews continuity and embraces the non-linearity of the drawn/painted etched line. Part of the TAIS Eleven in Motion program.
Old Ink
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Jacobs has restructured an existing film, “The Doctor,” into “The Doctor’s Dream”. The new film starts with the shot which was numerically the middle shot in the old film. It then proceeds to the shot that came before that middle shot, then skips over to the other side to the shot that followed the middle shot and keeps skipping back and forth. Finally, at the end, you see the beginning shot of the original film followed by the end shot. “To watch ‘The Doctor’s Dream’ is to witness a narrative unfolding forward and backwards in turns… a deconstructive Frankenstein of a film with new vitality in its borrowed parts.” – Tom Gunning, Millennium Film Journal #10/11)
Doctor’s Dream, The
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Beautifully shot and edited, this tender drama ambitiously tells its story with openly emotional acting and music. Joan is a 40-ish woman in North London, a devout Catholic who looks after her mum with the help of a nurse, Pat. As Joan and Pat become friends, Pat discovers Joan’s love of singing and invites her to join her choir, “The Friends of Dusty.” But it takes Joan awhile to realize that this is a lesbian choir, and as a performance at the Various Voices festival on the Southbank approaches, Joan gets cold feet in more ways than one. – Rich Cline
Sleeping Beauty of East Finchley, The
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Two men become six ballerinas and several horses in a bestial, impromptu corps de ballet. A delightful riff on the imagery of Edgar Degas and Eadweard Muybridge, featuring original music by Bryce Kulak and the Wet Secrets. “Figs in Motion” is a collaboration between Edmonton filmmakers Trevor Anderson and aAron munson which was originally commissioned by the Art Gallery of Alberta.
Figs in Motion
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“In Their Room” is about gay men, bedrooms, sex and intimacy. The film ventures into the bedrooms of eight different men where you see them doing everything from the most banal to the most erotic. Complementing the revealing nature of their everyday activities are confessional interviews about fantasies, turn-ons and vulnerabilities. You never leave their bedrooms, but this is unmistakably San Francisco of the present. “’In Their Room’ shines a light on the honest thoughts, feelings, and sexual habits of a new generation of gay men (both young and old) largely ignored by the mainstream gay media. Focused, sexy, and very sweet.” – Adam Baran, BUTT Magazine Winner, Best Film, Good Vibrations Indie Erotic FIlm Festival (2009) Selected Screenings: Melbourne Queer Film Festival, 2010 (Australia); Winner, Best Erotic Film, Good Vibrations Indie Erotic Film Competition, 2009 (San Francisco, CA)
In Their Room
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The filmmaker considers an early motivation to become an artist. Shot entirely on an iPhone, with original music by Doug Organ.
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