A visual meditation on the natural cycle that leads the viewer through an underworld landscape and culminates in a violent, colorful rebirth.
Filter Films
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“anamnesis” is a handmade diary film exploring home, memory, and history through heavily processed painterly sequences. The film was shot at the Independent Imaging Retreat (the Film Farm) in Mount Forest, Ontario. Selected Screenings: Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, 2009 (Montreal, QC); Berlin International Film Festival, Forum Expanded Section, 2009 (Germany)
anamnesis
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NOTE: Includes reel #1 and reel #2 only. 60 minutes total. Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shot ten frames, on others ten seconds, on still others ten minutes. Or I shoot nothing. When one writes diaries, it’s a retrospective process: you sit down, you look back at your day, and you write it all down. To keep a film (camera) diary, is to react (with your camera) immediately, now, this instant: either you get it now, or you don’t get it at all… All footage that you’ll see in the “Diaries” is exactly as it came out from the camera: there was no way of achieving it in the editing rooms without destroying its form and content. (Jonas Mekas) This film covers the early years of Mekas’ life in the USA.
Diaries Notes and Sketches: Lost, Lost, Lost
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Through the eyes of pure content in light and darkness, to objects strange and shifting, a cat’s curiosity of all things moving.
Lola
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Landscape and drive-thrus transformed by real estate speculation are reanimated with magical thinking and an embodied language written in breath on a windshield. “A bird’s mind can hold only one sample. How to come here and how to return. This loop has been corrupted by blooming rot. The cat knows the curse to reset it.”
New Atlantis
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This film is about inappropriate attention to sensory experiences other than the visual while driving and in response to an accident. Sound, touch and taste may disrupt safety to others and might threaten public order when not kept in check by the dominion of the visual. Dogs know all about this.
Accidental, The
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This is a story of the transformative effects of sparking, speculative frenzy. It questions whether embodied contact with objects and living creatures can occur outside fixed clichés of perception so that eyes can have multi-sensory effects.
Sparklene
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My early performances in thriller genres are reconsidered in a rehabilitation of images in this film. Though once renounced by me as complicit and misogynist, my filmed body is treated as recoverable for liberation of my memory.
White Palace
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December the 25th. Bunny goes out the city chasing after Santa Claus for her son. The boy, Rocamador, run after his mother through the city. The journey takes an uncommon course. — Saracura Filmes
Botero’s Apple
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“When It Was Blue” is an ode to nature and 16mm film as they rapidly vanish. This double-projection 16mm film rejoices the splendor of seasons, landscapes and wildlife as we traverse land and ocean. An elaborate montage connects diverse ecosystems spanning from the northeastern USA, to Iceland, Canada’s Pacific coast, New Zealand, and Central America. Reeves hand-painted the 16mm film, creating impressionistic textures and colors that mimic the qualities of land, water and trees, and fuse with the photographic imagery. A frenetic and complex visual journey ensues through decades and seasons, trying to “capture” as much of the natural world as possible, before it disappears. Selected Screenings: Toronto International Film Festival, 2008; Vancouver International Film Festival, 2008; Berlin International Film Festival, 2009; Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2009; Wexner Center for the Arts, 2009 Read a review by Michael Sicinski at: http://www.cinema-scope.com/cs37/spot_sicinski_blue.html
When It Was Blue
