“The Last Feast” tells the story of Irving, a mindless drone, who steals from the graves of the dead to fulfill his greedy masters’ desire. It is a dark tale of destruction and wasted resources in a decadent society. “The Last Feast“ combines stop-motion, classical and computer-generated animation with live-action puppetry.
Filter Films
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“Deviate” is a short Super 8 film made specifically for the Memorial Project. While friends of Dan Moyen, who died of AIDS in 1990, talk about him, the viewer sees old footage of Dan expressing his feelings on the matter.
Deviate
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“Tziporah” is the Hebrew work for a bird. The film is another cinematic reflection on loss and grief. Premiere: October 2007, New York Film Festival: Views from the Avant Garde January, 2008, Rotterdam International Film Festival April 6, 2008, San Francisco Cinematheque April 27&29, 2008, San Francisco International Film Festival September 6,2008,Toronto International Film Festival:Wavelengths Program October, 2009, FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic October, 2009, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland
Tziporah
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A young man decides he can no longer sit by while his people are being brutalized. disobey is an unsettling look at the seeds of hatred and the complex zone between justice and revenge. — Media Wave Film Festival
Disobey
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Brian Stockton’s series of eccentric autobiographical short films continues with “Saskatchewan Part 3,” the conclusion of THE SASKATCHEWAN TRILOGY. Part 3 takes a humourous, animated look at the filmmaker’s family tree, and how it is that his grandparents ended up in Saskatchewan in the early 20th century. As with the previous installments, “Saskatchewan Part 3” is a melange of personal history. family mementos, and Saskatchewan lore, mixed tobether with a bone-dry sense of humour. Filmed in glorious 35mm cinemascope, “Saskatchewan Part 3” seeks to define what it means to come home.
Saskatchewan Part 3
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Brian Stockton’s series of humourous autobiographical short films goes beyond his acclaimed SASKATCHEWAN TRILOGY and into the suburban neighbourhood of Whitmore Park. Filled with ruminations about ‘the future’, strange performance art projects from grade four, and the beginnings of a life as a filmmaker, “Whitmore Park” transcends the neighbourhood and revels in the ‘epic’ story of a life in the suburbs. Like others in the series, the film is a unique mix of documentary, drama and animation, all presented in the visual feast of 35mm Cinemascope.
Whitmore Park (The Epic Story of My Life Part 4)
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Brian Stockton’s series of humourous autobiographical shorts takes a detour into architecture with this 5-minute “appendix” about renowned Saskatchewan architect Joseph Pettick. Pettick has designed a staggering 500 buildings in Saskatchewan, and his impact on the province and the filmmaker is enormous. “I have lived my life in Joseph Pettick’s buildings” states the narration. Stockton explores three of Pettick’s masterpieces including Grant Road Elementary School which had a huge impact on the filmmaker’s early life and has figured prominently in Stockton’s EPIC STORY OF MY LIFE series.
Man Who Built My Childhood, The (The Epic Story of My Life Appendix B)
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“Mean” is a diptych made from Super 8 film and old video footage. The pun of the title comes from the extra levels of “meaning” we attach to nation, religion, sports teams, and even to art genres like film and video. The hockey players were shot in Super 8 off a TV set and then subjected to cheap and crude “toy-like” effects – the result seems to capture the tragicomic nature of hockey fights (and of artists arguing). With the fans, the favourite kind of hockey fight results in 100% domination, with the complete humiliation and psychological disintegration of the loser. “Mean” tries to dissolve and reconstitute this corrosive culture into a kind of uglybeauty. The diseased maple leaves were filmed beside Toronto’s Don Valley Parkway, the lens focusing on the sky and the sun between the branches. This piece isn’t really a film or video, it’s “grain + noise.”
Mean
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“Ladies and Gentlemen: Would you please now rise for our Canadian troops in the Persian Gulf War…for our Gold Medal – winning team, and for our Country?”
Défi des étoiles
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“Fore-and-Aft” was created by the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada – site of the highest tides in the world. Images of the tides are married with celluloid that was buried in the sea bed, and dragged through the ocean behind a boat. Physically exposing film to the motion and light of the sea recorded tactile evidence of the repetition and changes wrought by tide cycles.
Fore-and-Aft
