Sue, a 10-year-old Korean-Canadian, playfully pushes the limits until she finds herself in unexpected territory. “A bittersweet interracial romance between two prepubescent insect-lovers.” – Gemma Files, EYE Weekly Selected screenings & awards: Special Jury Prize, Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival. Screenings in over a dozen festivals, including the Toronto International Film Festival (1998); SXSW; and the New York, SF, Toronto, and LA Asian film festivals.
Filter Films
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“Escalate” is an animated short that features stop-motion and scratch animation with original music by Pixie Cram.
Escalate
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Some things hurt worse than they should. A young painter works up the courage to contact the collections agency that has been hounding him and gets embroiled in a more personal confrontation than he bargained for.
Rugburn
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When writer and director Joseph Chu puts out an open casting call for his new film based on his family, he never expects his own father to audition for the lead role. Caught somewhere between his real memories of his father and the fictional character he’s created, Joseph is forced to confront his own fears, hypocrisies, and realizations.
Lead Role: Father
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Toronto’s first punk-rock club is the subject of this innovative document featuring performances by The Diodes, Teenage Head, and The Dead Boys. The rock magazine Creem praised the film for “doing everything in its flickering power to self-destruct” and commented that anyone who “thought Canadians bored their beef to death ate at a different delicatessen.”
Crash ‘n’ Burn
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The Sequent of Hanna Ave. is the result of my reworkings of some experimental film practices and my enquiries into the phenomena of movement-illusionism in the film form. By combining found footage, hand processing and hi-end digital technology, I propose to elevate a few mundane gestures to a new perceptible wholeness, and give some small fingers and a c-cassette tape all the attention, grace and drama they somehow deserve. (This film was produced partly during my residency at the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto in late 2005.) Selected screenings: Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film, Durham, ON, 2006
Sequent of Hanna Avenue, The
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“The Boy in the Plastic Bubble” is a remake of a 1977 TV movie-of-the-week starring John Travolta. Shot on super8 with Ken and Barbie dolls, this animated film explores the themes of adolescent love, isolation, plastic bubbles, beach parties and the boy next door.
Boy in the Plastic Bubble, The
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Inspired by the diorama-like boxes of Joseph Cornell, and with text taken from victims of hurricane Katrina, “three hours, fifteen minutes before the hurricane struck” imagines moments just before a violent weather storm. “three hours, fifteen minutes before the hurricane struck” is part of a larger project titled “weather series one (hurricanes)”, a mixed-media installation with works on paper, film, video and small objects. Made with the support of LIFT & the New Directions in Cinema Series, 2006.
three hours, fifteen minutes before the hurricane struck
