The summer of 1972: the Theatre Passe Muraille Company moves into the farming community of Clinton, Ontario, and makes a play out of the stories and events of the people of that region. The following spring, the company takes its play, “The Farm Show,” on a tour of the farming communities of southwestern Ontario, sometimes performing in auction barns and town halls. “The Clinton Special” is a documentary of the tour and includes scenes from the play.
Filter Films
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“Step of Three” is an experimental study of a choreographed dance, exploring modulations of colour and performance. Three takes of the dance are performed for an improvisational camera, then reduced to a single colour channel and staggered in time. When superimposed upon each other, the channels restore colours to their original form, distinct moments echoing each other in acknowledgement of rehearsal and performance.
Step of Three
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A poetic assembly of 1950s’ and 1960s’ Soviet film print fragments and graphic text that elicits a romantic tale of an individual’s fall from grace.
Paradise Lost
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A confessional documentary on the artist’s schooling in love from the cradle to the crib. Scenes from movies, television shows and commercials are processed through analogue video techniques to yield a pop-art sensible understanding of the North-American Love Experience.
Attack of the Naïve: Ages Four to Twenty-One in Thirteen Unlucky Vignettes
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What do we do with our food when we aren’t eating it? “Nahrung, Symphonie von Großer Bedeutung” heralds the coming of the great Food Symphony craze, when coming generations of film and video enthusiasts will turn their unwavering cinematic eye to the formal investigation of our topical, functional, utilitarian and deviant applications of this Stuff-Which-Ought-Really-Be-Eaten. German with English sub-titles.
Nahrung, Symphonie von Großer Bedeutung
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A reworking of images of Princess Diana drawn from a CNN tribute called “The People’s Princess.” The isolated and manipulated images point to England’s colonial past and to the elusiveness of a media image.
Dominion
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In the habitat of the Loons a dynamic force is discovered. Its rhythmic play shifts and darts amongst the elements that host it, sometimes transposing its form in moods that plumb the amplitude of all that is visible by day or night. Chromatic intervention surprises moments of pastoral bliss with symphonic shatterings, borne on the medium that is the sustenance of film itself.
Loon Lights
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In this collage of simple images from everyday life, such as feet and butterflies, birds and flowers, the pedestrian nature of human origins is found at play amongst images of a compromised nature. From vignettes of machine-fed birds that mirror a fascination with wings, this film reflects on some of the darker fruits of man’s desire for the capacity for flight. Using both colour and B&W stock, “About Flight” is mainly processed by hand and modulated with colour tints, toning and both in-camera and darkroom effects.
About Flight: The Surly Bonds of Earth
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Contrast itself can be seen as a thematic symbol in this work that plays on enlightenment as an elusive but ever-present possibility. It employs Zoroastrian semiotics and Zen-like circumstances to punctuate the appearances and flows of quotidian labour that have challenged the human condition since Sisyphus.
Towards Everyday Lightning
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When you’re in the closet at work, “coming out” is always a drama. But no one expects it to be like the jaw-dropping experience recounted in this short, sharp and funny tale. Coming out at work is indeed hard to do. Awards: HBO Audience Award for Best Female Short, Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, USA
Coming Out at Work Is Hard to Do
