“Letters” explores the transformation of painting through photography and the movement of light as music, text and body language. Formed through a combination of abstract hand-painted film and live photography, originated on super 8mm and 16mm, ‘Letters’ uses extensive optical printing and single-frame editing techniques to draw the material and structural properties of film into focus and create a sense of rhythm, gravity, weight and mass.
Filter Films
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Tony and Chloé, a young couple in their twenties, have secluded themselves in a hotel room. They will spend one last night together, a night to remember. Alliocha, a young foreign boy met on the street, initiates this voyage. The three will share the utmost intimate experience, an experience that will change them all. The next morning, Tony and Chloé’s innocent youth is left behind. With shattered hearts they enter adulthood and everything that lies ahead.
Ultima Notte, L’ (The Last Night)
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Radio evangelist Sister Agnes Phillips dispenses wisdom and hope to lost souls against a late-night urban landscape of seedy hotels and dial-a-saviour billboards. Awards: Detroit Film Center Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2004
Late
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A self-surveillance video, shot in one take, exploring the limits of visual and aural perception. “The simple immediacy and eccentric austerity of the direct approach superficially contrasts with the abstract complexity of his other film works, but it shares their indeterminacy. The act of videoing is unplanned, a performance in itself, the results are fortuitous. In the silent Myeyeye the camera is the ‘wrong’ way round but the ear is clear, in focus, drawing attention to the act of shooting as much as any ostensible subject.” – Steven Ball
Myeyeye
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FOR SALE ONLY Contains: Endymion Joe’s Maison 5 min. COL. SILENT 1984 The film began as a record of the painter Joseph Glin and his series of paintings inspired by “La Maison Des Mortes” by Guillaume Apollinaire. After filming Joe destroyed the paintings and closed his gallery, Shekhina, where the paintings were filmed. The Heavens 5 min COL SILENT 1977 Earth 4.5 min COL Silent 1978
Chomont’s Selected Shorts #2
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Using Monty-Pythonesque animation, this film serves up the stripped-down essence of the most famous operas in a quick and painless manner, and reveals once and for all that opera has more in common with soap opera and pulp fiction than anyone likes to admit.
All the Great Operas (in 10 Minutes)
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Linda Giles’ installation at Xchanges Gallery in 1998 serves as a set as Susy dances an impromptu piece of choreography. Shot on Hi-8. Black hands of the master printer dare not soil the bride’s wardrobe.
Slippage
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Mutt and Jeff rubber stamps, 35mm motion picture, scratch-on-film and Felix the Cat are all combined in a hodge-podge tribute to the letter U.
U-Champs
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Described as “the jauntiest meat-is-murder movie ever made” and “irrational,” “Deadpan” deals with dinner-table angst from the fifties. Laughter is forbidden. Anxiety reigns. Cow tongue is served. What to do? Awards: Funniest Film, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2002; Jutra Nominee, Best Animation, 2001
Deadpan
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One-minute of found footage of Mutt and Jeff from 1926 is literally reconstructed via paper prints from photocopies and pen and ink drawings. “Crazy, nifty, funky, fun…” – Michael Hope, Programmer, Cinecenta
Geometry of Beware
