A look at the director’s fascination with gay men’s hair histories.
Filter Films
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Busy. Got to keep busy. Busy is good, not busy is bad. So we play at a new triathlon: bowling, cricket and tai chi – a veritable ironman or woman’s dream.
Brand New Triathlon, The
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A one-minute animation treat that celebrates the art of sound poetry as Christian Bök recites words from Hugo Ball, one of the leading pioneers of phonetic poetry.
Sea Horses and Flying Fish
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A film-poem by a man who attempts to understand and express some of the concerns of women in the early ’70s: woman with woman, woman alone, woman as mother, woman as scientist, woman as dancer. An impressionistic documentary, using pixillation, superimposition, interview and dance-film techniques.
Choice Chance Women Dance
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A hand-processed recipe for a fountain of youth. Comprised of one continuous slow-motion shot, “July’s Wet Dreams” reveals several silhouetted figures amidst a fountain’s watery spray. The hand-processed Super 8 material was manipulated using a variety of coloured toners and application techniques to accentuate the liquid tactility of the image. An evocative portrait of a summer’s day. Honourable Mention for Best Experimental Short, Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival, 2005
July’s Wet Dreams
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Affectionate bunnies romp through the seasons, displaying the cycles of lesbian desire.
Nesting Season
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A fine, if undefined, romance – told with lots of kissing, vivid colours and Ella on the soundtrack.
Fine Romance (In Three Parts), A
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“Chronic” explores the idea of body as machine. It is inspired by the work of Etienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge, who studied motion with photography before the advent of motion picture cameras. Copied on a photocopier, the images in the film have a high contrast, low-res look that refers to the developing technologies used by these photographic pioneers.
Chronic
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A “television documentary” which researches the Chinese communities in rural Saskatchewan by tracing the popularity of Chinese cafés. Using archival photographs, the video presents the experiences of Chinese immigrants from the turn-of the-century to the present.
Chinese Cafés in Rural Saskatchewan
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A campy combo of live action and animation, “The Amazing Amazons” follows a day in the life of a contemporary female super hero. Aimee is in the midst of a typical Amazon day – fighting censorship, taking out macho attitudes and exposing lies – when her fellow Amazon Amanda rattles her to the very foundation of her Amazon soul.
Amazing Amazons, The
