A beautiful cameraless film based on the text and structure of a haiku, “breath” explores the interplay between sound, image and written word. The soundtrack is created by an optical light reading of three haikus and one short poem, all written by ninth-century Japanese poetesses. The film’s structure is based on the five-seven-five syllabic composition of a typical haiku.
Filter Films
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Jimmy has sandy hair, velvety brown eyes, and needle marks that freckle the baby smooth skin of this thin arms. Jimmy is twelve years old… and a heroin addict.
Jimmy
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WAVELENGTH For Those Who Don’t Have the Time: Originally 45 minutes, now 15! Michael Snow’s film “Wavelength” has been acclaimed as a classic of Avant Garde filmmaking since its appearance in 1967. In February 2003, Snow created a new work consisting of simultaneities rather than the sequential progressions of the original work. WVLNT is composed of three unaltered superimpositions of sound and picture.
WVLNT (Wavelength for Those Who Don’t Have the Time)
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A classic tale of impossible love. An angel and a monster fall in love, but their union is prohibited because they are from different worlds. Created in 24P High-Definition video, “In Sin” is quite possibly the world’s first High-Def stop-motion animation.
In Sin
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With a soundtrack of Gregorian chant, the beauty of crucifixes is, through optical printing, made even more sparkling, glowing, and other-worldly.
Chants
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A comic short about love and illness. Shot on shimmering black-and-white stock, MISORDER DISORDER follows one man’s bizarre morning bathroom routine and his hesitant female love interest.
MISORDER DISORDER
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Part two of the artist’s trilogy exploring the depiction of sexuality in teen films of the 1980s, in which a scene from “Valley Girl” is re-worked.
Does this mean we’re going together?
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A highly personal film, focusing on a young man’s struggle to cope with the feelings that arise upon learning of the death of a friend.
Chameleon
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A quiet moment with the plants. A home-grown film: shot in my garden, processed in my basement, and dried on the lawn. (LF) Selected screenings: Anthology Film Archives, New York, 2007; Images Festival, Toronto, ON, 2004; Pleasure Dome New Toronto Works, Toronto, ON, 2004; “Textured Traces,” Foreman Art Gallery, Montreal, QC, 2005; Best of the LIFT $99 Film Festival Tour, various locations, 2005
In the Garden
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Using a piece of 1970’s porn film, nail polish and bleach, the filmmaker has created a new pornography, one in which the woman exists only as a hole – an empty, animated space.
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