A man comes out of an elevator and descends into an abyss of striking visuals – including a spectrum of endless tables and chairs, an abandoned snowcapped car and a phone booth – before getting lost in a hazy cemetery.
Filter Films
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A bird’s-eye view of this Budapest street, complete with a small grocer, a pastry shop, and colourful characters on a car arguing over a green screwdriver.
Rozsa Utca and Rozsa Utca 2
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A cyclical journey on foot, bicycle, and car with a tunnel of darkness and a majestic celebration of light through natural elements and spectacular landscapes.
Soleil, Le
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Hassan, a funeral poet, is going through writer’s block. Sitting at his desk in a small cramped room with his girlfriend lying on a mattress he leaves for some “air” – instead he drifts and deviates into much more, including an endless procession of chewing gum, a rotund Hungarian “delivery man” and a sexy Russian woman. Hassan’s journey has a metaphysical aspect to it and life in this surreal world is focused on the strange work, anxiety and humour that hovers over death.
Dead Body
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“Pustulations” is a short animated film using the painting-on-glass technique. It is about one woman’s compulsion to pick at her skin and the purulent, pustular world beneath it. Awards: National Film Board of Canada Award for Best Emerging Canadian Film or Video Maker, Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, ON, 2004 Also available on FEM CRIT.
Pustulations
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An interview and a debate over what makes the man a bear and why he would resist belonging to a group of big hairy men.
No Soy un Oso (I Am Not a Bear)
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“Slice of Primal Pie” takes on the challenge of capturing the excitement and spirituality of the percussion group Primal Rhythm in film. Using mixed mediums (Super 8mm, 16mm, animated 35mm stills, colour, b&w, infrared) the images were first shot and edited, then Primal Rhythm composed live to them in the recording studio. As a result this “visual rhythm film” has a very organic feel, as opposed to the traditional slick approach to music videos. “Slice of Primal Pie” is as much about the universal appeal of their music as it is about these self-proclaimed “urban primates.”
Slice of Primal Pie
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Based on autobiographical writings, “Beat Truths: A Portrait of Graeme Kirkland” is a 3-minute film that aims to capture the dynamics of the artist’s street performance. It is a marriage of spoken word, street samples and drumming to cinema verite-style filming, creating a collage of sound and vision which builds to a cacophony that captures the essence and honesty of the artist and his art. Never subtle nor sugar-coated, and always in your face.
Beat Truths: A Portrait of Graeme Kirkland
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Follow Tyler, an incredibly well-dressed beacon of young queerness, through the midwestern mall where she works. She tries to sort out her future while surrounded by dancing girls, beauty queen children, and constant consuming.
Malled
