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  • Release

    There’s a Spirit that moves you. To do something you wouldn’t otherwise do. To go somewhere without telling anyone. To be somebody else.

    Release

  • Talk Salo

    When Spencer urges his unsuspecting friend, Aaron, to watch “Salo”, Pasolini’s profoundly disturbing 1975 film, the horrifying experience rips into Aaron’s sense of security and morality. Confused, betrayed, and disgusted, Aaron asks of his friend, “Why did you show that to me?” But Spencer’s motives are much too complex for words.

    Talk Salo

  • Cherries in the Snow (an Ode to Joan Nestle)

    An ode to Joan Nestle and all the other fabulous femmes who came before me.

    Cherries in the Snow (an Ode to Joan Nestle)

  • Dress Code

    A humorous look at the stick-girl on the sign of a ladies’ bathroom door.

    Dress Code

  • Burning

    A multiplicity of diverse images – cut together rhythmically flicker with energy fire, light, life. “Your life is like a candle. Whether you are aware of it or not, it is burning.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

    Burning

  • How Beatrice Came Clean

    “How Beatrice Came Clean” is an off-beat urban fairy tale about Beatrice, a young woman who is living in Washington Square Park. One morning she follows the beautiful and self-assured Joanne to a nearby laundry. This leads her on a journey that touches on the themes of redemption, love, and the trials and tribulations of household cleaning products.

    How Beatrice Came Clean

  • Bear Girl: Dog Boy

    Animal folklore is portrayed through cut-out animation in order to paint the complexities of surviving as a sexual being in the Twenty First Century.

    Bear Girl: Dog Boy

  • Canadian Pacific

    Vancouver harbour, with its railyards, mountains and passing ships, is a vista in fluid transformation as three winter months are reviewed in ten minutes. What interested me about the shot were the horizontals: train tracks, the water, the mountains, the sky. In the way those four elements would change. (DR) Can be projected alone or in double-screen format with Canadian Pacific II.

    Canadian Pacific

  • Maids

    bridesmaid/ 1. a girl or a woman attending a bride on her wedding day. 2. N. American, a person or group that never attains a desired goal/.

    Maids

  • Ultraworld, The

    An organic trance-like experimental film. Natural landscape transformed into moving abstract paintings. Multi-layered traveling mattes and kaleidoscopic trance-inducing colours. All the images for this film were shot outside in the summer and then treated with optical printing. Music by EAR and The Spiritualized.

    Ultraworld, The