A thinking man’s look at the supremo diva, Barbara Striesand. Is she still relevant? Is she still necessary? Has it all been worth it?
Filter Films
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In this coming-of-age tale, Rory is a typical high school student – he runs track, smokes up, and has a lousy after-school job. His career so far consists of delivering chicken to suburbanites. But on a delivery like any other, Rory meets Pete, a middle-aged man in the midst of a breakdown, and Rory is drawn into a friendship with him. Their platonic friendship proves to be a catalyst: Rory’s sexuality forces him to reconsider his small world, as his curiosity propels him to take a risk. This film explores the challenging, heady and painful process of a teen’s understanding of the very core of his being – his own sexuality.
Take-Out
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Live action and animation with biting commentary on the religion of rampant consumerism.
Born to Shop (L’Age d’mall)
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These works represent various ideas expressed through animation. Because the works were done specifically for the web, which demands small digital files, the animations have a fascinating web-specific character that reproduces in a unique fashion in video.
Flash Works from My Web Site
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A painfully funny, painfully realistic enactment of one of the most bizarre social customs ever to have evolved as the “most wonderful day” in any girl’s life. Surely nobody seeing this film can ever attend a bridal shower again. Or maybe the custom will have a glorious revival based solely on its strength.
Bridal Shower, The
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“You Are Watching: A Film on Brecht” is an experimental, documentary-style animation that explores the life and ideas of the German playwright Bertolt Brecht in both a historical and contemporary context. This film/video was shot on Super 8mm film and finished on video.
You Are Watching: A Film on Brecht
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The first time using outdated 20-year film stock. The first roll I was to process by hand. It was an election year … winter time in Vancouver … sitting in my kitchen … I don’t remember the sun coming out again until March. (John Price)
Outlet
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Seething grain and swirling textures of Super 8 processed in a pail. Film as memory … an elaborate reconstruction perpetually shifting through the course of time. And so is this … a personal recollection of the intensity of what it may have been like to be a child. “Carefully composed as both a gentle and highly critical portrait of the filmmaker’s relationship with his father, this beautifully hand-processed film manages to offer a balanced study heavy with the weight of family history and family ties.” – Alex Mackenzie
View Never Changes, The
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Two films in one. Wreck: “I passed the wreck not long after crossing into Saskatchewan. Day 3, alone, driving west towards Vancouver. On the other side of the highway, a twisted mess of iron and steel. Rail cars like beached whales strewn arbitrarily in heaps rupturing the perspective symmetry of the endless prairie. At once an allusion to the fallibility of industrialization and modernity. I felt after it had flashed past the windscreen, that there were significations here that reached far deeper than this immediate literal interpretation. Half an hour after I had watched the image recede completely into the eastern horizon through my side view mirror, the memory of this apocalyptic tableaux – its darkly poetic irony – would compel me to turn back.” Nation: A roll of film shot in Montreal at the 1995 rally against the secession of Quebec became the raw material for a candy coloured hand-processed meditation on the idea of “Nation.”
Wreck / Nation
