At a Toronto vigil to commemorate the life of slain Wyoming student, Matthew Sheppard, a gay man reflects on his own tragic experience.
Filter Films
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A comparison of a day in the life of two different musical artists who both appear on the same street at the same time.
Street Musicians & LL Cool J
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This film was partly shot in Kinemacolor, a process which was used in 1915 to obtain fairly illusionistic colors from black and white films by filming and projecting them through synchronized red and green filters.
Surface Tension #2
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“Miracle Grow” is a personal piece with elements of a home movie. Originally shot in Mini DV, edited and transferred to film without leaving the digital realm, the film is an inventory of a growing baby as he struggles to gain mastery of his limbs. As the father, the filmmaker attempts to insert himself within this well-worn and taboo subject and redefine it. As in his other works, the images are composed and structured to lead us within other realms of thought. With Etienne Z. Grenier and Mary Zebell.
Miracle Grow
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Peripheral envisionment of daily life as the mind has it – i.e. a terrifying ecstasy of (hand-painted) synapting nerve ends back-firing from thought’s grip of life. Music by Rick Corrigan.
Boulder Blues and Pearls and…
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A portrait of an intimate friend of the artist – Susan Weisser – and her relationships with her 13-year-old son Billy, and 17-year-old daughter, Amanda. The author asked them to reconstruct their daily rituals. The results were enactments, accounts, confidences and arguments that freely crisscross each other with the dynamic created by the presence of the video artist and his “unobtrusive” Hi-8 camera. Surprising events ensue within evocative framings of sounds and images, and the enchanted constructions from the fanciful revelations of the everyday. Part of the TALKING PORTRAITS series. Second prize, Black Maria Film & Video Festival, 1996
Feet
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This film is a collage of distant worlds, lost and not yet learned; memories and functions as playful instincts. An Alzheimer-afflicted woman’s distant reactions are intercut with the mischievious antics of a four-year-old looking into, scratching and feeding the screen. With Betty Ostrov, Susan Weisser and Brendan Murphy.
Brendan’s Cracker
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Canada’s king of visual alchemy teams up with France’s mistress of minimalism to fashion a photo-based work of cinematic abstraction. Tactile and textured, luscious and luminescent, “Two Pictures” is a singular statement embodying a powerful dichotomy. This is a film that is simultaneously about nothing and about everything.
Two Pictures
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This is the shocking short coming-out film made by Harmsen and Woodbury for the 1999 SPLICE THIS! Super 8 film festival. It involves grown men shuffling up an electrical charge on an acrylic carpet and says more about being a homo than we would normally care to admit.
Electrical Discharge
