“Codes of Conduct” playfully upends the moral order by which man has historically seen fit to measure so-called “correct” behaviour. By ironically re-positioning the rules, Rimmer uncovers their arbitrariness.
Filter Films
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A rare document of amateur sound poet and “stunter” extraordinaire, Allan MacKay, exploiting the greatest name in music – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-1799). In this extemporary performance piece, camera and actor develop a tight rapport like two instruments in a jazz band. Nothing is rehearsed except the finale, itself discovered by accident. The narrative structure of the piece establishes a subversive dialetic as bizarre as the filmmaker’s own piano punk-tuations, added later. “Quite interesting – quite interesting indeed.” – Allan McFee, Eclectic Circus, CBC 1979
Zum Ditter
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This little-known Blank gem is a portrait of the Serbian-American communities of Chicago and California, highlighting their history in this country, their music, dancing and religion.
Ziveli: Medicine for the Heart!
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Les Blank marries his passion for spicy, down home food and his love for Cajuns and Creoles in this mouth-watering, exploration of the cooking and other enthusiasms of French-speaking Louisiana. Features tangy music, Marc Savoy, Paul Prudhomme, and other great cooks.
Yum Yum Yum!
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I was concerned with the ways we construct stories to order our experiences and memories. Experience and memory are ongoing processes, without boundaries. However, we edit and organize on narrative principles in order to share our history and to make events meaningful to us. The central character reads his version of incidents that he may have witnessed as a mineworker in Northern Canada. A series of snapshots re-tells the stories in a less personal, more oblique fashion. The stories appear to have connections to personal experience and each appears to confirm the truth of the other. Yet they also comprise fictions fabricated oral and photographic histories. (AB)
Yukon Postcards
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A found narrative (an overheard telephone conversation) is juxtaposed with diverse images culled from the filmmaker’s own life and work. A personal essay on the relations between “raw” or unmediated experience, and experience organized through telling and through making images. Best seen in conjunction with “Diminished,” which is also about art (imperfectly) containing experience.
Your Daughter Is Sleeping
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This film reflects the filmmaker’s ambivalent feelings towards the new age of digital technology. As many as twenty picture elements per frame are composited by conventional and digital means. The resulting visual cacophony suggests a state of information overload. “It’s not faint praise to call Kneller’s six-minute feast of optical effects eye-candy of the most luscious order. ‘You Take the High Road’ launches on an excursion through various image banks from nature to techno-frenzy…” – Cameron Bailey, Top 10 of 1995, NOW Magazine
You Take the High Road
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“Fleming’s perilous travelogue recites, in first person voice-over, a tale of two cities. The first is Bridiski, where the patent sexism of her surround leads her to seek refuge in the hotel room of her unscrupulous tour guide. The second moves closer to home – where the simplest of street crossings becomes a nightmare journey of dark collisions, broken bones and ambulance drives.” – Mike Hoolboom
You Take Care Now
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“You Could Save a Life” is designed to create greater public awareness about water safety in unsupervised swimming areas. By presenting a short story in dramatic form, “You Could Save a Life” offers a new approach to water safety regulations and life-saving procedures.
You Could Save a Life
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“You Are Not Alone” is a detective story about the search for a missing person, told mostly from the point of view of the missing person. It’s also about homesickness. The missing person, named Price, has absconded with a lot of money and fled somewhere warmer. His wife hires a detective to find him. Continually on the move, Price gives a lift to a drifter named Robin after she’s left at a truck stop. The clues he sends back such as tape recordings and photographs as if he actually wanted to be found, draw investigator Politzer, who say he’s never been south of Niagara Falls, to follow his path. The trail leads through the deserts of the American Southwest, the vast spaces of Texas, the sweltering South, the commemorative walls of Graceland and the Viet Nam Veteran’s Memorial in Washington, D.C. and ultimately, home.
You Are Not Alone
