The memory of a nearly perfect evening. (RBE)
Filter Films
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“The Tower” is a short animated film reminding people why they speak in different languages. It will provoke discussions concerning language rights and raises the question of whether or not two people who speak two different languages can get along peacefully.
Tower, The
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The film presents a field of sunflowers. The focus is adjusted frame-by-frame in succession according to a series of patterns on particular plants situated in different parts of the field. The diverse configurations placed on separate frames of the filmstrip appear, when projected successively, simultaneously on the screen. Thus, filmed one after another at different focal lengths, the sunflowers combine during projection to form one spatio-temporal image.
Tournesols, Les
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Set in the polyester 70s, “Big Deal, So What” is a deceptively simple look at the social dislocation of Rachel – a skeptical teen whose discontent sets the story in motion. Rachel leaves home and endures a number of subtle miscues, mild mishaps, and astrological misfortunes. Much to her chagrin, it is an unexpected gesture of goodwill from mother to daughter that brings her to the threshold of post-suburban independence. This is a playfully poignant film about what life is not supposed to be like.
Big Deal, So What
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“Les Tournesols Colores” is a differently timed and coloured version of “Les Tournesols”.
Tournesols Colores, Les
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As many people know, a “banana” is slang for an acculturated Asian who is yellow on the outside but white on the inside. “Tough Bananas” is a film by Chinese Canadian director, Keith Lock, from a nihilistic script written by Andy Xu. The story is about the friendship between two fourteen-year-old boys that comes into existence and blossoms, but is ultimately destroyed by betrayal. Bob Lin and Ted Wang meet in their schoolyard on a fateful day when Bob is bullied by bigger boys. It is Ted who heroically comes to his rescue, and after that Bob and Ted become close friends. Together they share a string of goofy, dead end misadventures. The boys’ world is a goldfish bowl with a descending food chain and Bob and Ted are unabashed bottom feeders. In “Tough Bananas” power and might rule and parents are not exxempt from the lessons of a hard brutality. “Unlikely misfits bond together and stand up to the bad guys. They get cool hats. Then due to uptight parents, one betrays the other and joins the bad guys. Can a kid that dumps his Asian bro go the distance alone?” – Andres Sun, Reel Asian International Film Festival
Tough Bananas
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“Touched” utilizes studio, verité and animation techniques. The bulk of the film was shot in Brockville in March, 1970, at a junior grade school. It attempts to show the reactions and relationships of children in an environment that encourages creativity.
Touched
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A cine-dance interpretation of the ballet “Totem,” made in collaboration with Alwin Nikolais and the Alwin Nikolais Dance Company.
Totem
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“One aspect of the film’s ambition is perhaps to extend the metaphor of film-as-music from the familiar brief lyric…into the equivalent of a feature-length movie, or saga, the subject of which is a family maturing and dividing.” – A.L. Rees, British Film Institute While ill and experiencing some difficulty in completing the editing of this film, Brakhage was reading the Marguerite Young novel, “Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.” Coming upon the following passage in her book, he found renewed energy to continue and complete the work: “Why should she give birth, though she had worked in a pottery, to an urn, to a stone angel, to the face of a cracked sundial? Why should she be, she screamed, this common clay, this tortured dust?” From “Miss MacIntosh, My Darling” by Marguerite Young… to whom this film is gratefully dedicated.
Tortured Dust Part lV
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“One aspect of the film’s ambition is perhaps to extend the metaphor of film-as-music from the familiar brief lyric…into the equivalent of a feature-length movie, or saga, the subject of which is a family maturing and dividing.” – A.L. Rees, British Film Institute While ill and experiencing some difficulty in completing the editing of this film, Brakhage was reading the Marguerite Young novel, “Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.” Coming upon the following passage in her book, he found renewed energy to continue and complete the work: “Why should she give birth, though she had worked in a pottery, to an urn, to a stone angel, to the face of a cracked sundial? Why should she be, she screamed, this common clay, this tortured dust?” From “Miss MacIntosh, My Darling” by Marguerite Young… to whom this film is gratefully dedicated.
Tortured Dust Part lll
