In vivid colour, the metamorphosis from larva to butterfly to collector’s jar. The beauty of the butterfly bursts from the cocoon as an atom bomb, only to be netted and bottled. The living beauty can only become illusory when bottled.
Filter Films
-
An animated film using single-frame manipulation techniques to describe the imaginary life cycle of a pair of scissors, in a vaguely submarine backdrop of strange plants and ball-like creatures bounding around the landscape. Scissors like to eat these balls, but occasionally they form an aggregate monster that likes to eat scissors.
Scissors
-
A narrative formed from a young man’s unfiltered perception of a fragmented environment following his release from a psychiatric clinic. The film concentrates on his perception of three individuals – a drug addict, a scientist, and a young mother. The film is a study of the order in confusion, forcing the viewer to construct and decipher the inter-relatedness of the strands that constitute the story.
Scissere
-
“The Scientific Girl” explores the “outbreak” of 1940’s Hollywood films featuring mentally ill heroines – Olivia de Havilland in “The Snake Pit,” for example. By tracing the treatment of hysterical women in the 1890s, our heroine, the Scientific Girl, reveals how women’s problems have been stereotyped and how the “evil-seductress effect” works. “An intelligent attempt to span generations and cinematically tie together the treatment of hysteria in women as a form of entertainment…an intriguing subject.” – Cinema Canada
Scientific Girl, The
-
A bad movie about a bad school girl. The kind of spanking-fetish film Disney would have made.
School
-
A visualization of the inner world of fetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child – a shattering of the “myths of childhood” through revelation of the extremes of violent terror and overwhelming joy of that world darkened to most adults by their sentimental remembering of it… a “tone poem” for the eye – very inspired by the music of Olivier Messiaen. (SB) (A continuation of “Scenes from Under Childhood #3.”)
Scenes from Under Childhood #4
-
A visualization of the inner world of fetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child – a shattering of the “myths of childhood” through revelation of the extremes of violent terror and overwhelming joy of that world darkened to most adults by their sentimental remembering of it… a “tone poem” for the eye – very inspired by the music of Olivier Messiaen. (SB) (A continuation of “Scenes from Under Childhood #2.”)
Scenes from Under Childhood #3
-
A visualization of the inner world of fetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child – a shattering of the “myths of childhood” through revelation of the extremes of violent terror and overwhelming joy of that world darkened to most adults by their sentimental remembering of it… a “tone poem” for the eye – very inspired by the music of Olivier Messiaen. (SB) (A continuation of “Scenes from Under Childhood #1.”)
Scenes from Under Childhood #2
