Peter R. Herring, an aspiring young photographer, decides going to school is probably the best thing for him to do with his life. At first Peter’s focus is simple, but he soon discovers a world having certain bureaucratic pitfalls which are inescapable. Opening a “Bad News” bill one morning, Peter discovers that the Bureau of Time-Management has declared him deliquent in his obligatory “Time-payments” and it has no choice but to “deduct time from his life.” Having time zapped away from him makes Peter late for everything. Being late causes disaster to stike, as he loses both his girlfriend and portfolio in advance of his deadline. Ironically the idea of time becomes one of the main pictorial themes characterizing his photography.
Filter Films
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The year is 1968 and Joaquim and Amalia Quinteiro are just your average young new immigrant couple, drawing blood over money matters and overdosing on culture shock. Into their nest of perfect domestic bliss flies the ever popular, handsome young university student border, Joao. Amalia gets a job and Joaquim’s already flagging machismo shoots off the exit ramp. Perhaps only Joao’s devilish derriere can buttress this poor male ego. A love triangle of unusual proportions, “Porcaria” demonstrates a total lack of resistence to new world charms that has the fish jumping off the walls.
Porcaria
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Selected for the 11th Paris Biennale of Modern Art and included in the collection of numerous museums and universities, “The Politics of Perception” is a film essay concerned with the language of the film medium. At its point of departure, it is a meditation on the images, sounds, rhythm and sub-text of the “entertainment” film. A Hollywood discourse is stripped of its fleshly covering to reveal the mechanics of its manipulations, at the same time liberating the kinematic and photochemical energies “trapped” in its representational content/form. At its apogee it is an invocation of the forms and textures of film perception – perhaps best described as a photo/film history in reverse. “Following an introduction which establishes the social context of the film, ‘The Politics of Perception’ presents a one-minute promotional film advertising a popular Hollywood thriller. This section then repeats itself: a print is generated from the one-minute segment, then a print from the print, and so on as the image and sound slowly disintegrate with each new cycle, until the visual and sound information have completely evolved to white light and white noise. The most original film from the Northwest area. ‘The Politics of Perception’ explores conceptually the paradoxes of communication and the very nature of film itself, progressing from movie reality to its utter abstraction. A maddeningly stimulating work!” – James Broughton, Juror, Bellevue Film Festival
Politics of Perception, The
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An ecstatic, kinetic formal study of light, colour, and movement shot in the region of the Montreal River which so inspired members of the Group of Seven.
Plein Air Etude
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Music as sensuous and longing as a fragrance. Phrases that rise and fall slowly at first, then more and more passionately. A love poem. And also a study of the relation between film phrases and musical phrases. As in the music, the film uses only fades and dissolves between statements. Based on Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings.”
Adagio
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“In ‘(ab)NORMAL’ the relationship spectrum, from paranoid avoidance to smothering and overwhelming attention, is traced through four pixilated sketches.” – Toronto International Film Festival
(ab) NORMAL
