Using photo-booth animation, two girls try to put together a patchy faith.
Filter Films
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“Gap-Toothed Women” features Lauren Hutton, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Chaucer’s wife of Bath, and many other women who have a space between their two front teeth. The film explores the self-image of women and the pressures they feel to conform to the ideals of mass media. It also reveals many unique and fascinating individuals who happen to be both women and gap-toothed. Film critic Roger Ebert considers this to be one of Les Blank’s best films. “In thirty minutes of interviews, art work, folklore and song, Blank tranforms the issues of gapped teeth into an exploration of how we deal with the way we look and, ultimately, how we deal with life. It’s perfect!” – LA Weekly
Gap-Toothed Women
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A painful but enlightening film on the controversial subject of mental illness – or more particularly, the myth of mental illness. It is a frightening piece of work in that it asks us to assume responsibility for ourselves, our actions. How, after listening to Dr. Thomas Szasz, can we blame someone else anymore? Equally frightening is the realization that mental illness could touch our lives, not just someone else’s. Without attempting to give an answer, “Full Moon Darkness” raises many valid questions – questions we should ask ourselves at least once.
Full Moon Darkness
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The daylight shadow of a man in its movement evokes lights in the night. A rose bowl held in hand reflects both sun and moon-like illumination. The opening of a doorway onto trees anticipates the twilight into the night. A child is born on the lawn, born of water with its promissory rainbow, and the wild rose. It becomes the moon and the source of all light. Lights of the night become young children playing a circular game. The moon moves over a pillared temple to which all lights return. There is seen the sleep of innocents in their animal dreams, becoming the amusement, their circular game, becoming the morning. The trees change colour and lose their leaves for the morn, they become the complexity of branches in which the shadow man hangs himself.
Anticipation of the Night
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Mixing fact and fiction, this film tells the story of Dr. F.R. Wake and his bizarre creation, which became known as “the fruit machine.” In the 1960s, Wake was hired by the Canadian government to devise a series of tests that would expose homosexuals working in the civil service. This modern retelling reveals that Wake may have had a few secrets of his own.
fruit machine
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Made on a sunny afternoon. A last stand of burning light. Shot in 1985, released in 1990 with a soundtrack by Kaiser Nietzsche (John Kamevaar, Thomas Handy), new soundtrack and title in 2016.
Sugar Maple Stand
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A film about a girl who won’t get out of the front seat of a car. Okay, but is there, like a message? Who cares? Move over.
Front Seat
