Life crafts her creations with love and with care. When Death repeatedly takes those creations away, Life becomes upset and asks Death to leave, only to find that without Death, she has no way of continuing to create…
Filter Films
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In Toronto’s Nordheimer Ravine, an environment of thick brush and dead wood flattens into fields of colour. Its paths lead to Winston Churchill Park, where the entrance to a city reservoir overlooks a green vale.
Ravine
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Stamens and pistils are lit in rapid succession behind the dome of the Palm House at Allan Gardens in Toronto. The plants trade colour, making alien scenes in the conservatory. Solid forms, too near to the eye, become muddied and indistinct, in constant passage, but the dome and the grid are fixed.
Conservatory
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The thistle, shamrock, rose entwined, a vision in the longhouse, a dream in the wilderness.
Dominion
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A collaboration between composer Rick Corrigan and Stan Brakhage, featuring Joel Haertling as Faust, Gretchen LeMaistre as Gretchen, Phillip Hathaway as Faust’s friend, and Paul Lundahl as Servant. This is the realization of a 30-year-old dream (grant applications and fragments of script from the 1950s published in Brakhage’s “Metaphors on Vision”), a wish of the young filmmaker to film a “modern” Faust (quite opposite of the traditional Fausts) which finally came to a fulfillment as unpredictable and as absolute as, say, three decades of living experience.
Faust Film: An Opera: Part 1
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Encores live yet / Slice every note, each notice sincere in secret / Lovers covet eyeliner to recite in vein or vesicle / Clever noise, silence or else.
Hang Twelve
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Gabey and Mike: A Jewish Summer Camp Love Story takes its name from a song by Mermaid Café – a folk band comprised of Andi D., Joe A. Rider and Merrill Nisker (now known as ‘Peaches’) that gained popularity at Canadian Jewish summer camps in the early 90s. The video juxtaposes the tale of the band with playful re-creations of the story of Gabey and Mike, in a queer re-staging of the classic summer camp movie. Gabey and Mike uses the tropes of this genre alongside references from iconic queer films in order to grasp the significance of this band within the peculiar space of the Jewish summer camp.
Gabey and Mike: A Jewish Summer Camp Love Story
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A look at the popular children’s novelty snack (celery, Cheeze Whiz, raisins) as it is swarmed by real ants on an actual log. The piece aims to stimulate discourse on human objectification of nature and ecological hierarchy. Though humans may be able to create triumphant scientific accomplishments like Cheez Whiz, the ants’ ability to organize and colonize will long out live that of the humanity. This film can be screened also be screened as 16mm loop.
Ants on a Log
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Shot on June 26, 2015, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling on marriage equality, this documentary combines President Barack Obama’s speech about the ruling with video of the reaction in San Francisco. This short films draws the line between the struggles for civil rights and LGBTQ rights.
Equal Justice Under Law
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Exploration of memory and diversity across gender, ethnic, sexuality and socio-economic boundaries as the hero Rose reflects on the many faces she has encountered, seducing, influencing, informing and challenging her perspective, now faded and blended over time, distance, and recreational drug usage.
(I Know Your) Face
