Two film strips illuminated by passages of water: one aboard a ferry crossing the English Channel at day, the other on the banks of the Seine river at night. The soundtrack is generated directly by the projector ‘reading’ the images shot in Super-16mm.
Filter Films
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Particles in space recorded during an afternoon on familiar waters. Quanta is an investigative record of patterns found in the observable Universe, as contained within the perceptions of a Bolex taken for an excursion in a rowboat. Special thanks to Ajla Odobasic.
Quanta
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Set in 1918 Ontario. Eulalie, a Quebecoise, marries a Toronto engineer but finds life with him oppressive. She falls in love with Tom, a painter who is an acquaintance of her husband’s and, with him, escapes briefly to Northern Ontario before they are hunted down by her jealous husband. “For something like two decades, Joyce Wieland – the Toronto painter, filmmaker, quiltmaker and lay ecologist – has been creating an individual sensibility and then displaying it, piece by piece, in the various art forms that have suited her purposes. In ‘The Far Shore’, her feature film, she articulates that sensibility in detail for the first time… ‘The Far Shore’ has energy, ambition, vision and a marvellously confident sense of itself.” – Marshall Delaney
Far Shore, The
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Jelena, a young woman from Serbia who has a Bachelor degree in Economics, has been in Canada for a year. Without Canadian experience she works through so called “survival jobs” making her feel homesick. Her mother, Rada, comforts her in long Internet Skype calls telling her that she can always come back. One day, while walking her dog, Rada has a stroke in the streets of Belgrade. When she wakes up in the emergency she finds out that she has lost her dog and that her health issues might be more serious. Hiding the truth of her illness and the lost dog from Jelena she continues searching for the dog.
Absence is Presence
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A campfire for warming eyes and sight, somewhat akin to TV static. Produced by accident and chance, all the images in this film are achieved via tactile impact, the soundtrack acoustically interpreting the same abrasions.
Hand-processing
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A record of textured surfaces and passing throughts on an uneventful Sunday spent in quiet contemplation at home, accompanied by the memories of defocused lights on a somnambullstic nighttime streetcar journey. Produced in collaboration with poet Goran Simic, commissioned by the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) for Poetry Projections II.
On Sundays
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Studies in motion, made red, black and blue by tone and tint. To be present in a landscape is to turn from vision to a menacing rhythm.
Landform 1
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The ruins of a nineteenth century farm in the brush off Moatfield Drive in Toronto – a stone shack without a roof and, not much further, a well, long since abandoned as a sewer. We made a quick inventory: splintering branches; stars and asterisks; coded tags.
Mills
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A color explosion sparkles, bubbles, and fractures in this hand-crafted 16mm film. Reeves utilized an array of mediums and direct-on-film techniques to create this boisterous, psychedelic morsel of cinema as material. Reeves’ soundtrack mixes samples from rusty, dusty old machines, records, and electric waves to create an aural passage through technological progress.
Color Neutral
