Raved by some to be a “tour de force” of editing, “Ever Last” is a short film about a boxer who matches his wits against a punching bag.
Filter Films
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Epilogue: a section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened. A trip to bury my grandmother’s ashes results in an unearthing of things long obscured by time. Imbued with unanswered questions from the Lion series, Epilogue continues the biographical inquiry of The Weight of Snow and chronicles the aftermath of a dying matriarch and a family navigating cohesion.
Epilogue
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Dante’s fantasy of hell, and his yearning after the Epic Poetry form of Virgil, the Latin poet and the magnificent illustrations of Gustav Dore (the actual inspiration for the film). Presented on each of the 76 illustrated first edition plates, a fast-moving condensed version of Inferno takes place, with a voice speaking the appropriate lines of Dante, according to the Lawrence Grant White English translation.
Inferno
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“Toward the insignificant” was the oblique strategy card that inspired this VHS collaboration. Beginning with representational images of a local landmark, the image gradually decays until it is replaced completely with abstraction. Two VHS decks were joined together and plugged into one side of a handmade DIY video mixer, while the other input of the mixer was connected to a VHS camera running a feedback loop. The starting image running on the loop was a static image of a telecommunications tower in the centre of Moncton which in recent years, has become almost useless, standing alone in the middle of this otherwise flat city. Using the home made video switcher, we switched between the inputs of the looping image and the raw feedback until the tower disappeared entirely into the abstract non representational imagery of the feedback. Just as the image was built by performing with analogue VHS decks, the sound track was made using analogue synthesizers.
HiFi Normal
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The filmic equivalent of a comic strip, this is the old “Boy Meets Girl” story told in a novel way. His dead-pan voice-over contrasts with her “word balloons,” and with the images on screen. A witty depiction of the inevitable demise of a relationship.
Evelyn, Be My Valentine
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Move depicts the surreal dream life of a young comatose man, and how it attempts to guide him to consciousness. Although he seems to be disconnected from life, his interior self echoes symbols of caring from the outer conscious world. Even after he appears to awaken, his imagination presents more ambiguity.
Move
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The film’s original inspiration was Ward’s Pond, a small kettle hole in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.Touching off from the natural energies of this constricted urban green space, the film underwent destructive physical processes involving bleach and boiling. The resulting debris of emulsion fluctuate between representational image and the physical presence of the film strip, whose battered surface, nevertheless, continues to evoke the natural decay endlessly taking place on the pond’s shores.
Rewards
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A profound observation of nature’s forms and rhythms captured through the negative image on Super 8mm film reversal.
Negative Nature
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Motion recalls a Kerouac-like adventure. A protagonist out to find love while coming to grips with the male ego as seen through a voyeuristic perspective. Functioning on the fringes of reality as perspectives shift and contort around the filmmaker, who finds solace, a woman, and religion on the journey as well as the feeling that life is fleeting.
Motion
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“She rose out of chaos and coupled with the Serpent to make the Universal Egg. Thence came all things.” – Greek myth An exceptional portrayal of the world’s creation, from a barren landscape to the emergence of the Woman and the Serpent, ending with Society as we know it. The film is technically unsurpassed in plasticine animation.
Eurynome
