Sage hangs from a rear-view mirror to impart wisdom while a prayer for peace meets mysticism. All things that are left wild are better left untouched by the fingerprint of Man as he travels to a burning oasis in the desert only to find his vision cleansed as he looks further.
Filter Films
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Béton brut celebrates both the fine detail and monumental scale of London’s Brutalist structures.
Béton brut
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Have you ever watched the top of a tall building as clouds passed over it and felt it/you falling? The film opens with the random dots of a TV which swirl into more and more organized groups of coloured shapes. They settle into the solid-coloured vertical stripes of video “colour bars.” Tree branches seen from below revolve around the periphery of the frame. A golden-coloured stone appears and sits motionless in the revolving sky…
Eureka
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Cyclists race around a velodrome in circles. The images are layered and elide the figures moving in varying directions and at different speeds, giving an effect of movement that propels forward yet remains fixed all at once. “For when you’re running in circles you don’t get far.” — 60th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Steherrennen
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Aged is an experimental documentary about the relationship between aging and corporeal perception. From 2005 -2011, along with my sisters, I was a caregiver for my father, during his swift movement into old age. Over this period I maintained a practice of diaristic sketching using film, video and sound, and through this process I collected a significant archive of intimate moments, at the summer cottage, where my father chose to die. This raw material has been worked and reworked through various modes of digital and filmic manipulation. Ultimately Aged uncovers the common process of aging, the cinematic elements acting as a corollary for changes in human perception with a view to exceptional vision.
Aged
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This multi-framed work weaves several inter-connected threads of loss: of land and agriculture, of property and business, through political, social, economic and environmental slaughter. The materials in this archive are gleaned from public and personal sources such as the National Archive of Canada, in the story of a nineteenth century aboriginal woman and land rights activist Nahnebahwequay (1824-65) and more recently organic farmer Michael Schmidt, from excerpts of the Farmer’s Advocate and Family Herald publications 1958-1968, also a trip into the artist’s familial past, and the rise and fall of his family’s slaughterhouse and pork processing plant, Hoffman Meats (1951-81), in Kitchener, Ontario.
Slaughterhouse
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Combining footage from the final days of St. Marc’s Spa with interviews from Toronto artists Sky Gilbert, Keith Cole, Brad Fraser, Drasko Bogdanovic and Shane MacKinnon, The Reading Salon looks at one of Toronto’s longest running bathhouses through the lens of the artist.
Death Of A Bathhouse
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Behold, I show you a mystery. Not everyone shall sleep, but everyone shall be changed. (RBE)
Et Resurrectus Est.
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The story of the exquisite torture suffered by high school students on a daily basis. Our hero is both sullen and gay. He feels isolated and alienated but he is not alone – they’re all caught up in a big daisy chain of unrequited love and teen trauma.
Angst
