A camera is locked upon a dancers face, framed in a perpetual and intimate close-up. The film gives the viewer license to stare, to invest and spend time gazing at a face and we feel it in our bodies. This film was made with over 300 stills from a Holga Camera and 8 rolls of Super 8 film.
Filter Films
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A young woman, sicker than those who dare to eat the food at the all-night diner she’s perched in, catches a ghostly reflection of herself as a child. This inspires a topsy-turvy cataclysm, hermetically sealed within a huge wheel rolling through a movie studio.
Malody
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A man driven to the edge seeks refuge in a go-go bar while sleaze bags plot against him. He saves a girl he once knew from unspeakable perils.
Goin’ Ape
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A glamour girl is lost in a play while trying to identify herself sexually in a male dominant world.
Solstice Moon
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During a routine visit to his estranged Grandfather’s house, a young Boy accidentally destroys a gift with which his single-mother intended to win Grandfather back into her life. The Boy’s furtive effort to restore the object before his blunder is noticed, however, inadvertently inflicts a shift to an already complicated family dynamic.
Every Monday
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My Last Words takes a look at the process of writing a Last Will and Testament. The film experiments with this legal document and personalizes the process. Working in darkness the filmmaker wrote out his Last Will and Testament onto unexposed 35mm black and white film using a flashlight.
My Last Words
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A synthesis of visual, aural and kinetic elements that evolve from one state into another. Although no statement is made within its content, the film does follow a curve with a beginning, middle and end.
Entropiscape
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Point Venus is short meditation on the transitory and the departed. Vitally alive, but ethereal teenagers pass between us and a hillside cemetery. Tree limbs form an arch,framing the cemetery’s headstones. The screen is split into upper and lower views: positive and negative.The passersby move forward in one, while reversing in the other. The underworld crisscrosses with the upper.
Point Venus
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ars memorativa is an experimental documentary in four chapters that examines what is left behind when someone passes away and how memory traces emerge from the remaining artifacts and memories. the four people intersected with the directors life in a variety of ways and their stories are shared in a mix of forms: hand processed celluloid, digital animation, audio interview and home movies.
ars memorativa
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“Light Study” is a poetic examination of the wetlands, forests, and ecosystems of the Niagara Escarpment. Meticulously filmed over several seasons, it explores the unique landscape of the Bruce Trail using 16mm single frame photography. Here, nature presides over an ephemeral human element, its primordial essence both medium and agent of light’s eternal change. Soundtrack composed by Graham Stewart, member of the experimental music collective Viosac. Selected screenings & awards: Valle D’Itria Film Festival, Best Animation Award, North America (Italy, 2014); 3rd Delhi Shorts International Film Festival, Special Mention, Documentary (India, 2014); Summer Slam Film Festival, Jury Award, Best Documentary Short (Texas, USA, 2015); Nez International Film Festival, Best Experimental Short Critics Award (India, 2015); Jacksonville Documentary Film Festival (Florida, USA, 2017)
Light Study
