Jimy waits in a hotel room to seal a deal. His intentions are well meaning but we soon discover his judgment have left him in a state of fragility and danger. Jimy must now deal with his brother, who has been made aware of the deal, and his adult nephew who Jimy has helped raise since he was ten years old. As Jimy comes to terms with the consequences of the deal we see how the tension affects him and those closest to him. Feeling trapped in the city and intuiting the danger, Jimy leaves for a different yet familiar environment and, in doing so, discovers a fragile peace but is it too late? When disappearing is not an option.
Filter Films
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This short film takes a rather unconventional approach to the city symphony genre, which often depicts the rhythms of the city from morning to night and relies on the symphonic composition of shots that, like in musical symphony, build through various movements until their final conclusion. This Town of Toronto… extends its temporal dimension past the span of one day to 108 years, by including some of the earliest motion picture documentations of Toronto: the Great Fire of 1904 and the traffic scene on Bay Street, including horse-drawn fire trucks and firemen rushing to extinguish the fire, all captured by George Scott & Co.; various street scenes of Toronto from 1917 to 1935, documented by TTC (Toronto Transit Commission); the amusements during 1929-1930 at the Toronto’s Islands Hanlan’s Point, also obtained by TTC; and the Nathan Smith family home movies, which include various activities of its youngest family members and life in the city during 1931-32. By including this archival footage, which was captured by several filmmakers, helps introduce more than one perspective of the experience and the feel of this city, thereby conveying the spirit of city life as plural and ever changing. Finally, what this film continues-and hopefully furthers-in the tradition of city symphony films is the emphasis on rhythm and tone, and, more importantly, it adopts from music the technique of polyphony to its visual composition. This Town of Toronto… juxtaposes the past energies of the city with those of the present, and, in facilitating tension from this collision, it hopefully engenders deep resonance in the viewers.
This Town of Toronto…
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An ordinary rural landscape is transformed into an enigmatic dreamscape. A farmhouse stands in a copper field of scratched emulsion as solarized flares illuminate the sky. Split toned horses amble dreamlike across the frame into inky underexposed blackness. Copper thistles sway in the wind, looming and strangely monumental. The hand-processed 16mm imagery creates an elliptical inner world of memory and dreams. Filmed at the Independent Imaging Retreat in Mount Forest, Ontario. Atmospheric sound design by Edmund Eagan.
Crashing Skies
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Fresh Fruit explores the inner yearnings of a bored hostess, as she tastes a cornucopia of sweet and juicy offerings.
Fresh Fruit
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“El Nino” is a poetic experimental film about traveling. On a journey over land and sea, and in a dream on a journey of the soul, a young man suddenly sees the world through the eyes of a child. But as he comes to a crossroads, he sees there are two worlds. One floats in isolation on the sea. The other lies in ruins. And at the end of the day, the ship sails away as the burning suns sets on civilization. The climatic phenomenon, we know as El Nino, was originally named by a Peruvian fisherman in the 1890s when they began to notice how the appearance of an unusually warm countercurrent in the Pacific would dramatically affect weather conditions. Since the phenomenon would appear each year around Christmas time, they named it El Nino in reference to the Christ Child.
El Nino
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An optical illusion afterimage deconstructs geometrical solid’s structures and reveals its divine progressions. Dynamic symmetry interlaces self-reflective mirror images of the original icon and creates a hypnotic procedure leading to extreme consciousness and visual telepathy. The Symbolism of Kabbalah’s and Christian omnipotent God reveals itself as Buddhist or Taoist illusionary rotational mandalas or yantras emphasising Maya’s attributes where space-time is an illusionary phenomena and paradox is latent in every polarised assumption only culminating in Absolute absurdity ad aeternum… HyperLightness ad absurdum reveals the optical characteristics of hyperspace and hypertime in a supersymmetric continuum by means of an optical illusion which is formed by a spatial overlapping that seemingly occurs in nature’s manifold illusion. Several relative dimensional spaces seem to converge into successive fractions of one codimension visually evoked by the film’s frame rate format and the rotative torsion of the symbols.
HyperLightness ad absurdum
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A masked crochetist shows us his sudden immersion into crochet art. Spanish with English subtitles
Cuki Colorinchi Evolution
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“Howard” is a documentary about the filmmaker’s estranged Uncle Howard who was murdered in Yonkers in 1995. The film uncovers his complex and conflicted life as a gay man troubled with piety and self worth, which drove him to success, yet, ultimately led to self-destructive behavior and death. The story is intertwined with the filmmaker’s musings about the life/death of the Uncle she did not know in an attempt to comprehend what it means to have an estranged relative murdered.
Howard
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From Ross Lipman’s “personal ethnographies” series, an informal visit with legendary filmmaker Bruce Baillie at his home on Camano Island in Washington State. “From the lone transcendent biker riding the two-lane highway of nightmares in 1964’s Mass for the Dakota Sioux to 1970’s Quick Billy, Baillie blazed a path through nothing less than the American consciousness itself, closing the cycle with the Quixotic epigram “Ever Westward Eternal Rider!” As the admonishment warns, the journey continues, and endpoints are illusionary – only movement is of essence. –“Whither Bruce Baillie?”, Ross Lipman, 2010
Dr. Bish Remedies
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Inspired by the David Lynch Interview Project, this character-driven film explores the oldest going conflict in the world – the country of Burma (now Myanmar). Expressed through the personal pain of one man, Burmese Refugee and “Freedom Fighter”- Ler Wah Lobo, from personal loss, regret and hope – this is a tale of a man from Burma.
I Met A Man From Burma
