“I’m watching you watching me, watching you watching me, watching you watching me. You hit bodies, while we hit streets, say it’s for our protection, when was just your decision” “Our Protection” is a music video for the band LAL for their 4th CD release. The song and the video are inspired by the G20 protests of 2010 in Toronto. Animation, mixed with real time photo and clips of protests, protesters, police violence and LAL, gives you a glimpse into the reality of loss of civil liberties we are facing more and more. Soon we won’t be allowed to dance in the streets….
Filter Films
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In observing the volatility and liquid nature of what appears to be solid, “Second Phase” exists as a discovery of form through process and quietly observes a community space that remains constant amongst all the things that pass through it.
Second Phase
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After being deported to his native Canada, once-famous comedian Bob London attempts a Hollywood comeback by sneaking across the Mexico-US border. Rejected by his famous friends, penniless and alone, Bob is adopted by a pair of migrant workers who resolve to show him how to make it in America. Starring: Scott Thompson, Dave Foley, Deborah Theaker, Deadlee, Luis Jimenez, Gilbert Martinez, Margaret Cho, Michael Cera & Will Forte.
Immigrant, The
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Eduardo, a snob publicist who lives cranky most of the day and David, a shy student of literature are neighbors in a building under construction. After 6 months hardly greet a scaffold intercede between them causing unexpected reactions in each. Spanish with English subtitles
Scaffolding (Andamio)
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Many of the approaches to the cut-out material are the same as in part I, however II is a much different film. It is more meditative. It has a somewhat slower pace. I tried to let the cut-outs float more gracefully. Again, John Davis’ music forms an integral part of the meditation. I have used that word ‘meditation’ because that is how some very astute friends of mine described it to me on first viewing. The approach is partly planned, partly improvised under the camera. There has been little or no editing outside the camera for many years in my animation. All effects are done in camera. “What is it about? Wrong question. It’s about you watching, and falling into the dream.”–Michael Atkinson–‘Lawrence Jordan’s Road to Utopia’, Fandor website.
Solar Sight Part 2: Basking in Time
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The title “My Best Dress” is interpreted in two divergent yet related directions: the attire one would wear out to a club, or alternatively, to a funeral. In this context, the music video represents both a celebration of youth culture, particularly with finding acceptance, expression and love within queer youth ball culture, and conversely, the inherent dangers associated with the reckless, uninformed and unprepared dark-side of underground culture. Music by MURR, featuring Rosina.
My Best Dress
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Four types of visual forms appear in this film: photographed scenes, written texts, mathematical symbols and numerals. The course of the film is charted by the transformations which these images undergo. The film has a narrative form, but… one that is developed purely in terms of the manipulation of the colour characteristics of the images. The texts included in the film are drawn from Ezra Pound’s “Cantos.” They serve, in the first place, to involve the spectator in the process of reading. Furthermore, Pound’s text is ideal for exploring fairly completely the range of relations that can exist between image and text. The soundtrack of the film is constituted by both musical and non-musical sounds. The non-musical sounds that occur in the early portion of the film are “natural sounds” that might occur in nature along with the depicted events. As the images undergo transformations so do the sounds. The primary objective I kept in mind while making this film was to elicit a form of response that would be a complex amalgam of disparate elements. The idea is, after all, a venerable one. What was Aristotle’s enumeration of the aspects of dramatic poetry? Melos, opsis, lexis: music, image text. “A brilliant assemblage of cinema’s simplest elements, but by no means a simple film. Its mix of image, text and music has the emotional complexity of many narrative films eight times its length… an astounding work that vividly demonstrates what film might have been had it not been thought of as an extension of the theatre.” – Richard Huntington, The Buffalo Courier Express. “1857 demonstrates quite forcefully his talents for advancing new approaches to capturing complex issues within the art of film.” – Bruce Jenkins, Cinema Canada
1857 (Fool’s Gold)
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Built in 1972, The Rothesay Carrier, one of the largest sea-faring vessels of her kind ever constructed, spends one long lonely year trapped by ice in a Canadian Arctic hamlet. Subsequent to the shooting of this footage, she was crushed and melted for scrap. A portrait study of an object explored through the structure of film editing and the structure of the object itself.
Barge Dirge
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A single-subject portrait of a young Nunamiut athlete through the practice of his sport, which focuses on the materiality of film and its surface textures. Image description: A dramatic image of a Nunamiut man’s face, in black-and-white with a sepia tint. One side of his face is brightly lit and the other is in dark shadow.
all-around junior male
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A meditation on cultural appropriation and nature’s myth. Prompted by Roland Barthes’ “Mythologies”, the videomakers have found a microcosm of the new age wasteland within little fountains. The work is an object focused meditation within a young woman’s life is brought to attention.
little fountains
