“Lines on a Slow Decline” is a portrait of my neighborhood; shot within a 5-block radius on Super 8 film and full-format VHS video.
Filter Films
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“Eclipse” contrasts a hotel-room view of downtown streets in Portland, Oregon, during a total solar eclipse, with live T.V. coverage of the event.
Eclipse
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“Caribou” is an 11-minute science fiction experimental portrait of Saskatchewan. Structurally it is a journey from the forests of northern Saskatchewan to the Badlands in the south.
Caribou
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The scene of a car accident serves as a backdrop to an exploration of trauma and the often-anticlimactic aftermath of personal tragedy. A woman hangs inverted in silence, inhabiting the space of wildlife in the forest. This is as much a performance of endurance as it is a fictional construct; the execution of the film demanded that the artist hang upside-down from a seatbelt for extended periods of time in sub-zero weather.
Off Route 2
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The city’s wavering light is its pulse and its extinguishment. A voice booms out with unsure finality, on unfirm foundations.
Sing As We Go
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Footage shot in Coba, Mexico and the Siwa Oasis in Egypt and a found film from California serve as inspiration for a series of sketches on the notion of the vanishing point. Commissioned for LIFT’s 30th Anniversary Celebration.
Towards a Vanishing Point
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Filmed over a nine-year period, a close look at how we build relationships and how relationships build us. A bi-lingual film in French and English. Optical printing done during an artist residency at Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto in 2005.
Nous
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The end of a relationship is like death, and the demise can haunt the participants as much as any specter. “Dead to You” uses ghost-detection documentary form to examine the painful aftermath of love.
Dead to You
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A light-drenched black and white roadmovie, charting interior and exterior peregrinations made through the City of Angels in 2003/04. (Antimatter Film Festival catalogue, 2009)
Bliss Out
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Inspired by a metaphor the filmmaker’s daughter uses to describe the setting sun, the film became an homage to Gordon Webber, a Quebecois animator and architect. A cameraless animation created by painting on film.
When the Sun Turns into Juice
