Film Categories: Abstraction

  • The Mars Effect

    The story starts in the middle then goes to the beginning and then ends. At the same time nuclear war erupted on earth rebels slits his wrists and creates a mars effect… and like magic and kids, Gen xers are made immortal and impervious to harm. So they travel the galaxy trying to die but when faced with the fact that they can do not want  to, all the while being attacked by zombies controlled by  comic book villain named Neville.

  • Don’t Forget The Water

    A phone conversation sets the diasporic table as a disembodied figure prepares Qahwah Arabi / Arabic Coffee. Here, the contradictions inherent in Google Translate’s instant camera feature are made visible through glitched mistranslations. Using these flaws as a prompt, the communication between a mother and a daughter considers ambiguity as a source of embodied knowledge. 

  • Blossom

    Blossom is an abstract animated diary by Jesi Jordan, drawn over the course of 4 years. Drawn and presented in chronological order and created with over 11,000 pencil drawings on paper.

  • Earth, Take Me With You !

    A return to the earth

  • Let Love Be Love In Me

    Inhaling love and submersing into peace, created in collaboration with Mother Earth.

  • Bug Bite

    A bug bite leaves us frozen in a surrender, looking back at nature, and transmitting our human emotion back into the belly of the earth.

  • Water Break

    Exploring fertility in simbiosis with Mother Earth.

  • Momently Gone

    Momently Gone is a dive into the interiority, in the form of five video-poems, declining, like a theme with variations, the relationship to our missing ones. It was inspired by the mourning of two of my sisters, both of whom committed suicide, and that of my father, who died of cancer. This common thread gave birth to a set of works that is soothing rather than challenging, because there is sweetness in feeling close to those who are absent, there is sweetness in gathering around a universal reality. Thanks to digital tools, I work with layers of images and sound…

  • Bye Bye Now

    When people wave hello to the person behind the camera in home movies they seem aware of waving hello to a future viewer. Yet, upon viewing, the very gesture (re)presents a recurring good-bye to a fleeting moment. This film is an homage to the man behind the camera in these personal 8mm family archives, my father, who left me this heritage beyond mortality in the traces of past lives. — Louise Bourque Review : “BYE BYE NOW is cruel. A movie traumatized by time, which is the passing of time and all that inhabits it. Movies play into that, their…

  • Fragmentasia

    An exploration of the sense of self, through kaleidoscopic imagery, distorted sounds, and a flurry of colours. Fragmentasia is a self-reflexive short, shot on 16mm and Super8, using animation techniques, prisms, and mirrors, to examine the outward self versus the internal self.