Film Categories: art & artists

  • Can You Love Me?

    Adam Garnet Jones and Sarah Kolasky combine film, video, and experimental animation to create a painfully intimate documentary about Toronto artist Morgan Mavis. ‘Can You Love Me?’ is a seductive exploration of the artist’s narcissism and insatiable need for love. The film begins by describing a poster campaign, which was launched by Morgan Mavis as her thesis project for the Ontario College of Art and Design. She posted a self-portrait around the city of Toronto on every available surface, with text that read, “Can You Love Me?” and listed a phone number. In the photo, Morgan’s pierced tongue sticks out…

  • fugitive l(i)ght

    This film explores the morph-like quality of the Serpentine Dance and its intricate play on the visible and the invisible, which extends to the larger context and legacy its originator, the American born Loïe Fuller. “fugitive l(i)ght” is composed of elaborately reworked found footage, originally captured by Thomas Edison and the Lumiere brothers, of various renditions and imitations of Fuller’s Serpentine performances, where glimmers of her presence slip into the film by means of the artist’s absence; both Fuller’s and my momentary suspensions through my use of chance operation. These found films are woven into intricately reworked sequences using several…

  • Bad Karma

    A short experimental animated film. Using hand-drawn imagery and found imagery taken from many sources. All combined to present an apocalyptic portrait of the western industrialized 20th-century world.

  • Game On

    “Game On” examines the glory of competition, the tension between opponents, the strategies of the game, the sweat of the players, the taste of victory. Shot on Super 8 with music by Kids on TV.

  • Pursuit of Happyness, The

    This film explores the work and travels of John and Frank Navin, two gay brothers from Chicago, who create modern easy-listening music under the moniker The Aluminum Group. The film documents a music tour of Northern Italy where their musical past and future meet. With Cynthia Plaster Caster.

  • c: won eyed jail

    “c: won eyed jail“ is a 35mm film project consisting of two parts: a quilt patterned out of 35mm still negatives and 35mm found motion picture, and a traditional film print of the quilt that is screened through a 35mm motion picture projector. I consider this quilt/film homage to Joyce Wieland, whose artwork called into question the binary oppositions concerning issues of art and craft, personal and public space, content and form, narrative and experimental, as well as commenting on the sociopolitical environment in which we live. The dual existence of “c: won eyed jail” as projected film and as…

  • Devil Lives in Hollywood, The

    As the narrator sings of her confusion and disillusionment about the way the world is run, iconic images are presented and dismembered for both comic and unsettling effect. Conveyor-belt happy hamburgers cause heads to explode into love, flying deer are used for target practice and superman eats ice cream in his wheelchair. I’d like to share share, pretend I care but there’s no superheroes and I just don’t give a I wanna be a super model, a super model model, super model

  • Sylva Lining

    Amy Lockhart uses cut-outs and quirky drawings to bring you a short little animation with a big bang and a happy ending. “Sylva Lining” is a short animated film with a whole bunch of little guys in little windows, then a zeppelin comes and they get scared away, but don’t worry, it has a happy ending!

  • Blue Monet

    NOTE: BLUE MONET is dual-projection 16mm. “[Carl Brown’s] documentaries of perception explode across the screen in colours that would make Disney blush, transforming even the simplest objects into teeming washes of longing and despair. Brown’s painterly vigils . . . mark him as a unique figure of the Canadian fringe.” – Mike Hoolboom “Brown is among the world’s major innovators in the experimental use of film chemistry, placing him among a small cabal of cinematic alchemists that includes Jürgen Reble and Phil Solomon. His works have typically been feature-length, and are marked by a cyclical editing style and remarkably intense,…

  • Lead Role: Father

    When writer and director Joseph Chu puts out an open casting call for his new film based on his family, he never expects his own father to audition for the lead role. Caught somewhere between his real memories of his father and the fictional character he’s created, Joseph is forced to confront his own fears, hypocrisies, and realizations.