Film Categories: art & artists

  • Ever Present Going Past

    Filmmaker Philip Hoffman and poet Gerry Shikatani combine to make a cine-poem about the making of gardens, films and poems. Excerpts from Shikatani’s `First Book, Three Gardens of Andalucia’.

  • Belonging

    Toronto’s diverse culture and heritage are explored through a couple’s belongings, juxtaposed with the neighborhood in which they live.

  • I’m Sorry, Sterling

    Poet RM Vaughan muses on his relationship to 50s film noir tough guy hunk Sterling Hayden, and why he cannot make his life more like a 50s film noir masterpiece. Created by video/internet artist Jared Mitchell, the film inserts Vaughan into the rain-dappled, shadowed and dreamy world of film noir – turning the poet into Hayden’s moll, lover, and dumb broad. A film about living your life “in the right movie,” queer projection onto mainstream cinema, and the collision of fantasy and reality.

  • irma Vep

    Mad pursuit for the wild life leads to an outrageously messy story about a cover girl who encounters dangerous magazine cut-outs. irmaVep / Stars the bride of quietness / In a flowery tale, / Who will transform thy shape, / Leaving behind unanswered questions: / What maidens loath? / What mad pursuit? / What struggle to escape? / What wild ecstasy? Selected Screenings: Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival, 2009 (Toronto, Canada); Cucalorus Festival, 2009 (Wilmington, NC)

  • Oh Me 2

    An animated essay which is a joint effort by both the artist and his son – a psychology prof. – to “describe” what it’s like to be living with manic depression and creating under its influence.

  • Sequences and Interruptions

    SEQUENCE XIII (16mm, colour, silent, 2’, 2008) The film is a complete record, in two versions, of a painting by Angela Allen. The cellular structure of the painting is mapped onto the cellular form of the film-strip. INTERRUPTION VII (16mm, colour, silent,14’ 2008) The film is made from a drawing by the artist Angela Allen. I used a combination of single frame shooting combined with in-camera dissolves and other strategies to create the work, which analyses and reconstructs parts of the original drawing. The film’s making processes aim to be in accordance with the generative principles by which the pictures…

  • Sniffing Glue?

  • Strap Teasing Terror 2

  • End, The

  • Disappearance of John Ashby, The

    Photographer John Ashby lived and worked on Cape Breton Island for ten years. Struggling to keep ahead, photography has to take a back seat to the day-to-day realities of survival. Then one day John Ashby disappeared. Rumours of his whereabouts began to filter amongst his friends and neighbours. This video searches out John Ashby through the words and images of the Cape Breton community he had become an integral part of. Meanwhile, we catch up to John Ashby on the streets of New York City, musing on life, his past and his future.