Film Categories: cameraless

  • Dolce Vita, La

    “La Dolce Vita” is a short, fragmented film diary that explores the Saturday morning mayhem of a filmmaker and his family. This film recalls the cacophony of young children, cats, visitors and noisy neighbours. Is this the “sweet life”?

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  • End, The

  • Editorial

    In the summer of 2008 my father butted heads with hospital bureaucracy. Using found footage loops, mechanized sounds and photograms, “Editorial” tells the story of redundancy, repetition and fighting for your life.

  • West Fingerboard Road

    I could not remember anything about my childhood before the age of twelve. I made a decision to remember. “WEST FINGERBOARD ROAD” relays how I remembered my forgotten childhood memories, and references the writings of philosopher Gilles Deleuze that echo my ideas on memory and the process of remembering.

  • For the Lucky and the Strong

    “For the Lucky and the Strong” synchronizes appropriated YouTube clips from nine young women to create a united chorus singing Bette Midler’s “The Rose.” Evoking a stalker-like quality by design, “For the Lucky and the Strong” makes the viewer complicit as voyeur, along with the masses who fixate on vulnerable young girls. The women stare into their webcams, some self-consciously, in an act of performative bravery and dramatic teenage angst, but they cannot hold the gaze and look away.

  • ON COLOR I: lukrezia

    References the nude subject of Lucretia in the allegorical work by German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 – 1553). The distorted visual is juxtaposed with an orthodox choir of monks and the sound of funeral church bells.

  • ON COLOR II: blind spotting

    The sentence “Du mußt dein Leben ändern” (“You must change your life”) appears on screen written in the Braille system. Referencing the book by cotemporary German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, “ON COLOR II: BLIND SPOTTING” questions Sloterdijk’s call to change oneself, rather than the world. Oscillating colors contrast in an attempt to translate a message that remains untouchable to the blind, and undecipherable to the sighted.

  • ON COLOR III: still life with fruits

    Contrasts warm colors with black, white and grey. “ON COLOR III: STILL LIFE WITH FRUITS” references the paintings by Jewish-French artist Sonia Delaunay (1885 – 1979) who co-founded the Orphism movement noted for its strong use of color and geometric shapes. STILL LIFE WITH FRUITS also cites the theory of colors by French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786 – 1889).

  • Ciao Sienna, Ciao Bella

    A hand-drawn animation using various markers, ink, stamps and pens. Susy Raxlen, a professional master printer, tackes clear 16mm leader. Music by Oscar Peterson.