Film Categories: dance

  • Scintillating Flesh

    In a dark room holding a flashlight in my hand, I paint with light. Each stroke of light unveils an image and permits it to spill over to the adjacent film frames, thus breaking out of its rectangular prison while at the same time being woven into the fluidity of moving body, the whiteness of light, and the redness of flesh. Using the photogram technique and my body as a tool and a means to inscribe myself into this film, “Scintillating Flesh” is a self-inscription, where the filmmaker is not so much its subject but becomes its form.

  • Make Me Smile

    Meet Daddy K, a dancin’ queen with a sparkling eye and a shaking booty. It would take a pretty tough guy to resist this charmer. Romeo might be just that strong – tune in and find out. Cruising has never looked this good.

  • Triple Booked

    “Triple Booked” is an innovative combination of three genres of dance: flamenco, modern and break dancing. One by one, and then intercut so they seem to be alternately in concert and in competition with one another, these three dancers interpret a remixed piece of music that starts with flamenco, flirts with pop and buzzes into a club beat.

  • Step of Three

    “Step of Three” is an experimental study of a choreographed dance, exploring modulations of colour and performance. Three takes of the dance are performed for an improvisational camera, then reduced to a single colour channel and staggered in time. When superimposed upon each other, the channels restore colours to their original form, distinct moments echoing each other in acknowledgement of rehearsal and performance.

  • Solo

    A single gal venturing into a bar finds a groove all on her own.

  • Distemper

    “Distemper” is a visually stunning dance film that deals with the emotional complexities of nightmares and suffocation. Directed by John Albanis and choreographed by Kimberley Cooper, it features music by Amon Tobin (the track “Rhino Jockey,” from his critically acclaimed album SUPERMODIFIED). Selected screenings: Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film, Toronto, ON, 2004; Constellation Change Screen Dance Festival, London, UK, 2005; Dance Camera West Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, 2005

  • Academy Stripper

    Using a “found” piece of fifties strippy teasy dance as the basis for rotoscope, I drew/traced/colored the dance and added echoes of images from family footage and various and sundry odds/ends including birds elephants and of course the academy leader countdown number thingee that we will soon see no more of…and I used the original sax track off the original found piece with some blips and o-pops…

  • Contact-Nature

    A day’s ritual of improvisational performance and contact dance, set amongst the forest, mountain and ocean landscapes of Cape Breton. An improvisational film in the sense of an “event” between dancers and filmmakers that expands upon the breathtaking environments.

  • 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…

  • Shadows Choose Their Horrors

    “Shadows Choose Their Horrors” is the dark and melodic diary of a necromancer, as she lives her secret life between the world of mortals and the realm of lost souls. The film, shot silent with intermittent inter-titles, tells the story of dark and sinister forces as they move through the life of Madame G (Winsome Brown). Madame G tries to bond with her favorite undead, using magic and ritual to give them life and pleasure, but a devastating outcome drives her to do the unthinkable. Finally, Madame’s struggle to overcome the loneliness of evil brings her out, into the light,…